Thinking about Music
Schedule for 2001–02

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


12 Oct. David Huron How Music Evokes Human Emotions
Ohio State Univ.
26 Oct. Laurence Libin Progress, Adaptation, and the Evolution of
Metropolitan Museum of Art Musical Instruments
9 Nov. Ethan Haimo Schoenberg, Bach, and BACH
Univ. of Notre Dame
11 Jan. Dane Heuchemer In the Village: Music in Electoral Saxony,
Kenyon College ca. 1550-ca. 1610
15 Feb. David Cohen "The First Foundations of Song":
Harvard Univ. The Concept of the Note as the Element of Music
1 Mar. J. Peter Burkholder A Simple Comprehensive Model for
Indiana Univ. Musical Meaning
Apr. Kay Shelemay Hearing Silent Voices: Women in the
Harvard Univ. Syrian Jewish Musical Tradition
19 Apr. Robert O. Gjerdingen A Music Theorist in Dot-Com Land
Northwestern Univ.
17 May Hugh Macdonald Beethoven's Game of Cat and Mouse
Washington Univ.


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.