Colloquia 2008 - 2009

Friday, January 9, 2009

“How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)”

Ross Duffin, Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve

Thursday, January 15, 2009

“Tristan and Isolde: Remarks on Wager’s Dramaturgy”

Karol Berger, Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts, Stanford University [co-sponsored by the President's Advisory Committee on Lectures]

Friday, January 16, 2009

“Bach’s Cycle, Mozart’s Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity”

Karol Berger, Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts, Stanford University [co-sponsored by the President's Advisory Committee on Lectures]

Friday, January 23, 2009

“How to Build a Groove: Meter as Process in Pop Song Introductions”

Robin Attas, UBC PhD candidate in music theory

Friday, January 30, 2009

“For Life and for Play: Performing Narrative in Hani Song”

Gloria Wong, UBC PhD candidate in ethnomusicology

Friday, February 6, 2009

“Charting Pierre Boulez’s Memoriale (...explosante-fixe... Originel) [1985]”

Jonathan Goldman, University of Victoria

 

Friday, February 27, 2009

“Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes”

Bob Silverman, UBC Professor Emeritus

3:30 pm, Gessler Hall (*note the change of location*)

Friday, March 6, 2009

“Four Conceptions of Wholeness in Music (Style, Strangeness, Structure, and Song) and their Relations with Two Kinds of Performance (Real and Imagined)”

William Benjamin, Professor of Music, UBC

Friday, March 13, 2009

'Instrumente Mangel' — The Cantata Movements with Obbligato Organ as a Reflection of Bach's
Performing Forces

Greg Butler, Professor of Music, UBC

Friday, March 27, 2009

“A Lecture Recital on Enrique Granados’ Piano Suite ‘Goyescas’: Love, Death, and Goya”

Kathryn Schmidt, UBC DMA candidate in piano performance

3:30 pm, Gessler Hall (*note the change of location*)

Friday, April 3, 2009

“Everyday Extraordinary: Living with New Music in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany

David Gramit, Professor of Musicology, University of Alberta

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

“ ‘Feel the Bass’: Dr. Dre’s Jeep Beats, Automobility, and Hip-hop ‘Sub’ Cultures”

Justin WIlliams, PhD candidate, University of Nottingham

12:00 pm (*note the change of time*)

 

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Recent Colloquia -- Fall 2008:

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Friday, September 26, 2008

"Jean-Luc Godard's 'Histoire(s) du cinéma': A Cutting and Pasting of Music, Image, and History"

Michael Baumgartner, UBC Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC Musicology

Friday, October 3, 2008

“Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Augmentation as a Category of Musical Time Transformation”

Michael Tenzer, Professor of Ethnomusicology, UBC

Friday, October 17, 2008

“Why Do Jazz Musicians Swing their Eighth-Notes?”

Matthew Butterfield, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Franklin and Marshall

Monday, October 20, 2008

"For Better or for Worse: The Business of Musical Instruments"

Robert Bigio (London, UK), Dr. Bigio, a UBC alumnus who wenton to complete a PhD at the University of London, is a musicologist andflute maker who has recently completed a book on the history of theflute in England.

1:30 pm, Music Library Seminar Room (*note the special day and time*)

Thursday, October 30, 2008

“Multimedia Performance as Interpretation”

Paul Steinbeck, UBC Postdoctoral Fellow

Friday, October 31, 2008

“The Performance of Medieval Epics: Notes form the Workshop of a Reconstructed Singer of Tales”

Benjamin Bagby, Scholar and Vocalist

3:30 pm, Gessler Hall (*note the change of location*)

Friday, November 14, 2008

“Deconstructing Ensemble”

Linda Kaastra, UBC PhD, Interdiscipinary Studies


Friday, November 21, 2008

"An Iron Cage for Culture? Traditional Music between Exploitation and Regulation"

Marc Perlman, Associate Professor of Music, Brown University

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