Ph.D. candidate Kaylee Feller-Simmons was awarded both the summer and academic-year Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships through Indiana University’s Institute for European Studies. These awards will support her recently approved dissertation project, which explores how adolescents in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic used popular music to shape and express gender identity. Feller-Simmons’ research focuses… Read more »
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Travis Whaley Wins Irene Alm Memorial Prize from the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
We are thrilled to announce that Ph.D. candidate Travis Whaley has been awarded the Irene Alm Memorial Prize by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) for his paper “The Coexistence of Organ Tablature and Thoroughbass in the Seventeenth Century.” This prestigious award recognizes the best student presentation at the SSCM’s annual spring conference. Named in… Read more »
Yishai Rubin Awarded OVPIA Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant for Research in London
We are excited to share that Yishai Rubin, a Ph.D. student in musicology, has been awarded a Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant from IU’s Office of the Vice President for International Affairs (OVPIA). The $3,500 grant will support Rubin’s research trip to the United Kingdom in summer 2025, where he will conduct archival work at the British… Read more »
Kathryn Reilly Receives 2025 Austin B. Caswell Award for Cantonese Opera Research
Jacobs School of Music student Kathryn Reilly has been named recipient of the 2025 Austin B. Caswell Award. The award was given for Reilly’s paper, “Cantonese Opera Singers—Composers and Masters of Communication: The Role of Linguistic Tones and Vocal Improvisation in Cantonese Opera.” The committee was impressed by the creative topic and argument. They described… Read more »
Miguel Arango Calle Invited to Present at German Opera Workshop in the Czech Republic
Doctoral candidate Miguel Arango Calle has been invited to participate in the international conference “Towards a New History of German Music Theatre: Embodiment, Sounds, and Global Mobilities, c. 1650–1820,” to be held in Český Krumlov, Czech Republic. The workshop will bring together contributors to the forthcoming Cambridge History of German Opera, to which Arango Calle… Read more »
CFP: 2025 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 2024 calendar year. You may revise the project… Read more »
IU Musicology Hosting Series of Events on Kavalier and Clay
In one week, the IU Jacobs School of Music Opera Theater will present the world premiere of Mason Bates and Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay., a new opera co-produced with the Metropolitan Opera. The show portrays two cousins in 1940s New York City—a refugee from wartime Prague and a closeted queer… Read more »
IU Musicology at AMS 2024
November 14–17, 2024 2024 Annual Meeting Website Palmer House Hilton Hotel | Chicago, Illinois Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Networking Reception Saturday, Nov. 16 | 9:30–11:30 PM | Clark 5 (7th floor, Palmer House Hilton Hotel) Conference Schedule View the Searchable Online Program Wednesday, November 13 Tenth New Beethoven Research Conference… Read more »
Doctoral Research Trips to Germany and Austria, and Martinique
Each year, students in the IU Department of Musicology have the opportunity to apply for grants and fellowships that support travel, research, and study abroad. These funds, generously provided by donors and departmental supporters, help students access archives, participate in language programs, and engage with primary sources and cultural contexts crucial to their research. This… Read more »
Doctoral Research and Language-Learning Trips to Germany and Austria, the Netherlands, and Italy
Students in the IU Department of Musicology have the opportunity to apply for grants and fellowships that support travel, research, and study abroad. These funds, generously provided by donors and department supporters, help students access archives, participate in language programs, and engage with primary sources and cultural contexts crucial to their research. Learn more about… Read more »