2013 Austin B. Caswell Award winners

05.08.2013 | Jacobs School of Music

Congratulations to this year’s Austin B. Caswell Award winners, Evita Jovic and Charles D. Helge.

Caswell 2The awards, which honor the best papers written during the previous calendar year for a Jacobs undergraduate music history class, were presented by Distinguished Professor J. Peter Burkholder, chair of the Musicology Department, during the May 4 commencement ceremony in the Musical Arts Center.

Two prizes are awarded annually, one for best paper on a topic before 1750 and one for best paper on a topic after 1750. Each prize consists of a certificate and $250.

Evita Jovic won the 2013 prize for best paper on a topic before 1750, with her study of a musical tradition associated with a single city and church.

Set against a rich cultural backdrop, her historical essay explores the repertoire of polychoral music composed for the iconic Venetian church of St. Mark in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Caswell 1This year’s prize for best paper on a topic after 1750 went to Charles D. Helge for his essay about performers.

The opening sentence sets the stage for the rest of the piece: “The infinitesimal silence between the final notes of a piece and the roaring wave of applause that takes its place, while no more than a millisecond, is the dividing line between a performer’s statement and the persona that is created by the forces surrounding him or her.”

The committee that chose the winners this year was composed of musicology professors Michael Long and Kristina Muxfeldt.

The awards were established in honor of Professor Caswell on the occasion of his retirement from the Jacobs Musicology Department in 1996—after 30 years. He continued to teach in the Honors College until just before his death in 2006.

The Jacobs School welcomes Renaissance musicologist Katelijne Schiltz for residency and a public lecture

03.15.2013 | Jacobs School of Music

KatelijneSchiltz-220The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Lecture Committee—along with the musicology, music theory, and early music departments—will welcome Katelijne Schiltz, postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München for a series of activities in early April. During the visit, Schiltz will serve as guest instructor, lead a workshop with the Early Music Institute, and deliver a public lecture.

“Katelijne Schiltz is rapidly becoming one of the most influential Renaissance musicologists of her generation,” says Giovanni Zanovello, assistant professor of musicology at the Jacobs School of Music. “In a number of thought-provoking presentations, she has managed to reveal that canons and enigmatic notation were central features of the Western tradition, embedded into the pervasive culture of riddle. Her work has reshaped our understanding of the ideology surrounding Renaissance notation.”

On Monday, April 8 at 1:00 p.m. in MA 007, Schiltz will take part in a meeting of the Renaissance Music (M652) class. At 4:05 p.m. that day in MU 205, she will host an Early Music Institute workshop on the topic “Cracking Codes: Performing Musical Riddles from the Renaissance.” Visitors to both the class and the EMI session are welcome.

On Wednesday April 10 at 5:30 p.m. in room M267 (inside the Music Library) Schiltz will deliver a public lecture entitled, “What You See is What You Get? Some Thoughts on Renaissance Musical Riddles.” In her lecture Schiltz will emphasize transformation as a key concept when dealing with musical riddles. The performer can be prompted to change the reading direction (in the horizontal [retrograde] or vertical [inversion] sense), to drop, pick out, substitute or add notes because of rhythmic and/or melodic reasons, to treat the note values in hierarchical order etc. As a result, the notation and the solution are intrinsically linked on a conceptual level, but drift apart in performance.

Katelijne Schiltz studied Musicology at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and Early Vocal Music at Tilburg Conservatory. Her dissertation on Adrian Willaert’s motets was published in 2003. Together with Bonnie J. Blackburn, she edited Canons and Canonic Techniques, 14th-16th Centuries: Theory, Practice, and Reception History (Leuven, 2007), which was awarded a Citation of Special Merit by the Society for Music Theory. She is attached to the Musicology Department of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and is completing a monograph on Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance. Together with Cristle Collins Judd, she is editing Gioseffo Zarlino: Motets from the 1560s for the series Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance (A-R Editions).

Faculty and students participate extensively in combined American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, and Society for Music Theory Conference

11.08.2012 | Jacobs School of Music

Many faculty and students from the Music Theory Department and the Musicology Department attended the combined conference of the American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for Music Theory (AMS/SEM/SMT), which was held in New Orleans on November 1–4, 2012.

Professor Roman Ivanovitch of the Music Theory Department was named the winner of the 2012 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award of the Mozart Society of America, for his article “Mozart’s Art of Retransition,” which was published in the journal Music Analysis in 2011. The award, honoring the outstanding scholarly article on Mozart published in English during the years 2010–11, was presented at a meeting of the Mozart Society during the New Orleans conference.

Several faculty and students presented papers at the conference:

Representing the Musicology Department:

Professor J. Peter Burkholder participated as a panelist on “Charles Ives’s Fourth Symphony and the Past, Present, and Future of Ives Scholarship.”

Professor Judah Cohen served as a moderator at the combined meeting of the AMS Jewish Studies and Music Study Group and Society for Ethnomusicology Study Interest Group for Jewish Music.

Professor Halina Goldberg presented “Nationalizing the Kujawiak and Constructions of Nostalgia in Chopin’s Mazurkas.”

Professor Lynn Hooker served as the chair at the Music and National Identities discussion.

Jonathan Yaeger, Ph.D. candidate in Musicology, presented “The Challenges and Opportunities of the Stasi Archives.”

Travis Yaeger, Ph.D. candidate in Musicology, presented “The Quaestiones in musica, Rudolph of St. Truiden, and the Medieval Classroom.”

At the conference, Laura Youens, IU Musicology alumna, was awarded the Palisca Award (best edition or translation) for: Thomasii Crequillonis Opera omnia. Vol. 18: Cantiones Quatuor Vocum, and Vol. 20: Cantiones Trium, Sex, Septem, et Duodecim Vocum, Corpus mensurabilis musicae 63, American Institute of Musicology, 2011.

On the evening of Saturday, November 3rd a combined Indiana University reception was well attended by an estimated 250-300 faculty, students, alumni, prospective students, and friends of three IU departments: the Departments of Music Theory and Musicology in the Jacobs School of Music, and the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Representing the Music Theory Department:

Professor Kyle Adams presented “A Preliminary Study of Articulation and Affect in Rap.”

Professor Frank Samarotto presented “The Trope of Expectancy/Infinity in the Music of the Beatles and Others.”

Diego Cubero, Ph.D. student in music theory, presented “The Fifth-Third-Root Paradigm and Its Prolongational Implications.”

Stephen Grazzini, Ph.D. candidate in music theory, presented “Hearing Improvisation in the French Baroque Harpsichord Prelude.”

William Guerin, Ph.D. candidate in music theory, presented “The Aesthetics of Fragility in Stylistic Signification: A ‘Gnostic’ Encounter with Beethoven’s ‘Heiliger Dankgesang.’”

John Reef, Ph.D. candidate in music theory, presented “The Two F-Major Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier: Dance Subjects and Their Phrase-Rhythmic Implications.”

Two music theory faculty served as session chairs for SMT: Professor Julian Hook chaired a session titled “Twentieth-Century Modernisms,” and Professor Marianne Kielian-Gilbert chaired a session on “Rhythm and Dance.”

Three students participated in Graduate Student Workshops at the conference. Devin Chaloux, Ph.D. student in music theory, participated in the workshop “A Corpus-Based Approach to Tonal Theory,” led by Ian Quinn of Yale University. Ruthie Chase, Ph.D. student in music theory, participated in the workshop “Harmony and Voice Leading in Rock and Pop Music,” led by Professor Walter Everett of the University of Michigan. Sara Bakker, Ph.D. candidate in music theory, was unable to attend the conference due to hurricane-related travel problems, but joined Professor Everett’s workshop by video.

Professor Eric Isaacson serves as Treasurer of SMT, and Professor Gretchen Horlacher is a member of the society’s Executive Board.

Enjoy pictures from the reception

Katherine Baber (B.M. ’03 & D.M. ’11) accepts position at the University of Redlands

10.02.2012 | Jacobs School of Music

recently announced the hiring of eight new members for its College of Arts and Sciences, School of Education, and School of Music faculties with the start of the 2012-13 academic year.

Congratulations to Jacob School’s Alumna Katherine Baber as she has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Music with the University of Redlands!

Read more here.

Professor Halina Goldberg opens multi-media exhibit in Poland

08.24.2012 | Jacobs School of Music

Halina Goldberg, professor of musicology, was in Poland this summer putting together an exhibit called “In Mrs. Goldberg’s Kitchen,” a multimedia exhibition about the Jewish quarter in pre-WWII Lodz, which opened June 21 at the Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz.

Goldberg co-designed the exhibit, which is based on materials from her mother’s house, and produced the sound design with Jacobs Professor of Composition Jeffrey Hass.

In Mrs. Goldberg’s symbolic kitchen, the Goldbergs, who before World-War II lived in the district of Bałuty, serve as virtual guides into Jewish Lodz of the past. Their Lodz is a Polish city with a distinctive flavor; a melting pot of diverse populations claiming multi-ethnic and multi-denominational nineteenth-century roots. Read more and view photos.

The successful exhibit garnered lots of media coverage, including a local newspaper article and photo gallery here.

 

 

Felicia M. Miyakawa on faculty at Middle Tennessee State School of Music

06.29.2012 | Jacobs School of Music

Felicia M. Miyakawa, MA’97, musicology; PhD’03, musicology, is associate professor of musicology and director of graduate studies at the Middle Tennessee State School of Music, where she has taught since 2004.

Alum musicologist Matthew Balensuela presents paper

11.18.2011 | Jacobs School of Music

Matthew Balensuela, PhD’93, musicology, presented the paper “Conflicting Strategies of Management and Memory” at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in the Early 1930s” at the  American Musicological Society Annual Meeting on November 11.

An Evening Exploring Hereditary Musicianship in the Indian Tradition, Lecture co-sponsored by the Jacobs School of Music

09.09.2011 | Jacobs School of Music

IU’s Dhar India Studies Program Announces Its Fall Lecture Series

by BWW News Desk

http://indianapolis.broadwayworld.com/article/IUs-Dhar-India-Studies-Program-Announces-Its-Fall-Lecture-Series-20110908

This fall’s India Studies lecture series at Indiana University will again bring leading historians, anthropologists, political scientists and musicologists knowledgeable about India and South Asia to the IU Bloomington campus.

The lecture series, which is presented by the Madhusudan and Kiran C. Dhar India Studies Program, is free and open to the public. It will begin next Thursday (Sept. 15) with a presentation by Sumit Ganguly, emeritus director and the Rabindranth Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and professor of political science at IU.

Ganguly will speak on the topic “Discord and Collaboration in Indo-Pakistani Relations,” beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Dhar India Studies House, 825 E. Eighth St. His talk is part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Themester series, “Making War, Making Peace.”

Other events in the series will include:

Sept. 22 — A Themester talk, “Veterans and Violence: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing in the Partition of India,” by Steven Wilkinson, the Nilekani Professor of India and South Asia Studies and professor of political science and international affairs at Yale University. Wilkinson’s book Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India (Cambridge, 2004) won the Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Political Science Association in 2006. His talk will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in room 003 of Ballantine Hall.
Oct. 6 — “From the Empire of Information to the Documentary State: Notes on Scribes and Writing in Early Colonial South India,” by Bhavani Raman, assistant professor and the David L. Rike University Preceptor in history at Princeton University, 5:30 p.m. at Dhar India House.
Oct. 13 — “An Evening Exploring Hereditary Musicianship in the Indian Tradition,” presented by Amjad, Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan. This event, which is co-sponsored by the Jacobs School of Music and the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs and hosted by the Stone Age Institute, is limited to invited guests.
Oct. 25 — “The Politics of Need: Notes on Urban Poverty,” by Veena Das, the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at John Hopkins University, 5:30 p.m. at the Persimmon Room of the Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. Seventh St.
Nov. 3 — “The Sufi Shaikhs and the Formation of the Mughal Regime in India,” by Muzaffar Alam, the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His talk, which is co-sponsored by the Department of Islamic Studies, begins at 5:30 p.m. at Dhar India House.
Nov. 10 — “The Past as Story: Historical Memory and the Storytelling Tradition in Kashmir,” by Chitralekha Zutshi, associate professor of history at the College of William and Mary, 5:30 p.m. at Dhar India House.
Dec. 1 — “Travails of Time: Information Technology, Bangalore and the Arc of History,” by Simanti Dasgupta, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Dayton, 5:30 p.m. at Dhar India House.

For more information about the Dhar India Studies Program, call 812-855-5798 or send a message to india@indiana.edu.

Alumnus Marc Geelhoed steers Chicago Symphony

04.07.2011 |

Marc Geelhoed ’03 manages CSO Resound, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s record label, whose recording of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem earned two Grammys this winter. The album was the CSO’s first with Riccardo Muti, its newest music director, and won Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance. Recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra have earned 62 Grammy awards. These were the third and fourth Grammys for albums on CSO Resound, which has released 12 recordings since 2007.

Distinguished Professor J. Peter Burkholder receives Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP

01.11.2011 | Jacobs School of Music

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor J. Peter Burkholder, who has received the Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP for excellence in his scholarly article “Music of the Americas and Historical Narratives”  [American Music (Winter 2009)] – see the article here.  The article argues that music of the Americas is part of the Western tradition; as soon as there are Europeans in the New World, there is a two-way exchange that has resulted in a transatlantic musical tradition, and composers from Monteverdi and Bach through Debussy and Stockhausen have been influenced by music from the Americas.