Current News and Events
Welcome Reception
Reminder: Saturday, September 8th, 2007
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
All faculty, students, and staff of the Department of Music, together with their significant others, are invited to our gathering to celebrate the beginning of the new academic year.
Fall 2007 Announcements
Music Theory Placement Test – 9/3
Monday, September 3rd, 3:00 PM in WLH 119.
Make-up test on Tuesday, September 4th, 10:30 AM in WLH 119.
Academic Fair – 9/4
Tuesday, September 4th, 2:00 PM in WLH 210.
Department of Music faculty and staff will be available to meet with students.
DUS Academic Advising – 9/12 through 9/19
The DUS Fall 2007 advising hours are available here.
All Fall 2007 Auditions – 9/5 through 9/12
The Fall 2007 audition dates and times are available here.
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 ab 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."
Richard Lalli was awarded Yale University's 2007 Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.
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.” Professor Rosand is the newly appointed George A. Saden Professor of Music.
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.
