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. 

This workshop, convened by Thomas Christensen, Lester Hu, Nathan Martin, and Carmel Raz, will be held on Zoom on June 17, 2021 at 12:00-15:00 EDT. It aims to embrace a multitude of world perspectives on the discipline of music theory, its conception, and its practice.

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.

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. 

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).