MHTE Lecture Series, 2009-10
MHTE Lecture Series, 2009-10
Chair: Dr. Stephen Slottow
The Division Lecture Series is a vibrant nexus for a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas about music by students, faculty, and invited guests. The lecture series of 2008-09 featured Roger Chaffin, Poundie Burstein, Jeannie Guerrero, Mark Spicer, Allen Forte, Steven Vande Moortele, the Mysore Brothers, and composer Mario Lavista. Our September 30, 2009 guest is ethnomusicologist, Barbara Rose Lange of the University of Houston.
Charles Burkhart
October 26, 2009 - October 29, 2009
Charles Burkhart is Professor Emeritus at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He received his B.A. from Goshen College, and his M.A. from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, where he wrote a thesis on Mennonite and Amish music, based on field research in rural Mennonite colonies in Chihuahua, Mexico. He later received the M.Mus. degree at Yale University, where his teachers included Paul Hindemith, David Kraehenbuehl, and Ralph Kirkpatrick. A student of Ernst Oster and Felix Salzer, he is a leading Schenkerian theorist and teacher. In addition to his well known Anthology for Music Analysis (currently in its sixth edition), he has published and presented widely on topics in both tonal and post-tonal theory and music.
Monday, October 26
11:00-11:50 am
Room 293
MUTH 4370: Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis "How Phrases Tell the Story in Lá ci darem la mano."
2:00-2:50 pm
Room 206
MUTH 5370: Analytical Techniques III
"Tonal and Atonal Structures in Tristan, Part I"
Wednesday, October 28
1:00-11-50 am
Room 293
MUTH 4370: Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis "What's Going on in Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 7, third movement?"
2:00-2:50 pm
Room 206
"Tonal and Atonal Structures in Tristan, Part II"
MUTH 5370: Analytical Techniques III
4:00-4:50 pm
Room 321
MHTE Division Lecture
"Johannes Brahms, Master of Tonic Delay"
Thursday, October 29
4:00-4:50 pm
Recital Hall
Piano Departmental
"Performing Polyphony"
(a demonstration of how analysis can inform the performance of Bach's C-major Fugue, WTC I)
Barbara Rose Lange
September 30, 2009: “Stabilizing Masculinity in Hungarian Folk Music, 1989-2009"
4:00-5:00pm, Room 321
October 1, 2009: "Music of the Roma (Gypsies) in Hungary"
4:00-5:00pm, Room 321
Barbara Rose Lange is associate professor of ethnomusicology at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. Since the early 1990s she has studied popular music of Hungarians, Roma (Gypsies), and of Texans. She has held Fulbright, IREX, and Mellon fellowships. She is author of Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church (Oxford, 2003). In fall 2007, she held the Fulbright Austrian-Hungarian Joint Research Fellowship. Her current project concerns experiments in East-Central European “world” and alternative music, and the claims that generations, gender, and politics make upon this music.
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General Schedule, Fall 2009
All MHTE lectures will be held on Wednesdays at 4-5 pm
Wednesday 9/30-Thursday 10/1
Barbara Rose Lange (Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology, Moores School of Music, University of Houston)
Monday 10/26-Thursday 10/29
Charles Burkhart (Emeritus Professor, Music Theory, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Wednesday, 11/4
Benjamin Brand (Assistant Professor, University of North Texas)
(Lecturers for Spring 2010 will include Helen Greenwald, Carl Schachter, Dorothea Gail, and Philip Bohlman)
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2008-09 Highlights
Mark Spicer
Monday, April 20
4:00-5:00pm
Room 250, Music Building
Division Lecture: "Style and Idiolect in the Music of the Police"
Reception following in the Graham Green Room
Wednesday April 22
9:00-9:50am
Recital Hall, Music Building
"Influences on the Beatles, and the Anxiety of the Beatles' Influence"
Mark Spicer is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the CUNY Graduate Center, and also Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music at Hunter College (on sabbatical leave in 2008–09). A native of Bedford, England, Spicer moved to the US as a teenager, receiving his B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of North Texas (1987, 1990) and his Ph.D. in music theory from Yale University (2001).
Prof. Spicer specializes in the reception history and analysis of popular music, and his writings on this subject have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Contemporary Music Review, Gamut, Music Theory Online, twentieth-century music, and other scholarly journals, as well as three essay collections, including Sounding Out Pop, which he recently co-edited with John Covach and is due to be published by the University of Michigan Press in 2010. He is currently working on a new book that will explore how certain pop and rock musicians since the early 1970s have confronted their anxiety of influence towards the Beatles, provisionally titled In the Beatles’ Wake. In addition to his scholarship and teaching, Prof. Spicer maintains an active parallel career as a professional keyboardist and vocalist, having worked with several groups in the US and the UK since the 1980s. In the early 1990s, he was a founding member of the critically acclaimed Denton-based group Little Jack Melody and His Young Turks, and can be heard on their first two CDs, On the Blank Generation (1991) and World of Fireworks (1994). He continues to take the stage most weekends with his own “electric R&B” group, the Bernadettes.
Allen Forte Residence III/Hans Weisse Memorial Concert
Wednesday, April 8:
9-10:00, Music Building, Room 293
Stephen Slottow, 20th-Century Techniques, Pitch Class Voice Leading, Ives’ Song ‘Serenity’
2:00-3:00, Music Building, Room 2006
Timothy Jackson, Advanced Schenkerian Analysis, Discussion of Carl Schachter’s Unfoldings, Chapter 11, “Chopin’s Fantasy, op. 49, The Two-Key Scheme”
6-7:30, Music Building, Recital Hall
Formal division lecture by Allen Forte and “Hans Weisse Memorial Concert,”
THE ROLE OF HANS WEISSE IN THE TEACHING OF SCHENKERIAN MUSIC THEORY
Hans Weisse (1892-1940), teacher of Schenkerian Analysis and Composition in the US, 1931-1940
Ten Biblical Aphorisms for Alto Accompanied by an Obligato Clarinet
Laura Warriner, Mezzo-Soprano
Kellie Quijano, Clarinet
Second String Quartet, Movements 1 & 2
María José Romero Ramos, Violin I
Lucas Scalamogna, Violin II
Stephen Beall, Viola
Meredith McCook, Cello
Sonata for Piano and Violin, Movement 3
Julia Bushkova, Violin
Heejung Kang, Piano
Small Chamber Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Harpsichord
Elliot Figg, Harpsichord
Donald Malpass, Flute
Charles O. Veazey, Oboe
RECEPTION IN THE GREEN ROOM 7:30-8:30
Thursday, April 9:
10:00-11:00, Green Room
Meetings with Graduate Students. Sign-up sheet on Graduate Studies bulletin board.
12:30-1:50, Music Building, Room 2006
Frank Heidlberger, Analytical Systems II, The Discourse of Serialism and its Analysis after WW II, with particular reference to Allen Forte’s own work on atonal analysis and set theory
2:30-4:00, Music Building, Room 290
Graham Phipps, Proseminar, Considerations of Form in Selected Instrumental Works of Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, Brahms, Piano Quintet in f minor, op. 34, first movement
Friday, April 10:
9:00-10:00, Music Building, Room 320
Laila Kteily-O'Sullivan, Pedagogy of Music Theory, The Practical Teaching of Teaching Aural Skills
11:00-12:30, 293
Meetings with Graduate Students. Sign-up sheet on Graduate Studies bulletin board.
Roger Chaffin
Wednesday, March 25, 2009:
4:00-5:00 p.m. Room 321, Music Building
Division Lecture: PRACTICING PERFECTION: HOW CONCERT SOLOISTS PREPARE FOR PERFORMANCE
Thursday, March 26, 2009:
10-12 a.m.
2:30-4:30 p.m.
Floyd Graham Green Room, Music Building
Meeting with students and faculty on the study of memory
in musical performance
ROGER CHAFFIN is Professor of Psychology at the
University of Connecticut where he studies the cognitive
processes involved in musical performance. His case studies of
experienced musicians preparing for performance provide a new
level of understanding of the psychological processes involved.
These studies combine the third-person perspective of the
scientist, which provides objectivity and rigor, with the
first-person perspective of the musician, which provides a rich
of understanding of the musical intuitions guiding the
performance.
He has reported this research in journals such as Psychological
Science, Music Perception, and Music Psychology and in the book,
Practicing perfection: Memory and piano performance (2002),
written in collaboration with a pianist and a social psychologist.
His work on musical memory complements his earlier work on
memory and language reported in numerous articles in journals
such as Journal of Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Science,
and Psychological Bulletin.
L. Poundie Burstein
Wednesday, March 11, 2009:
2:00-2:50 p.m. Room 2006, Music Building
WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING THE FINALE THEME OF BEETHOVEN'S "TEMPEST"
4:00-5:00 p.m. Room 321, Music Building
Division Lecture: WHERE DOES IT ALL END? LOCATING HALF CADENCES
Thursday, March 12, 2009:
2:30-5:00 p.m. Graham Green Room
Individual student consultations
Friday, March 13, 2009
8:00-8:50 a.m. Room 289, Music Building
JOSEPH HAYDN'S SYMPHONY 41, I, AND THE "FALSE RECAPITULATION"
2:00-2:50 p.m. Room 2006, Music Building
THE MECHANICAL AND ORGANIC IN J.S. BACH'S BRANDENBURG 3, III
L. Poundie Burstein is a Professor of Music Theory at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He also teaches music analysis at Mannes College, and he has previously taught at Queens College CUNY and at Columbia University. His primary areas of interest include Schenkerian analysis and form studies. In 1995 he received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the New School University, and in 2008 he received the Outstanding Publication Award of the Society of Music Theory. Prof. Burstein co-chaired (along with Adrienne Block) The Music of Amy Beach: An Interdisciplinary Conference; was President of the Music Theory Society of New York State from 2003-2007; and is a current member of the Executive Board of the Society for Music Theory. In addition to his scholarly work, he has performed extensively as a pianist for comedy improvisation groups in the NYC area.