Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology

News and Events

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."

Yang Chen

Alumni Achievement

The Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern Plains Chapter awarded Yang Chen (MA, Ethnomusicology, 2020) the 2020 Vida Chenoweth Prize for his paper entitled, “Sounding the Ancestors: Sangpuy Katatepan Mavaliyw and the Ancestral Spirit Imaginary."

Dr. Justin Lavacek

Faculty Publication

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

Faculty Publication

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

Student Achievement

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

Faculty Achievement

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.