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 »
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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 »
Stewart Duncan’s “An Excellent Piece of Propaganda”
PhD candidate Stewart Duncan’s article “‘An Excellent Piece of Propaganda’: The British Council’s Use of Choirs as Cultural Diplomacy in the 1930s” was published in the January 2022 issue of The Musical Quarterly. Congratulations Stewart! His article focuses on the anxiety the British government felt in the interwar period upon realizing that other countries, such… 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 »
Deanna Pellerano awarded Eileen Southern Travel Grant
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 »
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 »