Thinking about Music
Schedule for 1997–98

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


17 Oct. Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. Reflections on His Book: The Power of Black Music
Center for Black Music Research
24 Oct. Candace Brower Music as Motion: Towards a New Theory of
Northwestern Univ. Rhythmic Grouping
30 Jan. Joseph Kraus Voices of "The Other" in Tchaikovsky’s
Univ. of Nebraska Manfred Symphony
13 Feb. Scott Burnham Rehearing Music: On Listening to the
Princeton Univ. Mozart String Quintets
10 Apr. Gerard Behague The Ethnomusicology of Latin-American Music
Univ. of Texas
17 Apr. Susan Cook Gender in the Social Dance of the Ragtime Era
Univ. of Wisconsin
1 May Richard Cohn The Over-Determined Triad: A Group-Theoretic
Univ. of Chicago Approach to Romantic Harmony
15 May Leo Treitler Beethoven’s "Expressive" Marks
CUNY
29 May Peter Schubert Motive and Opportunity: The Mystery of
McGill Univ. Renaissance Music


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.