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Yiyi Gao
The Texas Society for Music Theory awarded Yiyi Gao (PhD, Music Theory) the Colvin Award for best student presentation at its annual meeting. Her presentation was entitled "Unveiling the Poetic-Musical Narrative and the Incomplete 'Urlinie': Recontextualizing Robert Schumann's Song 'Wehmut' Op. 39/9."
Dr. Justin Lavacek
Dr. Justin Lavacek published an article entitled, "I Got Isorhythm: Recreating the Ars nova Motet in the Classroom," in Music Theory Pedagogy Online (2021).
Brian Wright
Dr. Brian Wright co-edited the special issue, Looking Towards the Future: Popular Music Studies and Music Scholarship, in the journal Twentieth-Century Music.
Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson has won the Karl Geiringer Scholarship from the American Brahms Society in support of his PhD dissertation, “Ideale Hausmusik”: Johannes Brahms’s Vocal Quartets (opp. 31, 52, 64, 65, 92, 103) and the Politics of Domestic Music."
Dr. Steven Friedson
The Yale Institute for Sacred Music has appointed Dr. Steven Friedson to its new Black Sacred Arts Steering Committee to design and implement a series of international conferences and related publications over the next four years.
Dr. Brian Wright
Dr. Brian Wright revised the article, "Electric Bass Guitar," in Grove Music Online.