[Historyoftheory] upcoming History of Theory events!

[Andrew Hicks]

Dear colleagues,

The AMS History of Theory Study Group (initiative) and SMT Interest Group
<https://historyofmusictheory.wordpress.com/> are delighted to announce
that we will host a pre-AMS mini-conference, *November 8-9, 2017*, at the
Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY). The conference, on the broad theme
"Instruments of Music Theory," will feature keynote speakers Alexander
Rehding (Harvard University) and Gabriela Currie (University of Minnesota),
a concert by David Catalunya (University of Würzburg) on a newly
reconstructed clavisimbalum (with music from the Faenza Codex and other
recently discovered manuscript fragments), and an organological workshop on
the sensorial perception of music-theoretical precepts featuring (inter
alia) reconstructed Pythagorean bells. We will circulate a call for papers
at the end of February and will accept proposals through the end of April.
Save the dates and stay tuned for more.

For those in the New York City area next week, Carmel Raz and Lan Li have
organized an exciting conference on Global Perspectives in Histories of
Music Theory, at The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University,
*Monday, **February 20, 2017, 1pm-8pm*. This conference brings together
music scholars and historians of science to develop new insights into
global histories of music theory. Together, the participants investigate
convergences and divergences across time and place. With talks on subjects
including tuning theories in ancient China and court music in
fifteenth-century Korea, this event explores how complex concepts in
mathematics, cosmology, and artisanal practice arose in response to similar
concerns around classifying pitches, modes, and instruments. See the
conference website for more details:
https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/global-histories-of-music-theory/

Please feel free to circulate this notice to colleagues and students.

With best regards,
Andrew Hicks (and the rest of the History of Music Theory team)


Andrew Hicks | Assistant Professor | Department of Music and Program in
Medieval Studies
Cornell University | 106 Lincoln Hall | Ithaca NY, 14853
607-351-6297 phone | 607-254-2877 fax | ajh299 at cornell.edu
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