Graduate Colloquia Series
Our main local forum for academic research is our Colloquiua Series, in which faculty, doctoral students and guests are invited to present their current work.
The presenters for the past few years were:
Doctoral Colloquia, 2007-2008
Allen Forte (Yale University), “Schoenberg as Webern”
Emily Abrams Ansari (The University of Western Ontario), Aaron Copland and Cultural Diplomacy: “‘UnAmerican’ Composer Meets Cold War Ambassador”
Peter Franck (The University of Western Ontario), “A Perfect Ten: Invertible Counterpoint at the Tenth and Its Relationship to Reaching-Over”
Paul Louth (The University of Western Ontario), “Music as Frozen Metaphor: Toward a Critical Theory of Forms in Music Education”
Susan O’Neill (The University of Western Ontario), “Learning In and Through musical performance: Understanding cultural Diversity via Inquiry and Dialogue”
Harold Fiske (The University of Western Ontario), “Music of Lijiang China, and Tibet”
Richard Semmens (The University of Western Ontario), “John Rich: Face to Face with Faust, or The nights Lun Didn’t Dance”
Jay Hodgson (The University of Western Ontario), “Analysing Rock Records: An Alternative to Adorno-Based Cultural Studies”
Carolyn Mullin (The University of Western Ontario), “Musical Domains, Motive, and the Role of Contour as Coherence in Webern's Unfinished Cello Sonata (1914)”
Aileen Laurin (The University of Western Ontario), “Missing-in-Action: New perspectives into inter-war Austrian art music and the case of Hans Feiertag”
Anna Boyden (The University of Western Ontario), “Adorno’s /Truth Content/: A Philosophy for Opera Analysis”
Juan Luis Suarez (The University of Western Ontario), “A Musical Treasure: Baroque Music in Bolivia”
Doctoral Colloquia, 2006-2007
Ryan McClelland (The University of Toronto), “Schenkerian Sonata Theory and Brahms’s String Quintet Op. 111”
Karen Snell (The University of Western Ontario), “Thinking About Music Education Phenomenologically”
Jon Fitzgerald (Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia), “Into the Eagle's Nest: Analysing a Song by Fred Eaglesmith”
Ed Goehring (The University of Western Ontario), Art and Piety in Sentimental Opera”
John Covach (Eastman and the University of Rochester and the Eastman School of Music), “Form and Texture in Rock Music”
Matt Malsky (Clark University), “Seen from the Street: Hollywood Underscoring, Urban Modernity and Alfred Newman’s ‘Street Scene’”
Elizabeth Gould (The University of Toronto), “Thinking Difference: Lesbian Imagination, Music and Music Education”
Joe Argentino (The University of Western Ontario), “Cycles, Transformations, and Schoenberg's Moderner Psalm Opus 50c”
Paul Sanden (The University of Western Ontario), “Technology and the Body in Modern Musical Performance”
Debra Lacoste (The University of Western Ontario), “The Usage and Ordering of responsoria prolixa in Matins Offices: An Interactive Web-Based Tool for Determining Manuscript Affiliation”
Doctoral Colloquia, 2005-2006
Debra Lacoste, Andrew Mitchell, Elizabeth Sander (The University of Western Ontario), “Latin Chant NOW! The present state of CANTUS and its role in Medieval Chant Studies”
Edmund J. Goehring (The University of Western Ontario), “Don Juan at the Feast of All Souls”
Kevin Mooney (The University of Western Ontario), “Music, Modernity, and The Blue Angel”
Anita Hardeman (The University of Western Ontario), “The Tail that Wags the Dog: The Divertissement in Hésione by André Campra and Antoine Danchet (1700, 1701, and 1709)”
Brenda Ravenscroft (Queens University), “Continuity, Change and Coherence: Elliott Carter’s Setting of Robert Lowell’s ‘In Genesis’”
Joyce Lindorff (Temple University), “Tomas Pereira and the Lülü Zhengyi: Trans-Cultural Exchange in 18th-Century China”
Doctoral Colloquia, 2004-2005
Robert Toft (The University of Western Ontario), “Limitations of Meaning: Text and Context in Monteverdi’s ‘Baci soave e cari’ (1587)”
Catherine Nolan (The University of Western Ontario), “More Than Meets The Eye: Text, Texture, and Transformation in Webern’s Das Augenlicht, Op. 26”
Omar Daniel (The University of Western Ontario), “The Spanish Postman; the challenges of composing an opera in the early 21st century”
Richard Semmens, recorder, with Sandra Mangsen, harpsichord (The University of Western Ontario), “The Recorder and the London Marketplace in the Late 17th and Early 18th Centuries: A Lecture/Demonstration”
James Currie (The State University of New York at Buffalo), “On the Necessary Impossibility of Schoenberg’s Atonal Music”
Bish Sharma (The University of Western Ontario), “Music Videos: Images and Texts”
Susanne Hammond (The University of Western Ontario), “Visualizing Opera Analysis”
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