News
2019
Cathy Ragland
PublicationCathy Ragland recently published her Spanish language article, "Hacer sonar la tradición a través de las fronteras: la popularidad transnacional de Ramón Ayala, ícono de la autenticidad fronteriza en la música norteña" (Sounding tradition across borders: the transnational popular
posted Jun 3 2019 - 4:06pm
April Prince
Paper PresentationApril 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.
posted Jun 3 2019 - 4:21pm
Stephen Slottow
PublicationStephen Slottow’s book, The Americanization of Zen Chanting, has been published by Pendragon Press.
posted Jun 3 2019 - 4:32pm
José R. Torres-Ramos
José Torres, doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology, was awarded the 2019 Diversity Dissertation Fellowship at Hiram College.
posted May 23 2019 - 8:38am
Samuel Miyashita
Samuel Miyashita (BM, Music Theory and Composition) has won the Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award, which recognizes a rising senior who has shown extraordinary musical and academic accomplishments.
posted May 16 2019 - 11:45am
Hendrik Schulze
Paper PresentationHendrik Schulze (Music History) has presented at the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music at Durham, NC.
posted May 9 2019 - 8:28am
Amy Cooper (PhD, musicology)
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."
posted Apr 8 2019 - 3:45pm
Gillian Robertson
Paper PresentationGillian Robertson presented a theory pedagogy paper at the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory Conference in El Paso, TX.
posted Apr 3 2019 - 3:16pm
Ethnomusicology News
This month the ethnomusicology students organized and performed in the annual Hear the World Concert on March 2. This year's concert featured music from West Africa, Taiwan, Guatemala, China, Venezuela, and India. Ethnomusicology Ph.D.
posted Apr 3 2019 - 3:19pm
Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden
Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden recently presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual meeting in Denver, Colorado.
posted Apr 1 2019 - 2:55pm
Lyle Nordstrom
Emeritus FacultyProfessor emeritus, Lyle Nordstrom, has won the Howard Mayer Brown Award for lifetime achievement in the field of early music from Early Music America.
posted Mar 22 2019 - 2:26pm
Benjamin Brand
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.
posted Mar 21 2019 - 3:33pm
Clare Carrasco (PhD, 2016)
Alumni NewsThe 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.
posted Mar 12 2019 - 9:37am
Texas Society for Music Theory Conference
Paper PresentationsFaculty and graduate students presented at the TSMT (Texas Society for Music Theory) Conference on Feb 22-23 at Texas State Unversity in San Marcos.
Benjamin Graf presented "Motivic Border-Crossing: Continuity Through Formal Divisions"
posted Mar 12 2019 - 9:44am
Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden
Music & Letters Centenary PrizeProf. 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
posted Feb 15 2019 - 9:57am