Fridays, 12:30-1:30 PM — HYBRID

This semester we will resume meeting in person in Room M267 (Music Library, second floor). PLEASE NOTE: a mask mandate is currently in effect for indoors gatherings at IU. We are also working to find a way to broadcast the events via Zoom. Please email musicol@indiana.edu for registration information or with questions.

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE

August 27
Grace Pechianu, “War of the Waves: Radio Free Europe’s Crusade for Freedom in Early Socialist Romania”

September 3
Elizabeth Frickey, “Schoenberg’s (De)Compositions: Destruction of Tonality, Woman, and Nature in Das Buch der hängenden Gärten”

September 10
Devon Nelson, “Preserving Authenticity and Exposing Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain.”

September 17
Kirby Haugland, “La famiglia svizzera and Operatic Genre in Dresden and Milan.”

September 24
Nicolette van den Bogerd, “The Composer as Intellectual: Biblical Interpretation and Jewish Martyrdom in Alexandre Tansman’s Isaïe le prophète”

October 1
Chelsey Belt, “Performing Humanism: Nostalgia for a Poetic Golden Age in Early Seventeenth-Century Solo Song.”

[October 8 – Fall break, no colloquium]

October 15
Sergio Ospina Romero, “The Jazz Age in the Caribbean: Musical Transactions and Jazz Modalities in New Orleans, Havana, and Beyond”

October 22
Judah Cohen, “The Invention of Synagogue Music (1760-1840) and What That Says About Musicology”

October 29
Professional Development Series: “Life After Coursework”

November 5
Professional Development Series: “Hot Topics and Classroom Discussion”

[November 12 – AMS Virtual Meeting, no colloquium]

[November 19 – AMS Virtual Meeting, no colloquium]

[November 26 – Thanksgiving Break, no colloquium]

December 3
Elizabeth Hebbard, “Where do books belong? Empires of cultural heritage”

December 10
Massimo Ossi, “Monteverdi’s Self-Borrowings, Sacred to Secular”