Upcoming Lectures
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Past Lectures
Dr. Tammy L. Kernodle
MHTE Lecture
Chelsea Burns
Visiting LecturerSpring 2022
TM Krishna
His path-breaking book, A Southern Music – The Karnatik Story, published by Harper Collins in 2013, was a first-of-its-kind philosophical, aesthetic and socio-political exploration of Karnatik music. Fall 2021
Matthew Morrison
Visiting LecturerSpring 2022
Edward Klorman
His first book, Mozart’s Music of Friends: Social Interplay in the Chamber Works (Cambridge, 2016), draws on historical concepts of musical sociability and agency to develop new approaches to the analysis of sonata form and phrase rhythm.Fall 2021
Christa Bentley
"You Probably Think This Song Is About You": The Feminist Political Resonances of 1970s Confessional SongFall 2020
Graham Phipps
Row Typology and Pitch Notation in Webern's Orchestral Serial WorkSpring 2020
Tomie Hahn
Bewildering Transmission: When Silence MattersSpring 2020
Yossi Maurey
Jerusalem, The New Jerusalem, and Jerusalems in Medieval Music and LiturgyFall 2019
Lynne Rogers
Becoming Stravinsky: Tales of a Compositional HabitFall 2019
Robert S. Hatten
A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art MusicFall 2019
Matthias Brzoska
Meyerbeer's Grand Opera Le Prophète (1849) – The Concept of the New Critical Edition Spring 2019
Thomas Christensen
Scales, Skulls, and Sanskrit: The Search for the Origins of Musical Tonality in France, c. 1860Spring 2019
Gillian Robertson
Past, Yearning, and Fantasy: Interpreting Musical NostalgiaSpring 2019
Jennifer Saltzstein
Power, Privacy, and Performance: The Gendered Song-Space of the Medieval GardenSpring 2019
Graham H. Phipps
MUSIC FROM VIENNA'S "BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN" STANDS HIGH ABOVE C-LEVEL: Pitch Notation and its Consequences in Schoenberg's Opus 33aSpring 2019
Hettie Malcomson
Negotiating Violence and Creative Agency in Commissioned Mexican Narco-RapFall 2018
Janet Schmalfeldt
Domenico Scarlatti, Escape Artist: Sightings of His 'Mixed Style' Towards the End of the Eighteenth Century.Fall 2018
David Locke
“The ‘Rhythm Section’ of an African Drum Ensemble: the Case of Agbadza (Ewe, Ghana/Togo)”Spring 2018
Jann Pasler
Deconstructing Colonial and Postcolonial InterculturalitySpring 2018
UNT Residency: Jack Boss
Musical Idea in Schoenberg’s Piano Piece Op. 33aSpring 2018
Matthew Rahaim
Circuits of Voice: Vocal Situations and Practices of Listening in South AsiaFall 2017
Mark Spicer
"Sowing (Sewing?) the Seeds of Love": The 1967 Beatles' Influence on Tears for FearsFall 2017
William Rothstein
Aspects of Rhythm and Meter in Italian Opera from Mozart to VerdiFall 2017
Deborah Vargas
“Brown Soul”Spring 2017
Barry Wiener
Stefan Wolpe's Compositional PedagogySpring 2017
Matildie Thom Wium
Arnold van Wyk's Van Liefde en Verlatenheid: Love and Others in 1950s South AfricaFall 2016
Francesca Brittan
Electricity, Magic, and the Birth of the Podium ConductorFall 2016
Deborah Kapchan
Listening to Disintegration: Between Secular and Sacred Worlds in FranceFall 2016
Mark Spicer
The Question of Tonality in Pop and Rock SongsSpring 2016
Frank Samarotto
What's the Use of Outmoded Theories? Rehearing Brahm's Third SymphonySpring 2016
Janette Tilley
An Uneasy Eros: Secularization and the Changing Musical Expression of Mystical Love in Early Modern GermanySpring 2016
Barbara Willi
Series Basso Continuo versus Counterpoint: An Intellectual and Musical Fight during the 17th and 18th CenturiesFall 2015
Álvaro Torrente
A la recherche du bal perdu: Erotic Dance-Songs in Early-Modern SpainFall 2015
Louise Meintjes
Singing Violence: Zulu Ngoma During South Africa's TransitionFall 2015
Jonathan Kregor
"I Have Prayed It Rather than Composed It": On Franz Liszt's Religious Programs, 1857-1865Fall 2015
Paul Dworak
Vowel Set Transformations and Vowel Harmonies in Claude Debussy's Proses lyriquesSpring 2015