The Center for Ethnomusicology wishes to acknowledge the donation of a beatuiful and playable kayageum (Korean zither) and related books and recordings by Andrew Fisher (CC '65), in honor of his late wife Sharon. 

We thank Mr. Fisher sincerely for this wonderful gift. 

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Call #:66005 V2023  Beethoven  Mon/Wed  2:40-3:55  622 Dodge Sisman, Elaine

Call #:86855 V3128  History of West. Music I: Middle Ages to Baroque  Tues/Thurs 2:40-3:55 622 Dodge Gerbino, Giuseppe  read more »

Walter Frisch, the H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music, has been honored with the William Theodore de Bary Award for Distinguished Service to the Core Curriculum by the Heyman Center for the Humanities.

Professor Frisch is the Director of Music Humanities for the Department of Music.

The Columbia Music Department is pleased to announce that Alessandra
Ciucci of the City University of New York Graduate Center and Emily
Wilbourne of New York University have been offered and have accepted
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships for Fall 2008.   read more »

The Society for Music Theory is holding its annual meeting in Baltimore this week, from November 14th through the 18th.  Music Department Professors Ellie Hisama and Fred Lerdhal will both participate.

Professor Ellie Hisama will moderate a session entitled Theory, Meta-Theory, and Popular Music.  The session is sponsored by the Popular Music Interest Group.  She will also speak on Organizing a Special Session during a special “Presenting at a Conference” panel.

Professor Fred Lerdahl will present his paper Collaborations in Pursuit of Tonal Tension during a plenary session entitled “Issues in Music Cognition.”

Professor Lévy has been awarded the Prix du Jeune Compositeur by The French Académie des Beaux-Arts.  Congratulations to Professor Lévy!

Congratulations to Dr. Boynton, who received the Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society for her book Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (Cornell University Press, 2006).

Congratulations are in order for Elizabeth K. Keenan, who won the 2007 Lise Waxer Prize for the best student paper on popular music for her paper given at the 2006 SEM conference in Hawai'i, "Straightyfest, Ladyquest, Ladyfest: Femininity, Sexuality, and Third Wave Feminism at Young Women's Rock Music Festivals." The Lise Waxer Prize is sponsored by the Popular Music Section of SEM.  read more »

The American Musicological Society is holding its annual convention November 1st-4th in Quebec City. Five Columbia musicologists will be participating by giving papers, chairing sessions, and participating in panel discussions.  read more »

The Society for Ethnomusicology's 52nd annual SEM Conference will take place October 24th - 28th at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. This year's theme is Music, War and Reconcilliation.

A complete list of presenters and other participants from Columbia University follows.  read more »