Thinking about Music
Schedule for 2005–06

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


14 Oct. Massimo Ossi Petrarchan Themes in Monteverdi's
  Indiana Univ. Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi
4 Nov. David Lidov Musical Meter and Musical Gesture as
  York Univ. Representations of Bodily Movement
18 Nov. Alan Walker Liszt as Cultural Ambassador
  McMaster Univ.
20 Jan. Paul von Hippel Rules of Melodic Expectation:
  Ohio State Univ.  Innate Laws or Learned Heuristics?
3 Feb. Anna Celenza Kampf ums Dasein: The Impact of Popular Darwinism
  Johns Hopkins Univ. on Musical Aesthetics in Fin-de-siècle Vienna
17 Feb. Jeff Titon Music and Identity Construction:
  Brown Univ. The "Good Old Boy" in Country Music
21 Apr. Elizabeth West Marvin The Mystery and Science of Absolute Pitch
  Eastman School of Music
5 May Alex Ross Inside Notes on Music Criticism:
  The New Yorker History and Current Practice
19 May Walter Everett Good Vibrations: The Foundations of Rock
  Univ. of Michigan


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.