Guest Lecture Series
All lectures will be held in WLH Room 207 at 4:30 pm unless otherwise noted.
Fall 2007
20 September
Karol Berger (Stanford)
L'Orfeo, or the Anxiety of the Moderns
9 October
Anne Walters Robertson (Chicago)
4 pm: The Earliest Christ-Mass and the Beginnings of the Cyclic Mass in
Western Europe
18 October
Aniruddh Patel (Neurosciences Institute)
Rhythm and Melody in Music and Language: Empirical Comparisons
29 November
Gregory Barnett (Rice)
Giovanni Maria Bononcini and the Uses of Modal Theory
Spring 2008
21 February
Kyle Gann (Bard)
2:30 PM, WLH 207 (note time)
28 February
Martin Scherzinger (Eastman)
Ambiguities of Harmony and Rhythm in an African Music
3 April
Kim Kowalke (Rochester)
Attending the Tale of Sweeney Todd: Demons of Genre, Medium,
`Text,' and Style
17 April
David Levin (Chicago)
E-Elektra: A Seminar on Opera/Presence/Mediation
