TH 591
Eastman Theory Colloquium

Upcoming events:

• Visiting Professor Peter Schubert: "Is Fux necessary? Or, why we have to stop teaching species counterpoint the way we do"

• José Oliveira Martins and Robert Hasegawa: Colloquium on Musical Space

Past Events

2009-10 Schedule:

• Chris Stover: "Interpenetrating Calls and Responses: The Dialogic Nature of Rumba"

• SMT round-up: Join us for an information-sharing session about this year's Society for Music Theory conference in Montreal

• John Koslovsky, PhD Thesis Defense: "From Sinn und Wesen to Structural Hearing: The Development of Felix Salzer's Ideas in Interwar Vienna and Their Transmission in Postwar United States"

• Steve Laitz, Bill Marvin, Seth Monahan (moderated by Jonathan Dunsby): Graduate session on "The Modern View of Sonata Form"
  
  • Download readings from Cadwallader and Darcy

• Stefan Love: "Metrical Dissonance in Bill Evans's 'All the Things You Are'"

• Seth Monahan: "Criteria of 'Success' and 'Failure' in Mahler's Sonata Recapitulations"

• Jenine Lawson Brown: "The Perceptual Attraction of Predominant Chords"

• Charles Smith: "The Love of Fundamentals is the Root of All Evil: Alternatives to Harmonic Fundamentalism"

2008-09 Schedule:

• Zac Cairns: "Interval Class Succession Graphs in Edison Denisov's Sonata for Alto Saxophone"

• Cory Bonn: "The Cognitive Science of Piano Performance and Pedagogy"

• Marie Rolf: "Debussy's Rites of Spring"
• Stephen Zank: "Debussy and Ravel: Irony as Construct"
• Ralph P. Locke: "Unacknowledged Exoticism in Debussy: The Incidental Music for Le Martyre de St. Sebastien (1911)"

• John Koslovsky: "Primäre Klangformen, Linearität, oder Auskomponierung?: The analysis of medieval polyphony and the critique of musicology in the early work of Felix Salzer"

• Seth Monahan: "The 'Tristan' Progression as an Energetic Voice-Leading Paradigm: A Study in Kinetic Displacement Intervals (KDIs)"

This page last updated September 21, 2009 by Trevor de Clercq.