This summer, Deanna Pellerano, who earned a dual masters degree in Musicology and Library Science from IU in Spring 2021, was announced as a recipient of the Eileen Southern Travel Fund, a grant of the American Musicological Society and their Committee on Cultural Diversity. The Eileen Southern Travel Fund seeks to support minority undergraduates and… Read more »
Awards
Keslie Pharis awarded 2021 Austin B. Caswell Award
Congratulations to Jacobs School of Music student Keslie Pharis whose paper entitled “The English Anthem from the Reformation to the Restoration: The balancing of Catholic and Puritanical influences in English church music” was awarded the 2021 Austin B. Caswell Award. The essay, submitted for M401 History and Literature of Music I, addresses the English anthem… Read more »
Elizabeth G. Elmi awarded 2021 Susan J. Ridyard prize at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
Congratulations to Jacobs School of Music musicology alumna, Dr. Elizabeth Grace Elmi, whose paper entitled “L’arboro captivo fa captivo fructo: Pastoral Politics in the Lyric Song of Late-FifteenthCentury Southern Italy” was awarded 2021 Susan J. Ridyard prize at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. Dr. Elmi’s paper addresses the substantial portion of the surviving Neapolitan lyric repertory… Read more »
CFP: 2021 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
The Austin B. Caswell award was established in 1998 in honor of Prof. Caswell, a devoted teacher and member of the musicology faculty at Indiana University from 1966 until his retirement in 1996. The Caswell Award recognizes the two best undergraduate music history projects (such as research papers, podcasts, and lecture-recitals) submitted at the Jacobs… Read more »
IU Musicology Scholars Receive AMS Teaching Award
At the 2020 annual business meeting of the American Musicological Society, it was announced that the AMS Teaching Award for 2020 was awarded to The Norton Guide to Teaching Music History, edited by IU Musicology Ph.D. graduate and friend of the department, C. Matthew Balensuela. Dr. Balensuela is currently Professor of Music at DePauw University… Read more »
Prof. Ayana Smith Receives Award for Racial Justice Research
In June of this year, IU announced the creation of a new Racial Justice Research Fund designed to provide start-up funding for race-related research, workshops, and to engage members of the university community. As of September 21, the fund was supporting 31 projects and continues to accept proposals on a rolling basis. Ayana Smith, associate… Read more »
Elizabeth G. Elmi awarded 2020 IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award
We are so very pleased to share that recent IU Jacobs School of Music alumna, Dr. Elizabeth Grace Elmi, was awarded the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the International Musicological Society (IMS). In her dissertation, titled “Singing Lyric among Local Aristocratic Networks in the Aragonese-Ruled Kingdom of Naples: Aesthetic and Political Meaning in the Written… Read more »
Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Austin B. Caswell Award!
The Austin B. Caswell Award was established in 1998 in honor of Professor Caswell, a devoted teacher and member of the musicology faculty at Indiana University from 1966 until his retirement in 1996. The award recognizes the two best undergraduate music history papers written at the Jacobs School of Music each year and students may… Read more »