An International Musicological Conference

Targ Auditorium, Rubin Building, 6-10 JUNE 1999

The last decade has witnessed a thorough re-examination and reconsideration of the aims, subject matters, and methodologies of the scholarly investigation of music. To celebrate its 30^th anniversary, the Department of Musicology at Tel Aviv University is planning an international conference that will attempt to take stock of and to further contribute to this re-examination. The conference will be held at the university between Sunday, June 6 and Thursday, June 10 1999. Keynote addresses will be presented by Rose Rosengard Subotnik (Brown University), Leo Treitler (City University of New York), and Shai Burstyn (Tel-Aviv University).

Prof. Eli Rozik-Rosen, Dean, The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts

Prof. Emeritus Herzl Shmueli, Department of Musicology

Dr. Dorit Tanay, Chair, Department of Musicology

Shai Burstyn, Tel-Aviv University: Inventing Musical Tradition: The Case of the Hebrew (Folk)song

 Ethan Haimo, University of Notre Dame: Schoenberg's Programmatic Compositions and the Ideology of Absolute Music

 Jamie Liddle, University of Edinburgh: Dialogical Relations in the Music of Shostakovich - A Semantic Approach

 Judit Frigyesi, Bar-Ilan University: The Cultural Context of Music

 Simha Arom, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris: The Contribution of Ethnomusicology to a Universal Musicology

 Eytan Agmon, Bar-Ilan University: Structural Levels and Harmonic Theory: Toward a Reconciliation

Dalia Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Incorporating Natural Schemes into Musical Analysis

 Zohar Eitan, Tel Aviv University: Thematic Gestures: Theoretical Preliminaries and an Analysis

 Naphtali Wagner and Ruth HaCohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Gestural Power of the Wagnerian Leitmotifs: Self-Promoting Jingles or Self-Contained Expressions?

 Robert S. Hatten, Indiana University: Levels of Gestural Interpretation - A Lecture-Demonstration on Beethoven's

Sonata in C, Op. 102, No. 1, with the assistance of Kim Cook (cello), Pennsylvania State University

 Oren Kolman, King's College, London: Integrating the Meta-Move: Logical Aspects of Formal Music Theory

 Alexander Rehding, Emmanuel College, Cambridge: Listening for Undertones in the History of Music Theory

 Irma Zolotovitsky, Tel Aviv University: Functional concepts of Musical Form and Analysis in Russian Musicology

 Judith Cohen, Tel Aviv University: Reassessing Musical Style: Voices from 16th-Century Italy

 Leah Dovev, Tel Aviv University: Music and 'L'essere del nulla' in Leonardo Da Vinci's Thought

Leo Treitler, City University of New York: 'As Time Goes By:' Conjugating Music

 Yehoash Hirshberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Simon McVeigh, Goldsmith College, London: In Defense of Positivism Today - Exploring a Virgin Territory

 Ido Abravaya, Tel Aviv University: Bach's Tempo Practices, the Tempo Theories of His Time - and Ours

 Marina Ritzarev, Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University: Rethinking 18th-Century Russian Music

Sarah Mandel-Yehuda, Bar-Ilan University: 'Sonate, que me veux-tu?': Sonata-Form Problems in Recent Writings

 Adriana Ponce, Al-Quds University: Reassessing the Role of Sonata Form in the Study of Romantic Form

 Friedemann Kawohl, Technische Universitaet Berlin: Postmodern Chamber Music, the Genealogy of the History of Music, and the Problems of Generic Terms

Michal Grover-Friedlander, Tel Aviv University: The Lost Voice of Opera in Silent Film

Vera Micznik, The University of British Columbia: Music With/Without Words: Supplementarity in Berlioz's Musical Narratives

Eric Zakim, Duke University: Bloom and the Musicologists or, How Schoenberg Invented the (Lacanian) Symptom in Music

 Dorit Tanay, Tel Aviv University: Rethinking Tradition: Pythagoras and Euridice - The True Mythological Love Story of the Baroque

 Derek B. Scott, University of Salford: Ideology and Musical Style

 Ruth Katz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Authenticity, Interpretation, and Practice: Probing their Limits

Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Brown University: Foundationalist vs. Aesthetic: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Changing Musicological Paradigm