News Archive
MUSI9403GR Advanced Ethnomusicology Seminar
The relationship between global climate change and the central role of the ocean in shaping global climate conditions frames the ways in which this seminar explores notions of more-than-human musicalities in oceanic life.
Professor Susan Boynton was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, an honor which recognizes major long-term scholarly achievement within the field of Medieval Studies.
Professors Benjamin Steege (Music) and Jane Gaines (Film) present a new course "Music, Sound, and Image Theory."
This series of profiles highlight valued student employees from across the Libraries, including Callum John Blackmore, a processing archivist at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The Libraries are the largest employer of students on campus. We couldn’t serve our users without them!
https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/spotlights/2023/12/05/student-employee-pr...
Professor Giuseppe Gerbino's new course Opera in Venice is offered by the Columbia Summer in Venice Global Program. This program offers the opportunity to immerse yourself in the medieval and modern city of Venice, located at the crossroads of east and west and miraculously built on water. This six week summer program, taught on site, offers you the opportunity to choose from a menu of courses in Italian language, Venetian art history and conservation, music, and culture. The academic program is supplemented with a rich cultural activities including group dinners, field trips, museum outings, bike rides, and Aperitivo Italiano; a very popular Italian Conversation outing for non-speakers and advanced students alike.
Dr. Scott Gleason publishes article in Perspectives of New Music.
The Department warmly congratulates Jonathan Ligrani, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), “Manuscript Culture and Patrician Identity in the Florentine Madrigal,” on December 11, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Kyle DeCoste, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Ethnomusicology), “Imagining Innocence: Black Popular Music and the Poetics of Childhood,” on December 11, 2023.
DMA candidate Cem Güven is one of five composers whose works have been nominated for the Gaudeamus Award 2024, the annual incentive prize for composers under 35.
The Department warmly congratulates Makulumy Alexander-Hills, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Music Theory), “Engaging with Musical Theater Practitioners' Vernacular Musical Knowledge as Music-Theoretical Practice,” on November 16, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Louis Goldford, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Emergence in the Music of Pierluigi Billone and Georges Aperghis" on November 15, 2023.
Dr. Marc Hannaford received the SMT Emerging Scholar Award for his article "Fugitive music theory and George Russell's theory of tonal gravity."
Here are all the members of the Department of Music who participated in the 2023 joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in Denver, CO.
Professor Mariusz Kozak won two publication awards at the 2023 joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in Denver.
Professor Zosha Di Castri's Patina for solo violin is included on Canadian violinist Emmanuel Vukovich's debut album, RESILIENCE.