The Department of Music is part of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pittsburgh. The department serves the University's undergraduate student body, music majors and music minors, and...
Lecture Series
Lectures from Pitt's Department of Music, 2012–13
Each semester the Department of Music presents a series of lectures featuring scholars, composers, and performers who are leaders in their fields. All lectures take place in Room 132 Music Building at 4 p.m. unless otherwise noted and are free to the public. For more information call 412-624-4125 or e-mail concerts@pitt.edu.
Robert Dick: Successful Composition with Extended Techniques
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 4 p.m.
132 Music Building
Groundbreaking Composer and Flutist Robert Dick discusses how Successful composition with extended techniques involves far more than careful study of source materials. The very nature of the composer-performer relationship must deepen as the “givens” on each side, composer and performer, are transformed and fresh approaches to the relationship are vital. Find out more…
Medieval Song from Head to Tail: a Lecture by Anna Zayaruznaya (Princeton University)
Friday, March 22, 2013 - 4 p.m.
132 Music Building, Free
From the heads and tails of individual notes to the foreheads and feet of songs stanzas, medieval musical writings are replete with body parts. Sometimes the terms are used by convention, or in the service of simple mnemonics. But in other cases, the reasons for acts of musical anthropomorphization are less clear. Tracing the rhetoric of musical animation from the treatises into the realm of musica practica can give us fresh insight into some of the best-known songs of the later middle ages. Find out more…
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