Dec. 3: James Symons

Please join us for our final workshop of the quarter with special guest James Symons, a PhD Candidate in Music Theory and Cognition at Northwestern. James will be discussing an excerpt from his dissertation, “Temporal Regularity as a Key to Uncovering Statistically Significant Schemas in an Eighteenth-Century Corpus” (accessible here). Our own John Lawrence will serve…

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Nov. 12: Tommaso Sabbatini

Scribe and Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine: a world-minded Parisian opera Please join us this Wednesday (Nov. 12, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m., Logan 801) for Tommaso Sabbatini’s presentation of his paper for a conference on nineteenth-century grand opera outside Paris. Lauren Eldridge will serve as respondent. Tommaso’s draft is available here; his abstract may be viewed here. We hope…

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