Upcoming Events
16-20 June 2008. Professor Eric Isaacson will give a workshop on Teaching High School Music Theory for teachers of Advanced Placement Music Theory courses.
12, 18 July 2008. Vincent Benitez (PhD, 2001) will be a participant in an Australian Broadcasting
Corporation radio program entitled "Transcending Time: Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time," to be broadcast in Australia on
Saturday, July 12, at 5:00 p.m. (Saturday July 12, at 3:00 a.m. EST), and Friday, July 18, at 3:00 p.m. (Friday, July 18, at 1:00 a.m. EST). The program will be available online after the broadcast. (Program details.)
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Departmental News
New Personnel
We are delighted to welcome Shauna Peatross, who begins as secretary to the music theory and musicology departments beginning June 29. We wish Ron Sebben all the best in his new position as instrument inventory coordinator in the Jacobs School and thank him for his two years of excellent service to our departments.
The department warmly welcomes Blair Johnston to the faculty this fall! Prof. Johnston is completing his PhD at the University of Michigan.
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17 May 2008. Congratulations to Michael Vidmar-McEwen, who was named the winner of the Arthur Komar Award for the Best Student Paper at Music Theory Midwest, held May 16-17 at Bowling Green State University. His paper was entitled "Franz Schubert & the Etherealized Mechanical."
23 April 2008. The department is pleased to announce that Sara Bakker has been named the first recipient of the Wennerstrom Associate Instructor Teaching Fellowship. Sara is a third-year doctoral student in music theory.
Congratulations to Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, who has been named the winner of the 2008 Distinguished
Scholar Award by IU's Office of Women's Affairs!
Recent Publications
Prof. Julian Hook, "Why Are There Twenty-Nine Tetrachords?: A Tutorial on Combinatorics and Enumeration in Music Theory," Music Theory Online 13.4 (2007).
Prof. Frank Samarotto, "Determinism. Prediction, and Inevitability in Brahms's Rhapsody in E-flat, op. 119, no. 4," Theory and Practice 32 (2007).
Prof. Julian Hook, "David Lewin and the Complexity of the Beautiful," Intégral 21 (2007).
Vincent Benitez (PhD 2001), "Messiaen as Improviser". Dutch Journal of Music Theory 13, no. 2 (2008): 129-44.
Vincent Benitez (PhD 2001), Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge Music Bibliographies. New York and London: Routledge, 2008.
Eddy Zemach and Tamara Balter (ABD), "The Structure of Irony and how it Functions in Music" in Philosophers on Music Experience, Meaning, and Work, edited by Kathleen Stock (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Ryan McClelland (PhD 2004), "Metric Dissonance in Brahms’s Piano Trio in C Minor,
Op. 101," Intégral 20 (2006).
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