Music Forum is weekly lecture series devoted to scholarly research presentations, conference previews, and professional development workshops in music theory, musicology, technology, and education. The presentations are made by LSU faculty, graduate students, and invited guest scholars from all over the U.S. The Music Forum is founded and directed by Dr. Inessa Bazayev, and, since its inception in Spring 2010, it had over thirty events.
Spring Schedule
Friday, January 27, 2012
Guest Scholar- Dr. Valerie Goertzen (Loyola University)
"In the Voice of the Piano: An Editor's View of Brahm's Arrangement"
Friday, February 3, 2012
Conference Paper Previews
Tim Saeed, "A Theoretical Application of Mathis Lussy's Tripartite Classifications of "Accent" in Chopin's Nocturn in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2"
Jonathan Mitchell, "Chopin's Dysfunctional Transitions"
Friday, February 17, 2012
SCSMT Previews
Dr. Jeff Perry, "Powell's Events for Tape Recorder: On the Analysis of Electro-Acoustic Music"
Dr. Inessa Bazayev, "Russian Folk Ding as a Determinant of Meter, Phrase Structure, and Text Setting in the Works of Stravinsky"
Thursday, March 1, 2012 (3:00-4:30pm, Recital Hall)
Beethoven's Archduke Lecture Recital
Performed By Michael Gurt, Espen Lilleslatten, and Dennis Parker
A lecture by Dr. David Smyth
Friday, March 2, 2012
Mr. Michael Gurt, Performance Demonstration
Friday, March 9, 2012
Dr. Blake Howe, "Helen van Dongen and the 'Noise-Music' of Oil Drilling in
Louisiana Story (1948)"
Friday, March 23, 2012
Guest Speaker- Matthew Burtner, "Agents Against Agency"
Thursday, March 29, 2012 to Friday, March 30, 2012
Two-Day Scholar-in-Residence with Dr. Peter Burkholder (Indiana University)
[All events in MDA 249]
Thursday at 4:00pm:Lecture to the Graduate Students: "Stylistic Heterogeneity and Topics in the Music of Charles Ives"
Friday at 10:40-11:30am: Undergraduate Lecture: "Expressionism and Arnold Schoenberg's Dodecaphony"
Friday at 2:00pm: Public Lecture (Music Forum): "Musical Borrowing or Curious Coincidence?: Testing the Evidence"
Friday, April 20, 2012
Dr. Andreas Giger, "The Original Scenario of Verdi's
I due Foscari"
Friday, April 27, 2012
Dr. Brett Boutwell, "The Music of Terry Jennings"
Friday, May 4, 2012
Student Workshop on Internships and Fellowships
Megan Murph, Tim Love, Jamie Kurumaji
Past Events
Friday, November 4, 2011
Interview Workshop with Drs. Bazayev and Bartolome
Friday, November 18, 2011
Dr. Blake Howe, "Helen van Dongen and the 'Noise-Music' of Oil Drilling in Louisiana Story (1948)"
Friday, September 9
CV Workshop with Drs. Bazayev, Bartolome, and Campbell
Friday September 16
Conference proposal writing workshop with music theory faculty
Friday September 23
Guest Lecture:
Dr. Chris Goertzen, "Texas Contest Fiddling: What Modern Variation Technique Tells Us"
Thursday September 29
Guest Lecture:
Dr. Bill Rothstein, "The Finale to Act 2 of Bellini's
Norma: A Musico-Dramatic Analysis"
Friday, October 7
Dr. Robert Peck, "Transformational Voice Exchange"
Friday, October 21
Dr. Andreas Giger, "A New Partially Autograph Source of I due Foscari and Its Significance for Verdi's Early Career"
