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Melina Esse, Assistant Professor of Musicology, has published an article in the recent issue of Current Musicology titled “Speaking and Sighing: Bellini’s canto declamato and the Poetics of Restraint.” |
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In April 2009, Roger Freitas, Associate Professor of Musicology, was the local organizer for the annual meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. The meeting was officially hosted by Eastman and had 87 registrants attending for four days in April. The papers were stimulating, and the concerts—two highlighting Eastman‘s new baroque organs and one with Ellen Hargis and Paul O‘Dette—earned raves. |
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Lisa Jakelski, newly appointed Assistant Professor of Musicology, presents a paper at the annual meeting of the AMS in Philadelphia on Friday morning, titled “The Economics of St. Luke,” on Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion. In June 2009 she presented a paper in Canterbury, England, at the conference Polish Music Since 1945, titled “Open Windows, Open Ears: Listening at the Warsaw Autumn in the Early 1960s.” |
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Ellen Koskoff, Professor of Ethnomusicology, spent a year in Bali working and performing with a gamelan in 2007-8, and she will present a paper on her research at the meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Mexico City in November. |
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Kim Kowalke, Professor of Music and Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities in the College, has been appointed to the editorial boards of the Journal of the Society for American Music, as well as Oxford University Press's new Broadway Legacies series, and the new journal Studies in Musical Theatre. |
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Ralph Locke, Professor of Musicology, presents a paper at the annual meeting of the AMS in Philadelphia on Saturday morning, titled “Restoring Lost Meanings in Musical Representations of Exotic ‘Others’”, including discussion of Musorgsky’s “Night on the Bare Mountain”, Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloé”, and Stravinsky’s “Petrushka.” He has also published a new article titled “Unacknowledged Exoticism in Debussy: The Incidental Music for Le martyre de saint Sébastien,” in The Musical Quarterly. |
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In July 2009, Patrick Macey, Professor of Musicology, presented a paper titled “Josquin, Invertible Counterpoint and Dissonance,” at the International Josquin Conference in the Netherlands town of Middelburg. The conference included scholars from England, Germany, Austria, Italy, and the United States, and provided a forum for the latest research on Josquin’s music. |
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In July 2009, Honey Meconi, Professor of Music and the newly named Susan B. Anthony Professor in the College, presented a paper at the Medieval-Renaissance Conference in Utrecht, titled, “The Chansonnier as Conduct Manual.” |
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Holly Watkins, Assistant Professor of Musicology, presents a paper at the annual meeting of the AMS in Philadelphia on Friday afternoon, titled “The Horticultural Aesthetics of Schumann’s Blumenstück, op. 19.” |
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