My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery—always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
Virginia Woolf
F U T U R E P R O G R A M S
2011 STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE
A special two-day retreat in celebration of ten years of the Institute devoted to critical reflection upon the state of music scholarship, for former faculty members and special guests of the Institute only, limited to thirty distinguished scholars.
"Being a Decennial Convocation of sage and learned Professors of the Musical Arts, deliberating gravely and scrupulously on the Merits and Demerits of our Venerable Profession, dissecting and examining its most minute Entrails, assessing its Past and prognosticating its Future, comparing and balancing their various divers Opinions, and upon uniting in a conscientious Verdict, announcing it oracularly for the Benefit of the waiting World."
Faculty: Kofi Agawu, Thomas Christensen, Henry Klumpenhouwer, Patrick McCreless
Plenary Speaker: Wayne Alpern Location: Mannes College of Music
OTHER FUTURE TOPICS MAY INCLUDE:
Music and the Social
Music Plus: Rethinking the "Extramusical"
Music Pedagogy
Music, Math, and Computation
Music, Narrativity, and Meaning
Sketch Study and the Creative Process
European Music Theory
Gender Studies
Detailed proposals in Music Theory, Historical Musicology, and Ethnomusicology are welcome.
The Institute is eager to serve ALL of these academic musical communities.
P A S T P R O G R A M S
AESTHETICS
COGNITION
JAZZ & POP
SCHOENBERG
CHROMATICISM
RHYTHM
FORM
TRANSFORMATION
SCHENKER
HISTORY OF THEORY
2010 AESTHETICS
Faculty: Berthold Hoeckner and Alex Rehding (co-chairs), Daniel Chua, Fred Maus, Susan McClary, Steven Rings, Martin Scherzinger Special Guest: Lawrence Kramer Location: University of Chicago
2009 COGNITION
Faculty: David Huron and Lawrence Zbikowski (co-chairs), Eric Clarke, Robert Gjerdingen, Fred Lerdahl, Elizabeth Marvin Special Guest: Eugene Narmour Location: Mannes College of Music
2008 JAZZ & POP
Faculty: Henry Martin and Walter Everett (co-chairs), Lori Burns, John Covach, Cynthia Folio, Steve Larson Special Guests: Lewis Porter, Albin Zak, Harold Danko, Joyce McDonough Location: Eastman School of Music
2007 SCHOENBERG
Faculty: Severine Neff and Andrew Mead (co-chairs), Brian Alegant, Michael Cherlin, Walter Frisch, Ethan Haimo Special Guests: Allen Forte, Therese Muexeneder, Da Capo Chamber Players with Lucy Shelton, Noam Sivan Location: Mannes College of Music
2006 CHROMATICISM
Faculty: Patrick McCreless and Daniel Harrison (co-chairs), David Kopp, Richard Kramer, Charles Smith, Deborah Stein Special Guest: Gregory Proctor Location: Yale University
2005 RHYTHM
Faculty: Harald Krebs and Justin London (co-chairs), Kofi Agawu, David Cohen, Christopher Hasty, Pieter van den Toorn Special Guest: Steve Reich Location: Mannes College of Music
2004 FORM
Faculty: William Caplin and Janet Schmalfeldt (co-chairs), Jonathan Bernard, Scott Burnham, Robert Morgan, Warren Darcy, James Hepokoski Special Guest: Charles Rosen Location: Mannes College of Music
2003 TRANSFORMATION
Faculty: Richard Cohn and Joseph Straus (co-chairs), Edward Gollin, Henry Klumpenhouwer, Robert Morris, John Roeder Special Guests: Milton Babbitt and June Lewin Location: Mannes College of Music
2002 SCHENKER
Faculty: William Rothstein and Frank Samarotto (co-chairs), Matthew Brown, Charles Burkhart, Nicholas Cook, Robert Snarrenberg, with David Gagne and Hedi Siegel Special Guest: Carl Schachter Location: Mannes College of Music
2001 HISTORY OF THEORY
Faculty: Thomas Christensen and Joel Lester (co-chairs), Ian Bent, Sarah Fuller, Cristle Collins Judd, Thomas Mathiesen Special Guest: Bob Kerrey Location: Mannes College of Music
