Work-in-Progress Series
All lectures will be held in Rm. 106 at 143 Elm Street at 12:30 pm unless otherwise noted.
Spring 2008
25 January
Anna Gawboy
Aksak Meter and the Hungarian Style in Brahms’s 'Variations on a Hungarian Theme', Op. 21 no. 2
1 February
Clare Eng
Fauré and the Art of the Sequence in 'La Chanson d'Ève'
8 February
Alain Frogley
Dancing in the 'City of Dreadful Night:' Paris, Vienna, and St Petersburg in the 1914 Scherzo-Nocturne of Vaughan Williams’s 'A London Symphony'
15 February
Ian Quinn
A “Neo-McHosian” Program for Tonality Research: Data-Mining in the Bach Chorales
22 February
Eric Bianchi
Father Kircher’s Singing Sloth (And Other Wonders of the New World)
28 March
Ian Bates
Modal Harmonic Cycle Direction and Vaughan Williams’s Harmonic Practice
4 April
Cristina Cruz-Uribe
Crafting Institutional Legacy: Music in the Writing of a Peruvian Nun
11 April
Vasili Byros
Memorizing Tonality: Beethoven’s 'Eroica' and the 'le – sol – fi – sol' Archetype
18 April
Marek Zabka
Mathematical Methods in the Current European Music Theory
Fall 2007
14 September
Craig Wright
Was Mozart A “Head Composer” Or “A Poor Working Stiff”?:
An Introduction To The Sketch Leaves
21 September
Mark Berry
Conflict and reconciliation between the æsthetic and the political in post-war musical drama: Hans Werner Henze and Luigi Nono
28 September
Virginia Atanassova-Lialios
The Renaissance Games in Monteverdi's Madrigals and his
Opera 'Orfeo'
12 October
Margot Fassler and Jacqueline Richard
A preview of the draft of the film: 'Performing the Passion: J.S. Bach and the Gospel of John (1725)'
19 October
James Hepokoski
Modalities of National Identity: Sibelius’s First Symphony (1899)
9 November
Rick Cohn
The Over-Determined Triad, Evolution, and Cognitive Plausibility
30 November
Laura Weber
The Intersection of Speculative Theory and Practical Demands in Jerome of Moravia's 'Tractatus de musica'
7 December
Judith Malafronte
Exploring the Italian Connections of the New Marquand Organ
