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Penn Music Department Colloquia

Colloquia are on Tuesdays and Thrusdays at 5:15 PM in Room 102 Music building (unless otherwise noted)

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  1. Academic Year 2011 - 2012
  3. Spring 2012

24 January, Tuesday: Gabriel Rockhill, Villanova University (6:30 start).

31 January, Tuesday: David Brackett, McGill University.

14 February, Tuesday: Robert Maggio, West Chester University.

21 February, Tuesday: Farzaneh Hemmasi, University of Pennsylvania.

20 March, Tuesday: Eric Drott, University of Texas at Austin.

27 March, Tuesday: Anthony Seeger, University of Califronia, L.A.

3 April, Tuesday:Tsitsi Jaji, University of Pennsylvania.

10 April, Tuesday: Jay Hodgson, University of Western Ontario.

17 April, Tuesday: Deborah Wong, University of California, Riverside.

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  1. Thursday, 8 September: AMS Preview I
    Lauren Jennings (University of Pennsylvania), "Words without Song: Genova, Biblioteca Universitaria A .IX .28 and Intersections between the Notated and Un-notated Transmission of Trecento 'Poesia per Musica'" and
  2. Thomas Patteson (University of Pennsylvania), "Electric Music of the Spheres: Jörg Mager's Technologies of Enchantment."

 

  1. Thursday, 29 September: André Dombrowski
    Andre Dombrowski (University of Pennsylvania, Art History), "Wagner. Cézanne. Tannhäuser."

 

  1. Tuesday, 18 October: SMT Preview
    Matthew Valnes (University of Pennsylvania), "'If You Can Describe It, It Ain't Funky': Prince, Improvisation, and the Concept of 'Genre Works' in Musical Performance."

 

  1. Tuesday, 25 October: Marina Pereverzeva
    Marina Pereverzev (Moscow), "Aspects of the Work of Sofia Gubaidulin.a"

 

  1. Thursday, 3 November (The Public Lives of Music Series):
    Malcolm Bilson, Cornell University. "What is 'Performance Practice'" -- What is 'Performance'?"

 

  1. Tuesday, 8 November: AMS Preview II
    Emily Dolan, University of Pennsylvania. "Charles Burney's Natural History: A Musical Empiricist Enters the Laboratory."

 

  1. Tuesday, 15 November: SEM Preview
    TBA

 

  1. Tuesday, 22 November: Michael Klein,Temple University, "Music and Narrativity Since 1900.″



  2. Tuesday,14 February 2012: Robert Maggio, Composer, Professor and Chair of the Department of Music Theory and
    Composition, School of Music, West Chester University. http://www.robertmaggio.net/rm/printerfriendly/biography.asp?wb=b
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    22. Spring 2011

    23. Jan. 20 (Thursday, room 102) Christopher Rouse, Composition, Julliard. Mr. Rouse will discuss his New York Philharmonic Piece "Odna Zhizn."

      Feb. 1 John Meyers, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology, University of Pennsylvania

    1. Feb. 10 Chou Wen-Chung, Composer
    1. Feb. 15 Thomas Tolley, Musicologist, University of Edinburgh, UK

    3. Feb. 22 Lawrence Kramer, Musicology, Fordham University

    1. Mar. 22 Jairo Moreno, Associate Professor of Theory, University of Pennsylvania

    2. Mar. 29 Ronald Radano, Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

    1. April 12 Jenny Johnson, Composition, Theory, Wellesley College

    2. April 26 Yotam Haber, Composer

    1. Fall 2010

      Oct. 19 Pablo Fessel, (Theorist), Departamento de Artes de la Facultad de Filosofia y Letras,
    1. Universidad de Buenos Aires.

    1. Oct. 20 (Wednesday) Deidre Kelly Loughridge (Musicology),Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania.
    1. Paper title: 'Magnifying Instruments, Scopic Looking, and Early Romantic Listening.'

      Oct. 26 Kiene Brillenburg, Literature and Media Studies, Utrecht University, and Sander van Maas, Musicology, University of Amsterdam. Professors Brillenburg and van Maas are currently visiting Scholars at Harvard University.

      Nov. 2 Darien Lamen, (Ethnomusicology), Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania.

      Nov. 9 Beth Williamson, (Art History and Musicology), Bristol University.
    2. Paper title: 'Inner Senses and Outer Senses: Sound and Image.'

      Nov. 16 Thomas Patteson, (Musicology), Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania.

      Nov. 30 Arman Schwartz, Musicologist, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania.
    3. Paper Title: 'Listening to Boito, or Falstaff in Tuscany.'

      Dec. 7 Beverley Diamond, Ethnomusicologist, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Further Events:
Nov. 19-20 'Cantus Scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Music'.
The 3rd Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. 2010. (The Symposium has been organized by Emma Dillon in conjunction with the Rare Books Room at Van Pelt Library, and will be held on campus. Details forthcoming.)

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  2. Spring 2010
  3. January 26 -W. Anthony Sheppard, Musicology, Williams College
    http://music.williams.edu/node/291/
    Paper title: "Global Exoticism and Modernity: The Case of 'Chinked-out' Music."
  5. February 9 - Alex Rehding, Theory, Harvard University.
    Paper title: "The Discovery of Slowness in Music."

  6. Febrary 23 - Peter Mondelli, Graduate student in History at the University of PA.
    Paper title: "Engraving Opera: The Case of Rossini and the Parisian Public Sphere."
  8. March 2 - Thea Musgrave, Composer, Thea Musgrave's music is published by Novello & Co. and Chester Music. *Fisher Bennett Hall, room 406*
  10. March 30 - Gage Averill, Ethnomusicologist, University of Toronto.
  12. April 27 - Deirdre Loughridge, Graduate student in History at the University of PA.
    Paper title:" Peddlers of the Otherworldly: Musical Lures to Magical Sights."
  1. Fall 2009
  2. November 3 - Peter Manual, Ethnomusicology, Music Doctoral Program at CUNY Grad Center.
  3. Paper title: "Old Media, New Media, and Indo-Caribbean Neo-Traditional Music"
  4. Nov. 17 - Gavin Steingo, Ethnomsicology, University of Pennsylvania Ph.d. Program.
    5. Dec. 1 - Emily Zazulia, Musicology, University of Pennsylvania Ph.d. Program.

 

 

 

 

 

  2. Academic Year 2008 - 2009
  4. Fall 2008
  5. September 23 - Marc Perlman,Ethnomusicology, Brown University
    September 30 - Maureen Mahon, Ethnomusicology, University of California-Los Angeles
    October 21 - Justin London,Theory, Carleton College
    November 4 - Roger Grant, Theory, Univerisity of Pennsylvania and
    Carolyn Abbate, Musicology, University of Pennsylvania
    November 11 - David Yearsley, Musicology, Cornell University
  7. Spring 2009
  8. February 10 - Dana Gooley, Musicology, Brown University
    February 24 - Martha Feldman, Musicology, University of Chicago
    March 17 - Debbie Wong, Ethnomusicology **CANCELLED**
    March 24 - Michael Veal, Ethnomusicology, Yale University
  9. April 14 - Mari Jones, Theory/Psychology, Ohio State


    Academic Year 2007 - 2008

September 18 -Judith Becker, Ethnomusicology, University of Michigan
September 19 -Judith Becker Seminar (9-11 a.m. VPL)
October 10 - Pre-concert lecture for Sequitur by Harold Meltzer (Composer and co-director of Sequitur
October 23 - Lewis Porter, Jazz, Rutgers University
November 13 - Sebastian Currier, Composer
November 14 - Master Class, Sebastian Currier, 9-11 a.m., Music Bldg room 302
November 27 - Tom Christensen, Theory, University of Chicago
December 4 - Donna Buchannan, Ethnomusicology, University of Illinois-Urbana

March 18 -- Katherine Bergeron, Musicologist, Brown University
March 25 -- David Coplan, Ethnomusicologist, University of Witwatersrand
March 27 -- Shannon Dudley, Ethnomusicologist, University of Washington
April 1 -- Kate van Orden, Musicologist, University of California-Berkeley
April 15 -- Matthew Head, Musicology, King's College London
April 17 -- Robert Beaser, Julliard, New York

 

 

Academic Year 2006 - 2007

October 3 - Robert Gjerdingen, Music Theorist, Northwestern University
October 17 - Robin Moore, Ethnomusicologist, University of Texas Austin
October 20 (Friday) - Stephen Feld, Anthropologist, University of New Mexico
November 7 - Veit Erlmann, Ethnomusicologist, University of Texas, Austin
November 9 (Thursday) - Jennie Noakes and Jennifer Ryan, Penn Grad Students in Ethnomusicology
November 14 - Jennifer Kyker, Penn Grad Student in Ethnomusicology
November 28 - Elizabeth Margulis, Music Theorist, Northwestern University
TBA - Roger Parker, Musicologist, Cambridge
TBA - Suzannah Clarke, Musicologist, Oxford
February 20 - Evan Bonds, Musicologist, UNC Chapel Hill
February 27 - Jairo Moreno, Music Theorist, NYU
March 13 - Carol Oja, Musicologist, Harvard
March 27 - Anne Walters Robertson, Musicologist, University of Chicago
April 5 (Thursday) 5:00pm - Osvaldo Golijov, Composer(Amado Hall)
April 10 - Philip Bohlman, Ethnomusicologist, University of Chicago
April 12 (Thursday)- Paul Lansky, Composer, Princeton University

Academic Year 2005 - 2006

Jennifer Saltzstein,Penn Grad Student in Music History
Karl Kuegle, Historian, Universiteit Utrecht
Jennie Noakes and Jennifer Ryan, Penn Grad Students in Ethnomusicology
David Copenhafer, Penn Postdoctoral Fellow
Fred Everett Maus, Theorist, University of Virginia
Samuel Adler, Composer
Emanuele Senici, Musicologist, University of Oxford
(Emanuele Senici's visit was co-sponsored with Italian Studies)
Albin Zak, Musicologist, University of Michigan
George Tsontakis, Composer
Jocelyne Guilbault, Ethnomusicologist, University of California at Berkeley
Elizabeth Tolbert, Ethnomusicologist, Peabody Institute
Mary Ann Smart, Musicologist, University of California at Berkeley
Alfred Cramer (Penn '97), Theorist, Pomona College
Lee Hyla, Composer
David E. Cohen, Theorist, Columbia University

Academic Year 2004 - 2005

Barbara White, Princeton University
Martin Scherzinger, Eastman School of Music
Sheila Silver, SUNY Stony Brook
Mark Katz, Peabody Institute
Dale Cockrell, Vanderbilt University
Peter Pesic, St. John's College, Santa Fe
Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Tufts University
Reebee Garafalo, University of Massachusetts

 

Academic Year 2003 - 2004

Kay Shelemay, Harvard University
Rob Bowman, York University, Toronto
Ellie Hisama, Brooklyn College
Augusta Read Thomas, Independent Composer
Michael Noone, Cornell University
Richard Mook, Penn Grad Student
Hilary Moore, Penn Grad Student
Daniel Party, Penn Grad Student
Ruth Rosenberg, Penn Grad Student
David Liptak, Eastman School of Music
Carol Krumhansl, Cornell University
Jane Sugarman, SUNY Stony Brook
Philip Lasser, The Juilliard School
Sidney Boquiren, Penn Postdoctoral Fellow


Academic Year 2002 - 2003

Edward Gollin, Harvard University
Mark Butler, Indiana Univeristy
Frans Wiering, Utrecht University
Ian Bent, Columbia University
Judith Peraino, Cornell University
Martin Stokes, University of Chicago
Carolyn Abbate, Princeton University
Daniel Asia, University of Arizona
Kofi Agawu, Princeton University
John Bailey, University of Pennsylvania
John Corigliano, The Julliard School
Ingrid Arauco, Haverford College

 
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