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 »
Faculty
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 »
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 »
Prof. Halina Goldberg Wins 2021 H. Colin Slim Award at AMS
Congratulations to IU Professor of Musicology Halina Goldberg, who has just won the 2021 H. Colin Slim Award from the American Musicological Society. Her award-winning article, titled “Chopin’s Album Leaves and the Aesthetics of Musical Album Inscription,” was published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. Each year, the H. Colin… Read more »
Daniel Bishop’s New Monograph: The Presence of the Past
Congratulations to Daniel Bishop, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music (Music in General Studies) at Indiana University Bloomington and alumnus of the Musicology PhD program! His book, The Presence of the Past: Temporal Experience and the New Hollywood Soundtrack, was recently published by Oxford University Press. Bishop’s book focuses on the soundtracks of US films from… Read more »
Professor Daniel Melamed’s “‘Parallel Proportions in J. S. Bach’s Music'”
Congratulations to Professor Daniel Melamed, whose article “‘Parallel Proportions’ in J. S. Bach’s Music” was published in the journal Eighteenth-Century Music. The article investigates a theory put forward in recent studies that finds relationships and significance in the numbers of measures in Bach’s compositions. In his discussion of the theory and its problems, Prof. Melamed… Read more »
Dr. Halina Goldberg’s “Chopin’s Album Leaves and the Aesthetics of Musical Album Inscription” in JAMS
Congratulations to Dr. Halina Goldberg whose article, “Chopin’s Album Leaves and the Aesthetics of Musical Album Inscription,” is featured in the Journal of American Musicology. Dr. Goldberg’s article addresses the presence of musical compositions and inscriptions from Romantic-era music enthusiasts and composers, including Schubert, Schumann, Wieck Schumann, Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn Hensel, Liszt, and Chopin, in friendship… Read more »
Publication and Performances of late IU Musicology Professor Walter Kaufmann’s Compositions
The compositions of late IU Musicology Professor Walter Kaufmann have been subject of renewed interest from performers, publishers and audiences. Some of his works have been recently recorded by ARC Ensemble (CHANDOS). Now Doblinger Musikverlag is embarking on a project to publish his large compositions, many of which remain in manuscript at the Walter Kaufmann… Read more »