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Fall 2012

24 August: Special presentation: The Ostiglia Project
31 August: [CHMTL Conference]
7 September: Phil Ford, "Mailer's Sound"
14 September: Alison Mero, "John Hullah and Charles Dickens's 'Decidedly English' Opera"
21 September: Profesional Development Series: Research Travel
28 September: Timothy Freeze, "Mahler's Untimely Romanticism: On the Musical Contexts for Mahler's Wunderhom Style"
5 October: Ayana Smith, "Images and Imagination in Lully's Tragédies en musique"
19 October: Judah Cohen, "Imagine This: Musical Theater, Narrative Confluence, and the Problems of Representation"
26 October: Professional development series: Surviving Musicology Conferences
16 November: Lynn Hooker, "Sándor Lakatos, Gypsy Musicianship, and the Modern 'Folk Orchestra' in Stalinist Hungary"
30 Novemberl: Amanda Sewell, "Copyright and Its Effect on the Musical Style of Sample-Based Hip-Hop"

Spring 2012

13 January: Prof. J. Peter Burkholder,“Stylistic Heterogeneity and Topics in the Music of Charles Ives”
3 February: Prof. Daniel R. Melamed, "Multi-Day Passions and J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio BWV 248"
10 February: Professional development: Proposing a conference paper
17 February: Prof. Robert Green, "Charles de Janon and the Guitar Music of 19th-Century America"
24 February: Professional development: Applying for fellowships and research grants
2 March: Derek Stauff, "Polemical Broadsheets and Lutheran Music in Saxony during the Thirty Years’ War"
9 March: Prof. Judah Cohen, "Zimrath Yah: A New Source for Understanding Jews and Music in the Late 19th Century"
23 March: Laura Dallman, "Leonard Bernstein and Orchestral Space"
30 March: Giuliano Di Bacco, "A Motet in Honor of Thomas Becket and Other Unknown Music in the Fragments Paris 22069"
6 April: Kerry O'Brien, "Early Minimalism and the Multimedia Magazine"
13 April: Christine Kyprianides,"Music in the Charles Dickens Periodicals"
20 April: Sherri Bishop, "Arcadelt's Primo libro: A Case Study in 16th-Century Attribution Practices"
27 April: Prof. Giovanni Zanovello, "Dear Brother Antonio: Preparing a Visit to the Annunziata Archive"

Fall 2011

September 9: Prof. Massimo Ossi, "Monteverdi's Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi (1638): An Overview"
September 16: Prof. Matthew Balensuela,"Conflicting Strategies of Management and Memory at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in the Early 1930s"
September 30: Prof. Timothy Freeze, "Becoming Klezmer: Stylistic Reference in the Funeral March of Mahler's First Symphony"
October 7: Prof. Phil Ford, "Lounging"
October 14: Prof. Alison Altstatt, "Recovering a Lost Office for St. Blaise: An Investigation of Tenth-Century Compositional Process"
October 28: Prof. Ayana Smith, "Deceiving the Eye and Pleasing the Ear, Part 2: Alessandro Scarlatti's La Statira"
November 4: Visitor, details to be announced
November 11: AMS San Francisco
November 18: Visitor, details to be announced
November 25: Thanksgiving Break
December 2: Amanda Sewell, "Leda and the Swan and Arcadelt’s Il bianco e dolce cigno"

Spring 2011

February 4: Prof. Halina Goldberg, "Chopin's Albumblätter: Conventions, Contexts and Texts"
March 4: Prof. Giovanni Zanovello, "'Countenance Italienne' and Liturgy in Heinrich Isaac's Missa Misericordias domini"
March 11: Jir Shin Boey, "Self-Reflexivity and the Decivilizing Process in the Keyboard Variations of J.P. Sweelinck"
March 25: Professional Development Series: Getting Control of Dissertation Data
April 1: Jonathan Yaeger, "The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and gesamtdeutsche New Music"
April 8: Rika Asai, "Music in Radio Drama: Death Valley Days and Dr. Christian"
April 15: Dan Bishop, "Sounding History in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde"
April 22: Amanda Sewell, "On 'Sampling' as Term and Concept in Popular Music"
April 29: Prof. Massimo Ossi, "Sense and Sexuality in Early Modern Music"

Fall 2010

September 10 Paul Killinger, "Cover Songs as Autobiography, Credentials, Commodity, and Play in Country Music
September 24 Prof. Phil Ford, "John Benson Brooks: The View from Way Out"
October 1 Mollie Ables, "Structure and Context of the Musica Spirituale (1586)"
October 8 Prof. Judah Cohen, "Anne Frank, Copyright, and the Politics of musical Adaptation"
October 15 Prof. Ayana Smith, "Deceiving the Eye and Pleasing the Ear in 17th-Century Rome"
October 22 Lisa Vest, "Educating Audiences, Educating Composers: The Polish Composers’ Union and Upowszechnienie"
November 5 [AMS Indianapolis]
November 12 Prof. Kristina Muxfeldt, "Happy and Sad: Robert Schumann's Art of Ambiguity"
November 19 Prof. Daniel R. Melamed, "J. S. Bach, J. G. Walther and the Music of Palestrina"
December 3 Prof. J. Peter Burkholder, “Toward a Typology of Musical Borrowing"

Spring 2010

15 January: Jonathan Shull, "Music Theory and Ethics in Book III of Kepler's Harmonices mundi libri V"
22 January: Kerry O'Brien, "Early Steve Reich and Techno-Utopianism"
29 January: Prof. Ayana Smith, “Catharsis and Character in Handel’s Rodrigo (1707)"
5 February: Prof. Phil Ford, "Ellington the Entertainer"
19 February: Christine Kyprianides, "Dance, Music, and Magic in Late Valois France"
26 February: Prof. Giovanni Zanovello, "High Learning and Frottola in a 1496 Paduan Manuscript"
12 March: Alisa White, "Modern Tradition: Blue Note's Image and the Blues"
26 March: Elizabeth Elmi, "Music in the Commedia dell'Arte and Monteverdi's Venetian Operas"
2 April: Thomas J. Mathiesen, "Skindapsos, Pandoura, and Trichordon: Hellenistic Lutes?"
9 April: Sherri Bishop, "The Evolution of the Printed Madrigal Book, 1538-80" and Alison Mero, "Musical Diversity in Victorian English Opera"
16 April: Molly Ryan,“Heinrich Isaac’s Motets and the Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, II.I.232”
23 April: Prof. Daniel R. Melamed, "Madama Brillante and Le nozze di Figaro"

Fall 2009

18 September: Halina Goldberg, "Authorship, Originality, and Intertextuality in Liszt's Six polonais de Fr. Chopin"
5 September: Mollie Ables, "Wild Side: Self-Styling and the Aesthetics of Metal in the Music Videos of Mötley Crüe"
October: Lewis Rowell, "Musicology in India: Traditions, Methods, and Problems"
October: Laura Weber, "The Fate of Musica mundana within the Aristotelian Revolution of 13th-Century Paris"
6 October: Marysol Quevedo, "Cuban Cold War Cultural Exchanges: Negotiating Local Identity within an International Context
November: Lynn Hooker, "Bartók's 'Nature Music,' Ecomusicology, and the Hungarian Tradition"
December: J. Peter Burkholder, “Borrowing, Reminiscence, or Coincidence?: Testing the Evidence"

Spring 2009

16 January: Amanda Sewell, "Toward a Theoretical Perspective of Nerdcore Hip-Hop"
23 January: Laura Weber, "Gender Reversal in Handel's Alcina"
6 February: Giovanni Zanovello, "Gift Transactions and the Circulation of Music in Late 15th-Century Florence"
6 March: Halina Goldberg, "The Jewish Self/The Jewish Other: Performing Identity in the 'Majufes'"
13 March: Katherine Baber, "The Jazz Trope, Identity, and Community in Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 2"
27 March: Milner Fuller, "Chorus or Soli: Performing Beethoven's Sanctus"
3 April: Derek Stauff, "The Thomaskirche East Gallery Organ and the St. Matthew Passion"
17 April: Katherine Axtell, "Redemption on the Mississippi? Der fliegende Holländer and Show Boat"
24 April: Gabriel Harkov, "A Narratological Approach to the Music of Platoon's Summary Ending"
1 May: Dan Bishop, "Silent Film Music and the Aesthetics of Humor"

Fall 2008

12 September: Phil Ford, "What Is the Sound of Revolution? The Auditory Imagination of the American Radical Left"
9 September: Jonathan Yaeger: "Back in the Day: Historicism in Recent Black American Popular Music"
6 September: Kunio Hara, "The Structure of Nostalgia in Puccini's Operas"
October: Luiz Lopes, "Performing Villa-Lobos Abroad: The Dissemination and Reception of His Music in the United States (1923-59)"
0 October: Robert Green, "Aristophanes, Rameau, and Platée"
7 October: Professional Development Series: Musicology in the Age of Facebook
4 October: Daniel R. Melamed, "Johann Sebastian Bach and Barthold Heinrich Brockes"
1 October: Professional Development Series: Proposing and Delivering Conference Papers
4 November: Kristen Strandberg, "'Une véritable consécration': Revisiting the Question of Chopin's Influence on Gottschalk"
1 November: Massimo Ossi, "Looking for Precedents for Vivaldi's Le Quattro stagioni"
December: Judah Cohen, "The Bass Jew: Shylock on the Opera Stage"
2 December: Kristina Muxfeldt, ""Franz Schubert and the Culture of Viennese Censorship: Alfonso und Estrella"

Spring 2008

11 January: Halina Goldberg, "Chopin's Late Fantasia Pieces within the Context of Nineteenth-Century Fantasia Genres"
18 January: Hans Tischler, "A Report on the Earliest Polyphonic Art Music"
1 February: J. Peter Burkholder, "Music of the Americas and Historical Narratives"
29 February: Thomas J. Mathiesen, "'Perfuming the Air': The Heyday of the Theatre Organ, 1918-1930"
4 April: Alison Mero, "Quinario and the Buffa Character in the Libretti of Lorenzo Da Ponte"
11 April: Randy Goldberg, "Clerics vs. Cavaliers: Early Investigations into the Zarlino-Galilei Controversy"
18 April: Nik Taylor, "A Meditation on Peter's Denial in J. S. Bach's Passions"

Fall 2007

7 September: Robert Green, "Schubert and the Hurdy-Gurdy: 'Der Leiermann' as a Love Duet"
21 September: Ayana Smith: "Image as 'Truth' in Alessandro Guidi's L'Endimione and Gianvincenzo Gravina's Discorso (Arcadia, 1691)"
5 October: Ann Shaffer: "Composing the North: Environmental Themes in the Works of John Luther Adams and R. Murray Schaefer"
19 October: Phil Ford, "The Holmes Acetates: Hearing and History"
16 November: Massimo Ossi, "The Bard, the Warrior, the Lover, and Their Women in Monteverdi's Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi"
7 December: Sherri Winks, "Marketing and the Madrigal: A Typology for Venetian Madrigal Collections, 1530-1560"

Spring 2007

12 January: Daniel R. Melamed, "Pulling Loose Threads in 'Nun ist der Herr zu Ruh gebracht' BWV 244/67"
19 January: Todd Decker (University of California at Los Angeles), "'You play and I'll dance.' 'No, you dance and I'll play.': Fred Astaire's Solos (1933-1968)"
26 January: Larry Hamberlin (Middlebury College), "Poor Butterfly: From Puccini Opera to Jazz Standard"
2 February: Jane Fulcher, "Romanticism, Technology, and the Masses: Arthur Honegger and the Allure of French Fascism"
9 February: Kristen Strandberg, "Understanding 9/11 Memorial Concert Programs through Reception History"
16 February: Phil Ford (University of Texas at Austin), "Jazz Exotica and the Naked City"
23 February: Professional Development Series: "The Student-Centered Classroom and Active Learning"
2 March: Lisa Vest, "Issues of Gender, Voice, and Politics in K. Penderecki's Opera The Devils of Loudon (1968)"
23 March: Malcolm Brown, "A Centennial Perspective on Shostakovich"
30 March: Katherine Baber, "Jazz as Trope in the Music of Leonard Bernstein"
6 April: Kunio Hara, "Puccini's use of Rudolf Dittrich's Nippon Gakufu in Madama Butterfly"
13 April: Massimo Ossi, "Venus in the House of Mars: Martial Imagery in Monteverdi's Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi (1638)"
20 April: Brent Reidy, "Our Memory of What Happened Is Not What Happened: Cage and the Power of Myth"
27 April: Sheryl Zukowski, "Fantasy of Modernism: Mahler's Conflicted Hermeneutics and Contemporary Musical Understanding"

Fall 2006

8 September: Thomas J. Mathiesen, "Music, Aesthetics, and Cosmology in Early Neo-Platonism"
29 September: Halina Goldberg: "Phrase Structure of Chopin's Early Works in Light of Józef Elsner's Instruction"
6 October: Professional Development Series 1: "Tools for Teaching: The Freshman Learning Project"
20 October: Christine Kyprianides, "The Emasculated Violoncellist: A Victorian Gender Stereotype?"
27 October: Matthew Nisbet, "The Tabley House Lute Book"
1 December: Rika Asai, "Music to Foster Goodwill: Consolidated Edison and Echoes of New York"
8 December: Alisa White, "'We insist! Freedom now': Max Roach's Transatlantic Civil Rights Imperative"

Spring 2006

13 January: Robert Green, "Recent Research Concerning the Hurdy-Gurdy in Eighteenth-Century France"
20 January: Dale Chapman (Bates College): "Twilight at Birdland: Tin Pan Alley and Cultural Politics in John Coltrane's 'I Want to Talk about You'"
27 January: John Howland (Rutgers University): "'Jazz' with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook"
3 February: Kristina Muxfeldt, "The Fairy Tale and the Censor: Schubert's Der Graf von Gleichen (an Opera for Posterity)"
10 February: Annie Randall (Bucknell University): "Transatlantic Dialogues: US Pop in Europe ca. 1965"
24 February: Jonathan Yaeger, "Music, Science, and Philosophy in al-Farabi's Great Book of Music"
3 March: Jane Fulcher, "From Hybrid to Metamorphosis: Poulenc's Path to Symbolic Resistance and Musical Counter-Discourse during Vichy"
24 March: Travis Yeager, "The Earliest Known Liturgy of St. Emmeram at Regensburg: New Evidence from the Lilly Library N.B.: TheMarch colloquium will be held in the Lincoln Room, Lilly Library
7 April: J. Peter Burkholder, "Richard Strauss and the Survival of Tonality"
14 April: Ayana Smith, "Queen Christina, Aesthetics, and Italian buon gusto: L'Endimione and Arcadian Reform"
21 April: Phillip Kurasz, "On the Transmigration of Ives: Understanding Adams through Ives"

Fall 2005

9 September: Lynn Hooker, "Hungarian Music or Gypsy Music? An Old Question Revisited"
23 September: Jeffrey Magee, "Irving Berlin, Jazz, and Broadway in the 1920s"
30 September: Professional Development Series 1: "Career Opportunities for Musicologists"
7 October: Daniel R. Melamed, "The Evolution of 'Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär' BWV 80/5"
21 October: Thomas J. Mathiesen, "Reconstructing the Greek Aulos"
11 November: Katherine Baber, "Deliberation, Pragmatism, and Democracy in the Music of Charles Ives"
2 December: Professional Development Series 2: Topic to be announced
9 December: Alisa White, "From Running the Changes to Motivic Manipulation: The Evolution of Lee Morgan's Improvisational Style"

Spring 2005

21 January: Robert Green, "Rameau's Platée as Operatic Satire"
4 February: Halina Goldberg, "The Dancing Jew: Assimilation, National Identity, and the majufes"
18 February: Francesco Izzo (New York University), "Verdi, the Virgin, and the Censors: The Cult of Mary in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Italy"
25 February: Sheryl Zukowski, "Discipline of the Ear: Mahler's Operatic Direction and the fin-de-siècle Debate about Hearing and Communication"
4 March: Jeffrey Magee, "Miles Davis and the Blues"
11 March: Kristina Muxfeldt (Yale University), "Music Recollected in Tranquillity: Postures of Memory in Beethoven"
8 April: Hans Tischler, "A Neglected Trouvère Manuscript from Vienna"
15 April: Christopher Holmes, "Conventional Genres and Their Alloys: Benjamin Britten's Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, op. 68"

Fall 2004

10 September: Thomas J. Mathiesen, "Ars critica and Fata libellorum The Significance of Codicology to Text Critical Theory"
17 September: Bethany Kissell, "Bernstein's Personal Statement: Jewish and American Identity in the Jeremiah Symphony"
24 September: Daniel R. Melamed, "Did J. S. Bach Perform the St. Luke Passion BWV 246?"
1 October: Professional Development Series, Topic to be announced
8 October: Joanna Biermann, "How to Compose a Nazi Opera: Werner Egk's Zaubergeige and Peer Gynt"
22 October: Lynn Hooker, "Festivalization and the Carnivalesque in Hungarian Folk Music and Dance Camps"
29 October: Jane Fulcher, "French Identity in Flux: Vichy's Collaboration and Antigone's Operatic Triumph"
5 November: Professional Development Series, Topic to be announced
19 November: Massimo Ossi, "Petrarchian Themes in Monteverdi's Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi."
3 December: Alison Trego, "The Story of Music's Discovery"
10 December: Ayana Smith, "The Mock Heroics of L'Anagilda (Girolamo Gigli and Antonio Caldara, Rome 1711)"

Spring 2004

23 January: Thomas J. Mathiesen, "Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Scribes and Scholars in the History of Music Theory"
30 January: Professional Development Series, "Proposing and Delivering Conference Papers"
6 February: Jeffrey Magee, "'Playing in the Mud': Fletcher Henderson's Band on the Cusp of the Swing Era"
20 February: Massimo Ossi, "Monteverdi and Petrarch"
27 February: Professional Development Series, "Preparing and Submitting Journal Articles"
5 March: Halina Goldberg, "Chopin and the Stammbuch Tradition: Conventions and Contexts"
26 March: Don Fader, "Philippe II d'Orléans's Italian Ensemble, Its Repertory and Influence on French Compositional Style, 1700-1709"
2 April: Professional Development Series, "Writings CVs, Cover Letters, and Applications for Jobs and Grants"
9 April: Hans Tischler, "Rhythmic Variation and Other Elements of Style in Polyphonic Conductus"
23 April: Professional Development Series, "Taking Research from Idea to Publication"
30 April: Lynn Hooker, "Modernism in the Periphery: The New Hungarian Music Society of 1911-1912"

Fall 2003

5 September: J. Peter Burkholder, "Rewriting a History of Western Music"
19 September: Robert Green, "Recent Research on the Air in Late Seventeenth-Century France"
3 October: Daniel R. Melamed, "The Double Chorus in J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion BWV 244"
17 October: Joanna Biermann, "Cyclical Ordering in Beethoven's Gellert-Lieder op. 48"
31 October: Jonathan Shull, "di estro, e di fantasia: Early Classic Concinnity in the Compositional Technique of Domenico Fischietti"
December 5: Ayana Smith, "Blues, Criticism, and the Signifying Trickster"

Spring 2003

24 January: A. Peter Brown, "The Reception of Haydn's Keyboard Music"
7 February: Halina Goldberg, "Belonging through Music: 19th-Century Jewish Participation in the Construction of Polish National Identity"
21 February: Sam Cox, "'A Faltering Step in a Basically Right Direction': Richard Rodgers and All Points West"
7 March: Jeffrey Magee, "'Great Country'? Understanding Irving Berlin's America"
28 March: Thomas J. Mathiesen, "Byzantine Scholarship and Ptolemy's Harmonics"
11 April: Sara Beutter, "Aaron Copland and the Struggle to Maintain Intellectual Integrity"
25 April: Don Fader, "Rules and agréments: Propriety and Rhetoric in 17th-Century French Compositional Theory and Practice"

Fall 2002

20 September: Jane Fulcher, "The Politics of Transcendence: Ideology in the Music of Messiaen in the Thirties"
4 October: J. Peter Burkholder, "A Simple, Comprehensive Model for Musical Meaning"
18 October: Daniel R. Melamed, "Hamburg Passion Music, 1675-1721"
22 November: Massimo Ossi, "Upside Down in Vivaldi's Musical World"
6 December: Peter Schimpf, "Henry Cowell's Ongaku and a Transethnic Basis for the Tone Cluster"

Spring 2002

11 January: Judy Barger, "'Ladies Not Eligible'? Female Church Organists in 19th-Century England"
25 January: David Cannata (Temple University), "Mephisto Incognito!"
1 February: Jeffrey Magee, "Music, Drama, and Race in Show Boat"
8 February: Don Fader, "Philippe d'Orléans and the Origins of the cantate françoise"
22 February: J. Peter Burkholder, "The Organist in Ives"
1 March: Luiz Lopes, "Villa-Lobos's Uirapuru and the Transformations of an Enchanted Little Bird"
8 March: Dexter Edge (University of Memphis)
22 March: Special Presentation on the Challis Biography Project
29 March: Hans Tischler, "The Performance of Two-Part Conductus: A Proposal"
5 April: A. Peter Brown, "The Reception of Sibelius's Symphonic Works"
12 April: Daniel R. Melamed, "Counterpoint (of all things) in Mozart's Abduction"
19 April: Massimo Ossi, "Monteverdi, Marenzio, and Battista Guarini's 'Cruda Amarilli'"

Fall 2001

14 September: Rika Asai, "Hearing the Woman in the Dunes"
28 September: Peter Schimpf, "The Role of Folk and Vernacular Music in the Music of the Second Viennese School"
12 October: Jane Fulcher, "Symbolic Domination and Contestation in French Music: Shifting the Paradigm from Adorno to Bourdieu"
26 October: Jennifer King, "Dueling Madrigals: Monte, Monteverdi, and the Process of Dialogue"
9 November: Bathia Churgin (Bar-Ilan University), "Old Ideas Recycled: Aspects of Beethoven's String Quartet, op. 132"
7 December: Gayle Sherwood, "Charles Ives and 'Our National Malady'"

Spring 2001

January 19: A. Peter Brown, "Contexts for Mozart's 'Jupiter' Symphony
February 2: Jeffrey Magee, "'King Porter Stomp,' the Birth of Swing, and Jazz Historiography"
February 16: Hans Tischler, "The Earliest Extant Italian Music: The Cortona Laudario"
March 2: Don Fader, "Aristocratic Politesse and the Reception of Italian Music in Seventeenth-Century France"
March 23: J. Peter Burkholder, "Questions of Value: Toward a Unified Field Theory for Musical Scholarship"
April 6: Felicia Miyakawa, "Jazz at Night and the Classics in the Morning: Negotiating Tensions between Musical Traditions in African-American Short Stories"
April 20: Thomas J. Mathiesen, "The Musical Ambience of the Silent Film in the 1920s"

Fall 2000

8 September: Susan Greene, "'I want you all to hold me up!': Correspondences between Baptist Sermons and Muddy Waters's Early Recordings"
22 September: Jane Fulcher, "Speaking the Truth to Power: The Dialogic Element in Debussy's Wartime Compositions"
6 October: Luiz Fernando Lopes, "A Theory of Style Periods for the Works of Heitor Villa-Lobos"
20 October: Daniel R. Melamed, "The Distribution of Character Roles in J. S. Bach's Passion Repertory"
10 November: Malcolm Hamrick Brown, "Shostakovich Reconsidered Yet Again"
17 November: Massimo Ossi, "'Excuse me, but your teeth are in my neck'--Monteverdi's 'Eccomi pronta ai baci,' and the Kiss in Renaissance Poetry"
1 December: Margarita Mazo (The Ohio State University): Shostakovich: The First American Festival, Recollections of the Widow, and Issues of National Identity