Music Theory Colloquium Series (2015–16)
This page lists colloquium series events for the year 2015–16. See current colloquium series events here.
All events are on Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m. in M 267 unless otherwise noted.
Past Events: Fall 2015
September 16: Patrick McCreless (Yale University), “'There Is Sweet Music': Thoughts on Tonality and Tonal Theory, a Century Later”
Friday, September 18 (4:00 p.m., Ford-Crawford Hall): Patrick McCreless (Yale University), “You Are the Music, While the Music Lasts” (Five Friends Master Class Series Honoring Robert Samels)
September 23: Bora Uymaz(singer and composer), “The Concept of Makam in Turkish Music”
October 7: Mike Cheng-Yu Lee(Indiana University), "Structural Rhythm and Bowing in Haydn's String Quartet Op. 64 No. 3"
October 14: Professional Development Session, "The Academic Job Search: An Introduction"
October 21: Frank Samarotto (Indiana University), "Subdominants, Lower-Fifth Dividers, and Inversion in Schenkerian Theory," and Julian Hook (Indiana University), "Enharmonic Equivalence as an Equivalence Relation"
November 11: Robert Komaniecki (Indiana University), "Untexted Vocal Hooks in Popular Music: A Brief History and Typology"
November 18: Nathan Lam (Indiana University), "Diatonic Positions For Analysis"
Monday, November 30 (5:00 p.m., Sweeney Lecture Hall, M 015): Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis (University of Arkansas), "Repetition, Music, and Mind" (Five Friends Master Class Series Honoring Robert Samels)
December 2: Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis (University of Arkansas), "Empirical Approaches to Aesthetic Listening"
Past events: Spring 2016
January 20: Professional Development Session, "The Academic Job Interview"
February 3: Andrew Mead (Indiana University), "Max Reger and the Art of Variation"
February 10: Matthew Boyle (Indiana University), "Harmonic Materialities: Syntactic and Statistical"
February 17: Ryan Taycher (Indiana University), "De fundamento discanti"
Tuesday, February 23 (8:00 p.m., M 242): Dora Hanninen (University of Maryland), "On Musical Movement" (Five Friends Master Class Series Honoring Robert Samels)
February 24: Dora Hanninen (University of Maryland), "Theorizing Musical Movement for Kinesthetic Analysis"
March 9: J. Daniel Jenkins (University of South Carolina), "Schoenberg’s BBC Television Broadcast and the Meaning of the Twelve-Tone Idea"
March 23: Nikolas Bauchat (Indiana University), "Tonal Deception in Verdi's Macbeth II"
April 6: Marianne Kielian-Gilbert (Indiana University), "When affect becomes performative: Music’s Deleuzian twists, dramatizations, and action-based modes of analysis"
April 13: Kyle Adams (Indiana University), "Rap Music on Trial"
April 20: Lauren Wilson (Indiana University), "Milton Babbitt's Soli e Duettini: A Dialogue with Oneself"
April 27: Craig Duke (Indiana University), "Revisiting Schenkerian Analysis in Wagner's Ring"