Member Activities

Mutch presents “Enter the Prechorus: Producing Intensification in Two Recent Taylor Swift Songs”

At the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Musik Theory in Jacksonville, Florida

Raz presents “‘Ossianic Sounds’: Berlioz’s Aeolian Imagination”

at the  “Pouvoirs de l’imagination. Approches historiques” workshop at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale Paris 

Raz presents “The Distracted Keyboard Player”

at the “Extremes of Attention and Distraction” Workshop at the Warburg Institute, London 

Raz presents “Towards ‘Global’ Histories of Music Theorizing”

at the 2023 Annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Saarbrücken 

David E. Cohen Presents "'The First Foundations of Song': The Concept of the Note as the Element of Music"

at the "Early Music Pedagogy Then and Now: From the Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance" Conference, Brescia, Italy

Raz and Cohen present "Attending to Attention in Descartes’s Musicae Compendium (1618 / 1650)"

at the 2022 Joint Annual Meeting of the American Society of Musicology, the Society for Music Theory, and the Society for Ethnomusicology in New Orleans

Raz presents “‘Our Nurses Tunes’: John Holden and Scottish Psalmody”

at the Nineteenth Century Song Club Workshop, London

Carmel Raz Presents "Anne Young's Musical Games"

at the New Instruments for Music TheorY virtual workshop organized by Danny Walden (Durham University)

Carmel Raz presents "Blinded by 'Nature': Walter Young’s Essay on Rythmical Measures (1790)"

at the University of Glasgow Music Department's research colloquium.

David E. Cohen presents "The Property of “Saturation”: Integrated and Non-Integrated Pitch Spaces and Musica Ficta"

at the 21. Jahreskongress der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH) in Basel, Switzerland

Carmel Raz Presents "Attending to Attention in Descartes's 'Musicae Compendium' (1618 / 1650)"

as part of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance's music theory colloquium.

David E. Cohen presents "Marsilio Ficino and Italian Renaissance Music Theory"

at the Renaissance Society of America's 2021 annual conference

Carmel Raz presents "Hector Berlioz's Neurophysiological Imagination"

at the Musicology Colloquium at Tel-Aviv University.

David E. Cohen presents “… acutum latet propter velocitatem”: Gaffurio’s Acoustical Explanation of Quasi-Consonant Fourths"

International conference, "Music and Science from Leonardo to Galileo," Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca, Italy

Carmel Raz presents "Blinded by 'Nature': Walter Young’s Essay on Rythmical Measures (1790)"

at the Society for Music Theory's 43rd Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, 5-8 November 2020 

Carmel Raz presents at Eastman Graduate Forum

"Attending to Attention in Descartes’s Musicae Compendium (1618 / 1650)"

David E. Cohen presents “Similitude and Its Vicissitudes:  Kircher and Zarlino on Music and the Affections"

at the workshop "Music – Bodies – Emotions: Early Modern Perspectives,” Cambridge University.

David E. Cohen presents “In Which it is Evident that Perception is Always Deceived”: Pythagorean Rationality and Descartes’ “Clear and Distinct Ideas”

at the 7th Biennial Conference of the Royal Music Association's Music and Philosophy Study Group, Strand Campus, King’s College London

David E. Cohen presents “‘A Body Composed of Many Parts’: The Concept of Harmony in Leonardo da Vinci’s Paragone”

at the conference, "Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy," Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield. 

Carmel Raz interviewed on BBC Radio 3's Music Matters program

as part of a feature recorded in Glasgow on eighteenth-century Scottish music theory.

David E. Cohen serves on the Society for Music Theory's Program Committee for the Fall 2019 Annual Meeting

The committee worked throughout February and March, and met in Cleveland, Ohio, the site of next year's conference, in early April.

Carmel Raz presents “Walter Young's Essay on Rythmical Measures (1790)”

at the workshop on "Histories of Musical and Poetic Meter, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt.

David E. Cohen leads seminar, “Aristotle, Aristoxenus, and St. Augustine on Time and the Science of Rhythmics”

at the workshop on "Histories of Musical and Poetic Meter, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt. 

Carmel Raz interviewed on BBC Radio 3's Music Matters program

as part of a feature marking the 150th anniversary of the death of Hector Berlioz.

David E. Cohen presents “Some Points Regarding the History of ‘Accent,’” 

at the workshop on “Histories of Rhythmic Theories, 1600-present,”  Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt.

Carmel Raz presents “Music of the Squares: David Ramsay Hay and the Psychology of Pythagorean Aesthetics,”

as part of a special session on “Unity, Geometry, and Aesthetics: Revivals of Pythagoreanism in 18th- and 19th-Century Music Theory,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, San Antonio

David E. Cohen presents “‘The Source of All Intervals’: Rameau’s Pythagorean Octave and the Basis of Harmonic Analysis”

as part of a special session on “Unity, Geometry, and Aesthetics: Revivals of Pythagoreanism in 18th- and 19th-Century Music Theory,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, San Antonio. 

Carmel Raz presents “Hector Berlioz's Neurophysiological Imagination”

Colloquium Series,  Music Department and Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast.

David E. Cohen presents “Pythagorean Rationality and Descartes’ ‘Clear and Distinct Ideas’”

at the AMS Northeast Chapter Meeting, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic. 

Carmel Raz presents “Hector Berlioz's Neurophysiological Imagination”

Colloquium Series, University of British Columbia Music Department, Vancouver. 

Carmel Raz presents “How the Sheng became a Harp”

at the workshop on “Sound Objects in Flux,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

Carmel Raz presents “Listening and Attention in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Music Theory”

at the workshop on “Future Histories of Music Theory,” Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt. 

David E. Cohen presents “‘The First Foundations of Song’: The Concept of the Note as the Element of Music”

at the workshop on “Future Histories of Music Theory,” Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt.  

Carmel Raz presents “How the Sheng became a Harp”

at the workshop on “Sound Objects in Transnational Contexts,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.