Work-in-Progress Series
All lectures will be held in Rm. 106 at 143 Elm Street at 12:30 pm unless otherwise noted.
Fall 2005
23 September
Benjamin Brand
John Hothby and the Cathedral Choir at Lucca.
30 September
Paul Berry
Alte Liebe: Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, and the Poetics of Musical Memory
7 October
Ian Quinn
Harmonic Function Without Roots? An Update on 210-211
14 October
Nathan Link
Voices in Handel's Operatic Obbligati
21 October
Seth Monahan
Exploring the Relation of Aggregate Completion and Pitch-Class Displacement to Local Harmonic Propulsion in Wagner's Parsifal
4 November
Rick Cohn
Hexatonic Poles in Parsifal
2 December
Pat McCreless
Elgar and the Half-Diminished Seventh Chord
Spring 2006
27 January
Markus Rathey
What Mozart didn't learn from Bach: Revisiting two sketches from 1782
3 February
Benjamin Brand
Bridging Two Worlds: John Hothby, the Cult of St. Regulus, and Musical Instruction in Late-Medieval Lucca
10 February
Discussion of Perlman's "Unplayed Melodies"
17 February
Vasili Byros
Tonal oder Atonal"?: Interval Cycles, Whole-Tone Tonality, and the Dialectics of Musical Process in Berg’s Piano Sonata, Op. 1
24 February
Paul Hawkshaw
Bruckner's Copies of Music by other Composers: Early Studies in Counterpoint, Fugue and Improvisation.
24 March
Cara Pickett
Autobiography of a Doppelleben: New Perspectives on Berg's Lyric Suite
31 March
Rebeccas Cypess
Biagio Marini and the Romanesca Tradition
7 April
Frank Tirro
The Metamorphosis of "Anthropology": Gil Evans’ Arrangements for Claude Thornhill and Miles Davis
14 April
Mike Lee
Dream Within A Dream: Narrative and Form in the Slow Movement of Schumann's Op. 80 Trio
21 April
Gregor Herzfeld
Essay and Epiphany. Time in the Music of Charles Ives
