Sergio Ospina Romero, Assistant Professor in Musicology, is one of eight IU Faculty members to receive an inaugural IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellowship, a program that “aims to accelerate and amplify the work of outstanding IU faculty poised to become national and international leaders in their fields.” Thanks to this support, Prof. Ospina Romero… Read more »
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CFP: 2023 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
ELIGIBILITY Students may nominate their own projects. Alternatively, students’ projects may be nominated or encouraged by faculty members, associate instructors, and classmates. To be eligible for this year’s award, a project must have been submitted in fulfillment of course requirements for a music history class during the 2022 calendar year. You may revise the project… Read more »
Musicology Department Hosts Mark Burford for Peter Burkholder Lecture Series
The IU Musicology Department and Graduate Musicology Association are pleased to welcome Mark Burford, R.P. Wollenberg Professor of Music at Reed College. His talk, “‘A Good Musical Education’: Mahalia Jackson and the Legibility of Black Women’s Voices,” is the second in the Peter Burkholder Lecture series, established in 2019 in honor of Distinguished Professor Emeritus… Read more »
Elizabeth Elmi to begin new position as Assistant Professor in Musicology at Williams College
Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Grace Elmi who has been offered a tenure track position of Assistant Professor in Musicology at Williams College (MA), starting in Fall 2023. She was Visiting Professor at UNC Chapel Hill for the 2021-2022 academic year and she has spent the last year in Italy, first as a Fulbright fellow at… Read more »
Brent Reidy Named Andrew W. Mellon Director of Research Libraries at The New York Public Library
Congratulations to Dr. Brent Reidy, who was recently announced as the new Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries at The New York Public Library. Reidy, who completed his Ph.D. in Musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in April of 2020, is a musician and musicologist who along his path came… Read more »
IU Announces Musicology and Arts Administration Dual Degree
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music is pleased to announce a brand new dual degree program. The MA/MAAA program will give students the opportunity to earn two masters degrees in just three years — an MA in Musicology and MA in Arts Administration. The degrees complement each other extremely well and will not only… Read more »
IU Musicology at AMS-SEM-SMT 2022
November 10-13, 2022 2022 Joint Annual Meeting Website Hilton New Orleans Riverside | New Orleans, Louisiana Conference Schedule Wednesday, November 9 3:00 pm Patrick Domico, “Composing Refuge: Medtner as Theorist” (Identity in Music Theory and History Pre-Conference) Thursday, November 10 8:00 am Christopher J. Smith (Texas Tech University, chair) “Reclaiming the Commons: Scottish and Irish… Read more »
IU Musicology Collaboration – The Violin Sonatas of Johannes Brahms: Concert and Symposium
On Saturday, September 10, 2022, the IU Jacobs School of Music Departments of Piano, Strings, Music Theory, and Musicology, will join forces to present a concert and symposium focusing on the violin sonatas of Johannes Brahms. The day will begin at 10:00 am with opening remarks from Abra Bush, David Henry Jacobs Bicentennial Dean, and… Read more »
Jamey Guzman and Ari Schwartz Receive the 2022 Austin B. Caswell Award
The IU Musicology Department would like to congratulate Jamey Guzman and Ari Schwartz on being awarded the 2022 Austin B. Caswell Award! Each spring, the Caswell award recognizes the excellent research and writing being done by undergraduate students in the IU Jacobs School of Music. It was established in 1998 in honor of Dr. Caswell,… Read more »
IU to Host Anna Maria Busse Berger for Inaugural Peter Burkholder Lecture on April 1
Next week, the IU Musicology Department will host Anna Maria Busse Berger, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Medieval and Renaissance History and Theory at the University of California Davis, as she visits Bloomington to deliver the Inaugural Peter Burkholder Lecture, established in May 2019 in honor of Distinguished Professor Emerita J. Peter Burkholder and in celebration… Read more »