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News and Events
Spring Semester 2006
| January |
Candidates
for a new theory position at FSU will be visiting
campus. Watch your e-mail for information on interview
schedules. |
January
28
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Our
annual FSU
Music Theory Forum will feature papers by
graduate students throughout the nation, and a keynote
speech by Prof. Richard
Cohn
of Yale University. Click
here for more information, including a complete
program and collection of abstracts. The Forum is
free and open to the public. |
| March
3-4 |
Music
Theory Southeast will hold its annual meeting
at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Each year, FSU is well represented both in the
audience and on the podium.
More details will follow later.
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| March
15-19 |
Prof.
Michael Buchler will present his paper, "Modulation
as a Dramatic Agent in Frank Loesser’s Broadway
Songs" at the Society
for American Music annual meeting in Chicago,
Illinois. Additionally, Prof. Charles Brewer (musicology)
will present "The Significance of Billings’s
'Rose of Sharon'" and Prof. Denise Von Glahn
(musicology) will chair two sessions, including
one devoted to documenting the Society's history.
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Please
see the calendar
for departmental exam times and places.
For additions to this page, please contact Prof.
Michael Buchler |
Fall
Semester 2005
August 24
1:30-2:30
KMU Lounge
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Meeting for all new graduate students in theory and composition. |
September 25-29
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Aural
skills and rhythm specialist, Prof. Bengt-Olov Palmqvist
(Austrailia National University), served as scholar-in-residence.
He presented a guest lecture, met with our students,
and guest-taught several classes. |
| November
3-4 |
The
College Music Society International Meeting in
Quebec City, Quebec included papers by M.M. theory
student Sean Atkinson and Prof. Matthew Shaftel
(who co-presented with FSU graduate Chris Swanson).
- Prof.
Matthew Shaftel and Dr. Christopher Swanson,
"The Problem with Beautiful Singing."
- Sean
Atkinson (M.M. student), "Dr. Trombone:
The Development of a Computerized Training Aid."
Prof.
Shaftel also participated in the Concert Series
of La Chapelle du Bon-Pasteur, Co-sponsored by
the College Music Society. The recital of art
songs was sung in collaboration with Christopher
Swanson, tenor, and Tad Hardin, piano.
Additionally,
Prof. Shaftel has been named to the CMS steering
committee on music theory. Congratulations!
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| November 10-13 |
The
Society
for Music Theory met
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the FSU community
was (again) well represented. Two of our faculty
members and one very recent graduate (Beth Smith,
Ph.D. theory, 2005) presented their scholarly works.
- Prof.
Clifton Callender, "Some Thoughts on Measuring
Voice-Leading Distance"
- Prof.
Evan Jones, "Night Phantoms Begone! Pervasive
Fluency in Wolf’s ‘In der Frühe'"
- Elizabeth
Smith, "Bifurcated Tonality and Character
Portrayal in Samuel Barber’s A Hand
of Bridge"
Three
other faculty members participated in panels or
in board meetings:
- Prof.
Jane Piper Clendinning participated in a Professional
Development Committee panel on making a strong
tenure case.
- Prof.
Nancy Rogers capped the first year of her four-year
term as Secretary of SMT and Prof. Michael Buchler
was elected to a three-year term as a Member-At-Large
on the SMT Executive Board.
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December
14 |
The
theory and composition department successfully
fended off a bowling challenge by the string department
at Seminole Lanes. Theorists and composers averaged
a score of 103; violinists and violists could
only manage an average score of 95. We are now
2-0 against the strings, proving that theory always
beats practice.
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| December
15 |
We
enjoyed an end-of-semester party at Prof. Jane
Clendinning's house, warmly capping the fall semester.
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Please see the calendar for departmental exam times and places.
For additions to this page, please contact Prof. Michael Buchler
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Summer 2005
| June 30-July 21 |
Prof. Ladislav Kubik led the 12th International Summer Program in Composition at the Czech-American Summer Music Institute in Prague, Czech Republic.
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| June 9-17 |
Profs. Nancy Rogers, and Michael Buchler served as faculty consultants for the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) exam in Music Theory this June. Prof. Clendinning also heads the test development committee for that AP exam.
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| July 23-25 |
Profs. Michael Buchler and Nancy Rogers presented papers at the Dublin (Ireland) International Conference for Music Analysis in the Republic of Ireland. The event was co-sponsored by the Society for Music Analysis, UK.
- Nancy Rogers, "Hearing an Old Story in a New Way: An Analysis of Loewe’s 'Erlkönig'"
- Michael Buchler, "Minimalist Processes and Designs (and their absence) in John Adams’s Lollapalooza"
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| July 14 |
Prof. Cliff Callender's "tre balli" was performed by FSU's Trio Bel Canto at the University of Louisville.
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| July 8-10 |
Prof. Cliff Callender presented "Generalized Chord Spaces" with co-authors Ian Quinn (Yale University) and Dmitri Tymoczko (Princeton University) at the John Clough Memorial Conference in Chicago, Illinois (University of Chicago).
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| July 22-29 |
Prof. Evan Jones presented five recitals in Canada with organist James Calkin.
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| August 5-7 |
Prof. Nancy Rogers presented research and attended a series of workshops sponsored by the Society for Music Perception and Cognition at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, CA.
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Please see the calendar for departmental exam times and places.
For additions to this page, please contact Prof. Michael Buchler
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Interested in previous years? Click here.
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