Thinking about Music
Schedule for 2008–09

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


10 Oct. Joseph Kraus

Levels of Nostalgia and Narrative Collapse in the

  Florida State Univ. “Pastorale” from Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony
21 Nov. Bastian Clevé

The Sound of Eternity: Making a Movie for

  Filmakad. Baden-Württemberg J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor
30 Jan. Frank Samarotto The Drama of the Bridge: Modulation as Process
  Indiana Univ.
13 Feb. Bruno Nettl

Song Ownership and Control in Native American

Univ. of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Traditions: Excursions to Blackfoot Indian Culture
Lecture by a Distinguished Ethnomusicologist
27 Feb. David Ake

Jazz and the Aesthetics of Mistakes

  Univ. of Nevada, Reno
? Apr. Warren Darcy What Lies Buried under the Linden Tree?
  Oberlin Conservatory

Form, Tonal Process, and Meaning in the Funeral March
of Mahler’s First Symphony
24 Apr. Marcia J. Citron

Gendered Reception of Brahms:

  Rice Univ. Masculinity, Nationalism, and Musical Politics
15 May. Peter Cariani As If  Time Really Mattered: Neural Codes and
  Harvard-MIT

Computations that Subserve Music Perception and Cognition
5 June Lawrence Kramer “The Threshold of the Visible World”:
  Fordham Univ. Bill Viola’s Tristan


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