Next week, the IU Department of Music Theory welcomes musician and psychology and neuroscience researcher Psyche Loui to deliver two talks as part of the Five Friends Master Class Series in Music Theory. Dr. Loui is Associate Professor of Creativity and Creative Practice and Director of the Music, Imaging, and Neural Dynamics Laboratory (MIND Lab)… Read more »
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Fred Maus Presenting at IU Jacobs School of Music
The IU Department of Music Theory is excited to welcome Fred Everett Maus to Bloomington to deliver two talks as part of the Five Friends Master Class Series in Music Theory. Wednesday, Feb. 21 4:00 pm, SM267 Music Theory Colloquium Series Guest Lecture Fred Maus (University of Virginia), “‘Teach Yourself to Fly’: Pauline Oliveros and… Read more »
IU Music Theory @ SMT 2023
November 9-12, 2023 2023 Joint Annual Meeting Website Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel | Denver, Colorado Conference Schedule View the Searchable Online Program Thursday, November 9 2:15 – 4:15 pm | Denver Session: Perspectives on Rhythm and Meter Knar Abrahamyan (MM 2015; Columbia University), “The Racializing Logic of Kazakh “Free Meter” in Soviet Theoretical… Read more »
We Need To Talk About “Carmina Burana”
On Wednesday, October 25, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Departments of Music Theory and Musicology will co-host a panel discussion on the problematic history of Carl Orff and his work. The event seeks to engage our community in a discussion surrounding the upcoming performance of Orff’s “Carmina Burana“, which will be presented by… Read more »
Robert S. Hatten to Perform Lecture-Recital in Memory of Menahem Pressler
The Indiana University Department of Music Theory is thrilled to share that Prof. Emeritus Robert S. Hatten (University of Texas, Austin) will be retuning to IU to present a lecture-recital. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Hatten’s arrival at Indiana University to begin his master’s degree in piano performance with Menahem Pressler. The… 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 »
GMA & GTA Host 29th Annual Symposium of Research in Music
On Friday and Saturday, March 31 and April 1, the Graduate Musicology Association (GMA) and Graduate Theory Association (GTA) hosted the Twenty-Ninth Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The symposium featured twelve student presentations, organized into panels on topics such as “Music and Multimedia: New Perspectives,” “Rhythm, Meter, Harmony,” “Embodiment and Entanglement,” and “Playing with Meaning… Read more »
Michèle Duguay and David Geary Featured in MTO
The December 2022 Music Theory Online (Volume 28 Number 4) features articles by two IU Music Theorists: Prof. Michèle Duguay and recent Ph.D. alum, David Geary (Wake Forest University). In “Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space,” Duguay establishes a methodology for analyzing vocal placement. Through the use of images and digital sound-processing tools, she… Read more »
IU Graduate Music Theory & Musicology Associations Host 28th Annual Symposium on Research
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 »