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Peter Burkholder, Distinguished Professor of Musicology Emeritus, has received the Society for American Music’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was presented on March 23rd, at the Society’s 50th Annual Conference. This honor is given by the SAM Board of Trustees “in recognition of the recipient’s significant and substantial lifetime achievement in scholarship, performance, teaching, and/or… Read more »

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 2023 calendar year. You may revise the project… Read more »

On Friday and Saturday, February 23-24, the Graduate Theory Association (GTA) and Graduate Musicology Association (GMA) will host the Thirtieth Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The symposium will featured twelve student presentations with panels on topics ranging from “Applying Analytical and Pedagogical Models” to “From Country to K-Pop: Perspectives on Popular Music.” In addition… Read more »

November 9-12, 2023 2023 Joint Annual Meeting Website Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel | Denver, Colorado     Conference Schedule View the Searchable Online Program   Wednesday, November 8 5:00 PM | University of Denver Lamont School of Music, Room 229 Session: The Mendelssohns and Politics Laura K. T. Stokes (PhD 2016; Brown University), “Fanny Hensel’s… Read more »

The IU Department of Musicology is pleased to share the inaugural recipients of two new and impactful fellowships. The Peter Burkholder and Doug McKinney Fund for Musicology legacy gift was announced earlier this year. In order to witness the positive impacts their gifts will have during their lifetimes, Peter and Doug also committed additional support…. Read more »

Musicology Department chair, Professor Halina Goldberg, spearheaded Jacobs School of Music’s participation, as part of a consortium of orchestras and universities, in a program that recently secured a $400,000 National Endowment of the Humanities grant. The consortium, Music Unwound, was founded in 2010 by American music scholar Joseph Horowitz to promote humanities-infused public programming based… Read more »

On Friday and Saturday, March 31 and April 1, the Graduate Musicology Association (GMA) and Graduate Theory Association (GTA) hosted the Twenty-Ninth Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The symposium featured twelve student presentations, organized into panels on topics such as “Music and Multimedia: New Perspectives,” “Rhythm, Meter, Harmony,” “Embodiment and Entanglement,” and “Playing with… Read more »

  Join us next Wednesday, March 29th, to hear from guest lecturer and Indiana University alumnus, Derek Stauff, who will be presenting his talk, entitled, “Reading Psalm 15 as Dialogue: Sebastian Knüpfer’s ‘Herr, wer wird wohnen?’ and its Models”. The event will take place at 3:00 PM in room M350 (Simon Music Center). Wednesday, March… Read more »

Sergio Ospina Romero, Assistant Professor in Musicology, is one of eight IU Faculty members to receive an inaugural IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellowship, a program that “aims to accelerate and amplify the work of outstanding IU faculty poised to become national and international leaders in their fields.” Thanks to this support, Prof. Ospina Romero… Read more »