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 »
Events
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Il Dolce Suono presents “Ki Koléch Arév: Jewish and Secular Music from Late Medieval Italy”
On Wednesday, March 2, 2022, the IU Department of Musicology will welcome Il Dolce Suono to campus to present a concert titled “Ki Koléch Arév: Jewish and Secular Music from Late Medieval Italy.” Corina Marti (harpsichord and recorders) and Doron Schleifer (countertenor) will perform at 7pm in the Recital Hall of Merill Hall (1201 East… Read more »
IU Musicology hosts Dietmar Friesenegger
On Wednesday, March 31, the Indiana University Department of Musicology, along with the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute, Borns Jewish Studies Program, and the Institute for European Studies will host Dietmar Friesenegger as he delivers his lecture, “Regional Identity, Conflict, and the Nation State: The Four Lives of a Borderland Cantata.” The… Read more »
IU Graduate Music Theory & Musicology Students Present 27th Annual Symposium on Research
Over the next two Saturdays — February 20 and 27, 2021 — the IU Graduate Theory and Musicology Associations will host (virtually) the Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The event is free and open to the public. Dr. Imani Mosley (University of Florida College of the Arts) will deliver the keynote on February… Read more »