Colloquium
Music Theory Department Colloquium Series
Wednesdays, 3:30PM, M267
Spring 2012
11 January: Chelsey Hamm (public lecture), "'I know not what are the words': Verbal Borrowings in the Songs of Charles Ives". Diego Cubero, (Mannes preview), "Voice-Leading and Temporal Multiplicity in Brahms's Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118 No. 2"
18 January: Naomi Waltham-Smith, Workshop Series 1: "Thinking Music
with Philosophy" Music and Ethics
The "Thinking Music With Philosophy" series of workshops aims to provide an introduction to philosophical modes of thinking that might complement, enhance or refine the ways in which we think about certain aspects of music from its internal structural relations to its social and ethical impact. The series by no means strives to be a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of music. Rather, the workshop will address a selection of topics where I believe that musical thinking might usefully avail itself of concepts and ideas developed within the context of (largely modern) Continental philosophical thinking. Much of this philosophical thought concerns itself with ontological and ethical questions more than it does with aesthetics and a number of thinkers that we shall encounter do not even talk about music. In the sessions we shall nonetheless be exploring how some of their ideas might be especially pertinent to developing theories about music precisely because these authors sit outside the standard canon of musical aesthetics. Some of the thinkers whose ideas we shall discuss include Adorno, Agamben, Aristotle, Badiou, Derrida, Guillaume, Nancy and Plato, and the repertoire covered will span the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.
Optional preparatory reading will be posted to the OnCourse site approximately 1-2 weeks in advance, while shorter extracts and music examples will be provided for consideration during the sessions. If you have not already done so, please contact Prof. Naomi Waltham-Smith at nwaltham@indiana.edu to gain permission to access the site.
1 February: Naomi Waltham-Smith, Workshop Series 2: "Thinking Music
with Philosophy" Voice
8 February: Michael Klein (Temple University; Indiana University): "Music and Narrative since 1900"
15 February: Jason Jedlicka, "A Poetic Oasis: Methods of Text Setting in Steve Reich's The Desert Music"
22 February: Naomi Waltham-Smith, Workshop Series 3: "Thinking Music with Philosophy" Listening
29 February: Naomi Waltham-Smith, Workshop Series 4: "Thinking Music with Philosophy" Touching
7 March: Guest Lecture: L. Poundie Burstein ( Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of new York): "V7 Dividers"
21 March: Diego Cubero (Indiana University), PhD public lecture: TBD. Juan Mesa (Indiana University), PhD public lecture: "C.P.E. Bach and the Unsettling of Meter: Reversing Metrical Impulses in Sonata Wq.55 n.6,I"
28 March: Naomi Waltham-Smith, Workshop Series 5: "Thinking Music
with Philosophy" Time and Tense
4 April: March Chilla (Indiana University), PhD public lecture: TBD
11 April: Naomi Waltham-Smith, Workshop Series 6: "Thinking Music
with Philosophy" Time and Labour
18 April: 4:00pm - Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
25 April: Professional Development Session: TBD
