The Society for Musicology at Florida State University is pleased to announce the seventh annual Southern Graduate Music Research Symposium, Friday and Saturday, September 15-16, 2017 at the Florida State University College of Music in Tallahassee, Florida.

Call for Papers

The symposium’s program committee invites all graduate students to submit abstracts for papers and presentations related to historical musicology, ethnomusicology, vernacular or popular music traditions, world music cultures, and music theory and analysis. The presentation format will be a twenty-minute paper followed by a ten-minute discussion. Abstracts must not exceed 250 words and should demonstrate a clear focus or statement of the problem, research methodology, and conclusions.

Submissions should include:

1. Name, institutional affiliation, and degree program
2. Email address
3. Audio-visual requirements

The above items should be submitted electronically (PDF or Word document, Word preferred) to the following email address: fsumusicology@gmail.com

Submissions must be received by 11:59 PM EST on August 1…

All faculty, staff, and students are invited to the 2017 Undergraduate Music Research Symposium, which will be held Saturday, April 1st, at 9 am in the Longmire Recital Hall.

Program:
9 a.m. panel: Power in Pedagogy

• Chair: Nate Ruechel
• 9-9:20: “¿Porque No?: A Detailed Look at Music Education in Lima, Peru”
  • Presenter: Valeria Rigobon
• 9:20-9:40: “Isabella Leonarda: A Silent Educator in the Collegio di Sant’Orsola”
  • Presenter: Isabelle Maina

9:40-9:50: Break

9:50 a.m. panel: Traditions & Transformations

• Chair: Nikki Schommer
• 9:50-10:10: “Understanding Fourth Wave Feminist Expression with the Music of Beyoncé”
  • Presenter: Caroline Bowers
• 10:10-10:30: “The Beginning of the British Carol”
  • Presenter: Alexandra Taggart

10:30-10:40: Break

10:40 a.m panel: Historical Considerations

• Chair: Kurt Carlson
• 10:40-11: “Compositional Significance of Giovanni Gabrieli’s Sonata Pian’e Forte (1597)

• Presenter: Michael A. Gabriel

• 11-11:20: “The Doctrine of Ethos: Music The Divine Healer and Greater Distractor”

• Presenter: Curtis Oxley

11:20-11:40: “The Importance of Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamnian…