This weekend, on Friday and Saturday, March 25 and 26, the IU Graduate Theory and Musicology Associations will host the Twenty-Eighth Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The event will feature keynote presentations by Catherine Coppola (Hunter College of CUNY), Michèle Duguay (Indiana University), and Sergio Ospina-Romero (Indiana University) as well as an interactive workshop… Read more »
Prof. Toru Momii Wins Outstanding Publication Award at SMT
Congratulations to Visiting Assistant Professor Toru Momii, who was named the winner of the Society for Music Theory’s 2021 Outstanding Publication Award. His article, titled “A Transformational Approach to Gesture in Shō Performance,” was published in Music Theory Online in 2020. ABSTRACT: Through an analysis of contemporary shō performance practice, this article explores the relationship… Read more »
SMT 2021: IU Music Theory Events & Presentations
(All times are EDT) Thursday, November 4 11:00–12:30 Session: 20th-Century Composers’ Tonal Organization Prof. Andrew Mead, Chair 12:45–2:15 Session: Motives/Narritives/Timbres David Orvek, “Like a Piece of Woven Material”: Unity and Organicism in Elizabeth Maconchy’s String Quartet No. 11 Session: Flexible Themes and Forms Nathaniel Mitchell (MM ’15, Philadelphia, PA), Variations on a Theme by K…. 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 »
Poundie Burstein to join IU Music Theory for Five Friends Master Class Series Lectures
Over the next several weeks, the IU Department of Music Theory will welcome guest lecturer Poundie Burstein (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center), who will give two Music Theory Colloquium talks as part of the Five Friends Master Class Series, honoring Robert Samels. Both lectures will take place at 3:00 pm via Zoom. To request… Read more »
Prof. Kielian-Gilbert’s article “Experiencing Chen Yi’s Music” published in Music Theory Online
Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert recently had an article published in the latest issue of Music Theory Online. “Experiencing Chen Yi’s Music: Local and Cosmopolitan Reciprocities in Ning for Pipa, Violin and Cello (2002) aims to suggest how Chen’s music offers multiple affiliations for music listeners, such that the local emerges in the cosmopolitan and vice versa…. Read more »