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Prof. Kielian-Gilbert’s article “Experiencing Chen Yi’s Music” published in Music Theory Online

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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.

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Kielian-Gilbert’s primary interests lie in connecting music experience to listeners’ emotional and intellectual responses and to social-material conditions and medium/media settings. She has explored relationships between music, philosophy, feminist theory, cultural and disability studies in thinking about how performative acts can shape, embody, and vivify music and music experience.

In addition to the music of composers such as Stravinsky and Britten, she has been working on a set of essays on music of recent women composers, and iconic, mythic and popular female figures in music.

Julian Hook awarded Production Grant from IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Program

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Prof. Jay HookWe are pleased to share that Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Professor Julian “Jay” Hook has been awarded a Production Grant from the IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Program.

His book project, titled “Exploring Musical Spaces,” aims to bridge the gulf between music theory and mathematics. The funds will be used to defray publication costs for the book, significantly lowering the price of the book once it is published.

Dr. Hook, with his dual Ph.D. degrees in mathematics and music theory, is uniquely positioned to write this book, a summa of mathematical approaches to music theory that is accessible to musicians while maintaining mathematical rigor. He has committed himself to translating mathematical concepts for musicians in order to make those concepts applicable both to musical analysis and musical performance. “Exploring Musical Spaces” will be the culmination of a career’s worth of work to this end, and will be an invaluable resource both to individual students and to programs that wish to offer courses of study in this area.

Congratulations to Dr. Hook!

IU Music Theory Department Welcomes Visiting Assistant Professor Andrew Goldman

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Prof. Andrew GoldmanThe IU Music Theory Department is pleased to announce that Andrew Goldman will be joining our faculty this fall as a Visiting Assistant Professor.

Dr. Goldman is a music theorist specializing in music cognition, particularly the neuroscience of music and dance improvisation. Andrew received a BM in Piano Performance and a BA in Neuroscience from the University of Southern California. After receiving his PhD from Cambridge, he worked for three years as a Presidential Scholar at Columbia University, and more recently as a postdoctoral associate at Western University in Ontario.

This fall, Prof. Goldman will be teaching an undergraduate elective titled “Scholarly Approaches to Improvisation,” as well as a graduate analysis course. In the spring, he will offer a doctoral seminar related to his work in cognition.

In addition to his work in the music theory department, he will also be teaching in the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Cognitive Science Program.