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History & Music Seminars/Lectures with Professor Michael Beckerman
Date: 19 - 21 June 2012 Time: Various
Venue: Frankland Lecture Theatre and Bowland Main B104
Sponsored by the History Department
Three Summer Seminars for PG Students to be followed by an Inaugural Lecture by Distinguished Professor Michael Beckerman, History Department, Lancaster, and Chair of the Music Dept, NYU
In a series of three seminars and an inaugural lecture Professor Michael Beckerman will explore the connection between music, sound, and the rest of the world. The first seminar "The History of Sound and the Sound of History"looks at new research in the history of sound and sound recording and explores recent efforts to use sound as a way of understanding the past. "Everything a Historian Needs to Know About Music," the second seminar, is an attempt to give historians, especially those who are non-musicians, a general grasp of basic concepts of musical form, style, history, and suggest ways in which such things might be used in historical investigation. The third seminar, "Musical Form and Censorship in the Terezin Concentration Camp: Summer 1944" charts the way in which censorship and violence imprint themselves in various ways on both the details and the formal construction of musical works composed in the camp. Finally, a public lecture, "Black Sources in Epic and Miniature From the 'New World' Symphony to 'Happy Birthday'" explores the "collaborative" project of Antonin Dvorak and Mildred Hill. Both Dvorak in his symphony and Hill in "Happy Birthday" embed fragments of Black music for expressive, structural and political purposes as part a project to build a new kind of American music.
Inaugural Lecture: June 21st, Thursday: Frankland Lecture Theatre 4 - 6 pm
Black Sources in Epic and Miniature from the 'New World' Symphony to 'Happy Birthday.'
PG Seminars: B 104 Bowland Main (all seminars)
1. June 19th, 2012 Tuesday 2 - 5 pm
The History of Sound and the Sound of History. This seminar/class/lecture (whatever you want to call it) looks at new research in the history of sound and sound recording and explores recent efforts to use sound as a way of understanding the past.
2. June 20th, 2012, Wednesday 2 - 5 pm
Everything a Historian Needs to Know About Music. This is an attempt to give historians, especially those who are non-musicians, a general grasp of basic concepts of musical form, style, history, and suggest ways in which the investigation of musical works is similar to the broad task of the historian.
3. June 21st, 2012, Thursday 11 am - 1 pm
Musical Form and Censorship in the Terezin Concentration Camp, Summer 1944. This third seminar charts the way in which censorship and violence imprint themselves in various ways on both the details and the formal construction of musical works composed in the camp.
Professor Michael Beckerman is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music atNew York University and Distinguished Professor in the History Department at Lancaster University. His research interests include>Czech and Eastern European music, Janacek, Dvorak, Martinu, nationalism, Gypsies, Mozart, Brahms, Gilbert and Sullivan, Schubert, and film music. He received the Janacek Medal from theCzechRepublicand is a Laureate of the Czech Music Council. He lectures widely and writes regularly for the New York Times.
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