Thinking about Music
Schedule for 2007–08

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


12 Oct. Guerino Mazzola

A Mathematical Theory of Gesture in Music

  Univ. of Minnesota
26 Oct. Susan Youens

Schubert’s Pantheist Songs

  Univ. of Notre Dame
7 Nov. Philip Bohlman Music of the Mediterranean Metropole
  Univ. of Chicago and the Making of Modern Europe
29 Feb. Allan Keiler

Thoroughbass and Rameau in Their

  Brandeis Univ. Historical Perspective
7 Mar. James Schmidt ‘I Cannot Remember Ev’rything’:
  Boston Univ. Catastrophe, Lamentation and the Musical Memorial
4 Apr. Christopher Hasty

Changing the Subject of Music in Theory

  Harvard Univ.
5 Apr. Richard Taruskin Shall We Change the Subject?
  Univ. of Calif., Berkeley A Music Historian Reflects
16 May Rebecca Maloy Limmata interdum de industria cantibus inseruntur:
  Univ. of Colorado Reexamining the Nondiatonic Plainsong Tradition
23 May Gretchen Horlacher Stravinsky’s Stutter: Modeling Melodic
  Indiana Univ. Development and Repetition


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.