Musicology Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Updating the Past: Scores for Elizabethan Films

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

The Department of Musicology Graduate Students Society present Distinguished Lecture Series 2000-2001

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu

The Department of Musicology Graduate Students Society present Distinguished Lecture Series 2000-2001

We hope you can join us.

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact lmusca@humnet.ucla.edu

Professor Elisabeth Le Guin Plays and Discusses Bach

TUESDAY, JAN 22, 7 PM ORGAN STUDIO, SCHOENBERG MUSIC BUILDING, UCLA FREE

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact leguin@humnet.ucla.edu

Updating the Past: The Scores for "Young Bess" and "Elizabeth"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Musica Humana: UCLA Early Music Collective

Medieval and Renaissance vocal music is inextricably linked with its notation: from the transcendent abstractions of the rhythmic proportions isorhythmic motet to the moveable type of early music printing, early modern song has both been contained in and transcended the vehicle of writing. But notation is only on half of the music‹the spaces provided by early modern composers through unwritten performance practice, such as the singerly practice of "false music," invite a modern en-voicing of these signs and symbols.

Spanning from the late fifteenth century to the late sixteenth century, this concert explores the medieval and renaissance vocal music both as musical objects of cultural exchange and as windows into another world. Featuring works by Power, Dunstable, Ockeghem, Josquin, Obrecht, Willaert, Morales, and Victoria, as well as others, this concert will also include projected visuals to accompany the performance.

The performing group Music Humana was created three years ago by the graduate students of the UCLA Musicology Department, and the group has continued to perform together embracing undergraduate students from both the music and the musicology departments. Musica Humana¹s goal is provide an exciting environment for performers and audience alike to explore the rich and varied ways in which all musical activities shape and express people and their cultures. With a combination of music and readings, Musica Humana¹s previous concerts have explored the many sonic worlds of the Renaissance, including that of sixteenth-century dance with the Los Angeles-based dance group, Danzando.

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu

The Department of Musicology Graduate Students Society present Distinguished Lecture Series 2000-2001

Professor Lipsitz researches the racialization of opportunities and life chances in 20th century U.S. society, the racialization of space, urban culture, collective memory, and movements for social change. His most recent book is American Studies in a Moment of Danger (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

This lecture will be held in Room 1439 of the Schoenberg Music Building at UCLA.

For more information, contact eleidal@ucla.edu

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact eleidal@ucla.edu

The Department of Musicology Graduate Students Society present Distinguished Lecture Series 2000-2001

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact lmusca@humnet.ucla.edu

The Department of Musicology Graduate Students Society present Distinguished Lecture Series 2000-2001

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact lmusca@ucla.edu

Masques & Monody: Nicholas Lanier and the Italian Style

Though many English composers of the early seventeenth century were aware of and influenced by Italian musical styles, composer Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) is credited with introducing the Italian technique of recitative into England. The epitome of this Italian influence in the musical setting of English words is Lanier’s Hero and Leander, composed on his return from Venice in 1628. This composition was a favorite of Charles I, and seventeenth- century writer Roger North observes that “The King was exceedingly pleased with this pathetic song and caused Lanier often to sing it… and when Lanier sang it, he used to stand by him with his hand upon his shoulder.”

This concert explores the differing musical senses of the self as displayed in music, contrasting the importation of the courtly musical subjectivity in the musical settings of Italian composers such as Luca Marenzio, Giovanni Sances, and Giulio Caccini with the music of English composers Nicholas Lanier, Thomas Weelkes, Alonso Ferrabosco II, John Coperario, and John Wilson.

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact harawacky@earthlink.net

The Department of Musicology Graduate Students present the Distinguished Lecturers Series

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact lmusca@ucla.edu

ECHO reception

Thursday, May 16 6:00 P.M. Royce 314

A reception introducing the online journal ECHO: a music-centered journal to the UCLA community. There will be short presentations on: 1. the journal, 2. a scholar's experience publishing in ECHO, and 3. the advantages and capabilities of online publication. Wine and hors d'oeuvres served. All are welcome.

ECHO: a music-centered journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, web-based journal created by graduate students in the Department of Musicology at UCLA. ECHO's purpose is to create a forum for discussion about music and culture which includes voices from diverse backgrounds. To that end, we endeavor to make all work accessible to readers without formal musical training; the use of sound and film clips in our journal enables us to discuss nuances of performance without relying solely on music notation.

Articles address music in diverse social contexts, and are not confined to any geographically, historically, or methodologically bounded genre.

For more information, contact us at echojour@humnet.ucla.edu. Visit us at http://www.echo.ucla.edu.

-- submitted by ECHO: a music-centered journal (echojour@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact echojour@humnet.ucla.edu

Reception for ECHO: a music-centered journal

ECHO: a music-centered journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, web-based journal created by graduate students in the Department of Musicology at UCLA. ECHO's purpose is to create a forum for discussion about music and culture which includes voices from diverse backgrounds. To that end, we endeavor to make all work accessible to readers without formal musical training; the use of sound and film clips in our journal enables us to discuss nuances of performance without relying solely on music notation. Articles address music in diverse social contexts, and are not confined to any geographically, historically, or methodologically bounded genre.

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact echojour@humnet.ucla.edu