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Musicology Colloquium events take place on Mondays at 4:15 PM in 124 Lincoln Hall, except where noted. All meetings are open to the public.

February 

Feb 11: Perspectives on Musical Gifts:
Rachel Lewis, Cornell University: "Violent Gifts: Music, Exile, and the Case of the Lesbian Asylum-Seeker in 'Unveiled'"
Emily H. Green, Cornell University: "Given Music: Reexamining the Public Act of Dedication"

Feb 18: Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Syracuse University
"'Armida's Picture We from Tasso Drew'?: Versions of the Rinaldo & Armida Story in Late 17th- and Early 18th-Century Operatic Entertainments" 

Feb 25: Lawrence Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania
Postponed to fall.

Mar 3: Stefanio Neonato, Cornell University D.M.A. lecture-demonstration
"A Mere Mechanicus: Technical Innovations and Aesthetic Shifts in Piano Virtuosity at the Turn of the 19th Century" [Barnes Hall] 

Mar 10: Donald J. Grout Lecture:
Mary Hunter, Bowdoin College
"Historically Informed Performance and Opera" 

Mar 24: Annette Richards, Cornell University
"Herder and Song" 

Mar 31: Brett Boutwell, Cornell University
"Postwar Scientism and Feldman's Anxiety"

April 

Apr 7: Scott Deveaux, University of Virginia
"Race, Mental Health, and the Analysis of Jazz" 

Apr 14: Rob Wegman, Princeton University
"''Tis not so sweet now, as it was before': Origins and Significance of a Musical Topos" 

Apr 21: Paul Berliner, Duke University
"Thinking in Mbira" 

Apr 28: Philomela Lecture:
Kofi Agawu, Harvard University
"Iconicity in African Musical Thought and Expression"