Events

Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Workshop, "Attention, Cognition, and the Auditory Self, 1770–1920"

Focusing on the ‘long’ nineteenth century (roughly 1770-1920), this symposium considers historical theories of auditory perception and cognition, intersections between the sonic and ‘neural’ sciences, and overlaps among scientific and aesthetic modes of attending. 

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Room 416-419

Workshop, Current Work in the History of Theory CANCELLED

A workshop on current work in the history of theory, featuring Prof. Poundie Burstein (CUNY Graduate Center), Prof. Thomas Christensen (U Chicago), Dr. Martin Küster (Berlin), and others.

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Guest Lecture, Prof. Ellie Hisama (Columbia University) CANCELLED

“A Complex Dissonant Veil of Sound”: Influence and Independence in Ruth Crawford’s Chants for Women’s Chorus (1930)

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Jean-Philippe Rameau Study Day II

Featuring Prof. Thomas Christensen (U Chicago), Alexander Jacobidze-Gitman (Uni Witten), and others

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Carmel Raz

Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik 416-419

Guest Lecture: Dr. Leon Chisholm (MPIWG)

"Nicola Vicentino's archicembali and the keyboarding of the ars perfecta"

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Room 416-419

Histories of Musical and Poetic Meter

Bringing empirical approaches together with historicist and analytical work, the second meeting of the "Histories of Modern Rhythmic Theory" working group will cultivate new critical and comparative perspectives on historical rhythmic and metric theory. 

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Workshop on Aesthetics led by Prof. Alex Wragge-Morley and Prof. Cécile Bishop

One-day workshop on aesthetics featuring Prof. Alex Wragge-Morley (NYU) and Prof. Cécile Bishop (NYU)

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Histories of Rhythmic Theories, 1600-present

The inaugural meeting of the working group on histories of rhythmic theory convened by Rick Cohn (Yale University), Roger Grant (Wesleyan University), and Carmel Raz (MPIEA). Additional participants include David E. Cohen (MPIEA), Michael Graf Münster (Kantorei St. Katharinen, Frankfurt), Martin Küster (Independent scholar), Justin London (Carleton College), Marc Perlman (Brown University), Bill Rothstein (CUNY Graduate Center), and Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann (MPIEA).

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Jean-Philippe Rameau Study Day I

Featuring talks by David E. Cohen, Lea Fink, Nathan Martin, and Roberta Vidic, with special guest Ludwig Holtmeier.

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Colloquium: Nathan Martin, “Two Interesting Examples from Rameau’s Code de musique pratique”

Rameau’s final treatise, the Code de musique pratique (1760), represents, in Erwin Jacobi’s phrase, a summa of the composer’s music-theoretical accomplishments. Yet the Code has attracted far less attention from historians of theory than Rameau’s earlier writings...

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Guest Seminar: Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Code de musique pratique (1760)

This seminar will provide an occasion to reflect on the relationship between Rameau’s practical and speculative theorizing (and about that between Geschichte der Musiktheorie and historische Satzlehre more generally), on the evolution of Rameau’s harmonic theory between 1722 and 1760 ...

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Future Histories of Music Theory

A two-day workshop on current trends and future directions in the history of music theory. Participants include: David E. Cohen (MPIEA), Roger Grant (Wesleyan University), Andrew Hicks (Cornell University), Nathan Martin (University of Michigan), Caleb Mutch (Indiana University), Carmel Raz (MPIEA), Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann (MPIEA) and Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University).

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