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Current Thought in Musicology:  Speakers and Topics

Spring Semester 1968

Klaus Wachsmann:  "The Problem of Acculturation"
Charles Seeger:  "Music, Speech, and Man as Communicatory Systems"
Leonard Ratner:  "Current Views in Eighteenth-Century Style Criticism"
James Haar:  "The Origin of the Madrigal"
Eva Heinitz:  Lecture Recitals, Viola da Gamba
Karl Geiringer:  "The Impact of the Enlightenment on the Artistic Concepts of J. S. Bach"
Emanuel Winternitz:  "Leonardo da Vinci as a Musician"
Frank Ll. Harrison:  "The Study of Musical Behavior, Musicology, or Anthropomusicology?"
Allen Forte:  "Structural Analysis by Computers"
William Newman:  "Adventures in the Romantic Sonata"
Franklin Zimmerman:  "The Limitations of the Computer in Musicological Research"
Harold Spivacke:  "The Musicologist and the Library of Congress"

Spring Semester 1969

Frederick Freedman:  "Perspectives in Musicological Publications"
Albert Seay:  "The Musical Theory of the Renaissance from Tinctoris to Coclico"
Claude V. Palisca:  "Modes of Musical Explanation"
Leon Plantinga:  "Classic and Romantic: Factors in Stylistic Change"
Mantle Hood:  "The Norms of Style"
George Buelow:  "Hamburg Opera before Keiser: A Confluence of Baroque Operatic Styles"
Ralph T. Daniel:  "New Directions in American Studies"
Leo Treitler:  "The Use of Historical Constructs as Tools for Criticism"
Frederick Neumann:  "New Directions in Afführungspraxis"
Richard L. Crocker:  "New Directions in Ninth-Century Music"
George Perle:  "Representation and Symbol in the Music of Alban Berg"
John R. White:  "Performance Problems in Medieval and Early Renaissance Music"

Spring Semester 1971

Charles Seeger:  "Towards a Unified Theory of Operations for Musicology"
Charles Hamm:  "The Ecstatic and the Didactic: A Persistent Pattern in American Music and Culture"
Samuel Claro:  "Musical Scholarship in South American Countries"
Elliott Carter:  "Music and the Time Screen"
Howard M. Brown:  "On the Performance of Fifteenth-Century Chansons"
Martin Bernstein:  "Performance Practice Problems in the Concerted Music of J. S. Bach"
Lewis Lockwood:  "Recent Developments in the Study of Beethoven's Creative Process"
Daniel Heartz:  "Humanism and Renaissance Music"
Gilbert Chase:  "The Raw and the Cooked in Current Musicology"
Gustave Reese:  "A Survey of the Development of Musicology in This Country and Some Predictions for Its Future"
Gilbert Reaney:  "The Prospects for Research in Medieval Music in the 1970s"
Vincent Duckles:  "The Library of the Mind: Observations on the Relationship between Musical Scholarship and Bibliography"