10 October 2008 (12:30p.m., M267). Musicology Colloquium Series, Robert Green, "Aristophanes, Rameau, and Platée"

15 October 2008 (3:30p.m., M267). Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Frank Samarotto, "'Plays of Opposing Motion': Contra-Structural Melodic Impulses in Voice-leading Analysis"

17 October 2008 (12:30p.m., M267). Musicology Colloquium Series, Professional Development Series: Musicology in the Age of Facebook

24 October 2008 (12:30p.m., M267). Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Daniel R. Melamed, "Johann Sebastian Bach and Barthold Heinrich Brockes"

29 October 2008 (3:30p.m., M267). Music Theory Colloquium Series, Mark Butler (University of Pennsylvania), "Making It Up and Breaking It Down: Sounding the Preexistent and the Novel within Improvised DJ Performance"

31 October 2008 (12:30p.m., M267). Musicology Colloquium Series, Professional Development Series: Proposing and Delivering Conference Papers

Thursday, November 6 - Sunday, November 9, SMT Conference in Nashville, TN

Tuesday, Nov 11, (4:30p.m., M267)-Note change of time and day. Special Event, Music Theory Colloquium, Giorgio Sanguinetti, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, "The Neapolitan Partimento: An Introduction"

Previous News and Events

Departmental News

Christopher Raphael, Adjunct Associate Professor of Music Theory, has been awarded a $450,000 National Science Foundation grant to create a computer program that understands the gestural language of musical conducting through video. [Full Story]

26 September 2008 Vincent Benitez (PhD 2001). will present a paper, "'Tout mon opéra est un immense acte de Foi en Dieu': Understanding the Theology of Olivier Messiaen's Opera 'Saint François d'Assise,'" at the "Olivier Messiaen: The Musician as Theologian" Symposium, Perkins School of Theology and Meadows School for the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.

Congratulations to Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, who has been named the winner of the 2008 Distinguished Scholar Award by IU's Office of Women's Affairs!

The following students and alumni have accepted teaching positions for fall 2008:

• Mike Baker, University of Kentucky
• Melvin (Rusty) Jones: Butler University

Recent Publications

Prof. Julian Hook, "Why Are There Twenty-Nine Tetrachords?: A Tutorial on Combinatorics and Enumeration in Music Theory," Music Theory Online 13.4 (2007).

Prof. Frank Samarotto, "Determinism. Prediction, and Inevitability in Brahms's Rhapsody in E-flat, op. 119, no. 4," Theory and Practice 32 (2007).

Prof. Julian Hook, "David Lewin and the Complexity of the Beautiful," Intégral 21 (2007).

Vincent Benitez (PhD 2001), "Messiaen as Improviser." Dutch Journal of Music Theory 13, no. 2 (2008): 129-44.

Vincent Benitez (PhD 2001), Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge Music Bibliographies. New York and London: Routledge, 2008.

Eddy Zemach and Tamara Balter (ABD), "The Structure of Irony and how it Functions in Music" in Philosophers on Music Experience, Meaning, and Work, edited by Kathleen Stock (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Ryan McClelland (PhD 2004), "Metric Dissonance in Brahms’s Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 101," Intégral 20 (2006).