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IU Alumni Win SMT Awards

Posted November 18, 2022 by Sarah J. Slover

Congratulations to IU Music Theory alumnus Mitch Ohriner (PhD 2011), who won a 2022 Wallace Berry Award for his book Flow: The Rhythmic Voice in Rap Music (OUP, 2019). Presented each year by the Society for Music Theory, the award is given for a “distinguished book by an author of any age or career stage.”… Read more »

SMT 2022: IU Music Theory Events & Presentations

Posted November 4, 2022 by Sarah J. Slover

IU Music Theory at the AMS-SEM-SMT 2022 Joint Annual Meeting November 10-13, 2022 Hilton New Orleans Riverside | New Orleans, Louisiana All times are EST Conference Schedule Thursday, November 10 2:15–3:45 pm Session: Outlanders, Irritations, and Roving Harmonies Matthew Boyle (PhD 2018; University of Alabama), Rossini’s reizend Melodies: Strategic Musical Irritation and the Capturing of… Read more »

Prof. Jay Hook’s “Exploring Musical Spaces” Published with Oxford University Press

Posted November 3, 2022 by Sarah J. Slover

Congratulations to Prof. Julian Hook on the publication of his book, Exploring Musical Spaces, which is now available for purchase on the Oxford University Press website. Exploring Musical Spaces is a comprehensive synthesis of mathematical techniques in music theory, written with the aim of making these techniques accessible to music scholars without extensive training in… Read more »

Goldman article in MTO

Posted October 4, 2022 by Sarah J. Slover

Prof. Andrew Goldman recently published an article, “Returning to the Continuum: On the Value of Typological Distinctions in the Analysis of Improvisation,” in the latest volume of Music Theory Online. To view the entire article, visit the MTO Webpage. “Sometimes music theorists describe an improvisation continuum connecting the extremes of completely determined performance and completely… Read more »

IU Graduate Music Theory & Musicology Associations Host 28th Annual Symposium on Research

Posted March 23, 2022 by Sarah J. Slover

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

Posted November 15, 2021 by Sarah J. Slover

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

Posted November 4, 2021 by Sarah J. Slover

(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

Posted February 16, 2021 by Sarah J. Slover

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

Posted November 16, 2020 by Sarah J. Slover

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

Posted November 13, 2020 by Sarah J. Slover

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 »

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