Musicology Department chair, Professor Halina Goldberg, spearheaded Jacobs School of Music’s participation, as part of a consortium of orchestras and universities, in a program that recently secured a $400,000 National Endowment of the Humanities grant. The consortium, Music Unwound, was founded in 2010 by American music scholar Joseph Horowitz to promote humanities-infused public programming based… Read more »
Hudson Maness and Miles Damaso Awarded 2023 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
Congratulations to two Jacobs School of Music students, Hudson Maness and Miles Damaso, recipients of our 2023 Austin B. Caswell Awards. Maness received the award for his paper “The Tragedy of the Ospedali”. The committee also recently opened the award up to podcasts and Damaso’s “Recording Techniques in Early Jazz and How They Helped Shape… Read more »
Announcing The Peter Burkholder and Doug McKinney Fund for Musicology
The Musicology department is overjoyed to announce that Distinguished Professor Emeritus Peter Burkholder and his husband, Doug McKinney, have established a legacy gift for the Musicology Department. The Chair of the Musicology Department, Professor Halina Goldberg, announced the news following Peter Burkholder’s opening lecture for the GMA/GTA Research Symposium on Friday, March 31. After… Read more »
IU Graduate Music Theory & Musicology Associations Host 29th Annual Symposium on Research
On Friday and Saturday, March 31 and April 1, the Graduate Musicology Association (GMA) and Graduate Theory Association (GTA) hosted the Twenty-Ninth Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The symposium featured twelve student presentations, organized into panels on topics such as “Music and Multimedia: New Perspectives,” “Rhythm, Meter, Harmony,” “Embodiment and Entanglement,” and “Playing with… Read more »
Musicology Alumnus to Give Guest Lecture
Join us next Wednesday, March 29th, to hear from guest lecturer and Indiana University alumnus, Derek Stauff, who will be presenting his talk, entitled, “Reading Psalm 15 as Dialogue: Sebastian Knüpfer’s ‘Herr, wer wird wohnen?’ and its Models”. The event will take place at 3:00 PM in room M350 (Simon Music Center). Wednesday, March… Read more »
IU Musicologist, Christine Wisch, Key Contributor to Sounding Latinidades: Exploring Ainadamar Series
Last month, the musicology department and the Latin American Music Center partnered up to present the event series Sounding Latinidades: Exploring Ainadamar in preparation for the opening of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar at IU. Adjunct professor of Musicology and Music in General Studies, Christine Wisch, opened the series on January 23rd with her lecture “The Musical… Read more »
Anne Frank Panel Discussion and Community School Presentations
On Friday, March 3rd, the IU Jacobs School of Music Opera Theater presents the world premiere of the opera Anne Frank by Shulamit Ran and Charles Kondek. In anticipation of the event, the Jacobs School of Music has collaborated with the Eskenazi Museum of Art and the Borns Jewish Studies Program to present a series… Read more »
Weird Studies Podcast Receives Stand Out Review in London Times
Congratulations to Professor Philip Ford and his podcasting partner JF Martel on the latest review of their podcast Weird Studies in the London Times, receiving 4 stars from critic James Marriott. This review comes on the tail of another recent write-up in The New York Times this past summer, which similarly recommended the podcast to… Read more »
Hearing Postcolonial Theory through African Choralism with Dr. Oladele Ayorinde
The department welcomed Dr. Oladele Ayorinde, Visiting Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology, on Friday, January 27th for his lecture “Hearing Postcolonial Theory through African Choralism: Themes, Topics and Aesthetics in Modern African Choral Music”. The talk traced the development of choral practices in post-colonial Africa with a focus on Nigeria and South Africa. Dr. Ayorinde wove… Read more »