Please join us for Dr. Graham Phipps's lecture: "Row Typology and Pitch Notation in Webern's Orchestral Serial Work," on Wednesday, February 12 at 4:00pm in MU-321. There will be a reception to follow in MU-250.  This event is free and open to the public. 

Dr. Cynthia Gonzales (MM, Music Theory, 1990) was one of only three professors across the Texas State University System to win a Regents' Teacher Award from TSU System's Board of Regents in 2019. 

Mark Spicer (BM 1987, MM 1990), Professor of Music at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, was one of the invited speakers for the symposium Come Together: Fifty Years of Abbey Road, held at the Eastman School of Music the weekend of September 27–29, 2019 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ landmark album. The title of Prof. Spicer’s talk was “Abbey Road as Proto-Progressive Rock.”

Please join us for Lynne Rogers' lecture: Becoming Stravinsky: Tales of a Compositional Habit on Friday, October 18th at 4:00 pm in Music 321.  There will be a reception to follow in the Graham Green Room. This event is free and open to the public. 

Jay Smith (PhD, 2018, Music Theory) has accepted a full-time faculty position at Texas A&M University – Kingsville.

Frank Heidlberger (Music Theory) participated in the “Auckland Clarinet Weekend,” hosted by UNT alumna Marie Ross, in August at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). He presented a lecture on “From Manuscript to Performance: Making the Critical Edition of Carl Maria von Weber's Concertos for Clarinet, and the Urtext Edition of the Concert Pieces for Clarinet, Bassetthorn and Piano by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.” In addition, he performed jazz standards in his clarinet recital.

Frank Heidlberger (Music Theory) presented guest lectures on “Hector Berlioz and the Musicological Discourse of his Time” at the University of Auckland and Victoria University in Wellington (both in New Zealand) in August.

Ellen Bakulina will present at the SotonMAC Conference (conference of the British Society for Music Analysis) in Southampton, UK. The title of her paper is "Tonal pairing in two of Rachmaninoff's songs."

Ryan Taycher (BM, Composition, UNT, 2010; MA, Music Theory, UNT, 2013; PhD Candidate, Indiana University) has been appointed Lecturer of Music Theory at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.    

Stephen Slottow’s book, The Americanization of Zen Chanting, has been published by Pendragon Press. Zen Buddhist practice has its own indigenous music: the ritual chanting which, along with bells and percussion instruments, form a part of virtually every Zen ceremony and formal event, both monastic and lay. And, like the other aspects of Zen teaching and practice, the chanting of sutras, dharanis, gathas, dedications, and readings has undergone a widely varied range of adaptations as part of its migration to and continuing development in the North American context. These adaptations have been characterized by two opposing tendencies: the conservative desire to keep practices "pure" and unadulterated (in some cases, an idealized and simplified projection of "pure") versus the urge to individualize and innovate to fit changing contemporary North American contexts. The purpose of this book is to study in some detail how this tension plays out in different aspects of chanting. Because Zen practice in America is highly decentralized, even within the same teaching lines the degree of standardization in chanting practice varies widely, resulting in a large range of solutions to the problem of adapting a traditional Japanese religious musical practice to American contexts. Click here for more information.