“How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)”
Ross Duffin, Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve
“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]
“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]
“How to Build a Groove: Meter as Process in Pop Song Introductions”
Robin Attas, UBC PhD candidate in music theory
“For Life and for Play: Performing Narrative in Hani Song”
Gloria Wong, UBC PhD candidate in ethnomusicology
“Charting Pierre Boulez’s Memoriale (...explosante-fixe... Originel) [1985]”
Jonathan Goldman, University of Victoria
“Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes”
Bob Silverman, UBC Professor Emeritus
3:30 pm, Gessler Hall (*note the change of location*)
“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
“ 'Instrumente Mangel' — The Cantata Movements with Obbligato Organ as a Reflection of Bach's
Performing Forces”
Greg Butler, Professor of Music, UBC
“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*)
“Everyday Extraordinary: Living with New Music in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany”
David Gramit, Professor of Musicology, University of Alberta
“ ‘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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"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
“Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Augmentation as a Category of Musical Time Transformation”
Michael Tenzer, Professor of Ethnomusicology, UBC
“Why Do Jazz Musicians Swing their Eighth-Notes?”
Matthew Butterfield, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Franklin and Marshall
"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*)
“Multimedia Performance as Interpretation”
Paul Steinbeck, UBC Postdoctoral Fellow
“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*)
“Deconstructing Ensemble”
Linda Kaastra, UBC PhD, Interdiscipinary Studies
"An Iron Cage for Culture? Traditional Music between Exploitation and Regulation"
Marc Perlman, Associate Professor of Music, Brown University
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