Two Jacobs School of Music students, Jack Szczuka and Olivia Woodrow, have been named recipients of the 2024 Austin B. Caswell Awards. The awards were given to Szczuka’s paper, “Soviet Musical Orientalism: The Role of the Symphonic Works of Reinhold Glière,” and Woodrow’s paper, “An Argument On the Female Musicianship and Sexual Morality of Barbara Strozzi.”… Read more »
IU Musicology
Music, Connection, and Being Human, with Professors Phil Ford, Daniel R. Melamed, and Javier F. León
IU Musicology Profs. Phil Ford, Daniel R. Melamed, and affiliate faculty member Javier F. León were interviewed recently for the Engage IUB Newsletter, produced by the IU Office of the Provost & Executive Vice President. In the Q&A, they discuss the origins of each of their projects — the Weird Studies podcast, Bloomington Bach Cantata Project,… Read more »
Musicology Department Hosts Dr William Gibbons for Peter Burkholder Lecture Series
The IU Musicology Department and Graduate Musicology Association are thrilled to welcome William Gibbons, Professor of Music History and Dean of the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. His talk, “Ode to Joysticks: Canonic Fantasies and the Beethoven of Game Music,” will be the third installment of the Peter Burkholder Lecture series. This event… Read more »
Birgit Lodes to Give Jacobs School of Music Distinguished Lecture
The Jacobs School of Music is thrilled to host Dr. Birgit Lodes in September. Prof. Lodes will deliver a talk as part of the IU Jacobs School of Music Distinguished Lecture Series and the Musicology Colloquium. She will also visit the Renaissance Studies Program while in Bloomington. Birgit Lodes (University of Vienna) Thursday, September 14… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »