Please join us for Matthias Brzoska’s lecture: Meyerbeer's Grand Opera Le Prophète (1849) – The Concept of the New Critical Edition on Wednesday, April 10th at 4:00 pm in Music 321.  There will be a reception to follow in the Graham Green Room.  His visit will include a Panel: “Editing and Performing 19th-Century French Opera” on Wednesday, April 10th at 1:00 pm in Room 258.  Both the lecture and panel are open to the public. 

Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden recently presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual meeting in Denver, Colorado. She organized and chaired the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music's panel on "Multimodal Music," spoke on an interdisciplinary roundtable about Digital Humanities and the Global Eighteenth Century, and gave a paper titled "An Inhabited Approach to Music in the Enlightenment."

Professor emeritus, Lyle Nordstrom, has won the Howard Mayer Brown Award for lifetime achievement in the field of early music from Early Music America.

Benjamin Brand presented a paper entitled “Plures devotissimas orationes: Prayers Read and Sung in Renaissance Venice,” at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Toronto. The paper was part of a session entitled, “The Music of Devotion in Books of Hours,” which he co-organized with Dr. Evan MacCarthy (West Virginia University).

The Journal of Musicology has accepted an article by Clare Carrasco titled "The Unlike Pair: Impressionism, Expressionism, and Critical Reception of Schoenberg’s and Schreker’s Chamber Symphonies." This will be the second article by Dr. Carrasco (PhD, 2016) to appear in a major musicological journal.

Prof. Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden's article "Music as Feminine Capital in Napoleonic France: Nancy Macdonald's Musical Upbringing," received the Music & Letters Centenary Prize for best original article in musicology. The article placed second of six winners in the international competition and will be published in the journal's centenary issue in 2019. Music & Letters is an internationally leading peer-reviewed journal of musicological research published by Oxford.  Prize announcement: https://academic.oup.com/ml/pages/centenary_anniversary_prize_competition

Dr. Theodore Albrecht, UNT Distinguished Alumnus, has published the first volume of a path-breaking translation and edition of the deaf composer Ludwig van Beethoven's so-called Conversation Books.  Beethoven (1770-1827) began losing his hearing in 1798, and in 1818 began using blank booklets for his acquaintances to write their sides of conversations, while the composer himself replied orally.  Albrecht's English translation and edition is being issued by the British publisher Boydell & Brewer in 12 volumes at approximately one volume per year.  Volume 1 (including booklets 1-8) has just appeared and covers from February, 1818 to March, 1820.  It includes such subjects as his legal battles over the guardianship of his nephew Karl, his composition of the Catholic Missa solemnis, his intolerance for anti-Semitism, as well as his pantheistic Evening Song under the Starry Heavens.  Discussions range from history, education, literature, religion, languages, and science, to Beethoven's reading habits and his ways of eating a sausage!  To order, please click here.  Use promo code BB130 to receive 30% off until December 31, 2018. 

Dr. Margaret Notley (Music History) received news that the AMS Series (Oxford University Press) has accepted her book manuscript. The title is Taken by the Devil: Censorship, Frank Wedekind, and Alban Berg's Opera “Lulu,” and it will be published next fall.

Dr. Aaron West was featured on Vox's video series, Earworm, "How smooth jazz took over the '90s."