The IU Department of Music Theory is delighted to congratulate Ph.D. student Joey Grunkemeyer on winning the 2025 Best Student Paper Award at the Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory and the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Musicological Society. Joey’s paper, titled “Form as Topic? Reframing Formal Deformation in Haydn’s… Read more »
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Tori Vilches named 2024 SMT Student Presentation Winner
Congratulations to Tori M. Vilches, recipient of the 2024 SMT Annual Meeting Student Presentation Award! Award-Winning Paper: “’Sex Sells’: A Decolonial Analysis of Purplewashing and Sexual Narrative in the Women of Reggaetón” In her paper, Tori examines the intersection of gender, sexuality, and socio-cultural power dynamics in reggaetón. While artists like Karol G and Young… Read more »
Music Theory PhD Student Wins New Works Commission
IU Music Theory PhD student, Hippocrates Cheng, was just announced as a winner of the 3rd New Works commission project, hosted by the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana. His chamber opera, All of Us, is inspired by true stories from people of Asian-American and Pacific Islander heritage. Through this work, he seeks… Read more »
IU Graduate Music Theory and Musicology Associations Host 30th Annual Symposium of Research in Music
On Friday and Saturday, February 23-24, the Graduate Theory Association (GTA) and Graduate Musicology Association (GMA) will host the Thirtieth Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The symposium will featured twelve student presentations with panels on topics ranging from “Applying Analytical and Pedagogical Models” to “From Country to K-Pop: Perspectives on Popular Music.” In addition… Read more »
PhD Student Loida Garza Receives Robert Walser and Susan McClary Fellowship
We are thrilled to share that Loida (Lois) Garza has been awarded the Robert Walser and Susan McClary Fellowship from the Society for American Music for her work on “Julián Carrillo and ‘El Sonido Trece’: A Revolution for the Enrichment, Purification, and Simplification of Music.” The fellowship is awarded biennially to an outstanding Ph.D. candidate… Read more »
A Celebration of Mathematics and Music
On Monday, April 10, the IU Department of Mathematics will host “A Celebration of Mathematics and Music.” The evening will feature a lecture titled “Music as a Mathematician’s Playground” by Prof. Julian Hook and poster presentations by three IU students — music theory PhD students David Orvek and Lizhou Wang and Walker Smith, a student… Read more »
René Rusch Visits IU Music Theory for Five Friends Master Class Series Lectures
Wednesday through Friday, March 22-24, René Rusch (University of Michigan) will visit the Indiana University Department of Music Theory. Prof. Rusch will deliver two talks on the music of Franz Schubert as well as hold individual meetings with graduate students. She will also lead a workshop titled “From Perceptions to Representations” that explores the value… Read more »
SMT 2022: IU Music Theory Events & Presentations
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 »
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 »