Final workshop of the Winter Quarter!! Come celebrate the end of the quarter with Peter Smucker, graduate student at the University of Chicago in music history and theory, and work from his dissertation proposal!  Tuesday, March 6@3:30pm in JRL 264. Refreshments will be served. Please note that there is an audio clip and pre-circulated materials–see below…

We pleased to announce a special student-faculty session with Professor Jairo Moreno sponsored by the Workshop on Music History/Theory on March 1@ 3:00-4:30 in JRL 264.   Professor Moreno’s presentation, titled “Music Theory as Tool-Being” is open to all Music Department faculty and students and will address Moreno’s concerns about the domain of music theory today.  It will…

Announcing a special workshop co-sponsored by the Music History/Theory Workshop, the EthNoise! Ethnomusicology Workshop, the 18th/19th Century Cultures Workshop, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.  On February 21, @3:00pm at the Fulton Recital Hall, Professor Bennett Zon, from Durham University UK, will present his work on “Evolution and spiritual selection in Victorian musical culture.”…

Announcing our next presenter for the Music History/Theory Workshop on a special day and at a special time–February 20 @ 5:00pm, in the library seminar room, JRL 264. Trent Leipert is a graduate student at the University of Chicago in music history and theory and will be presenting an excerpt from his dissertation, titled “A…

We’re pleased to announce the next presenter for the Music History/Theory Workshop on February 14, 3:30pm, in the library seminar room, JRL 264. Andrew Westerhaus, graduate student at the University of Chicago, will be presenting an excerpt from his dissertation, titled“Stravinsky’s ‘Blocks’: Analogies and Metaphors of Play.” The pre-circulated writing is available here–for the password please…

We’re pleased to announce the next presenter for the Music History/Theory Workshop on February 7, 3:00pm [NOTE THE EARLIER TIME!], in the library seminar room, JRL 264. Seth Brodsky, Assistant Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College at the University of Chicago, will be presenting an article titled “Britten as Another: Six Notes on…