Musicology Events

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Musicology Symposia

Thursdays at 4:30 pm, New Sibley Library 404

April 1, 2010

Prof. Peter Schmelz

Washington University in St. Louis

"Schnittke and the Popular"

April 15, 2010

Prof. Suzanne Cusick

New York University

(title TBA)

April 29, 2010

Zbigniew Granat

Nazareth College

"Hearing Chopin through His Ears: A 'Sonoristic' Inquiry"

 

Co-Sponsored Events

Oct. 29-Nov. 1, 2009:
EROI Festival, with the Eastman Organ Department
Mendelssohn and the Contrapuntal Tradition
EROI Website

March 19-21, 2010:
Symposium, with the Eastman Humanities Dept.

Film Lost and Found: The Experience of Pre- and Silent Cinema

The Humanities Project


 

New Publications

New Josquin Edition, Vol. 15   Patrick Macey, New Josquin Edition, Vol. 15 (Utrecht, 2009). Music Volume and Critical Commentary.

 

Roger Freitas, Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Roger Freitas discusses his book on NPR’s Rochester affiliate WXXI.		   Portrait of Castrado

 

Musical Exoticism   Ralph Locke, Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Ralph Locke discusses his book on NPR’s Rochester affiliate WXXI.

 

 

 

 

 


    

Faculty News

Michael Anderson   Michael Anderson: paper presentation, Medieval-Renaissance Conference in Utrecht

Michael Anderson   Melina Esse: published an article in Current Musicology

Michael Anderson   Roger Freitas: published Portrait of a Castrato, with Cambridge Univ. Press (see below)

Michael Anderson   Lisa Jakelski: presented a paper at the AMS annual meeting in Philadelphia

Michael Anderson   Ellen Koskoff: research in Bali; paper presentation SEM Mexico City

Michael Anderson   Kim Kowalke: has joined several new editorial boards

Michael Anderson   Ralph Locke: presented a paper at the AMS annual meeting in Philadelphia

Michael Anderson   Patrick Macey: paper presentation, International Josquin Conference, Middelburg, The Netherlands

Michael Anderson   Honey Meconi: appointed to Grove Music editorial board

Michael Anderson   Holly Watkins: presented a paper at the AMS annual meeting in Philadelphia

Michael Anderson   Dan Zager: NEH grant to digitize non-copyrighted scores in Sibley Music Library
 

Student News

Two Eastman Musicology Students presented papers at AMS national meeting in Philadelphia, Nov. 2009.

Eastman Students present papers at the AMS Chapter Meeting, April 2009.

Recent hires for tenure-track positions

  • Martin Nedbal, University of Arkansas
  • Sylvia Alajaji, Franklin and Marshall College
  • Marie Sumner Lott, Pennsylvania State

Recently defended dissertations

  • Katherine Axtell, Genesis of Show Boat

  • Alexander Dean, 17th-c. Guitar Music and Song
  • Martin Nedbal, Viennese Singspiel and Moralit
  • Marie Sumner Lott, 19th-c. Chamber Music
  • Adriana Martinez Figueroa, Musical Nationalism in Mexico and the United States

Recent Dissertations