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Which way to the AMS Convention?

The American Musicological Society held its Annual Meeting in Quebec City November 1–4. Several of our grad students and faculty were in attendance and, in between sessions, had time to catch up with alumni and friends of the Department of Music. Many thanks to grad students Brandi Neal and Chris Ruth, and Professor Mary Lewis for the many excellent photos.

Colloquium: Melina Esse, Eastman School of Music

132 Music Building, free Reception to follow

Colloquium: David Rothenberg, Assistant Professor of Music at Case Western

132 Music Building, free Reception to foll0w "A Maiden, a Shepherdess, and a Queen: The Parisian Assumption Vespers Services and Two Thirteenth-Century Motets"

Colloquium: Benjamin Breuer, University of Pittsburgh doctoral candidate

The Birth of Musicology Out of the Spirit of Biology: Guido Adler’s Methodological Commitments Viewed Through the Spectacles of 19th-Century Evolutionary Theories 132 Music Building, free Reception to follow Guido Adler’s proposition for a musicological method in the famous article “Umfang, Methode, und Ziel der Musikwissenschaft” (1885) amounts to the first clear definition of the type of German/Austrian academic music research—the “science of music”—that has left an imprint on our own research habits. In the creation of what was then virtually a new academic field, he drew on art history, contemporary philosophy, older music research traditions, and many other sources. For the establishment of his envisioned discipline as a science, the impact of a heretofore less-acknowledged model seems crucial: the evolutionary theories extant in 1870s Germany and Austria.

Bach and Baroque Series Finale: J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio: Sold Out

Bach and the Baroque Series Finale Don Franklin, director

J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio Heinz Chapel Presented in collaboration with the Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh. For tickets, visit www.rbsp.org or call (412) 361-2048