Musicology Lecture Series Includes Exploration of Melody, Memory and Modulatio
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 29, 2016) — The University of Kentucky Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology has announced its lectures and colloquiums for the fall semester. The events will bring several scholars in the fields to the UK School of Music for multiple free presentations that are open to the public.
Five lectures are being presented this fall by the division. Next up is the Rey M. Longyear Lecture titled “Melody, Memory, and Modulatio — the Genesis of Notker’s 'Liber ymnorum.'” The talk will be presented by Calvin Bower, professor emeritus of musicology at University of Notre Dame, at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, in the Niles Gallery of the Lucille C. Little Fine Arts Library and Learning Center.
This fall's other scholars, topics and scheduled lecture dates are as follows:
· Guest Lecture - “Dispersed Harmonies: Sacred Harp's Racial Geographies and Folklore Genealogies” presented by Jesse Karlsberg, Post-doctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities Publishing at Emory University Center for Digital Scholarship, 3:30 Friday, Oct. 14;
· Year of South Asia Guest Speaker - Anna Morcom, professor of music at University of London and author of "Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance: Culture of Exclusion," 3:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7; and
· Rey M. Longyear Lecture - "Beauty and the Barber: Pauline Viardot, Performance, Transformation,” presented by Hilary Poriss, associate professor of music history at Northeastern University, 3:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2.
All of the lectures will be presented in the Niles Gallery, located in the Little Fine Arts Library. The series began with the FOCUS Guest Lecture with Michael Yonchak, an assistant professor of music at Otterbein University. Yonchak presented his lecture "We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: Landing Zappa's 'Yellow Shark'" on Sept. 23.
In addition to lectures, the UK Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology is presenting two colloquiums. "Colloquium: Introduction to IRB" will be presented by Belinda Smith, research education specialist with the UK Office of Research Integrity, at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, in the Niles Gallery of the Little Fine Arts Library. A previous colloquium on pedagogy with Erin Bliss, world music lecturer at UK, was held earlier this month.
The UK Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology's guest lecture series is made possible by endowments established by former UK Professor of Musicology Rey M. Longyear and his wife Katie, and by UK Emeritus Professor of Physics Keith MacAdam.
The UK School of Music at the UK College of Fine Arts has garnered a national reputation for high-caliber education in opera, choral and instrumental music performance, as well as music education, composition, and theory and music history.
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