Dear all, Please join us for the final workshop of the quarter, as Peter Shultz comes from Minnesota to talk about a chapter of his dissertation, titled “Breaking Routine.” We’ll meet on Wednesday, December 4, at the usual time and place (4:30–6:00 p.m. in the Logan Terrace Seminar Room, 801) for food, drink, and good conversation!…

Dear all,   Next week’s Music History/Theory Workshop features the newest member of the Music Department faculty, Drew Nobile, presenting a paper titled, “Towards a Syntactical Definition of Harmonic Function in Rock and Other Repertoires.” The pre-circulated reading and related media links are available on the “downloads” page, with password “rock” – Sarah Iker will open…

Please join us for next week’s Music History/Theory Workshop–we’ll discuss Dan Wang’s essay, “When is Opera Theatrical?” The paper is available on the workshop website, with password “opera”: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/musichistorytheory/downloads-2/   Dan writes:   This essay is in two parts. In the first part I look at the position that takes opera initially to be a divided…