Colloquium Series

Spring 2007

All sessions take place in M267 (the large seminar room in the Music Library) at 3:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

January 17
Jane Quinet
Editor, Indiana University Press

"Book Publishing 101"

January 31
Severine Neff
Eugene Falk Distinguished Professor
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"A Tonal Paradox in Sonata-Allegro Form: Flat-1 in Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, Op.10"

February 14

Double Bill, Mitch Ohriner and Danny Arthurs

Mitch Ohriner, "Playing the Role:' Performative Agency in Selected Performances of Schubert's Sonata in A-Minor, D. 845"

Danny Arthurs, "Irony and Illusion in the Second Movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 101"

March 21

Kyle Fyr & John Reef (Indiana University)

Kyle Fyr, "Form, Proportion, and Metrical Emergence in John Adams's Phrygian Gates"\

John Reef, "Finding Agency in a Chopin Nocturne"

These papers will be read at the Music Theory Midwest conference to be held on 13-14 April 2007 in Lawrence, Kansas.

March 28

Guest lecture: Professors Mellonee Burnim and Portia Maultsby,
Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
"Critiquing African American Musics"

April 4

Eric Isaacson
Doin' It Right: Theory, Technology, Today, and Tomorrow²
This paper will be the keynote talk for the Music Theory Society of New York State (MTSNYS) conference to be held on 14-15 April 2007 at Fordham University in New York City.

April 11

Trina Thompson, public lecture
"Arcadia and Alienation in Debussy¹s 'Placet futile'"

April 18

Guest lecture & reception
Professor John Roeder, University of British Columbia
"Hearing Space and Time in the Music of Thomas Adès"

April 25. Analysis Symposium (TBA) [Chopin, Prelude in C# minor, Op. 45 ]

Last semester's schedule