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Event Name: Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music 2006 Institute on Chromaticism

Event Location: Yale University

Event Date(s): June 22-25, 2006

Registration Deadline: March 1, 2006

Event Description and Information:

The Mannes Institute will hold its sixth annual summer Institute on the topic of Chromaticism from June 22-25, 2006, hosted as a special event at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

The Institute is a premier professional think tank dedicated to communal inquiry at the highest level of scholarship. Forty-five outstanding theorists and musicologists from around the world selected by application gather in a collegial setting to explore a different subject each year in participatory workshops, plenary sessions, and special presentations emphasizing interactive dialogue and debate under the expert guidance of a rotating faculty of peers. This year we will explore in depth the complex and evolving topic of tonal chromaticism from a variety of scholarly perspectives.

Details about the Mannes Institute and its new MUSICAL ESSAY AWARD are located on its website at http://www.mannes.edu/mi. Information will also be distributed at the national SMT and AMS meetings, and periodically posted on this list. Applications are accepted via the website only from January 1 to March 1, 2006. A brief description is provided below.

MANNES INSTITUTE ON CHROMATICISM
2006 PROGRAM AND FACULTY
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A. Morning Workshops

EFFECTS OF CHROMATICISM
Leader: Daniel Harrison (Yale University)
An examination of the effects of chromaticism upon tonality through interaction with increased dissonance, modal and special-scale options, and rhetorical play with uncertain tonal centering in late 19th and 20th-century music.

THE CHROMATIC MOMENT IN ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT
Leader: Richard Kramer (City University of New York)
An exploration of the idea of a chromatic Moment in 18th-century writings and compositions and how such a concept resonates within a larger aesthetic sphere of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thought.

COPING WITH CHROMATICISM: FROM SCHENKER TO US
Leader: Patrick McCreless (Yale University)
An investigation of how select theorists over the past century have coped with chromaticism, focusing on unusually illuminating moments of analytical insight and the theorists� reaction to their own chromatic encounters.

B. Afternoon Workshops

DISTINGUISHING CHROMATICISM
Leader: David Kopp (Boston University)
A deconstruction of binary distinctions and oppositions typically applied to theoretical explanations of chromaticism, their underlying value judgments, analytic impact, and alternative conclusions they generate.

ALTERNATIVES TO HARMONIC FUNDAMENTALISM
Leader: Charles Smith (University at Buffalo)
A consideration of alternatives to root-focused theories of harmonic structure and progression utilizing neo-Riemannian and transformational approaches to analyze late 19th-century chromaticism.

CHROMATICISM AND MODE MIXTURE
Leader: Deborah Stein (New England Conservatory)
An assessment of the chromatic impact of simple and complex uses of mode, and its evolution from an elementary modulatory device into an agent in creating innovative chromatic tonal designs.

C. Plenary Sessions

THE HERMENEUTICS OF CHROMATICISM
A roundtable discussion of the hermeneutical intersection between chromatic structure and musical meaning via special examples.

DIATONIC TO 12-GAMUT SPACE: Multiple Distances, Multiple Containment
SPECIAL GUEST: Gregory Proctor (Ohio State University)

THE BOUNDARIES OF CHROMATICISM
A collective navigation of the historical and stylistic boundaries of tonal chromaticism and the limits of chromatic theory.

Each member of the Institute enrolls in one Morning and one Afternoon Workshop for the entire program and attends all plenary sessions. Each workshop of fifteen scholars meets for three 3-hour sessions. Prior preparation and active participation are essential. Communal meals, a reception, and a banquet are provided, and affordable housing is available.

We invite you to join your colleagues and share in this unique and transformative experience in collaborative learning.

Contact:

Wayne Alpern, Director
The Mannes Institute
http://www.mannes.edu/mi
mannesinstitute@aol.com

Date Listed: 12/30/2005

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