Music Theory Colloquium Series (2018-19)
This page lists colloquium series events for the year 2018–19. See current colloquium series events here.
All events are on Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m. in M 267 unless otherwise noted.
Spring 2019
Wednesday, January 16
Professional Development Session: Finding and Applying for Grants (led by the IU GradGrants Center)
Wednesday, February 6 [rescheduled from Jan. 30]
Kyle Adams (Indiana University), “Unstable Form in Post-Millenial Pop”
Wednesday, February 20
Nancy Yunhwa Rao (Rutgers University), “Materiality of Sonic Imagery: Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Music”
(Five Friends Master Class Series Honoring Robert Samels)
Thursday, February 21 (6.00 pm, M242)
Nancy Yunhwa Rao (Rutgers University), “Chinese American Subjectivity in the History of American Music: Chinatown Opera Theater”
(Five Friends Master Class Series Honoring Robert Samels)
Wednesday, March 20
John Heilig (Indiana University), “Interpreting Harmony through Gesture in the Chromatic Music of Anton Webern”
Wednesday, March 27
Andy Mead (Indiana University), “Liking Bruckner: More Questions than Answers”
Tuesday, April 2 (5.00 pm, Ford-Crawford Hall)
W. Dean Sutcliffe (University of Auckland), “How Haydn Clinches Closure”
(Five Friends Master Class Series Honoring Robert Samels)
Wednesday, April 3
W. Dean Sutcliffe (University of Auckland), “‘The Transformation of the Trivial into the Significant’: Renewal in Later Eighteenth-Century Music”
(Five Friends Master Class Series Honoring Robert Samels)
Wednesday, April 10
Marianne Kielian-Gilbert (Indiana University), “Modes of Emergence in Performance: Two Works by Composer Gabriela Ortiz” (wth a performance by Alejandra Villareal Martínez, voice, and Marisa Votapek, violin)
Wednesday, April 17
Emily Lamb Truell (Indiana University), “The Rise of Comprehensive Muscianship in American Music Theory Pedagogy”
Wednesday, April 24
Leah Frederick (Indiana University), “Melodic Lines, Moveable Counterpoint, and Geometric Transformations”
Fall 2018
Wednesday, September 19
Caleb Mutch (Indiana University), “The Printing Press as an Agent of Music-Theoretical Change”
Wednesday, October 3
Leah Frederick (Indiana University), “Diatonic Voice-Leading Transformations”
Wednesday, October 17
Professional Development Session: Negotiating Conferences: Applying, Presenting, Networking
Wednesday, October 24
Nathan Lam (Indiana University), “Relative Diatonic Modality in English Pastoral Music: A Dorian-Mode Case Study”
Wednesday, November 14
Calvin Peck (Indiana University), “‘L’enharmonique’ and Populist Signification in Revolutionary France”
Wednesday, November 28
Jinny Park (Indiana University), “Rhyming Techniques in Korean Hip-Hop”
Wednesday, December 5
Professional Development Session: Applying for Jobs