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 »
Tag: Musicology
“La conquista discográfica de América Latina”, a new book by Sergio Ospina Romero
Between 1903 and 1926 the Victor Talking Machine Company deployed more than twenty sound recording expeditions to all over Latin America and the Caribbean. Sergio Ospina Romero new book, La conquista discográfica de América Latina, is the first comprehensive cultural history of those expeditions and, by way of them, of the dawn of the… Read more »
Musicology Department Hosts Dr William Gibbons for Peter Burkholder Lecture Series
The IU Musicology Department and Graduate Musicology Association are thrilled to welcome William Gibbons, Professor of Music History and Dean of the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. His talk, “Ode to Joysticks: Canonic Fantasies and the Beethoven of Game Music,” will be the third installment of the Peter Burkholder Lecture series. This event… Read more »
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 »
Musicology Department Hosts Mark Burford for Peter Burkholder Lecture Series
The IU Musicology Department and Graduate Musicology Association are pleased to welcome Mark Burford, R.P. Wollenberg Professor of Music at Reed College. His talk, “‘A Good Musical Education’: Mahalia Jackson and the Legibility of Black Women’s Voices,” is the second in the Peter Burkholder Lecture series, established in 2019 in honor of Distinguished Professor Emeritus… Read more »
Hearing Postcolonial Theory through African Choralism with Dr. Oladele Ayorinde
The department welcomed Dr. Oladele Ayorinde, Visiting Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology, on Friday, January 27th for his lecture “Hearing Postcolonial Theory through African Choralism: Themes, Topics and Aesthetics in Modern African Choral Music”. The talk traced the development of choral practices in post-colonial Africa with a focus on Nigeria and South Africa. Dr. Ayorinde wove… Read more »
Brent Reidy Named Andrew W. Mellon Director of Research Libraries at The New York Public Library
Congratulations to Dr. Brent Reidy, who was recently announced as the new Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries at The New York Public Library. Reidy, who completed his Ph.D. in Musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in April of 2020, is a musician and musicologist who along his path came… 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 »
Professor Daniel Melamed’s “‘Parallel Proportions in J. S. Bach’s Music'”
Congratulations to Professor Daniel Melamed, whose article “‘Parallel Proportions’ in J. S. Bach’s Music” was published in the journal Eighteenth-Century Music. The article investigates a theory put forward in recent studies that finds relationships and significance in the numbers of measures in Bach’s compositions. In his discussion of the theory and its problems, Prof. Melamed… Read more »