Friday, September 6, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
“Four Modes of Music-Analytic Interpretation”
Jeffrey Swinkin (University of Oklahoma)
Friday, September 20, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
“Minimalism and Black Composers”
Sumanth Gopinath (University of Minnesota)
Friday, September 27, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
“Performing Authenticity: Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Musical Expression, Style, and Identity”
Nancy Murphy (University of Michigan)
Friday, October 4, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
“Porous Instruments: Synthesizers and the Circulation of Cultural Value”
Jennifer Iverson (University of Chicago)
Friday, October 18, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Professional Development Workshop
Friday, October 25, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
“Explorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation”
Dariusz Terefenko (Eastman School of Music) & Benjamin Wadsworth (Kennesaw State University)
Friday, November 1, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
SMT Run-Throughs
Evan Martschenko, Maeve Gillen, Ryan Galik, Sam Falotico, Ruixue Hu
Friday, November 15, 2024 at 2 PM ET in OSL 204
Workshop led by Andrew Chung (University of North Texas) – Facilitated by ETCEI, funded by EDII
“Glimpsing Music Theory in the Archives of Colonization and Slavery”
In this workshop, participants will examine texts written by European colonizers about the musical practices and documents of listening of Amerindian societies and communities of enslaved people. We will look to catch the ways in which basic music theoretical categories like consonance/dissonance, rhythm and meter, harmony, and counterpoint bear their traces in such texts, and start to draw some inferences about the cultural, political, ethnological work these categories perform in the archives of colonial dispossession.
Friday, November 15, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
“Early Modern Tuning, Temperament, and the Natural Philosophy of Empire”
Andrew Chung (University of North Texas)
Friday, November 22, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
“Mapping the Gamut: Solmization Pedagogy, Tonal Compass, and 16th-Century Counterpoint”
Megan Long (Oberlin College and Conservatory)
Friday, December 6, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Stephen Rodgers (University of Oregon)
Friday, January 24, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Conference Proposal Workshop
Friday, January 31, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Bryan Parkhurst (Oberlin College and Conservatory)
Friday, February 7, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Landon Morrison (Eastman School of Music)
Friday, February 14, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Nathan Lam (Eastman School of Music)
Friday, February 21, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Tahirih Motazedian (Vassar College)
Friday, February 28, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
“Charles Darwin vs. Herbert Spencer: Reconsidering an Historic Debate about the Evolutionary Origins of Music”
Miriam Piilonen (University of Massachusetts – Amherst)
Friday, March 21, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Robin Attas (Independent Scholar)
Friday, March 28, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
MTSNYS Run Throughs
Friday, April 18, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Noriko Manabe (Indiana University)
Friday, April 25, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Undergraduate Thesis Presentations