Dr. Mondelli's article, "Singing Print, Reading Song: Navigating Voice and Writing in Herder's Volkslieder," appeared in The German Quarterly 91.4 (2018).

Prof. Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden (Music History) had two publications appear in October: a book chapter, “Digital Approaches to Historical Acoustemologies: Replication and Reenactment,” in the collection Digital Sound Studies, edited by Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien (Duke University Press); and an article, “Music, Copyright, and Intellectual Property during the French Revolution: A Newly Discovered Letter from André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry,” published in Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales, a peer-reviewed journal supported and coedited by the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and la Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris. She recently presented on a panel about Rethinking Enlightenment and chaired a panel on Recognizing Women's Labor at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in San Antonio, Texas, and was elected Vice-President of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music for a 2018–2020 term.

Hendrik Schulze (Music History) took part at the international conference on J. S. Bach “BACH BEARBEITET: VOR BACH – BACH UND SEINE ZEIT – NACH BACH” at the Bachfest in Tübingen, Germany, October 1-3. The title of his invited presentation was “Die Johann Crüger’schen Choralmelodien und ihre Veränderung durch Bach” (Johann Crüger’s Chorale Melodies and their Adaptation by Bach).

MHTE students and alumni presented papers at the fall meeting of the American Musicological Society Southwest Chapter in Canyon, Texas on Sept. 15. Bryan Stevens presented his paper "Theorizing Sonata Form from the Margins: The Early Keyboard Sonata in Spain," Dr. Emily Hagen (PhD 2018) presented her research poster "Supernatural Alterity and Affective Agency in Handel's Alcina," Dr. Mike Morey presented his paper "The Presence of Arnalta and Orpheus in Christopher Rouse's Cello Concerto," and Dr. Randy Kinnett (PhD 2009, Collin College, Preston Ridge Campus) presented his paper “Music and the Klan in 1920s Dallas.”

Hannah Grantham, who graduated as a music history major in 2016, has been working on a master's degree with specialization in the history of musical instruments at the University of South Dakota, which has an acclaimed museum devoted to musical instruments. She recently received word that she has been chosen for a Music and Performing Arts Graduate internship at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. She writes, "I'll get to help catalog objects, do in-depth research, and assist in researching and writing a book the museum is compiling about untold stories in African American Music History."

Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden has two recent publications. Her article "A Lady-in-Waiting's Account of Marie Antoinette's Musical Politics: Women, Music, and the French Revolution," was published in Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. Her book chapter, "The revolution of Jommelli's objets d'art: Bernard Sarrette's requests for the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire," was published by Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment in Moving Scenes: The Circulation of Music and Theatre in Europe, 1700–1815, a collection edited by Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Philippe Bourdin, and Charlotta Wolff. In November, she gave a paper entitled "Music as Feminine Capital in Napoleonic France," at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in Rochester, New York.

Musicology PhD student Andrea Recek has been awarded the Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships in European Studies. Graduate students studying the humanities can apply for The Council of European Studies fellowships, which are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Those selected for the fellowships receive a $25,000 stipend and participate in a variety of activities organized by the CES, including presenting at the International Conference of Europeanists. The fellowship will allow her to complete her dissertation – Constructing Identity Through Liturgy: Music for the Saints in Medieval Aquitaine.

In March 2017, Bernardo Illari presented a guest faculty lecture entitled "Colonial Conundrums: Persistence and Change in South American Music." in Taipei (Taiwan) at the National Taiwan University.  He participated in the IMS Tokyo, Study session,  “Composers as Writers: Self-Construction, Theory and Practice in Three Latin American Composers from the 17th-20th Centuries."  He read "Ideas de Sumaya: Una retórica deliberativa al servicio de la música" (Sumaya's Ideas: A Deliberative Rhetoric at the Service of Music),” in Spanish.  He participated in the IMS Round Table, "Music as Mission: The Globalization of European Religious Music to 1800." He read "Music, Inclusion and Erasure: The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay."  He presented a  Free paper: “A National Symphony—with a Twist: Argentine Alberto Williams’ Witch of the Mountains (1910).”

Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden presented a paper at the meeting of the International Musicological Society in Tokyo, Japan, on March 22, 2017, and gave an invited paper at a conference on "Music and the Body Between Revolutions: 1789–1848," sponsored by the Columbia Society of Fellows and University of Paris—8, which was held at Columbia University on March 31 and April 1.