Symposium on Music
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The Music Graduate Student Association of the University at Buffalo is accepting paper proposals for the fifth annual Graduate Symposium on Music to be held on March 3-4, 2012. The conference will feature a keynote address by Tim Carter of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Carter's research ranges from Monteverdi and Mozart's Italian operas to a recent book on "Oklahoma!" The Making of an American Musical (Yale University Press, 2007) and forthcoming work on Kurt Weill. The symposium aims to present a broad range of contemporary music research, to encourage stimulating conversation among participants, and to suggest methodological connections across a wide array of topics. Papers addressing topics in musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory will be considered. Papers must not exceed twenty minutes in length, and will be followed by 10 minutes of questions. Mosaic, the online music journal of the University at Buffalo, SUNY, will be selecting one presentation from the Graduate Symposium for publication in their next issue as an audio-visual article. This will include a video recording of the presentation as well as any handouts, or other supplemental materials. Please indicate your interest in this possibility in the email you send with your abstract. We will only be recording presentations delivered by those people who express interest and give us their permission to do so. Proposals must be received by 5:00 p.m. EST, Monday, January 30, 2012. Please e-mail proposals to UBMugSym2012@gmail.com. Include in the body of your message your name, institutional affiliation, and the title of your paper. Also indicate any specific technology requirements (computer projection, audio, video players, etc.). Your paper proposal, not to exceed 350 words, should be attached to the e-mail in the form of a .doc or .docx file. Please DO NOT include your name or institutional affiliation in the attachment. (The Graduate Symposium on Music is cosponsored by the University at Buffalo Graduate Student Association.)
Tim Carter |
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Tim Carter (David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of Music) was born (1954) in Sydney, Australia, and studied in the United Kingdom at the University of Durham and then under Nigel Fortune at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on music in late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy; on Mozart’s Italian operas; and on American musical theater in the mid-twentieth century. He is particularly concerned with the development of appropriate historical, analytical and critical tools to deal with problematic works that sit on several cusps and forge new musical languages; the careful garnering and analysis of sources and documentary evidence; the elucidation of text–music relationships, with particular reference to the influence of poetic structures on musical form and process; and the embedding of contemporary performances (and performers) within surviving scores and the intertextual and performative issues that arise. |
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Prior to moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001, he taught in the United Kingdom at the Universities of Leicester and Lancaster, and at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London. He has held fellowships at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence (1984-85), and the Newberry Library, Chicago (1986), and has occupied various positions within the Royal Musical Association, the American Musicological Society, and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, of which he was President (2003-6). He was also joint-editor of Music & Letters (1992-98) and continues to service on numerous editorial and advisory boards. He was chair of the Music Departments at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (1995-2000) and at UNC (2004-2009). He is also in some demand on the national and international lecture circuit. |
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