Welcome!
The Boston University Music Society is a graduate student organization for students in musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. In the past, we have held student paper sessions for our own students, workshops with faculty members, social events, and yearly graduate student conferences that have attracted attendees from around the nation. Click here to read more about our organization.
We are still in the planning stages for the 2009-2010 academic year so stay tuned.
Student New and Events
Andrew Shryock will be in London for much of the fall semester. The purpose of the trip, supported by grants from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences as well as Boston University's Graduate Student Organization, is to conduct dissertation-related research; participate in events related to the 250th anniversary of G.F. Handel's death; and, present a paper at the conference "Purcell, Handel & Literature" at the University of London in November. Devoted readers need not fear, however; he will continue to blog on the world of Auto-Tune, T-Pain and hip hop at Auto-Pain 2.0.
Basil Considine is the conference coordinator for the Haydn and Landon Conference to be held at Boston University on October 1-2, 2009.
David Kjar's ensemble, Cambridge Concentus, will be performing for the Haydn and Landon Conference on October 1 at 8:00 p.m. in Marsh Chapel. David is one of the artistic directors of the ensemble. Professor Joshua Rifkin will be conducting.
Paula Bishop will present "Salty Dog Blues: A Ragtime-Blues-Hillbilly-Swing Band-Bluegrass Standard and the Concept of Originality in the 1920s and 30s" at the Fall meeting of the New England chapter of the American Musicological Society, October 3, 2009, at the University of Connecticut.
Basil Considine will present "Pamphlets Seen and Sung: the Reformation Drawn and Countered" at the conference, "Propaganda: purpose and practice in the sixteenth and twentieth centuries", organized by The Institute for European Studies at the Université libre de Bruxelles, October 23, 2009.
David Kjar will present "The Pest, Frankenstein, and the Wonder of Wanda: In Pursuit of a Performance Style" at the conference and festival,"Il Semana de Música Antiga da UFMG" in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The theme of this year's conference, to be held October 27-November 2, is "Os Sentidos da Meraviglia." David will also be teaching natural trumpet while at the festival.
Faculty News and Events
Dr. Andrew Shenton will present "Negotiating Rapture: Tekno, Teknival and T. A. Z.: the Temporary Autonomous Zone" at the Fall meeting of the New England chapter of the American Musicological Society, October 3, at the University of Connecticut.
Dr. Thomas Peattie will be a respondent on the Ecocriticism Study Group Panel at the American Musicological Society meeting in Philadelphia this year. Read the abstract for more information.
The annual meeting of the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship will be held at Boston University on February 26-27, 2010. Dr. Andrew Shenton is on the program committee for the event and is the local arrangements organizer. As part of the conference, he is planning to give a faculty recital (as organist) on Friday, February 26, 2010.
Boston University is hosting and sponsoring a conference on 'Arvo Pärt and Contemporary Spirituality' on March 26-27, 2010, with substantial funding from the Humanities Foundation. Dr. Andrew Shenton is organizing the conference.
2008-2009 year-End Summary
Click here for a summary of our individual and collective accomplishments for the last academic year.
graduate student conference
We are in the early planning stages of our third annual graduate student conference. Stay tuned for updates. You can read last year's abstracts, as well as a review of the conference.
