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Graduate-Student News
Rebecca Cypess presented papers at the annual meetings of the Society
for Seventeenth-Century Music and the American Musical Instrument Society in 2007, and
she published articles in the Galpin Society Journal and Early Music. In
the spring of 2008 she will be speaking at the conference of the Renaissance
Society of America, and on April 10 she will perform on a 17th-century Italian
spinet in a concert at Yale's Collection of Musical Instruments, with baroque
violinist Rebecca Tinio.
Faculty News
Kathryn Alexander is a 2007-08 winner of the Aaron Copland Award, for which she will reside as composer-in-residence at The Copland House in Cortlandt Manor, New York. Her latest piano trio, AroundAbout, was premiered by the Williams Chamber Players at Williams College on April 13th, 2007, where she was a guest composer. During Winter/Spring 2007 she held a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
David Clampitt was a guest editor for second issue of the Journal of Mathematics and Music, and contributed an introductory editorial, "The Legacy of John Clough in Mathematical Music Theory." In May he gave the keynote address at the first conference of the Society for Mathematics and Computing in Berlin and in June lectured on Beethoven Op. 59, #1 at Colgate University. This September he will present two papers at the WORDS2007 Conference in Marseille: "Notes on Chords in Christoffel Words" and What Sturmian Morphisms reveal about Musical Scales and Tonality."
James Hepokoski has published “Gaudery, Romance, and the ‘Welsh’ Tune: Introduction and Allegro, Op. 47,” in Elgar Studies, ed. Julian Rushton and Paul Harper-Scott (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Hepokoski was also one of three international scholars invited to present a position-paper and participate in a round-table discussion on “Formenlehre: Current Theories of Musical Form,” held as a special plenary session at the VII. Jahreskongress der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, Freiburg, Germany, 11-14 October 2007. In Freiburg Hepokoski spoke on “Sonata Theory and Dialogic Form.” On 6 November he was an invited speaker in Paris at the Colloque international Jean Sibelius: Modalite, langage, esthétique on the topic of “Building a First Symphony: Modalities of National Identity.” And on 21 November, as part of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Baltimore, he and Warren Darcy directed a three-hour interactive workshop on Sonata Theory for fifteen graduate students selected from across the country. The workshop was one of two offerings in Baltimore of the still-new “Society for Music Theory Graduate Student Workshop Program,” modeled after The Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory.
Gundula Kreuzer co-organized a symposium entitled “Opera's Multiple Transitions” at the 18th International Congress of the International Musicological Society (Zurich, July 2007), at which she also presented a paper on “Wagnerdampf: Steam and Visual Transition in Wagner's Ring.” In August she participated in an interdisciplinary conference on “Art and Destruction” at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, and she was on the jury for the first International Award for Music Theatre Studies, sponsored by the Institute for Music Theatre Research in Thurnau, Bayreuth.
Richard Lalli was awarded Yale University's 2007 Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities. He has recently been named Artistic Director of the the Yale Baroque Opera Project, which is funded by the Mellon Foundation and will introduce undergraduates to aesthetic, stylistic and performative aspects of seventeenth-century Italian opera.
Judith Malafronte was invited to give master classes for voice teachers and advanced singers in China. For a week in July she spent several days in Shaanxi Province, working with singers at Xian Conservatory. and participating in panel discussions with officials and professors at Xian Peihua University.
Patrick McCreless gave the keynote talk at the annual conference of the New England Society of Music Theorists at Tufts University in March of 2007. He also presented four lectures on Wagner's Ring at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in May, in preparation for the Ring cycle of the Kirov Opera that took place at the Met in July. In February of 2008 he will be the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory, at the Maastricht Conservatory in the Netherlands.
Ian Quinn will be a Residential Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford in 2008-09, where he will work on a book tentatively called Studies in the Cognitive History of Tonality: Musical Syntax in Theory and Practice. The book will examine selected harmony treatises from the last 400 years in search of both a historical understanding of harmonic cognition and a cognitive understanding of the history of music theory. He is a founding member of the editorial board of the Journal of Mathematics and Music, which will launch in 2006-07.
Ellen Rosand was awarded the prestigious Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In announcing the award, the Mellon Foundation underscored Rosand’s influence in the field of musicology, crediting her with opening “important new ways of understanding 17th-century music and opera. Her monumental studies of the Venetian opera have arguably reshaped the entire subject. Rosand’s scholarship combines deep investigation of the archival evidence with innovative examination of opera’s literary content and its dramatic and musical conventions and is a model of clarity and integrity.”
Michael Veal's new book, "Dub: Soundscapes and Studio Craft in Jamaican Reggae" was released in Spring, 2007 by Wesleyan University Press.
Sarah's Weiss's new book, "Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender and the Music of Wayang in Central Java," was released in Fall, 2006 by KITLV Press.
