Congratulations to Dr. Halina Goldberg whose article, “Chopin’s Album Leaves and the Aesthetics of Musical Album Inscription,” is featured in the Journal of American Musicology. Dr. Goldberg’s article addresses the presence of musical compositions and inscriptions from Romantic-era music enthusiasts and composers, including Schubert, Schumann, Wieck Schumann, Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn Hensel, Liszt, and Chopin, in friendship… Read more »
The compositions of late IU Musicology Professor Walter Kaufmann have been subject of renewed interest from performers, publishers and audiences. Some of his works have been recently recorded by ARC Ensemble (CHANDOS). Now Doblinger Musikverlag is embarking on a project to publish his large compositions, many of which remain in manuscript at the Walter Kaufmann… Read more »
On February 27, 2021, Professor Jill Roger’s was featured in an interview on BBC Radio 3’s Music Matters, in which she discussed her recently-published book, Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars (Oxford University Press). Released in January 2021, Resonant Recoveries offers a new perspective on interwar French music and demonstrates that… Read more »
We are pleased to share that Prof. Sergio Ospina Romero has been awarded the 2020 Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize for his recent article “Ghosts in the Machine and Other Tales around a ‘Marvelous Invention’: Player Pianos in Latin America in the Early Twentieth Century.” The prize was established by the Society for Ethnomusicology to recognize… Read more »
In June of this year, IU announced the creation of a new Racial Justice Research Fund designed to provide start-up funding for race-related research, workshops, and to engage members of the university community. As of September 21, the fund was supporting 31 projects and continues to accept proposals on a rolling basis. Ayana Smith, associate… Read more »
We are so very pleased to share that recent IU Jacobs School of Music alumna, Dr. Elizabeth Grace Elmi, was awarded the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the International Musicological Society (IMS). In her dissertation, titled “Singing Lyric among Local Aristocratic Networks in the Aragonese-Ruled Kingdom of Naples: Aesthetic and Political Meaning in the Written… Read more »
We are looking forward to the return of the American Handel Festival and Conference to Bloomington in March 11-14, 2021, this time for a virtual gathering. This event is co-hosted by Indiana University and the American Handel Society. The society seeks to foster study of the life, works, and times of George Frideric Handel, and to… Read more »
The Austin B. Caswell Award was established in 1998 in honor of Professor Caswell, a devoted teacher and member of the musicology faculty at Indiana University from 1966 until his retirement in 1996. The award recognizes the two best undergraduate music history papers written at the Jacobs School of Music each year and students may… Read more »