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 »
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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 »
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 »
IU Announces Musicology and Arts Administration Dual Degree
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »