Thinking about Music
Schedule for 1996–97

All lectures take place Fridays at 2:00pm
in the Baur Room of the
College-Conservatory of Music


17 Jan. David McAllester Traditional and Contemporary Navajo Music
Connecticut Wesleyan Univ.
24 Jan. Malcolm Brown Shostakovich Appropriated and Exploited
Indiana Univ.
7 Feb. Taylor Greer Philosophy in an Ultramodern Key:
Pennsylvania State Univ. New Perspectives on Charles Seeger's Thought
14 Feb. Dennis Slavin The Binchois Game: Tonal Coherence and
CUNY Compositional Style
21 Feb. Justin London Meter Casts No Shadows
Carlton College
28 Feb. Guthrie Ramsey Toward a Cultural Poetics of Race Music:
Tufts Univ. Memory, Meaning, and the "Practice of Blackness"
1 Apr. Barbara Haggh Elite and Popular Music in Late Medieval Ghent
Alamire Institute
25 Apr. Ellen Koskoff Gender and Music among the Hassidim
Eastman School of Music
2 May James Zychowicz Mahler's Die Drei Pintos and the Taboo against
A-R Editions Posthumous Collaboration
9 May Peter H. Smith Brahms & the Shifting Barline: Metric Displacement
Univ. of Notre Dame & Formal Process in the Trios with Wind Instruments
23 May Thomas Christensen C.P.E. Bach and Traditions of Thorough-Bass Pedagogy
Univ. of Iowa


Thinking about Music enjoys the generous support of the office of Dean Douglas Lowry,
The CCM Graduate Student Association, and the Division of Composition, Musicology, and Theory.