James Parsons (PhD, Musicology, 1992) presented his scholarly paper "Beethoven’s Choral Finale and Schiller’s 'Exclusionary' Second Strophe" at the Eighth New Beethoven Research Conference, Boston, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society.

Please join us for Dr. Yossi Maurey's lecture on Wednesday, November 13th at 4:00 pm in Wooten Hall.  Dr. Maurey is Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  The title of his lecture is "Jerusalem, The New Jerusalem, and Jerusalems in Medieval Music and Liturgy."  His visit is sponsored by the Jewish and Israel Studies Program, Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology, and the American Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  This event is free admission to all!

We are excited to welcome Susannah Cleveland (MM, Musicology, 2001 and MS, Library Science, 1997) to UNT!  Susannah recently began her tenure as Head Music Libarian at the University of North Texas.  She returns to Texas from Ohio with more than 25 years of experience.    

Heeseung Lee (PhD, Musicology, 2006) published an article entitled "Retracing the Roots of Bluegrass Music through the Affrilachian Aesthetic" in the Journal of Music History Pedagogy. Click here for more information.

Margaret Notley's book, Taken by the Devil: The Censorship of Frank Wedekind and Alban Berg's “Lulu,” will be published by Oxford University Press in September as part of the AMS Studies in Music, the official series of the American Musicological Society. Click here for more information. 

Benjamin Brand began a three-year term as vice president of the board of directors of the Dallas Chamber Music Society. Under Dr. Brand’s leadership, the DCMS has partnered with the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture to offer courses in chamber music for lifelong learners.

April Prince was invited to an international conference, “Die Herrlichste von Allen”: Clara Schumann zum 200. Geburtstag. The conference celebrated the 200th-year of Clara Schumann’s birth. The conference took place in three German cities from May 9-12: Zwickau, Dresden, and Leipzig. Her paper is entitled “Complicating the Priestess: Clara Schumann, Virtuosity, and the Visual.”

Hendrik Schulze (Music History) has presented at the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music at Durham, NC. The title of his contribution was, Monteverdi, Cavalli, and the Aristotelians: What Did They Mean When They Said, “Opera”?

Volume 25 (2018) of Theoria - Historical Aspects of Music Theory is now available!  Theoria is edited by Frank Heidlberger and published by UNT Press.  For additional details and how to order, please click here!

Amy Cooper (PhD, musicology) was awarded a Graduate Research Experiences Abroad Travel Grant (GREAT Grant) from UNT to support archival research in Great Britain for her PhD dissertation, "Borrowing Culture: British Music Circulating Libraries and Domestic Musical Practice, 1853–1910."