Current News and Events
Graduate-Student News
André Redwood has been awarded a 2011-2012 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies. The Fellowship will fund the final year of work on his dissertation, "The Eloquent Science of Music:
Marin Mersenne's Uses of Rhetoric in the *Harmonie universelle (1636)." The ACLS accepted 70 proposals from a pool of 1100 applications.
The Society's Dissertation Completion Fellowship is a new program, now in its fifth year. André is the first student in our graduate program to be granted the fellowship.
Eric Bianchi is completing his residence at the American Academy in Rome. He will return to New Haven to complete his dissertation on Athanasius Kircher, funded by a fellowship from the Giles Whiting Foundation.
Vasili Byros will begin a two-year position as Post-Doctoral Resident Scholar in Music Theory at Indiana University, Bloomington in September 2009. In November, he will present "Revisiting Schema Theory: In Memoriam Leonard Meyer" at SMT Montreal, and "(Re-)Constructing Corpus Analysis: Perspectives from Schema Theory and Empirical Musicology" at a music analysis conference in Strasbourg.
Clare Sher Ling Eng shares the first prize for the 2009 Bruce Benward Student Analysis Competition. Her winning essay, “Aspects of Post-Classical Cadential Design in Fauré's Mirages,” will be published in the 2009 issue of the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy. She presents related work on Fauré at SMT Montreal, on Bartók at the annual meeting of the College Music Society. Her article, "Red Detachment of Women" and the Enterprise of Making 'Model' Music during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, appears in the Spring 2009 issue of the online journal VoiceXchange.
Anna Gawboy presented papers on late Scriabin at NECMT and at the Yale Slavic Studies Colloquium. In November, she will present "The Wheatstone Concertina and Symmetrical Arrangements of Tonal Space" at SMT Montreal.
Stephen Gosden has been elected Chair of the Graduate Student Assembly for the 2009/2010 academic year.
Moira Hill presented “Rethinking the Role of Continuo in the Accompaniment of Schuetz's Vocal Works” at the annual meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music in Rochester
Karen Jones presented "Brahms's Second Piano Concerto
and the Staging of Anti-Virtuosic Virtuosität" at an April conference at the
Institute of Musical Research in London.
Esther Morgan-Ellis presented “Mike Seeger and the Transmission of Old-Time Music” at the annual meeting of the Society for American Music in Denver, April 2009.
Jamie O’Leary will present public lectures on Tosca and Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera during the 2009-2010 season.
Benjamin Thorburn will study performance practice as a singer at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute in Toronto. In November he will present his paper "Recomposing Monteverdi: Ernst Krenek's L'Incoronazione di Poppea" at AMS Philadelphia.
Valerie Rogotzke served as "Leader in Residence" at Chatham Hall in Virginia this spring, where she lectured on Hildegard of Bingen and Fanny Hensel, served as soprano soloist for a performance of Hensel's music, and presented a lecture recital. She reports that, after she left, her place was taken by the former president of Sri Lanka.
The Department wishes to congratulate Danielle Ward-Griffin for being awarded the 2010 Temperley Prize for her paper “’The Tower and the Lake:’ Interior and Exterior Spaces in Benjamin Britten's /The Turn of the Screw/.” The Temperley Prize has been awarded since 2006 for the best student paper read at the biennial conference of the North American British Music Studies Association (NABMSA).
