Music Theory Department

Departmental News and Events

3 October 2008 (12:30p.m., M267). Musicology Colloquium Series, Luiz Lopes, "Performing Villa-Lobos Abroad: The Dissemination and Reception of His Music in the United States (1923-59)"

2 October 2008 (4:30p.m., Ford-Crawford Hall). Kofi Agawu "Tonality as a Colonizing Force in Africa"

1 October 2008 (3:30p.m., M267). Music Theory Colloquium Series, Kofi Agawu (Princeton University), "A Topical Analysis of the First Movement of Mozart's String Quintet in E-flat major, K 614."

26 September 2008 (12:30p.m., M267). Musicology Colloquium Series, Kunio Hara, "The Structure of Nostalgia in Puccini's Operas"

19 September 2008 (12:30p.m., M267). Musicology Colloquium Series, Jonathan Yaeger, "Back in the Day: Historicism in Recent Black American Popular Music"

17 September 2008 (3:30p.m., M267). Music Theory Colloquium Series, Mitch Ohriner, "Performance Images: Visualizing Expressive Performance Through Altered Notation"

12, 18 July 2008. Vincent Benitez (PhD, 2001) will be a participant in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio program entitled "Transcending Time: Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time," to be broadcast in Australia on Saturday, July 12, at 5:00 p.m. (Saturday July 12, at 3:00 a.m. EST), and Friday, July 18, at 3:00 p.m. (Friday, July 18, at 1:00 a.m. EST). The program will be available online after the broadcast. (Program details.)

21 June 2008. Vincent Benitez (PhD 2001) will present a paper, "Music as Incantation: An Examination of André Jolivet's Influence on Olivier Messiaen," at the Messiaen 2008 International Centenary Conference, UCE Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, England. The Messiaen 2008 International Centenary Conference is the biggest Messiaen conference of this year.

16-20 June 2008. Professor Eric Isaacson will give a workshop on Teaching High School Music Theory for teachers of Advanced Placement Music Theory courses.

23 May 2008. Prof. Gretchen Horlacher gave a paper, "Stravinsky's Stutter: Modeling Melodic Development and Repetition," at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music's "Thinking About Music" lecture series.

17 May 2008. Congratulations to Michael Vidmar-McEwen, who was named the winner of the Arthur Komar Award for the Best Student Paper at Music Theory Midwest, held May 16-17 at Bowling Green State University. His paper was entitled "Franz Schubert & the Etherealized Mechanical."

16-17 May 2008. Several faculty, alumi, and students presented papers at Music Theory Midwest (Bowling Green State Univerity):

• Prof. Kyle Adams, "A Preliminary Inquiry into Sixteenth-Century 'Modality' in Selected Works by Josquin"
• Sara Bakker (doctoral student), "Hungarian Text-Setting in the Choral Music of Bartók and Kodály"
• Timothy Best (doctoral student), "Schubert's Expansive Sonata Forms: The Trio in E-flat, Op. 100 as Case Study"
• Melissa Hoag (PhD 2008), "Youthful Idealism in Brahms's 'Frühlingslied,' Op. 85, no. 5"
• Victoria Malawey (PhD 2007), "Harmonic Oscillation in Björk's 'Triumph of a Heart' and 'Who Is It'"
• Michael Oravitz (PhD 2005), "The Use of Caplin/Schoenberg Thematic Prototypes as Vehicles for a Stylistically Sound Study of Melody in an Aural Skills Curriculum"
• Michael Vidmar-McEwen (doctoral student), "Franz Schubert & the Etherealized Mechanical"

6 May 2008. Prof. Gretchen Horlacher presented a seminar on formal construction in Stravinsky's music at the University of Chicago.

23 April 2008. The department is pleased to announce that Sara Bakker has been named the first recipient of the Wennerstrom Associate Instructor Teaching Fellowship. Sara is a third-year doctoral student in music theory.

23 April 2008. (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Kyle Adams, "Thoughts on the Use of Popular Music in the Theory Classroom"

18 April 2008. (12:30p.m., M267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Nik Taylor, "A Meditation on Peter's Denial in J. S. Bach's Passions"

16 April 2008. (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Sara Bakker, “Text-Setting Principles in the Choral Music of Bartók and Kodály”

11 April 2008. (12:30p.m., M267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Randy Goldberg, "Clerics vs. Cavaliers: Early Investigations into the Zarlino-Galilei Controversy"

9 April 2008. (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Michelle Clater, "Identifying and Defining Agency in Berlioz's Grande messe des morts" (PhD public lecture)

4-5 April 2008. Doctoral student Danny Arthurs gave a paper, "Reconstructing Tonal Idioms: Temporal Plasticity in Brad Mehldau's 'Unrequited'," at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music's 2008 Music Theory and Musicology Society Conference.

4 April 2008. (12:30p.m., M267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Alison Mero, "Quinario and the Buffa Character in the Libretti of Lorenzo Da Ponte”

29 March-1 April 2008. Vincent Benitez (PhD 2001) will present a paper, "Music as Incantation: An Examination of André Jolivet’s Influence on Olivier Messiaen," at the 2008 International Messiaen Conference in Australia. Benitez teaches at Penn State University.

28-29 March 2008 Doctoral student Danny Arthurs will present a paper, "Irony and Illusion in the Second Movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op. 101" at the conference of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, held this year at the Library of Congress.

26 March 2008 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Tim Best, "Schubert's Expansive Sonata Forms: The Trio in Eb, Op. 100 as Case Study"

25 March 2008 (4:00 p.m., Simon 271), Dissertation Defense of Melissa Hoag, "Multiply-Directed Moments in the music of Brahms"

19 March 2007 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Emeritus Lewis E. Rowell, “DeVitry and Venkatamakhin: How to Construct a Metric System”

19 March 2007 (8:30 p.m., Ford Hall), Doctoral student Kyle Fyr presents a recital of piano music by John Adams, including China Gates, Phrygian Gates, and Hallelujah Junction for two pianos, featuring doctoral student Tim Best.

29 February-1 March 2008 Audition Weekend III

29 February 2008 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Thomas Mathiesen, "’Perfuming the air’: the heyday of the theatre organ, 1918-1930”

29 February-1 March 2008 Two alumni are presenting papers at the annual meeting of Music Theory Southeast: Michael Baker (PhD 2007), "Representations of Deception in Mendelssohn’s 'Es weiss und rath es doch Keiner,' Op. 99, no. 6" and J. Kent Williams (PhD 1982), "The 'Plagal Sigh': A Neglected Gesture in American Popular Songs of the Golden Era"

27 February 2008 (3:30 p.m., Simon 015), Post-War Politics and Musics

Part of Bloomington ArtsWeek 2008, “Politics and the Arts”

• Eric Drott (University of Texas at Austin), “Music and May ‘68 in France”
• Bruce Durazzi (Washington University in St. Louis), “Two ‘Committed’ Cantatas: Luigi Nono and the Idea of Political Composition”
• Peter Schmelz (Washington University in St. Louis), “Alfred Schnittke’s Nagasaki and Soviet Cold War Cultural Politics”
• Phil Ford (Indiana University), "Asymmetrical Consciousness: The Hipster Dialectic of Style and Politics"

23 February 2008 (2:30-5:00 p.m., Simon 015), Silence and Explosion: A Salon Event on Politics and the Arts. An afternoon of workshop readings of segments of several contemporary artistic works with an accompanying panel discussion highlighting expressive interactions of politics and the arts. Participants include Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert. [details]

22 February 2008. Two alumni presented papers at the conference of the Texas Society for Music Theory: Andrew Davis (PhD 2003; faculty at University of Houston) "Abbate's Voices, Hatten's Levels, and Puccini's Cloak" and John Snyder (PhD 1982; faculty at University of Houston), "Pseudo-Odo's Eccentric Theories of Species and Contour: Two Approaches to Pitch Relationships from Medieval Italy"

20 February 2008 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloqium Series, Prof. Wayne Petty (University of Michigan), "Bach and the Subdominant"

15-16 February 2008, Graduate Theory Association Biennial Symposium of Research on Music Theory

15-16 February 2008. Michael Baker (PhD 2007, faculty member at University of Kentucky) will present a paper, "Representations of Deception in Mendelssohn’s Es weiss und räth es doch Keiner, op. 99, no. 6" at the annual meeting of the South Central Society for Music Theory.

11 February 2008. Prof. Emeritus Lewis Rowell will present a lecture on "The Accentual Pattern of Triple Meter" in the Barwick Colloquium Series at Harvard University.

6 February 2008 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloqium Series, Prof. Thomas Christensen (University of Chicago), "The Sound World of Mersenne"

5 February 2008 (3:30 p.m., Auer Hall) Jacob School of Music Lecture Series, Alex Ross, “Noise and Silence: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Music

1 February 2008 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. J. Peter Burkholder, “Music of the Americas and historical narratives”

30 January 2008 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloqium Series, Kyle Fyr, "Symmetry and Transformation in George Crumb's 'A Prophecy of Nostradamus ­ Aries' from Makrokosmos, Vol. II"

16 January 2008 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloqium Series, Prof. Gretchen Horlacher, "Stravinsky's Stutter:  Modeling Melodic Development and Repetition"

11-12 January 2008 Audition Weekend I

11 January 2008 (12:30 p.m., Simon M267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Halina Goldberg, “Chopin's late fantasia pieces within the context of nineteenth-century fantasia genres”

7 December 2007, (12.30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Sherri Winks, "Marketing and the Madrigal: A Typology for Venetian Madrigal Collections, 1530-1560"

5 December 2007 (3:30 p.m, Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Members of the T658 Seminar in Advanced Music Theory Pedagogy presents ideas and strategies for topics classes designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate music students.  Course announcements and course syllabi designed by each class member will be distributed and discussed briefly. Topics range historically from Analysis of Early Music to Music and Minimalism and musically from a focus on a small body of works (Beethoven’s late string quartets) to “piano music that shouldn’t have been” to Analytical Techniques for Conductors.

4 December 2007, Doctoral candidate Tamara Balter presented a paper, "How Beethoven Received Haydn’s Spirit from Haydn’s Hands: Two Cases of Parody" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and two weeks later at Bar-Ilan University.

16 November 2007, Professor Emeritus Lewis Rowell visited the University of Texas at Austin to present a colloquium on the topic "A Song for Mercury."

16 November 2007 (12.30p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Massimo Ossi, "The Bard, the Warrior, the Lover, and their Women in Monteverdi's Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi"

15-18 November 2007 Several of our faculty and alumni were involved in this year's Society for Music Theory conference in Baltimore:

• Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert chaired a session titled "Performance and Body"
• Prof. Jay Hook chaired a session titled "Math to Music" and giving a presentation on "Communicating Technical Material Clearly" on a special session, "Presenting at a Conference."
• Prof. Frank Samarotto moderated and presented a paper on a special session titled "Thickening the Discourse: Formalism in the Age of Meaning." His paper was titled "Thick Formalism: Structure as Meaning in Brahms's Im Herbst, Op. 104 #5."
• Prof. Roman Ivanovitch presented a paper, "Mozart's Art of Retransition"
• Prof. Gretchen Horlacher was a member of the program committee for the conference
• Mark Butler (PhD 2003) presented a paper, "Analyzing Performance in Popular Music: New Methodologies for Unsatble Ontologies" on a special session titled, "Theory, Meta-Theory, and Popular Music"
• Prof. Robert Hatten is vice-president of SMT and Prof. Frank Samaotto is a member of its Executive Board

7 November 2007 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267) Music Theory Colloquium Series, Professional Development Session: Prof. Eric Isaacson leads a discussion of the qualifying exam process.

26 October 2007, (Ford Hall, 2:30-4:00), Jacobs School of Music Lecture Series, Elaine Sisman (Columbia University), “Under Construction: Process, Product, and the Opus Concept"

26 October 2007 (Simon 267, 4:00), Victoria Malawey defended her dissertation, "Temporal Process, Repetition, and Voice in Björk's Medúlla"

24 October 2007, (3:30 p.m., Simon 267),Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, "Tonal Potential and Compositional-analytical Responses to Bach’s ‘Das alte Jahr vergangen ist’ BWV 614"

19 October 2007, (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Phil Ford, "The Holmes Acetates: Hearing and History"

17 October 2007. Beethoven and Biography: A Symposium and Concert

• 3:00 p.m., Ford Hall, Simon Music Center
  • Lewis Lockwood (Harvard University), “Reappraising Beethoven Biography”
  • Prof. Robert Hatten, "Biography and its Implications for the Aesthetic: Beethoven's Op. 7 and Op. 101"
  • Respondent: David Michael Hertz (IU Professor of Comparative Literature)
• 8:30 p.m., Ford Hall, Simon Music Center
  • All Beethoven Piano Recital by Edmund Battersby, Professor of Music, IU

12-13 October 2007. Vincent Benitez (PhD 2001; faculty member at Penn State) presented a paper, "Surrealistic Modernism: The Fusion of the Philosophies of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Henri Bergson in Olivier Messiaen's Theology of Time" at Boston University's International Messiaen Conference, "Messiaen the Theologian." The paper will be published on oliviermessiaen.net.

11-14 October 2007. The following presented papers at the 6th European Music Analysis Conference in Freiberg, Germany: Prof. Robert Hatten, “On Zahlen Metaphor and Music”; Andrew Davis (PhD 2003; faculty member at University of Houston), “Preparing Ariadne: Implications of Structural Symmetry in Hofmannsthal‘s Ariadne auf Naxos Libretto”; Melissa Hoag (doctoral candidate; faculty member at Oakland City University) , “Multiply-Directed Moments in Brahms’s Schön war, das ich dir weihte”; Michael Oravitz (PhD 2005; faculty members at Ball State University), “Metric and Phrasing Designs as Agents of Form in two Debussy Préludes”

10 October 2007 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Mary Wennerstrom, "The Liability of Labels, or Do Music Theorists Ask the Right Questions?"

4-7 October 2007. A number of students and one alumnus presented papers at the Semiotic Society of America conference in New Orleans.

• Aisha Ahmad-Post, “Overcoming ‘The Most Detrimental Element:’ Rhyme and Marked Oppositional Settings in Così Fan Tutte”
• Abigail Shupe, “A Study of the Relationship between Music and Text in William Walton's ‘Anon in Love’ ”
• Andrew Wilson, “Building a Musical Narrative Across Two Disparate Poems: Musical Coherence in Elliott Carter’s 'View of the Capitol' and 'O Breath,' from A Mirror on Which to Dwell”
• Justin Lavacek, "The Dual Nature of Musical Signification in Handel's Alexander's Feast"
• Timothy Best, "Signifying the Heroic: Thematic Transvaluation in Beethoven's Eroica Variations, Op. 35"
• Byron Almen (PhD 1998), "A Liszkian Theory of Musical Narrative"

In addition, the conference included a working dance presentation and discussio of Prof. Robert Hatten’s ballet, Eadaoin, by Pensacola-based modern dance company, SWERVE.

5 October 2007 (12.30-1.30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Ann Shaffer, “Composing the North: Environmental Themes in the Works of John Luther Adams and Murray Schaefer”

26 September 2007 (3:30 p.m., Simon Music Center 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, more previews of papers to be presented at the Semiotic Society of America.

24-25 September 2007. Prof. Mary Wennerstrom, the most recent recipient of the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Music Theory Teaching and Research, visited the University of Oklahoma, where she led a master class in music theory pedagogy and delivered a public lecture entitled, "The Liability of Labels."

21 September 2007 (12:30 p.m., Simon Music Center 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Ayana Smith, "Image as ‘Truth’ in Alessandro Guidi’s L’Endimione and Gianvincenzo Gravina’s Discorso (Arcadia, 1691)"

21 September 2007 (4:00 p.m., Simon Music Center 267). Dissertation defense of Michael Baker for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Music Theory, "Text-Music Relationships in the Solo Songs of Felix Mendelssohn"

19 September 2007 (3:30 p.m., Simon Music Center 267),Music Theory Colloquium Series, Tim Best, “Signifying the Heroic: Thematic Transvaluation in Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Variations, Op. 35” and Justin Lavacek, “The Dual Nature of Musical Signification in Handel's Alexander's Feast." Previews of papers to be presented at the Semiotic Society of America.

15 September 2007. The department joins the music theory community in mourning the death of renowned music theorist, author, and teacher Bruce Benward (BM 1942, MM 1943).

September 2007 Mark Butler (PhD 2003) is the DaimlerChrysler Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. His project is titled, "Playing with Something that Runs: Technology, Improvisation, and Composition in Electronic Music Performance"

7 September 2007 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Robert Green, "Schubert and the Hurdy-gurdy: 'Der Leiermann' As a Love Duet"

5 September 2007 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Robert Hatten, "On Metaphor and Music"

31 August-2 September 2007, Doctoral Student Kyle Fyr presented a paper, "Form, Proportion, and Metrical Emergence in John Adams's Phrygian Gates," at the First International Conference on Music and Minimalism at Bangor University in Wales.

Summer 2007 Professor Emeritus Lewis Rowell has published an article entitled "Time in the Romantic Philosophies of Music" in the latest issue of the Indiana Theory Review (Spring/Fall 2004, vol. 25), pp. 139-75. His fall schedule includes lectures at Brown University (28 September) and the University of Connecticut (2 October), both on "Musical 'Icons,' Designer Labels, and the Public Life of Musical Works," and a colloquium at Wesleyan University's Navaratri Festival of Indian Music (3 October) on "A Song for Mercury."

Spring 2007 The following students and alumni have accepted teaching positions for fall 2007:

• Mike Baker, University of Kentucky
• Amy Engelsdorfer, Luther College
• Melissa Hoag, Oakland University
• Stanley Kleppinger (PhD 2006), University of Nebraska--Lincoln
• Justin Lavacek, Depauw University
• Dave Thurmaier (PhD 2006), Florida Gulf Coast University
• Glen Wegge (PhD 1999), Department Chair, Del Mar College (effective spring 2008)
• Brent Yorgason, Marietta College

29 June 2007, Arthur Darack, who in 1951 earned the first PhD awarded in music theory at Indiana University, and went on to a prolific career in both arts and consumer journalism, died in Dunedin, Florida, at age 89. (Obituary)

18-22 June 2007, Prof. Eric Isaacson directed a College Board-endorsed AP Summer Institute, Teaching High School Music Theory

11-17 June 2007, Prof. Robert Hatten presented two papers, “Degrees of Narrativity in Music” and “[The Linguistic Concept of] Voice in Music: Examples from Western Art Music” at the 9th World Congress of Semiotics, sponsored by the International Association for Semiotic Studies, at University of Helsinki and the International Semiotics Institute in Imatra.

June 2007 Prof. Kyle Adams has published an article, "Theories of Chromaticism from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Eighteenth Century," in Theoria 14 (2007).

May 2007 Prof. Kyle Adams has been awarded the Barry S. Brook Dissertation Award, a distinction given the the best PhD dissertation in music at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Prof. Adams completed his dissertation, "A New Theory of Chromaticism from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Eighteenth Century," in 2006.

13-14 April 2007 Congratulations to master's student, Mitch Ohriner, who was named winner of the Arthur Komar Award for the best student paper at the annual conference of Music Theory Midwest (Lawrence, Kansas). Ohriner's paper was titled, "Playing the Role: Performative Agency in Selected Performances of Schubert’s Sonata in A Minor, D. 845."

13 April 2007 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Massimo Ossi, “Venus in the house of Mars: martial imagery in Monteverdi’s Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi (1638)”

11 April 2007 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Trina Thompson,"Arcadia and Alienation in Debussy’s 'Placet futile'."

6 April 2007 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series: Kunio Hara, "Puccini's use of Rudolf Dittrich's Nippon Gakufu in Madama Butterfly."

4 April 2007 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series: Prof. Eric Isaacson, "Doin' It Right: Theory, Technology, Today, Tomorrow."

Prof. Robert Hatten is presenting a paper, “Performance and Analysis—or Synthesis: Theorizing Gesture and Texture for Performers,” at several venues this spring (30 March 2007 Penn State University, and 20 April 2007 Temple University).

28 March 2007 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series: Profs. Mellonee Burnim and Portia Maultsby (Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology), "Critiquing African American Musics."

23 March 2007 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series: Prof. Malcolm Brown, "A centennial perspective on Shostakovich"

23-24 March 2007, Melissa Hoag, a doctoral student in music theory, received the 2007 Dorothy Payne Award and Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic. She presented her paper, "Multiply-Directed Moments in Brahms’s 'Schön war, das ich dir weihte. . .' (Op. 95, no.7)", at the society’s conference at the Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.).

21 March 2007 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series: Kyle Fyr, "Form, Proportion, and Metrical Emergence in John Adams's Phrygian Gates," and John Reef, "Finding Agency in a Chopin Nocturne."

10-11 March 2007, Prof. Robert Hatten presented a twelve-hour course on four Beethoven Piano Sonatas for the School of Music, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain.

12-16 March 2007, Prof. Frank Samarotto presented a series of lectures/workshops on "Voice-Leading and the Varieties of Musical Time" at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

16-17 March 2007, Presenters at the joint conference of Music Theory Southeast, the American Musicological Soaciety South Central Chapter, and the Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter include Prof. Roman Ivanovitch, “What’s in a Theme? On the Nature of Variation," and doctoral student Michael Baker (Visiting Asst. Prof., Western Carolina University), "Mendelssohn’s 'Allnächtlich im Traume,' Op. 86, No. 4: Music, Text, and Meaning in a 19th-Century Song."

2 March 2007 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Lisa Vest, "Issues of gender, voice and politics in K. Penderecki's opera The Devils of Loudon (1968)"

23-24 February 2007 (Ford-Crawford Hall), Symposium on Music and the Written Word,  Sponsored by the music theory department and the Graduate Theory Association, with a keynote address by Deborah Stein.

23 February 2007 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Professional development session, "The student-centered classroom and active learning"

16-17 February 2007, Master's student Mitch Ohriner will present a paper, “Playing the Role:” Performative Agency in Selected Performances of Schubert’s Sonata in A- minor, D. 845," at the conference, Conversations: Music Scholarship Unbound at the University of Michigan.

14 February 2007 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Mitch Ohriner, "'Playing the Role:' Performative Agency in Selected Performances of Schubert's Sonata in A-Minor, D. 845," and Danny Arthurs, "Irony and Illusion in the Second Movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 101"

16 February 2007 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Phil Ford (University of Texas-Austin), "Jazz exotica and the naked city"

8-10 February 2007, Prof. Robert Hatten will present a paper, “Interpreting the ‘Tempest’ through Topics, Gestures, and Agency," at the McGill University symposium devoted to Beethoven's "Tempest" sonata. He will also serve as moderator of an open forum on performance and analysis of the work.

9 February 2007 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Kristen Strandberg, "Understanding 9/11 memorial concert programs through reception history"

9-10 February 2007, Two of our doctoral students will give papers at the student conference of the Music Theory and Musicology Society of the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. Timothy Best, "Tragedy as Expressive Genre: the Cathartic Element in Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music," and Danny Arthurs, "Irony and Illusion in the Second Movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op. 101."

2 February 2007 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Jane Fulcher, "Romanticism, technology, and the masses: Arthur Honegger and the allure of French fascism."

31 January 2007 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Severine Neff (Eugene Falk Distinguished Professor University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "A Tonal Paradox in Sonata-Allegro Form: Flat-1 in Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, Op. 10"

25-27 January 2007, Prof. Robert Hatten presented a paper, "Troping of Meaning in Penderecki’s Credo,” at a Symposium on the Sacred Music of Krzysztof Penderecki, Houston Baptist University, which was part of the interdisciplinary conference, "Credo: The Arts as Expressions of Belief," organized by Dr. Ann K. Gebuhr (PhD 1983).

26 January 2007 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Larry Hamberlin (Middlebury College), "Poor Butterfly: from Puccini opera to jazz standard."

27 January 2007, Two doctoral students will present their research at the Florida State University Music Theory Forum. Michael Baker (faculty member at Western Carolina University), "Mendelssohn's 'Allnächtlich im Traume,' Op. 86 no. 4: Music, Text, and Meaning in a Nineteenth-Century Song," and Danny Arthurs, "Irony and Illusion in the Second Movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 101."

19 January 2007 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Todd Decker (UCLA), "'You play and I'll dance.' 'No, you dance and I'll play.': Fred Astaire's solos (1933-1968)"

17 January 2007 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Jane Quinet, Music and Humanities Editor, Indiana University Press, "Book Publishing 101"

12 January 2007 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Daniel R. Melamed, "Pulling loose threads in 'Nun ist der Herr zu Ruh gebracht' BWV 244/67"

Stanley Kleppinger (PhD 2006) was awarded the Dean's Dissertation Prize for his dissertation, "Tonal Coherence in Copland's Music of the 1940s," completed in 2006. Kleppinger is on the faculty at Butler University.

8 December 2006 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Alisa White, "'We insist! Freedom now': Max Roach’s transatlantic civil rights imperative"

1 December 2006 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Rika Asai, Music to foster goodwill: Consolidated Edison and Echoes of New York"

29 November 2006,Professor Emeritus Lewis Rowell presented a lecture at Emeriti House, Bloomington, on the topic "In Search of the Wild Time: A Personal Memoir of the International Society for the Study of Time."

15 November 2006  (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Tim Best, “Tragedy as Expressive Genre: The Cathartic Element in Three Late Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Works.”

2-5 November 2006, A number of faculty and former student students participated in the 2006 joint conference of the Society for Music Theory and the American Musicological Society

• Prof. Jay Hook, “An Integrated Transformational Theory of Diatonic and Chromatic Harmony”
• Prof. Eric Isaacson, moderator, SMT Music Informatics Special Session: "Music Databases, Music Analysis, and The Discipline of Music Theory"
• Stanley V. Kleppinger (PhD 2006), “An Analytic Approach for Post-Tonal Pitch-Centric Music Demonstrated in Two Works by Copland"
• Prof. Frank Samarotto, “Fluidities of Phrase and Form in the ‘Intermezzo’ from Brahms’s First Symphony”
• Rebecca Jemian (PhD 2001), Session Chair, "Process Music"
• Prof. Robert Hatten is Vice President of SMT and Prof. Frank Samarotto is a member of the Executive Board.

25 October 2006 (5:00 p.m., Ford Hall), Distinguished Baroque violinist John Holloway, "The Solo Works of J.S.Bach for Violin and Cello"

18 October 2006 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Julian Hook, "An Integrated Transformational Theory of Diatonic and Chromatic Harmony"

16-18 October 2006 (University of California, Santa Barbara), Prof. Emeritus Lewis Rowell, public lecture entitled "Minor Scales: Elsewhere and Elsewhen" and a workshop for students of Indian music on "The Carnatic Tala System in its Formative Stages."  Visit:  http://www.music.ucsb.edu/Spring0506.htm

11 October 2006 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Lauri Suurpää (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland), "Expression, Form, and Voice-Leading Structure in Mozart's B-Minor Adagio, K. 540"

4 October 2006 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Frank Samarotto, "Fluidities of Phrase and Form in the 'Intermezzo' from Brahms's First Symphony"

29 September 2006 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Halina Goldberg, "Phrase structure of Chopin's early works in light of Józef Elsner's instruction"

8 September 2006 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Thomas Mathiesen, "Music, aesthetics, and cosmology in early Neo-Platonism"

21 August 2006, We are pleased to welcome Dr. Kyle Adams to the faculty.  A specialist on chromaticism in the 16th-18th centuries, Adams recently earned his PhD at the City University of New York.

20-23 July 2006 Three symposia on the work of Prof. Robert Hatten were part of the program of the Second International Conference on Music and Gesture, to be held at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, U.K.).

7 July 2006 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Erick Carballo defended his dissertation, "De la pampa al cielo: The Development of Tonality in the Compositional Language of Alberto Ginastera."

May 2006 Professor Emeritus Lewis Rowell served as external examiner for an interdisciplinary Ph.D. dissertation (Indian Music and English Literature) from the University of Madras, Chennai, India.

17-20 May 2006 Professor Emeritus Lewis Rowell visited the music department of the University of Oregon (Eugene) for a discussion of his work on time and music and a public lecture.

12-13 May 2006 Participants in this year's Music Theory Midwest (Ball State University, Muncie, Ind.) include Michael Oravitz (PhD 2005, faculty member at Ball State), "Formal Facets of Metric Fluctuation in Debussy’s Book I Prelude 'Danseuses de Delphes'"; Stanley Kleppinger (PhD candidate, faculty member at Butler University), "Copland’s Fifths"; Justin Hoffman (BSOF 2003, currently a PhD student at Columbia), "A Generalized Interval System for Rameau’s Music and Thought." Session chairs include Prof. Gretchen Horlacher, Miguel Roig-Francoli (PhD 1990), and Ronald Rodman (PhD 1992).  Prof. Jay Hook (PhD 2002) was chair of the program committee for the conference.

26 April 2006 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Roman Ivanovitch, "Mozart’s Art of Retransition"

21 April 2006 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Phillips Kurasz, "On the Transmigration of Ives: Understanding Adams through Ives."

20 April 2006 The Music Theory Department joins the rest of the Jacobs School of Music in mourning the deaths of five students in an April 2006 plane crash.  Among the victims was Robert Samels, an Associate Instructor in the department and coordinator for T231 Musical Skills II.

19 April 2006 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Stanley Kleppinger defended his dissertation, "Tonal Alignment in Copland’s Music of the 1940s."

14 April 2006 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Ayana Smith, "Queen Christina, Aesthetics and Italian buon gusto: L’Endimione and Arcadian reform."

12 April 2006 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Emeritus Lewis Rowell, “Minor Scales: A Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspective”

8-9 April 2006  Among the presenters at this year's conference of the Music Theory Society of New York State are doctoral student Michael Baker, "Parsimonious Voice-Leading in Debussy: the 'Fetes' Movement from the Nocturnes" and Craig Cummings (PhD 1991; Ithaca College), "Compositional Techniques in Two Chamber Works by Karel Husa"

7 April 2006 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. J. Peter Burkholder, “Richard Strauss and the Survival of Tonality.”

Spring 2006 Ryan McClelland (PhD 2004) has published an article titled "Extended Upbeats in the Classical minuet: Interactions with Hypermeter and Phrase Structure" in Music Theory Spectrum 28 (2006). McClelland teaches music theory at the University of Toronto.

24-26 March 2006  Prof. Roman Ivanovitch will present a paper titled "Mozart’s Art of Retransition" at the "Mozart at 250" conference being hosted by Scripps College (Claremont, California).

24 March 2006 (12:30-2:00 p.m., Lincoln Room, Lilly Library),  Musicology Colloquium Series, Travis Yeager, “The Earliest Known Liturgy of St. Emmeram at Regensburg: New Evidence from the Lilly Library.”

23-24 March 2006  Scott Burnham (professor and chair of the music department at Princeton University) will present two lectures as part of the Jacobs School of Music Lecture Series: “Dissonant Mozart” (Thursday, March 23, 6:00 p.m., Ford-Crawford Hall) and “Intimacy and Impersonality in Late Beethoven: Contrast and the Staging of Subjectivity” (Friday, March 24, 4:00 p.m., Ford-Crawford Hall).

17-19 March 2006 (Mannes College of Music) Presenting papers at the Fourth International Schenker Symposium are Prof. Frank Samarotto “’Plays of Opposing Motion’: Contra-Structural Melodic Impulses in Voice-Leading Analysis,” and Ryan McClelland (Ph.D. 2003; faculty member at University of Toronto), “The First Movement of Brahms’s String Quintet Op. 111 and Sonata-Form Tradition.”

17-18 March 2006 A number of current and former students are presenting papers at the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic (Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ). Matthew Boyer (doctoral student), "Topical Pairing as Compositional Strategy in Mozart" (winner of the Dorothy Payne Award for Best Student Paper); John  White (PhD 1999; faculty member at Ithaca College), "Asymmetric Meter Pedagogy for the 21st Century: Classification, Iconography, Solfege, and Musical Examples"; Justin Hoffman (BSOF 2003; PhD student at Columbia), "A Probability Function for Subset Embedding and Its Implications for Abstract Pitch-Class Relations"

10-11 March 2006 One alumnus and one current student are presenting papers at the South Central Society for Music Theory.  Joe Brumbeloe (PhD 1991; faculty member at University of Southern Mississippi), "Hierarchic Symmetry in Selected 18th-Century Theoretical Sources" and Victoria Malaway (ABD; faculty member at Kenyon College), "Temporal Effects and Progressive Growth in Björk's "Medúlla'."

10 March 2006  A new book by Mark Butler (PhD 2003), Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music, has been published by Indiana University Press. Butler teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.

3-4 March 2006 Doctoral student Matthew Boyer will present a paper, "Topical Pairing as Compositional Strategy in Mozart," and doctoral student Michael Baker will present a paper, "Parsimonious Voice-Leading in Debussy: the 'Fetes' Movement from the Nocturnes" at Music Theory Southeast (Chapel Hill, NC).  Baker was named the winner of the Best Student Paper award.

3 March 2006 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Jane Fulcher, "From Hybrid to Metamorphosis: Poulenc's Path to Symbolic Resistance and Musical Counter-Discourse during Vichy."

24 February 2006 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series, Jonathan Yaeger, "Music, science, and philosophy in al-Farabi's Great Book of Music"

24 February 2006 Prof. Frank Samarotto will give an invited talk, "The Drama of the Bridge: Modulation as Process," at the Texas Society for Music Theory meeting.  He also presented the paper on 4 February 2006 at Bowling Green State University.

10-11 February 2006 The Graduate Theory Association hosts its Fourteenth Biennial Symposium of Research in Music Theory.  The keynote speaker is Prof. David Lidov (York University). Among the presenters are:

• Justin Lavacek, "The Emperor’s New Clothes: Ritual and Aesthetics in Popular Cantus Firmus Renaissance Masses"
• Michael Baker, "Transformation vs. Prolongation in Brahms's 'In der Fremde'"
• Stanley Kleppinger, "Tonality and Text in Copland’s ‘Nature, the gentlest mother’"
• Prof. Frank Samarotto, "Thick Formalism: Structure as Meaning in Brahms’s Im Herbst, Op. 104 #5"

10 February 2006 (12:30, Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series, Annie Randall (Bucknell University), “Transatlantic Dialogues: US Pop in Europe ca. 1965”

8 February 2006, Prof. Emeritus Lewis Rowell will present a public lecture for the music department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. His topic will be "India and the Major Scale."

3 February 2006 (4:00 p.m., Ballantine 103) Prof. Jenefer Robinson (philosopher of aesthetics, University of Cincinnati), "What Emotions Are and How They Respond to Music"

15-21 January 2006  Scholar and pianist Charles Rosen will be on campus to present lectures and recitals as part of the university's Patten Lecture Series.

9 December 2005 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series, Alisa White, “From Running the Changes to Motivic Manipulation: The Evolution of Lee Morgan’s Improvisational Style.”

7 December 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267) Music Theory Colloquium Series, Pedagogy colloquium: “Topics courses in music theory for advanced undergraduate or graduate students”

16 November 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267) Music Theory Colloquium Series, Joerg Adler, "Aligning Media: Multimodal Gestures and Agency in Film Analysis"

12 November 2005 Prof. Jay Hook won the Society for Music Theory Emerging Scholar Award for his article, "Uniform Triadic Transformations," Journal of Music Theory 46 (2002).  The award was given during the Society's annual conference.

12 November 2005 Prof. Robert Hatten was elected Vice President of the Society for Music Theory.

10-13 November 2005.  A number of faculty, alumni, and current students participated in the annual Society for Music Theory conference (Cambridge, Mass.).

• Prof. Robert Hatten, “The Theorist as Performers’ Coach: A Laboratory for Gestural and Rhetorical Interpretation in the Third Movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130” (special session on music theory pedagogy)
• Prof. Jay Hook, “Enharmonic Systems: A Theory of Key Signatures, Enharmonic Equivalence, and Diatonicism”
• Prof. Frank Samarotto, “Schenker’s ‘Free Forms of Interruption’ and the Strict: Toward a General Theory of Interruption”
• Prof. Emeritus Lewis Rowell was chair of a session on Harmony in Line and Rhythm
• Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert was chair of a session on Allusion and Inclusion
• J. Kent Williams, PhD 1982 (University of North Carolina–Greensboro) “A Multimedia Environment for Exploring Tonal Pitch Space”
• Robert Peck, DM (Louisiana State University) “GAP (Groups, Algorithms, and Programming): A Tool for Computer-Assisted Research in Music Theory”
• Byron Alme´n , PhD 1998, (University of Texas at Austin) “Modes of Analysis: Untangling the Creative Process”
• David Thurmaier, ABD (Central Missouri State University) “A Method Behind the Madness: Temporal Distortion and Quotation in Ives’s Decoration Day” 

In addition, Prof. Robert Hatten was elected to a two-year term as vice president of SMT, while Prof. Frank Samarotto continues as a member of the Executive Board.  Professor Eric Isaacson completed a three-year term as chair of the society’s Networking Committee and continues as the convener for the Music Informatics interest group.  Doctoral candidate Brent Yorgason continues as managing editor for the society’s electronic journal, Music Theory Online, and as a member the Networking Committee.

11 November 2005 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series.  Kathy Baber, "Deliberation, pragmatism and democracy in the music of Charles Ives"

3-6 November 2005.  Prof. Robert Hatten was a respondent for the Music Theory Pedagogy Panel, "Analysis and Performance Across the Canon" at the College Music Society’s yearly meeting, Nov. 3-6 in Quebec City.

26 October 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. David Huron (Ohio State University), "The Explanatory Goals of Music Analysis"

19 October 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Frank Samarotto, "Schenker's 'Free Forms of Interruption' and the Strict: Toward a General Theory of Interruption"

14-18 October 2005 Prof. Robert Hatten gave an invited plenary lecture, “Four Semiotic Approaches to Musical Meaning: Markedness, Topics, Tropes, and Gesture,” for the Fifth Congress of the German Music Theory Society in Hamburg, Oct. 14-15, and two invited lectures Oct. 17-18 for the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and the Slovenian Musicological Society (an expanded version of the Hamburg lecture and “Two Perspectives on Musical Troping: Part 1, Some Constraints on the Concept of Romantic Irony from Haydn to Schumann”; Part 2, Beethoven’s Italian Trope: Modes of Stylistic Appropriation).

7 October 2005 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267) Professor Daniel R. Melamed, “The Evolution of ‘Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär’ BWV 80/5.”

5 October 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Robert Hatten, "Beethoven's Italian Trope: Modes of Stylistic Appropriation"

30 September 2005 (12:30-1:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Professional Development Series: Career opportunities for musicologists

23 September 2005, 12:30-1:30 p.m. (Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Jeffrey Magee, “Irving Berlin, Jazz, and Broadway in the 1920s.”

19 September 2005, 4:00-5:00 p.m. (Ford Recital Hall), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Cristle Collins Judd (University of Pennsylvania), "The Diffusion of Musical Knowledge: Anglo-American Theory in the Nineteenth Century”

12-15 September 2005  Prof. Eric Isaacson presented a paper entitled "What You See Is What You Get: On Visualizing Music" at ISMIR 2005: The Sixth Conference on Music Information Retrieval in London.  He also participated in a panel featuring Professional Users of Music Information Retrieval.  Adjunct Prof. Christopher Raphael presented a poster titled, "A Graphical Model For Recognizing Sung Melodies."

9 September 2005, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Lynn Hooker, “Hungarian Music or Gypsy Music? An old Question Revisited" (Simon 267)

Summer 2005  We're pleased to acknowledge the appointment of the following students and alumni to new faculty positions, beginning in the fall:

• Michael Baker (doctoral student), Roosevelt University
• Vincent Benitez (PhD 2001), Penn State University
• Melissa Korte Hoag (doctoral student), Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
• Victoria Malawey (doctoral student), Kenyon College
• Timothy Pack (PhD 2005), University of Oregon
• Megan Schindele (doctoral student), Butler University (part-time)

9 August 2005  The Graduate Theory Association is pleased to announce publication of vol. 24 of the Indiana Theory Review.  This double issue is devoted to music theory and performance.  The issue includes articles and reviews by by M. Rusty Jones (PhD 2004), Edward D. Latham, Bethany Lowe, Ryan McClelland (PhD 2004), Edward Pearsall, J. W. Turner, and Robert S. Hatten (PhD 1982).

25-28 June 2005  Profs. Gretchen Horlacher and Frank Samarotto participated in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory at the Mannes Institute. This year's topic was rhythm and temporality.

23-25 June 2005.  A faculty member, a current student, and an alumnus of the department presented papers at the Dublin International Conference on Music Analysis.  Prof. Roman Ivanovitch, "Recursive/Discursive: Variation and Sonata in the Andante of Mozart’s Quartet in F, K. 590," doctoral student Michael Baker, "Schenkerian Analysis and the Imperfect: A Case for Interruption at Scale-degree 3," and Vincent Benitez (PhD 2001), "Understanding Messiaen as Serialist: Theological Time and Its Musical Expression through Number in His Later Works."

12-16 June 2005  Prof. Eric Isaacson led the Teaching High School Music Theory Summer Workshop for teachers.

21-22 May 2005 Prof. Lewis Rowell presented the keynote address at Music Theory Midwest (Oberlin, Ohio).  The title of his paper was, "The Curious Problem of Triple Meter."  Three doctoral students also presented papers at the conference: Brent Yorgason, "Meter and Measuring"; Melissa Hoag, "Narrative Codes and Voice-Leading Strategies: Brahms's Intermezzo in E Major, Op. 116, No. 6"; and Joerg Adler, "Aligning Media: Multimodal Gestures and Agency in Film Analysis."  Professors Gretchen Horlacher and Jay Hook were among the session chairs.

27 April 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267)  Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Lewis Rowell, “India and the Major Scale”

24 April 2005 (1:00 p.m., Indiana Memorial Union, Georgian Room) Prof. Lewis Rowell gave a pre-concert talk on Indian music.  The concert by world-renowned sarod artist Amjad Ali Khan followed at 2:00 in Whittenberger Auditorium.

20 April 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267)  Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Julian Hook, “Enharmonic Systems: A Theory of Key Signatures, Enharmonic Equivalence, and Diatonicism”

18 April 2005 Putting other skills to good use, doctoral candidate Patrick Budelier successfully completed the Boston Marathon.  Bravo, Pat!

15 and 29 April 2005  Prof. Robert Hatten gave invited an invited talk, "A Theory of Musical Gesture," at the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa.

15 April 2005 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series, Christopher Holmes, “Conventional Genres and their Alloys: Benjamin Britten’s Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68.”

13 April 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267)  Music Theory Colloquium Series, Matthew Boyer, "Topical Pairing as Compositional Strategy in Mozart"

9-10 April 2005 Two faculty members presented papers at the conference of the Music Theory Society of New York State at Baruch College.  Prof. Frank Samarotto's paper was titled, "Fluidities of Phrase and Form in the 'Intermezzo' from Brahms's First Symphony," while Prof. Jay Hook presented “Enharmonic Systems: A Theory of Key Signatures, Enharmonic Equivalence, and Diatonicism.”

8 April 2005 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium, Prof. Emeritus Hans Tischler, “A neglected trouvère manuscript from Vienna.”

6 April 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267) Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Jim Buhler (University of Texas), “Playing the Pictures”: Style Topics, the Catalogue and Silent Film Music Practice—A New Order of Musical Knowledge?"  Prof. Buhler also gave a presentation, "Theater of Disenchantment: Music, Film and the Coming of Recorded Sound to the Cinema," to Prof. Kielian-Gilbert's seminar (Thursday, 7 April, 2:30-3:45, Simon 267). Auditors are welcome.

4-8 April 2005.  Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert was Invited to teach an interdisciplinary graduate course in the departments of Women's Studies and Music at the University of Turku in Finland, Departments of Gender Studies and Music. The title of the course was "'Hearing against the Grain': Music, Gender, and Sexuality." In addition she advised graduate students and gave a faculty colloquium at the University of Turku, and invited lectures at Helsinki University and the Sibelius Academy in Finland, and at the University of Maryland, 11-15 April 2005.

1 April 2005 (4:00 p.m., Ballentine 013) Modernism/Modernity Lecture Series presents Prof. Walter Frisch (Columbia University), “Dancing in Chains: Modernist German Music and its Pasts”

1-2 April 2005 Doctoral student Michael Baker presents a paper, "Transformation vs. Prolongation in Brahms's In der Fremde," at the annual meeting of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.  For this paper, Baker was named winner of the Dorothy Payne Best Student Paper Award

30 March 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267)  Music Theory Colloquium Series, Megan Schindele, “Subject Location and Narrative Connections in the Music of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window”

22 March 2005  Prof. Eric Isaacson conducted a workshop at Triton Community College in greater Chicago for teachers of Advanced Placement Music Theory.

18-28 March 2005  Prof. Robert Hatten presented a paper, "Beethoven's Italian Trope: Modes of Stylistic Appropriation in the Sonatas" at the Academic Symposium which was part of the Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw.  He also presented two papers to classes at the University 

10-13 March 2005  Doctoral student Michael Baker presented a paper, "Formal Repeats, Tonal Expectation, and 'Tonal Pun' in Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Cello," at the 2005 Meeting of the College Music Society's South Central Chapter in Norman, Oklahoma.

11 March 2005 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Kristina Muxfeldt (Yale University), “Music Recollected in Tranquility: Postures of Memory in Beethoven.”

9 March 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267) Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Roman Ivanovitch, "Recursive/Discursive: Two Threads Through the Andante of Mozart's Quartet in F, K.590"

7 March 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267) Prof. Beverley Stein (California State University), "The Triumph of Jephthah's Daughter: Musical Exegesis and Gender and Role Exchange in Giacomo Carissimi's Oratorio Jephte."

6 March 2005  Congratulations to doctoral student Victoria Malawey (MM '01), recently named a recipient of the university's Lieber Memorial Teaching Associate Award.  (For more, see the press release.)

4-5 March 2005  Congratulations to doctoral student Melissa Hoag, recipient of the award for best student paper at the Music Theory Southeast conference, held at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.  Her paper was titled, "Narrative Codes and Voice-Leading Strategies: Brahms's Intermezzo in E Major, Op. 116, No. 6."

4 March 2005 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Jeffrey Magee, “Miles Davis and the Blues.”

2 March 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267)  Music Theory Colloquium Series, Min-Jung Koh, “’Promenade’ from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition: The Evolution of Meter”

26-27 February 2005  Two doctoral students presented papers at the 2005 meeting of the South-Central Society for Music Theory in New Orleans. Michael Baker presented a paper, "Formal Repeats, Tonal Expectation, and 'Tonal Pun' in Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Cello," and Min-Jung Koh presented "'Promenade' from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (1874): Metrical Evolution."  Baker was named winner of award for best student paper.

25 February 2005 (8:30 p.m., Ford-Crawford Recital Hall). The biennial Graduate Theory Association Recital, featured five accomplished pianists from the department: Tamara Balter, J. S. Bach, Aria mit verschiedenen Veraenderungen, BWV 988 (“Goldberg Variations”), Variation 25; Prof. Julian Hook, Mendelssohn, Songs Without Words Op. 67, No. 2 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 19b, No. 1 in E Major, and Op. 67, No. 4 in C Major ("Spinnerlied"); Paul Pisano, Franck, Prélude, choral et fugue; Nora Lesly, Debussy, Estampes, “Pagodes”; Tim Best, Webern, Variations, Op. 27

25 February 2005 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Sheryl Zukowski, “Discipline of the Ear: Mahler’s Operatic Direction and fin-de-siècle Debate about Hearing and Communication.”

18 February 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267) Doctoral candidate Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg defended her dissertation, "From Theory to Practice: Composition and Analysis in Marin Mersenne's Harmonie universelle."

18 February 2005 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series, Francesco Izzo (New York University), "Verdi, the Virgin, and the Censors: The Cult of Mary in Mid-nineteenth Century Italy"

16-20 February 2005 Two of the three publication awards from the Society for American Music were awarded to IU students this year at its annual conference in Eugene, Oregon.  Mark Butler (Ph.D., 2003) received the Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award for the best dissertation on an American-music topic in 2003.  The dissertation is titled, "Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music."  Stanley Kleppinger (Ph.D. candidate) was awarded the Irving Lowens Article Award, presented annually "for an article that...makes an outstanding contribution to the study of American music or music in America," for "On the Influence of Jazz Rhythm in the Music of Aaron Copland" American Music 21/1 (2003).    Dr. Butler is on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, while Kleppinger teaches at Butler University.

11 February 2005 (4:00 p.m., Ford Recital Hall), Leon Plantinga (Yale University), Lecture-Recital, “Schumann and the Piano: Childhood and Fantasy”

4 February 2005 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Halina Goldberg, “The Dancing Jew: Assimilation, National Identity, and the Majufes”

30 January 2005 Congratulations to master's student Jordi Torrent, winner of the 2005 Annual Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America, sponsored by the IU Latin American Music Center.  Torrent played a recital consisting of piano works by Monsalvatge, Guarneri, Eisenberg and Albeniz.

26 January 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 344) Doctoral candidate Timothy Shane Pack defended his dissertation, "Axial-Tenor Composition in the Renaissance."

23 January 2005 (1:00-5:00 p.m., Simon 015) The musicology department presents "Jewish Music and Jewish Identity: Papers in Honor of Hans Tischler on his 90th Birthday."

21 January 2005 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Robert Green, "Rameau's Platée as operatic satire"

19 January 2005 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267).  The Music Theory Colloquium Series begins with a talk by Melissa Hoag, "Narrative Codes and Voice-Leading Strategies: Brahms’s Intermezzo in E Major, Op. 116, no. 6"

15 January 2005 Four current and former students presented papers at the Florida State University Music Theory Forum:

• Stan Kleppinger (MM 2000, doctoral candidate, and faculty member at Butler University) "Discovering and Describing Tonal Coherence in Music by Aaron Copland"
• Erin Toelcke (MM 2004), "The Problem of Assuming Tonal Structure in Prokofiev's Music"
• Michael Baker (doctoral student), "Transformation vs. Prolongation in Brahms's `In der Fremde'"
• Melissa Hoag (MM 2002, doctoral student), "Narrative Codes and Voice Leading Strategies: Brahms's Intermezzo in E Major, Op. 116, no. 6"

13-16 January 2005 Doctoral student Amy Engelsdorfer (and Visiting Prof. at DePauw University) presented her paper, "The Poetic Structure of Music: Ruth Crawford Seeger, Verse  Form, and the Diaphonic Suite for Solo Flute or Oboe" at the 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities (Honolulu).

4-7 January 2005 Doctoral student Victoria Malawey presented a paper entitled “Embodiment and Gender in the Collegiate Aural Skills and Music Theory Classroom” at the 2005 Hawaii International Conference on Education (Honolulu)

Two recent alumni have been named co-winners of the Dean's Dissertation Prize in the School of Music: Mark Butler (Ph.D., 2003) for "Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music," and Ryan McClelland (Ph.D., 2004) for "Tonal Structure, Rhythm, Meter, and Motive in the Scherzo-Type Movements of Brahms's Chamber Music with Piano."  Butler teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.  McClelland is on the faculty of the University of Toronto.

Teresa Shelton Reed's (Ph.D., 1997) book, The Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music (University Press of Kentucky, 2003), was awarded the 2004 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.  Her book won in the category of Best Research in Recorded Rock, Rhythm & Blues, or Soul.  Prof. Reed teaches at the University of Tulsa.

10 December 2004 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium, Professor Ayana Smith, “The Mock Heroics of L’Anagilda (Girolamo Gigli and Antonio Caldara, Rome 1711).”

3 December 2004 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium, Alison Trego, “The Story of Music’s Discovery.”

1 December 2004 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Prof. Cristle Collins Judd (University of Pennsylvania), "Text-Music Relationships in mid-16th Century Music: Learning from Gioseffo Zarlino's Theory and Practice"

December 2004.  Prof. Robert Hatten's book, Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, has been published by Indiana University Press.

December 2004. Indiana Theory Review Vol. 23 (2002) has been published.  The issue includes a review of Fred Lerdahl, Tonal Pitch Space, by Art Samplaski (PhD, 2000)

19 November 2004 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium, Professor Massimo Ossi, “Petrarchan Themes in Monteverdi’s Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi.”

17 November 2004 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Professional Development Session: Preparing a Curriculum Vitae

11-14 November 2004.  A number of faculty, students, and alumni participated in the joint conference of the Society for Music Theory and American Musicological Society.  Prof. Frank Samarotto gave a paper, “Determinism, Prediction, and Inevitability in Brahms’s Rhapsody in E-flat Major, Op. 119 No. 4."  Prof. Gretchen Horlacher gave a paper, “Starting and Stopping: Sketches in Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments.”  Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert chaired a paper session on feminist perspectives and a special session titled "Whither CSW [Committee on the Status of Women]?  Feminism, Gender, and Music Theory."  Prof. Robert Hatten chaired a special session titled, "Performance and Analysis: Views from Theory, Musicology, and Performance."  Alumni participants in the SMT/AMS conference included: J. Kent Williams [PhD 1982] (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) Panelist in Writing for Publication in Music Theory in his role as editor of the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy; Ted Buehrer [PhD 2000] (Kenyon College) and Robert Hodson (Hope College), “Metric Dissonance in Jazz: The Stride Piano Performances of Thelonious Monk and James P. Johnson”; Ryan McClelland [PhD 2004] (University of Toronto), “Recreating Beethoven’s Dramas: Metric Dissonance in Brahms’s Early C-Minor Scherzos”; Robert Peck [DM 1995] (Louisiana State University), “Centers and Centralizers: Commutativity in Group-Theoretical Music Theory” ; Gwynne Kuhner Brown [MM 1997] (Puyallup, Washington), “A Dubious Triumph: Porgy and Bess as Propaganda, 1952–1956”; Jean Littlejohn [MM 1997] (Knox College), “F.-J. Fétis and the Development of Plainchant Theory in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium”

10 November 2004 (2:30 p.m., Simon 015). Musicologist Juan Pablo Gonzalez, winner of the IX Prize of the Casa de las Americas in Cuba, lectured on "The making of a social history of popular music in Chile (1890-1950): Problems, methods and results," discussing strategies to develop popular music studies in musicology.

5 November 2004 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium, Professional Development Series: Conferences, Meetings, and Colloquia

4-7 November 2004.  Prof. Gretchen Horlacher gave a presentation, "Making a Big Lecture Seem Small: Strategizing the Large Theory Group,” as part of a panel on The Pedagogy of Large-Lecture Music Theory at the College Music Society conference in San Francisco.  Also participating was alumnus Miguel Roig-Francoli [PhD 1990] (University of Cincinnati), “Principles of Pedagogies: Organizing the Large-Theory Lecture”

3 November 2004 (3:30 p.m. Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Frank Samarotto, “Determinism, Prediction, and Inevitability in Brahms’s Rhapsody in E-flat Major, Op. 119 No. 4"

29 October 2004  Ryan McClelland (PhD '04) was featured in an article titled "Teaching excellence: A newly minted music professor reveals his secrets on the art of teaching" in News@UofT at the University of Toronto where he is on the faculty.

29 October 2004 (12:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium, Prof. Jane Fulcher, “French Identity in Flux: Vichy’s Collaboration and Antigone’s Operatic Triumph.”

26-27 October 2004. Gottfried Wagner, great grandson of Richard Wagner and great-great grandson of Franz Liszt, presented two lectures.  "Wagner's Music and Ideology in the Political Climate of the Twenty-First Century," 26 October 2004 (7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall 124), and "Weill and Brecht: Two Worlds in Collaboration," 27 October 2004 (7:00 p.m., Faculty Club, Indiana Memorial Union).

23 October 2004.  Prof. Jay Hook presented a paper, "Enharmonic Systems: A Theory of Key Signatures, Enharmonic Equivalence, and Diatonicism," at a Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Music Theory at a meeting of the American Mathematical Society at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

22 October 2004 (12.30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium, Prof. Lynn Hooker, “Festivalization and the Carnivalesque in Hungarian Folk Music and Dance Camps.”

20 October 2004 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, "'Moments of identification': (Re)contextualization, Embodiment, and Intersubjectivity (a view from musical multimedia)"

19 October 2004 (4:00 p.m., Simon 267) Bettina (Chun-Fang) Hahn defended her doctoral dissertation, "Schönberg¹s Theory of Music from a Dialogic Point of View."

11-14 October 2004.  Two affiliated scholars presented papers at the Fifth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval in Barcelona. Prof. Christopher Raphael (Music Informatics) presented "A Hybrid Graphical Model for Aligning Polyphonic Audio with Musical Scores" and a "Demonstration of 'Music Plus One'--- a System for Orchestral Musical Accompaniment." Ryan Scherle and Donald Byrd (Senior Scholar, Variations2 project) presented "The Anatomy of a Bibliographic Search System for Music

11-12 October 2004.  Prof. Robert Hatten gave an invited lecture, “L’interpretation ‘synthétique’ et la signification émergente: Sur une théorie du geste musical” at the University of Paris VIII as part of a brief residency.

8 October 2004 (12:30-1:30 p.m., Simon 267), Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Joanna Biermann, “How to Compose a Nazi Opera: Werner Egk’s Zaubergeige and Peer Gynt.”

3-8 October 2004 Three from the music theory department presented papers at the Eighth International Congress on Musical Signification at the Sorbonne in Paris: Prof. Lewis Rowell, "Gesture in the Musical Languages of India," Prof. Robert Hatten, “Some Useful Constraints on the Concept of Romantic Irony from Haydn to Schumann," and doctoral student Tamara Balter, "Deep Sorrow over the Loss of a Pin? Dramatic Irony in Barbarina's Cavatina in Le nozze di Figaro."

1 October 2004 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series, "Designing a Course"

October 2004.  Prof. Gretchen Horlacher's article, "Multiple Meters and Metrical Processes in the Music of Steve Reich," has been published in Intégral 14/15 (2000/2001).

29 September 2004 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267). The Music Theory Colloquium Series continues with a lecture by Prof. David Cohen (Columbia University), '“The First Foundations of Song': The Concept of the Note as the Element of Music"

24 September 2004 (Simon 267, 12:30-1:30 p.m.).  Musicology Colloquium Series, Prof. Daniel Melamed, “Did J. S. Bach perform the St. Luke Passion BWV 246?”

15 September 2004 (Simon 267, 3:30 p.m.) The Music Theory Colloquium Series begins with a talk by Prof. Eric Isaacson titled, "The Technologies of Music Scholarship and the Scholarship of Music Technology."

September 2004.  Prof. Frank Samarotto has published an article, "Sublimating Sharp ^4: An Exercise in Schenkerian Energetics," in Music Theory Online 10.3 (September 2004).

August 2004 Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert presented a paper at the 8th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition at Northwestern University, "(Re)contextualization, Embodiment, and Subjectivity: A View from Musical Multimedia."

20 July 2004  Amy Engelsdorfer, doctoral student and president of the Graduate Theory Association, has been appointed to a part-time visiting position at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.

13-17 June 2004  Prof. Eric Isaacson conducted a workshop in Bloomington on Teaching High-School Music Theory for teachers of the Advanced Placement Music Theory course. He was a consultant for a similar workshop at the Columbia College Summer Institute for the Arts 11-16 July 2004.

12-13 June 2004. Prof. Lewis Rowell's Thinking About Music was the subject of a "Great Books" Seminar at Ojai, CA (a weekend of music featuring book discussions and performances).

4-12 June 2004 Prof. Frank Samarotto gave a series of lectures and workshops at the International Schenker Symposium in Berlin, Sauen, and Mannheim, Germany.  His talks included, "Effects, Alternative Analytical Solutions, and Interpretation" and "From Expansion to Plasticity."

24 May 2004 Prof. Eric Isaacson delivered the Fifteenth William Poland Lecture in Music Theory at Ohio State University.  The title of his talk was "The Technology of Music Scholarship and the Scholarship of Music Technology." 

14-15 May 2004 Doctoral Candidate Stanley Kleppinger presented a paper, "Tonal Shifts and Structure in the Finale of Copland's Third Symphony," and visiting Fulbright scholar Marjaana Orvokki Virtanen presented, "Formation of a Work's Gestural Interpretation: Changes in the Performers' Gestures During the Rehearsal Process of Einojuhani Rautavaara's Piano Concerti," at Music Theory Midwest (Kansas City).

21-22 May 2004 Doctoral student Amy Engelsdorfer presented a paper, “Dance <as> Musical Text: Winterguard and Elton John’s ‘Candle in the Wind’,” at EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop at the University of Chicago's 3rd Annual Conference.

April 2004 Congratulations to students who have secured new positions for the fall.  Ryan McClelland has been appointed at the University of Toronto, and Stanley Kleppinger will be teaching at Butler University.

30 April 2004 (12:30-1:30 p.m., Simon 267) Musicology Colloquium Series: Professor Lynn Hooker:  “Modernism in the Periphery: The New Hungarian Music Society of 1911-1912.”

21 April 2004 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267)  Music Theory Colloquium Series, Professional Development Session, "Developing a dissertation topic: From inception to approval of your topic proposal."

16 April 2004 Prof. Gretchen Horlacher was scholar-in-residence at Florida State University.  She presented to several classes and gave a paper entitled "Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in Stravinsky's Music."

7 April 2004 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Profs. Allen (music theory, emeritus) and Helga Winold (cello), "Wahl und Qual in the Analysis and Performance of Bach’s Cello Suites”

5 April 2004 Congratulations to Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert on her promotion to to the rank of Professor.

3 April 2004  Prof. Frank Samarotto presented a paper, "Schenker’s 'Free Forms of Interruption,' and the Strict: Toward a General Theory of Interruption," at the Music Theory Society of New York State in Rochester, New York.

1 April 2004  Prof. Frank Samarotto presented a paper, "Sublimating Sharp ^4: An Exercise in Schenkerian Energetics," at the Penn State Music Colloquium.

April 2004 Prof. Robert Hatten presented two invited papers during the first week of April: “Improvisation as Intimate Disclosure," for "New Directions in the Study of Musical Improvisation,” an interdisciplinary and intercultural conference organized by Bruno Nettl at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and “Elliott Carter and Beethoven: Intertextual Resonances in the First Movement of the Carter Piano Sonata (1945-46)” for the Beethoven Easter Festival Symposium, held this year in Warsaw, Poland.

Spring 2004 Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert's essay, "Chopiniana and Music's Contextual Allusions", was published in the collection, The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (edited by Halina Goldberg, IU Press, 2004, 162-199).

24 March 2004 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Music Theory Colloquium Series, Michael Baker, “Schenkerian Analysis and the Imperfect: A Case for Interruption at Scale Degree 3”

11-12 March 2004  Prof. Eric Isaacson visited Caracas as a consultant on music technology applications with the Venezuelan National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras and Choirs.

27-28 February 2004.  Doctoral student Amy Englesdorfer presented a paper entitled ""The Poetic Structure of Music: Ruth Crawford Seeger, Verse Form, and the Diaphonic Suite For Solo Flute or Oboe," at the conference, Anxiety of Influence: Musical Intersections of Old and New, at the University of Toronto. She presented the paper in London on 8 May 2004 at the TAGS Day for Music Postgraduates, sponsored by the Society for Music Analysis and the Royal Academy of Music.

23 February 2004 (Simon 015, 7:00. p.m.) Thomas Broido, "The Nature of Modern Music Publishing."  Broido is president of the Theodore Presser Co.  His talk is sponsored by the Composition Department, the Variations2 Indiana University Digital Library Project, and the School of Music Lecture Committee.

22 February 2004 (2:30 p.m., Simon 015). Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert served as moderator for an interactive panel discussion entitled "Picasso -- Stravinsky / Convergences -- Divergences." Panelists include Adelheid Gealt, Director, Indiana University Art Museum; Eugene O'Brien, Professor of Composition and Executive Associate Dean, School of Music; and William Robinson, Curator, Cleveland Museum of Art (via Internet2 connection). The panel was followed by a performance by IU faculty of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat and Prof. David Baker's Hommage a L'Histoire (4:00, Auer Receital Hall).

13-14 February 2004 The Graduate Theory Association hosts its Thirteenth Biennial Symposium of Research in Music Theory. The keynote speaker is Elizabeth West Marvin (Eastman School of Music)

7 February 2004.  Doctoral student Mike Baker, presented a paper, "Schenkerian Analysis and the Imperfect: A Case for Interruption at ^3" at the Florida State University Music Theory Forum. He presented the paper again 27-28 February 2004 at the joint meeting Music Theory Southeast and the South Central Society for Music Theory (Emory University, Atlanta).

4 February 2004 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267) Music Theory Colloquium Series.  Prof. Lee Rothfarb (University of California at Santa Barbara), "The Music of August Halm: Originality, Imitation, Innovation”

30-31 January 2004. Prof. Frank Samarotto was in residence at Emory University, where he gave a talk entitled "Sublimating #4" and led a three-hour pedagogy session on "Teaching Schenkerian Analysis."

21 January 2004 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267).  Music Theory Colloquium Series.  Prof. Jay Hook, "Polya’s Enumeration Theorem in Music Theory (Or, Why Are There 29 Tetrachords?" and Prof. Frank Samarotto, “Sublimating Scale Degree #4”

January 2004.  An article by Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert entitled "Interpreting Schenkerian Prolongation" was published in Music Analysis 22/1-2 (March-July 2003).

January 2004 Donald Byrd (Senior Scholar, Variations2 project) and Prof. Eric Isaacson have published an article entitled "A Music Representation Requirement Specification for Academia" in the most recent issue of Computer Music Journal (Vol. 27/4, Winter 2003).

7-10 January 2004 Prof. Jay Hook read a paper, "Polya's Enumeration Theorem in Music Theory (Or, Why Are There 29 Tetrachords?)," at the American Mathematical Society meeting in Phoenix.

24-28 November 2003 Prof. Robert Hatten was in Finland presenting a series of five invited lectures and advising seven doctoral students at the Universities of Helsinki, Turku, and the Sibelius Academy. His lectures were drawn from his recently completed book, Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart-Beethoven-Schubert, which will appear next fall from Indiana University Press. In November the Society for Music Theory awarded Hatten a $1500 subvention grant to help cover expenses in preparing the manuscript for publication.

12 November 2003 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267), Amy Engelsdorfer presents a paper on our Colloquium Series, "The Poetic Structure of Music: Ruth Crawford Seeger, Verse Form, and *The Diaphonic Suite For Solo Flute or Oboe"

6-9 November 2003. Several faculty, students, and recent graduates presented papers at this year's Society for Music Theory conference in Madison. 

• Prof. Eric Isaacson and Brent Yorgason, "The Implications of Digital Music Libraries for Music Theory"
• Prof. Julian Hook, "Signature Transformations"
• Prof. Frank Samarotto, "Treading the Limits of Tonal Cohesion: Transformation vs. Prolongation in Selected Works by Brahms"

Alumni presenting papers included Mark Butler (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Andrew Davis (University of Houston), and Eric Lai (Baylor University).  In addition, three faculty are served as session chairs, Prof. Robert Hatten, Twentieth-Century British Music, Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, Stravinsky and His Legacy, and Prof. Eric Isaacson, Music Informatics and Music Theory.

Millicent Hodson, Dance Historian and Choreographer, best known for her research and pioneering reconstruction of the 1913 Nijinsky choreography for the infamous Paris premiere of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, gave two talks as part of IU's Patten Lecture Series 28-31 October 2003.

• 28 October 2003, (12:30, Simon 242), with Kenneth Archer, "Avant-Garde Challenge: Ballets Russes vs. Ballets Suedois"
• 28 October 2003 (7:30 p.m., Fine Arts Auditorium 015), "Nijinsky Rediscovered" (Patten Lecture)
• 30 October 2003 (7:30 p.m., Fine Arts Auditorium 015), "Balanchine as a Beginner: From Petrograd to Paris" (Patten Lecture)

29 October 2003 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267). The Music Theory Colloquium Series continues with two lectures: Prof. Frank Samarotto, "Treading the Limits of Tonal Coherence: Transformation vs. Prolongation in Selected Works by Brahms" Prof. Julian Hook, "Signature Transformations"

15 October 2003 (3:30 p.m., Simon 267).  The Music Theory Colloquium Series continues with two lectures. 

• Nora Engebretsen (Bowling Green State University), "The Over-Determined Triad as a Source of Discord: Nascent Groups and the Emergent Chromatic Tonality in Later-Nineteenth-Century German Harmonic Theory"
• Per F. Broman (Bowling Green State University), "Music Theory: Art, Science, or What?"

3 October 2003 Prof. Lewis Rowell has been awarded an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for his chapter, "New Temporal Horizons and the Theory of Music" (in Music in the Mirror: Reflections on the History of Music Theory and Literature for the 21st Century, edited by Andreas Giger and Thomas J. Mathiesen [Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002]).

2 October 2003  Prof. Robert Hatten presents his talk, "A Theory of Musical Gesture and Its Application to the Classical Style," at the University of Connecticut.

2-5 October 2003  Two of our faculty participated in the annual meeting of the College Music Society in Miami.  Prof. Eric Isaacson gave a paper titled, "Enhancing College Teaching with The Digital Music Library."  Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert was chair of sessions on Practicing Multicultural Theory and Bridging Modes of Thought in Ethnomusicology and Music Theory.

1 October 2003 (Simon 267, 3:30 p.m.) The Music Theory Colloquium Series continues with a lecture by Prof. Lewis Rowell entitled "The Public Life of Musical Works: Musical 'Icons' and Twenty-First-Century Culture"

28-31 August 2003  Prof. Robert Hatten presented "A Theory of Musical Gesture and Its Application to the Classical Style" as one of the keynote addresses for the international conference on "Music and Gesture" at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.  He gave the same talk at the University of Connecticut on 2 October 2003.

May-June 2003  Prof. Gretchen Horlacher recently returned from two-months as a visitor at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland. She was studying compositional sketches of Igor Stravinsky as research for a book she is writing on his music.

16-20 June 2003  Prof. Eric Isaacson taught a week-long workshop on Teaching High School Music Theory. 

27-31 May 2003 Prof. Eric Isaacson gave a short paper (co-authored with Senior Scholar Don Byrd), "Music Representation in a Digital Music Library," at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and a presentation on "Content Visualization in a Digital Music Library" for the 3rd International Workshop on Information Visualization Interfaces for Retrieval and Analysis.  Both events were held at Rice University.

23 May 2003 Prof. Lewis Rowell presented the annual William Poland Lecture in Music Theory at Ohio State University. His talked was entitled "The Public Life of Musical Works: Musical 'Icons' and Twenty-First-Century Culture."

17 May 2003 Congratulations to Brent Yorgason, who was awarded the Arthur Komar Award for the best student paper at the 14th annual Music Theory Midwest conference, "The Melodic Bass: Submerged Urlinies, Shadow Urlinies, and ‘Urlinie Envy’."  Ryan McClelland received an honorable mention for his paper, "Metric Dissonance in the Second Movement of Brahms’s Piano Trio, Op. 101."

16-17 May 2003  Indiana University hosted the annual meeting of Music Theory Midwest.   Keynote speaker was John Buccheri, Northwestern University, whose talk is entitled "Deep Learning in the Theory Classroom: Pacing, Bumping, and Waltzes 'in Four'." A number of Indiana University faculty and staff were involved in the conference

• Tim S. Pack gave a paper, "Costanzo Festa’s Deus venerunt gentes: A Sixteenth-Century Axial-Tenor Motet?"
• Prof. Eric Isaacson and Brent Yorgason will gave a paper, "Pedagogical Tools for a Digital Music Library"
• Stanley V. Kleppinger gave a paper, "Tonal Design in the First Allegro Section from Copland’s Appalachian Spring"
• Brent Yorgason gave a paper, "The Melodic Bass: Submerged Urlinies and ‘Urlinie Envy’"
• Ryan McClelland gave a paper, "Metric Dissonance in the Second Movement of Brahms’s Piano Trio, Op. 101"
• Prof. Mary Wennerstrom chaired a session, Pedagogy: Complexity and Accessibility
• Prof. Frank Samarotto was chair of the program committee
• Prof. Robert Hatten was local arrangements chair, and was also President of the organization.

9 April 2003 (Simon 267, 3:30 p.m.) Prof. Gretchen Horlacher presented a paper, “Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in Stravinsky’s Music," as part of the Music Theory Colloquium Series.

7 April 2003 (Simon 267, 3:00 p.m.), Patrick Budelier (St. Ambrose University) gave a talk, "Elliott Carter’s New pATH: Lines, Spaces, and Retrouvailles."

27 March 2003 (Music Annex 454, 4:00 p.m.) Joel Lester, Dean of the Mannes College of Music of New School University, presented a talk, "Historically Oriented Analysis." Then on 28 March 2003 (Ford Hall, 2:00 p.m.) he presented a lecture/presentation: "Performing Bach’s Works for Solo Violin"

27 March 2003 (Wylie Hall 005, 7:30 P.M.) Prof. Lewis Rowell presented an India Studies lecture entitled "The Sound of Spring," illustrated with color slides and recorded excerpts from Spring ragas, which are, interestingly enough, among the most complex and chromatic ragas in the Hindustani tradition. The lecture explored what relationships can be identified among the various literary, visual, and musical motifs.

12 March 2003 (Simon 267, 3:30 p.m.) The Music Theory Colloquium Series features a professional development session on "Keeping a Job."

November 17, 2002 Prof. Lewis Rowell played three of his organ compositions at the First Methodist Church of Columbus, Indiana. The concert features former organists of the church, as part of the year-long celebration of the fiftieth anniversary and renovation of the church's Moeller pipe organ. Prof. Rowell was organist at the First Methodist Church in the early 1960s.

Congratulations to Prof Mary Wennerstrom, who received an Honorary Lifetime Membership in the Society for Music Theory at its 25th Annual Conference (Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2002, Columbus, Ohio), in recognition of her important contributions to the Society as its first treasurer (1978-1992), and to music theory pedagogy.

Prof. Lewis Rowell published an article entitled "Reading Sangitasastra [history of music theory] at Banaras Hindu University: a Personal Memoir," in Indian Aesthetics and Musicology, vol. 2, ed. Urmila Sharma, pp. 583-86 (Varanasi: Amnaya-Prakasana, 2002).

17-18 October 2002 Prof. Eric Isaacson participated in a panel discussion on "Similarity in Music" at ISMIR: The 3rd Annual Conference on Music Information Retrieval in Paris. He also presented a talk on "Studying Music in the Digital Music Library at Indiana University " during a one-day workshop on "Documentation and musical information serving music-lovers," sponsored by Cité de la Musique.

8 October 2002 Prof. Robert Hatten presented a colloquium lecture entitled, "From the Synthetic to the Emergent: A Theory of Musical Gesture and Its Role in the Interpretation of Expressive Meaning," at Princeton University

26-27 September 2002 Doctoral student Brent Yorgason presented two papers at the joint conference of the College Music Society and the Association for Technology in Music Instruction , "A New Music Database: Using Active Server Pages to Create Simple and Flexible Online Databases" and "Listening Test Drill: A Director-Based Application to Help Students Prepare for Listening Tests."

27 September 2002 As a member of the CMS Theory Advisory Board, Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert participated in a special panel session at the College Music Society (CMS) Conference in Kansas City, entitled "The 'New Analysis' and Music Theory Pedagogy." Her presentation is titled "Vivid Listening--Music, Medium, and Context." (See http://www.music.org/activities/Conf2002/pro.html for more information.)

26-28 August 2002 Prof. Robert Hatten presented a paper, “Thematic Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Grounding Expressive Interpretation in Schubert,” for an international conference in Odense, Denmark, entitled “Nature, Culture and Musical Meaning”

August 2002 Prof. Lewis Rowell published an article entitled "New Temporal Horizons and the Theory of Music," in Music in the Mirror: Reflections on the History of Music Theory and Literature for the Twenty-First Century, ed. Andreas Giger and Thomas J. Mathiesen (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002). The papers in this collection were presented originally at a conference at Indiana University in May 2000.

1-8 August 2002 Professor Robert Hatten organized the session, “Recent Perspectives in Music Semiotics,” and presented a paper, “The Troping of Temporality,” for the International Musicological Society’s 17th International Congress in Leuven, Belgium.

27-30 June 2002 Prof. Frank Samarotto was a workshop leader and speaker at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory. He led a three-session workshop entitled "Analyses after Schenker: Reconsidering the Legacy."

10-14 June 2002 Prof. Eric Isaacson led a workshop on Teaching High School Music Theory.  The workshop will be offered again next summer 16-20 June 2003.

1 June 2002 Prof. Mary Wennerstrom, long-time chair of the department, was named Associate Dean for Instruction in the School of Music.  Prof. Eric Isaacson was been named department chair.