Music Theory Colloquium Series (2017-18)
This page lists colloquium series events for the year 2017–18. See current colloquium series events here.
All events are on Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m. in M 267 unless otherwise noted.
Spring 2018
Wednesday, January 24
Caleb Mutch (Indiana University), Workshop: “Analysis with Historical Ears I: The Renaissance”
Wednesday, February 7
Jessica Sommer (Indiana University), “Staging the Moments of Reveal in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro”
Wednesday, February 14
Caleb Mutch (Indiana University), Workshop: “Analysis with Historical Ears II: The Baroque Period”
Wednesday, February 21
Devin Chaloux (Indiana University), “Tonal Structures in Victoria’s Vexilla regis (more hispano)”
Supplemental materials: Vexilla regis (more hispano): regular, phone, tablet
Listen here.
Stephen Gomez (Indiana University), “On the Musical Similarities and Differences Between Poetic Utterances in Jazz and Hip-Hop”
Wednesday, February 28
Stephen Komer (Indiana University), “An Examination of Mode in Josquin's Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales”
Matthew Voglewede (Indiana University), “Melodic Repetition over Varied Harmony as a Means of Teaching Harmonic Awareness”
Wednesday, March 7
John Heilig (Indiana University), “The Body of Your Dreams: Compound Melody in the Music of Jacob TV”
Tuesday, March 20 (6.00 pm, M242)
Ian Quinn (Yale University), “A New Game of Tones, Part 1: What Music Theory Could Have Been”
(Five Friends Master Class Series Honoring Robert Samels)
Wednesday, March 21
Ian Quinn (Yale University), “A New Game of Tones, Part 2: Scenes from a Secret History of Mode”
(Five Friends Master Class Series Honoring Robert Samels)
Wednesday, March 28
Caleb Mutch (Indiana University), Workshop: “Analysis with Historical Ears III: The Classical Period”
Wednesday, April 4
Aaron Sunstein (Indiana University), “Temporal Variation in Frescobaldi's Fantasia seconda sopra un soggietto solo”
Wednesday, April 18
Zack Zinser (Indiana University), “Analytical Implications of Sound Quality in Two Studio-Produced Pop Records”
Sarah Mahnken (Indiana University), “Counterpoint, Texture, and the Coordination of Parts in String Quartets by Shostakovich”
Wednesday, April 25
Professional Development Session: “I Know What I Did Last Summer: Making the Best Use of Your ‘Down’ Time”
Fall 2017
Wednesday, August 30
Julian Hook (Indiana University), “Music as a Mathematician’s Playground”
Wednesday, September 6
Leah Frederick (Indiana University), “The Generic (Mod-7) Triad: Voice Leading and Transformations”
Wednesday, September 13
Kyle Adams (Indiana University), “Harmonic, Syntactic, and Motivic Parameters of Phrase in Hip-Hop”
Wednesday, September 27
Matthew Boyle (Indiana University), “Attending to Fragmented Serenade Topics”
Monday, October 9 (3.30 pm, M267)
John Covach (University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music), “Analyzing Texture in Rock Music: Stratification, Coordination, and Location”
Tuesday, October 10 (6.00 pm, Ford Hall)
John Covach (University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music), “On a Train At a Station: Sgt. Pepper and the Journey of Style”
(Five Friends Master Class Series Honoring Robert Samels)
Wednesday, October 18
Calvin Peck (Indiana University), “Rationalizing Hyperdissonance in a 12-Note Chord From 1794”
Wednesday, October 25
Nathan Lam (Indiana University), “Modal Spelled Pitch Classes”
Caleb Mutch (Indiana University), “The Triad in Dispute: Genre and Audience in the Writings of Johannes Lippius”
Wednesday, November 8
David Geary (Indiana University), “Creating and Analyzing Renaissance Canons Through Improvisation”
Wednesday, November 15
Lucy Liu (Indiana University), “Modular Discourse in the Scherzo of Brahms's Fourth Symphony”