Recent activites of
Divisional Faculty Members
(2004–present)
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| David Carson Berry |
| Recent Publications |
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“Verborgene Wiederholungen? Schenker’s (Hidden?) Influence in America in the 1930s. Part I: George Wedge and the Filtering of Schenker’s Ideas for the ‘Average’ Person,” Theory and Practice (forthcoming). |
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A Music-Theoretical Matrix: Essays in Honor of Allen Forte (Editor and contributor. A Festschrift serialized as a special feature of Gamut, the journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic. In progress.) |
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“The Roles of Invariance and Analogy in the Linear Design of Stravinsky’s ‘Musick to Heare,’” Gamut 1/1 (2008). Accessible at <http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/web/ojs/index.php/first/article/view/43>.
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“Journal of Music Theory under Allen Forte’s Editorship,” Journal of Music Theory 50/1 (2006 [published 2008]): 7–23.
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“Hans Weisse (1892-1940),” in Schenker-Traditionen: Eine Wiener Schule der Musiktheorie und ihre internationale Verbreitung [Schenker Traditions: A Viennese School of Music Theory and Its International Dissemination], ed. Martin Eybl and Evelyn Fink-Mennel (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2006): 91-103. |
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“Stravinsky, Igor,” in Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, editors-in-chief John Merriman and Jay Winter (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006), vol. 4: 2261-63. |
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“Schenkerian Theory in the United States: A Review of Its Establishment and a Survey of Current Research Topics,” Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie 2/2–3 (2005): 101–37. An online version is also accessible at <www.gmth.de/www/zeitschrift.php?option=show&ausgabe= 8&archiv=1>.
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“Victor Vaughn Lytle and the Early Proselytism of Schenkerian Ideas in the U.S.,” Journal of Schenkerian Studies 1 (2005): 92-117. |
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A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature: An Annotated Bibliography with Indices (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2004); xii + 585 pp. |
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"The Meaning(s) of 'Without': An Exploration of Liszt's Bagatelle ohne Tonart," 19th-Century Music 27/3 (2004): 230–62. |
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"The Role of Adele T. Katz in the Early Expansion of the New York 'Schenker School,'" Current Musicology 74 (2002 [published 2004]): 103–51. |
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"On Teaching 'Tonal Mirror Counterpoint': A Guide to Concepts and Practice," Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 16 (2002 [published 2004]): 1–56. |
| Recent Presentations |
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"What Kind of 'Patterning'? Issues of 'Thematicism' Reconsidered in Stravinsky's Abraham and Isaac," paper presented at the Society for Music Theory (Nashville, TN), 2008; and the annual conference, Music Theory Midwest (Bowling Green, OH), 2008.
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Respondent to the session “Archiving Schenker” at the conference of the American Musicological Society (Nashville, TN), 2008; with chair Ian Bent (Cambridge, UK) and presenters Timothy Jackson (Univ. of North Texas), William Drabkin (University of Southampton, UK), Marko Deisinger (Univ. für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna), and Christoph Hust (Johannes Gutenberg-Univ., Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, Mainz).
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"Stravinsky's Serialism and Musical Evolution: Tinkering, Preadaptation, and Non-Teleological Change," paper presented at the conference on "Music and Evolutionary Thought," hosted by the Institute of Advanced Study and the School of Music, Durham University (England), June 2007. |
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"Stravinsky's Array-Pathway Analogues in Context: The Concept of an 'Anasystemic Variation Procedure,'" paper presented at the Society for Music Theory (Los Angeles, CA), 2006. NB: Earlier & different versions of this research were delivered at the following conferences: Fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music (Univ. of Sussex, UK), 2005; and annual conference, Music Theory Midwest (Oberlin, OH), 2005. |
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"Judging Them by Their Covers: The Artistic and Commercial Connotations of Album-Cover Photographs," paper presented at the Cincinnati Art Museum in conjunction with an exhibition titled "Borrowed Time: The Photograph as Music Album Cover," 2006. |
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"Krenek's Vocal Music: Innovative Serialism and Indicator of Poetics," paper presented at the Society for Music Theory (Boston/Cambridge, MA), 2005. [NB: The author was unable to deliver paper due to a family death.] |
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"Verborgene Wiederholungen? Schenker's (Hidden?) Influence in America before Hans Weisse and the Mannes Vanguard," paper presented at the Society for Music Theory (Seattle, WA), 2004; and at the Music Theory Society of New York State (Rochester, NY), 2004. |
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"The Professional Songwriter in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Jimmy Van Heusen as a Case Study," paper presented at the symposium "Celebrating the American Popular Song: Jazz and the Songsmiths," held as part of the 26th Annual Carolina Jazz Festival (Chapel Hill, NC), 2004. |
| Other Recent Activities and Services |
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Faculty Adviser, Student Conference of the CCM Music Theory and Musicology Society (two conferences: February 2007, April 2008).
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Member, Publication Awards Committee, Society for Music Theory (2007/08–present).
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Member, Graduate Professional Development Center Advisory Group, Univ. of Cincinnati (2007/08). |
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Advisory Board, Gamut [peer-reviewed online journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic] (2007–present).
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Member, Graduate Thesis and Research Committee, Univ. of Cincinnati (2007–present).
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Program Committee Chair, annual meeting of Music Theory Midwest (2007).
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Senator, Univ. of Cincinnati Faculty Senate (2004–06).
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Member, Technology Committee, College-Conservatory of Music, Univ. of Cincinnati (2004–07). |
| Recent Grants, Fellowships, and Honors |
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Emerging Scholar Award, Society for Music Theory (2006).
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Friends of CCM Faculty Projects Pool: grant to attend and present a paper at the Music Theory Society of New York State, Rochester, NY (April 2004). |
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| Steven J. Cahn |
| Recent Publications |
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Chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg (forthcoming). |
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"Congenital Amusia Is More Than a Fine-Grained Pitch Deficit" (forthcoming). |
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"Imaging the Performance: Analyzing Music with a Similarity Matrix," poster presented at Society for Music Theory (Los Angeles), 2006. |
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"Arnold Schoenberg: Letters to Jewry in America," paper presented at Library of Congress, 2004. |
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"On Music-Specific Deficits: A Case Study of Congenital Amusia," paper presented at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Northwestern Univ.), 2004. |
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"Imaging the Performance," paper presented at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Northwestern Univ.), 2004. |
| Other Recent Activities and Services |
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Co-director of Thinking About Music (CCM lecture series). |
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Manuscripts read for Journal of the American Musicological Society, College Music Symposium, Oxford University Press, and W.W. Norton. |
| Recent Grants, Fellowships, and Honors |
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Tangeman Sacred Music Center Grant (2006) |
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National Institutes of Health (NIH), Contractor, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics (2002–07). |
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UC University Research Council Grant (2003–04). |
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| Catherine Losada |
| Recent Publications |
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“Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Strands of Continuity in Collage Compositions by Rochberg, Berio and Zimmermann,” Music Theory Spectrum 31/1 (forthcoming).
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“Topos Theory for a Creative Analysis of Boulez’s Structures," with Guerino Mazzola, Florian Thalmann, and Schuyler Tsuda, Quaderni di Matematica (forthcoming).
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“Isography and Structure in the Music of Pierre Boulez,” Journal of Mathematics and Music (forthcoming).
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“The Process of Modulation in the Musical Collage” Music Analysis 27/2–3 (forthcoming).
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“K-nets and Hierarchical Structural Recursion: Further Considerations” Music Theory Online 13/3 (2007) |
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“Simplifying Complex Multiplication,” paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Music Theory (Los Angeles), 2006; MCM 2007: The First International Conference on "Mathematics and Computation in Music" (Berlin) 2007; Music Theory Midwest (Muncie, IN), 2006; and the meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State (Saratoga Springs, NY), 2006.
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"Between Modernism and Postmodernism; A Strand of Continuity," paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Music Theory (Boston/Cambridge, MA), 2005; the Fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music (University of Sussex, UK), 2005; and Music Theory Midwest (Oberlin, OH), 2005. |
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"The Process of Modulation in the Musical Collage," paper presented at the Society for Music Theory (Seattle, WA), 2004; Music Theory Midwest (Kansas City, MO), 2004; the West Coast Conference for Music Theory and Analysis (Santa Barbara, CA), 2004; and the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic (Philadelphia, PA), 2004. |
| Other Recent Activities and Services |
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Member of the Program Committee for the 2008 conference of the Society for Music Theory.
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Member of the Executive Board for Music Theory Midwest (2007-2008). |
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Co-director of Thinking About Music (CCM lecture series), 2005-06. |
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Manuscripts read for Theory and Practice. |
| Recent Grants, Fellowships, and Honors |
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URC Faculty Summer Research Fellowships to conduct research at the Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel, Switzerland) during the summer of 2008, and during the summer of 2005.
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Faculty Development Awards to present at the meeting of the Society for Music Theory (Cambridge) 2005, and to attend and present at the First International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music (Berlin) 2007. |
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Friends of CCM Faculty Projects Pool grants to attend and present at the Fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music, 2005, and to present at the First International Conference on "Mathematics and Computation in Music" (Berlin) 2007. |
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SMT Minority Travel Grant for paper presentation at the SMT conference in November, 2004. |
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| Samuel Ng |
| Recent Publications |
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Program notes on Brahms’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor, op. 38, and Zhan-bao Ho and Chen Kang’s “Butterfly Lovers” Violin Concerto. Compact disc featuring Yung-chiao Wei and Chao-I Chou (Centaur, CRC 2921, 2008). |
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Review of Peter Smith, Expressive Forms in Brahms’s Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet, Music Theory Online 13/4 (2007).
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Choral arrangement “The Turtle Dove,” published by Shawnee Press, 2007.
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“The Hemiolic Cycle and Metric Dissonance in the First Movement of Brahms’s Cello Sonata in F major, Op. 99,” Theory and Practice (2006). |
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“Rehabilitating Rhythm and Meter in Sonata Form: Integrating Phrase-rhythm Analysis and Sonata Theory,” paper presented at the Society for Music Theory (Nashville, TN), 2008; and the annual meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State (Ithaca), 2008.
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“Reinterpreting Metrical Reinterpretation,” presented at the joint meeting of the Society of Music Theory and the American Musicological Society (Los Angeles), 2006. |
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“Five-measure Phrases in Brahms’s Rhapsody in E-flat Major, op. 119, no. 4: Their Necessity, Effect, and Consequences,” presented at the annual meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State (Saratoga Springs), 2006; and at the annual meeting of Music Theory Southeast (North Carolina), 2006.
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“The Hemiolic Cycle and Metric Dissonance in Brahms’s Cello Sonata in F Major, op. 99,” presented at the annual meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State (New York City), 2005.
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| Other Recent Activities and Services |
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Manuscripts read for Oxford University Press, Intégral, and Music Theory Online.
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Program Committee Chair, annual meeting of the South Central Society of Music Theory, 2008.
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Chair, panel session on “Rhythm and Meter,” South Central Society of Music Theory, 2007.
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Member, Learning Assessment Committee, Louisiana State University, 2007-8.
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Reader, AP Music Theory , 2007-8.
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Publicity manager, Intégral, 2004-5.
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| Recent Grants, Fellowships, and Honors |
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Louisiana State University School of Music Teacher Appreciation Award, 2007.
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Nominee, Louisiana State University Phi Kappa Phi Non-tenured Faculty Award, 2007.
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Summer Research Stipend, Louisiana State University, 2006.
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Alfred Mann Dissertation Award, University of Rochester, 2006.
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The Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award, Music Theory Society of New York State, April 2005.
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Minority Travel Grant awarded by the Committee on Diversity, Society for Music Theory, 2005.
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| Miguel A. Roig-Francolí |
| Recent Publications |
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Textbooks: |
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Understanding Post-Tonal Music (McGraw-Hill, 2007). |
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Harmony in Context (2nd edn., McGraw-Hill, forthcoming). [1st edn. reviewed by Ken Stephenson, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 15 (2001 [published 2004]): 103–12.] |
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Articles: |
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"Procesos compositivos y estructura musical: Teoría y práctica en Antonio de Cabezón y Tomás de Santa María," in Políticas y prácticas musicales en el mundo de Felipe II (Madrid: Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, 2004): 393-414.
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Compositions: |
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Partita, for eight instruments (Madrid, Spain: Editorial de Musica Española Contemporanea, 2006).
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Sonata for cello and piano (Valencia, Spain: Editorial Piles, 2004).
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Missa pro pace, for mixed chorus and strings (September-November 2007).
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Improvisations for Jennifer, nos. 1, 2, and 3, for violin solo (June 2007)
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Canticles for a Sacred Earth, for orchestra (September 2006-February 2007). |
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Canticles for a Sacred Earth, for double quintet and two percussionists (April-December 2006). |
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Antiphons and Psalms for the Victims of Genocide, for chamber orchestra and optional chamber chorus (March-May 2005).
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Dona eis requiem, in memory of the innocent victims of war and terror, for chamber orchestra and chamber chorus (January-March 2005).
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Easter Toccata, for organ (December 2004).
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| Recent Performances of Compositions |
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Diferencias y Fugas, for string quartet, ORCAM String Quartet, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 2 February 2009.
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Missa pro pace, for mixed chorus and strings, Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the City of Ibiza, Spain, conducted by Adolfo Villalonga, 21 December 2008 (premiere).
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Antiphon and Psalms for the Victims of Genocide, for chorus and orchestra, Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, conducted by Jordi Casas, 13 October, 2008 (premiere).
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Canticles for a Sacred Earth, for symphony orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, conducted by Philippe Bender, 24 January 2008 (premiere).
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Dona eis requiem, in memory of the innocent victims of war and terror, for chamber orchestra and chamber chorus, performed by:
• University of North Florida Chorale and Chamber Singers, Orchestra of the Chamber Music Society of the Good Shepherd, conducted by Cara Tasher, Jacksonville, FL, on 28 October 2007.
• Wayne State University Orchestra and Concert Chorale, conducted by Kypros Markou, Detroit, MI, on April 21, 2008.
• Symphony Orchestra of the City of Ibiza, conducted by Adolfo Villalonga, Ibiza, Spain, 29 April 2007.
• Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands in Menorca, Spain, on 12 April 2006.
• Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands, conducted by Philippe Bender, Mallorca, Spain, on 11 April 2006 (premiere). |
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Sonata for cello and piano, performed at:
• DePauw University by Evan Jones and May Phang, 23 February 2007.
• CCM by Evan Jones and May Phang, 22 February 2007.
• Ibiza, Spain, 12 Nov. 2004 (at presentation of published score).
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Canticles for a Sacred Earth, for double quintet and two percussionists, performed by:
• CCM Chamber Players, conducted by Rodney Winther, CCM, January 24, 2007 (premiere).
• Ballet Meditation on Design, by Shellie Cash, based on Canticles for a Sacred Earth, with CCM Chamber Players, conducted by Angela Holt, 20 November, 1 and 2 December 2008.
• CCM Chamber Players, conducted by Rodney Winther, January 24, 2007 (premiere). |
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Easter Toccata, for organ, performed:
• on Easter Sunday, 2006, at the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Chains (Cincinnati), by Blake Callahan.
• at the Annual Concert of the American Guild of Organists, Cincinnati, 11 April 2005, by Blake Callahan.
• on Easter Sunday, 2005, at Saint Margaret of York (Loveland), by Javier Clavere.
• on Easter Sunday, 2005, at the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Chains (Cincinnati), by Blake Callahan.
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Partita, for Eight Instruments, performed by:
• Faculty Orchestra of the Superior Conservatory of Music of the Balearic Islands, at official opening ceremony of the conservatory’s academic year, Ibiza, Spain, 13 Nov. 2004.
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| Other Honors and Activities |
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Recipient, 2008 Tangeman Sacred Music Center Travel Grant, for travel to premiere of Canticles for a Sacred Earth by the Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, January 24, 2008.
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Winner of 2007 A.B. "Dolly" Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Cincinnati. See the news report here. |
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Invited lecture at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música, Ibiza, Spain, April 26, 2007: "El mosaico de las estéticas musicales del siglo XX: Modernismo, postmodernismo, y el diálogo con el pasado."
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Program Committee member, Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2006. |
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Chair, session on Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music Theory Midwest Annual Conference, Ball State University (Muncie, IN), 12–13 May 2006.
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Invited two-day composition workshop at Superior Conservatory of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain, 10–11 April 2006.
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Friends of CCM grants, 2006 (for travel to performance of Dona eis requiem in Spain); 2005 (for travel to premiere of Dona eis requiem in Spain); 2004 (for travel to CMS Conference in San Francisco). |
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Recipient, 2005 University of Cincinnati Faculty Bonus Award for Achievement in Research/Creative/Professional Activity and Teaching.
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"Principles and Pedagogies: Organizing the Large Theory Lecture," invited presentation for session on Teaching Large Theory Lectures at the CMS Annual Conference, San Francisco (2004).
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Medal of Honor (highest academic honor) from Superior Conservatory of Music of the Balearic Islands, Spain, 2004.
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Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy.
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| Robert Zierolf |
| Recent Publications |
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"Computer Remix,"review-essay, Journal of the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society (2006). |
| Recent Presentations |
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“The Number and Nature of Journal Articles by Women in Music Theory,” paper presented at the Committee on the States of Women session, Society for Music Theory annual meeting, 2008.
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“Futurism’s Legacy,” paper presented at the Sixth European Music Analysis Conference, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg (Germany), October 2007. |
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"Temporal Discontinuity and Postmodernism: the Most Radical Elements in Compositions by Charles Ives" paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 2006. |
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"Old Question, New Music: Reception of Minimalism and New Consonance in Europe and the United States 1964 to the Present" paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 2006. |
| Other Recent Activities and Services |
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Peer prepublication reviewer for the Journal of African Music |
