uky.eduGuest Speakers in Musicology
Each year the Department of Musicology brings in a number of distinguished guest speakers. This page lists speakers from recent years. For the current year, please see the Musicology Lectures and Colloquia calendar.
Guest Speakers for the 2008-2009 Academic Year
October 31, 2008
Robert Winter (UCLA)
Operas, Symphonies, Concertos: Mozart Piano Concertos in Context
December 05, 2008
Mary Ann Smart (University of California - Berkeley)
The music and culture of the Parisian salon c. 1835
March 06, 2009
Dale Cockrell (Vanderbilt University)
This is My Story, This is My Song
April 03, 2009
Francesco Izzo (University of Southhampton and University of Chicago)
Of Texts and Other Demons: An Opéra Comique Goes to Italy
Valeria Luca (Princeton University)
The Story of a Seventeenth-Century Libretto: Giovanni Filippo Apolloni’s Alcasta between Rome, Vienna and Venice
April 17, 2009
Jessie Ann Owens (University of California - Davis)
You Can Tell a Book by its Cover: Reflections on Format in Early Modern Music Treatises
Guest Speakers for the 2007-2008 Academic Year
Friday, October 19, 2007
Margaret Murata (University of California, Irvine)
Friday, January 25, 2008
Tom Riis (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Behind the Scenes with Frank Loesser: The Business of Broadway in the Golden Age
Friday, February 8, 2008
Kyle Gann (Bard College)
Updating Burney: Charting Post-mainstream Music
Friday, March 28, 2008
Steven Huebner (McGill University)
Ravel's Politics
Guest Speakers for the 2006-2007 Academic Year
September 22, 2006
Dr. Diana Hallman (University of Kentucky)
Nationalism, Franco-British Politics, and Halévy’s Charles VI (1843)
September 29, 2006
Chan E. Park (Ohio State University)
Korean Traditional Music Today: P’ansori. (Co-sponsored by the Korea Society and the U.K. Asia Center).
October 13, 2006
Ron Pen (Niles Center for American Music)
Song of the Rails
October 20, 2006
Rey M. Longyear Lecture:
Jeffrey Kurtzman (Washington University, St. Louis)
Monteverdi as Dramatic Psychologist: The Psychic and Musical Disintegration of Orfeo.
November 17, 2006
K.H. Han (UK Visiting Professor of Ethnomusicology)
Morning of the World: The Life and Arts in Bali.
Sponsored by the Asia Center and the School of Music Division of Musicology.
February 09, 2007
Dale Olsen (Florida State University)
Music and Shamanistic Healing among the Warao Indians of the Venezuelan Rainforest.
March 23, 2007
Terry Miller (Kent State University)
Ballroom Dance and the Development of Popular Music in Southeast Asia. Sponsored jointly by the Musicology Division and the Asia Center.
March 30, 2007
Deane Root (University of Pittsburgh)
Deane Root is director of the Stephen Foster Memorial in Pittsburgh. This is a complement to the Musicology Seminar in Spring 2007 on Stephen Foster.
April 27, 2007
Rey M. Longyear Lecture:
Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University)
Becoming Significant Others: Thoughts on Collaboration Across Music Disciplines, in the Field, and in the Community.
Guest Speakers for the 2005-2006 Academic Year
September 30, 2005
Stephen M. Wrinn (University Press of Kentucky)
October 14, 2005
Rey M. Longyear Lecture:
Wye J. (Wendy) Allanbrook (University of California - Berkeley)
Flux and Felicity: 'Classic' Instrumental Music Reconsidered.
November 18, 2005
Kathryn Lowerre (Michigan State University)
Stalking Fabulous Beasts: English Dramatick Opera and Musical Tragedies c. 1700.
January 27, 2006
Rey M. Longyear Lecture:
William Prizer (University of California - Santa Barbara)
Cardinals and Courtesans: Secular Music in Rome, 1500-1520.
February 24, 2006
Rey M. Longyear Lecture:
Thomas Brothers (Duke University)
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans.
March 24, 2006
Alan Thrasher (University of British Columbia)
The Organology of Chinese Musical Instruments.
March 31, 2006
Rey M. Longyear Lecture:
Alan Jabbour (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
Dancing and Marching: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
April 21, 2006
Mark Pottinger (Manhattan College)
French Grand Opera and the Art of History.
Guest Speakers for the 2004-2005 Academic Year
October 15, 2004
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet (Duke University)
Rossini’s Parisian Debut at the Opéra
November 9, 2004
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Juan Pablo Gonzalez (Universidad Católica de Chile)
The Making of a Social History of Popular Music in Chile (1890-1950)
November 19, 2004
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Sheila Kay Adams (Mars Hill, North Carolina),
Come Go Home with Me
February 25, 2005
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Pauline Oliveros (Deep Listening Foundation; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Lecture - Performance
March 4, 2005
Mike Seeger
Lecture/Performance
March 7, 2005
Anne Prescott (Indiana University),
Japanese Koto and its Music
Guest Speakers for the 2003-2004 Academic Year
October 10, 2003
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Ellen Rosand (Yale University),
The Author of Monteverdi’s Late Operas
October 31, 2003
Neil Lerner (Davidson College),
The Horrors of the Left Hand: Music and Other Disabilities in The Beast with Five Fingers (1947)
November 21, 2003
Wendy Heller (Princeton University),
Poppea’s Legacy: The Julio-Claudians on the Venetian Stage
February 13, 2004
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Susan Cook (University of Wisconsin-Madison),
Watch Your Step!: The Music, Movement and Mores of Ragtime Culture
April 2, 2004
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Tim Carter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill),
Music and Meaning in Poppea: A New Approach
April 23, 2004
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Vivian Perlis (Yale University),
Preserving the Voices of History: Ives and Copland
Guest Speakers for the 2002-2003 Academic Year
September 20, 2002
A Visit with New York Times Critic Anthony Tommasini
October 16, 2002
Jürgen Schebera
Kurt Weill’s Concept of ‘Musical Theatre’ from Germany to the U.S.
November 15, 2002
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Richard Crawford (University of Michigan):
A Foggy Day: Problems in Gershwin Biography
December 6, 2002
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Martin Marks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
Classical Music in Films of the Forties: The Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of
January 24, 2003
Louise Stein (University of Michigan):
Powerful Patrons, Seductive Songs: The Political Work of Opera in Two Worlds
April 9, 2003
Jeff Todd Titon (Brown University):
Imagined Musical Communities: Ole Bull Meets Old-Time Kentucky Fiddlers in 1868
April 11, 2003
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Richard Crocker (University of California, Berkeley):
Singing Chant
April 25, 2003
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Philip Gossett (University of Chicago):
Mare or Monti: Two Summer Festivals