Graduate student scholars, composers, and performers gathered in Voxman to share new research, music, and camaraderie.

While serving as an Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor Christine Getz remains active in her musicological research and service. Dr. Getz just finished her two-year term as President of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (2021-2023) and presented three papers at special conferences in Mantova and Milan in 2022.

Dr. Matthew Arndt has just gotten back to Iowa City after spending the summer and fall months conducting new research and contributing to workshops.

Summer for PhD student Cody Norling meant finding that elusive balance across research, writing, and teaching. 

Professor of Musicology Marian Wilson Kimber was interviewed by the Associated Press about the 150th anniversary of the birthday of composer Amy Beach, and her comments appeared in an article in the Washington Post.

With assistance from the University of Iowa School of Music and International Programs, Matthew Arndt presented a paper on modernism and organicism in Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata, op. 1, at the Music Theory Midwest Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference in Iowa City and at the Ninth European Music Analysis Conference in Strasbourg, France.

As fall classes get underway, we take a moment to share some of the activities our students and faculty pursued over the summer: Marian Wilson Kimber, Trevor Harvey, Kelsey McGinnis, Cody Norling, Nathan Platte, Christine Getz.

Prof. Jennifer Iverson, who has been spending 2015-2016 as a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, has been interviewed about her research. 

Musicology, Music Theory, and Composition faculty members have been hard at work during the summer months developing their scholarly and creative projects: Matthew Arndt, Michael Eckert, Lawrence Fritts, Christine Getz, Jennifer Iverson, Nathan Platte, Zack Stanton, and Marian Wilson Kimber.

The faculty at the University of Iowa use the time away from teaching during the summer to make rapid progress on research projects, when there is more time for intensive archival research, analysis, composition, and writing. Here are some of the things the musicology, theory, and composition faculty Marian Wilson Kimber, Zack Stanton, and Jennifer Iverson have been working on in Summer 2014.

In late October Nathan Platte will join forces with Colin Roust (Roosevelt University) at the College Music Society in Cambridge, Mass., where they will lead a pre-conference pedagogy workshop on film music. From there Nathan will travel to Syracuse University to participate in the “Belfer Audio Archive at 50” Symposium. He will present a paper that explores the use of preview scores or “temp tracks” in both films.

Matthew Arndt attended a retreat for the Saint John of Damascus Society’s Psalm 103 Project and took part in a public presentation entitled “Networks of Echoes: Collaboration, Community, and Creativity in the Musics of the Eastern Orthodox Churches.”