Area News

Professor Arne Spohr Serves as Scholar-in-Residence at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Germany) Dec 5, 2025 1:35 PM From November 10 to December 19, 2025, Dr. Arne Spohr, Professor of Musicology, is serving as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.

Professor Arne Spohr Delivered Keynote at International Conference in Germany Aug 8, 2025 4:00 PM Dr. Arne Spohr, Professor of Musicology, delivered the keynote lecture at the international interdisciplinary conference "Sound Space Court: Music, Acoustics, and Space in Courtly Architecture of Early Modern Europe" in Rudolstadt, Germany.

CMA Alumna Jane Hines wins SMT Publication Award Nov 26, 2024 9:07 AM CMA alumna Jane Hines (MM Music History and MM Music Theory, 2015) was recently awarded the Society for Music Theory's Citation of Special Merit publication award for her translation of Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg's treatise, *Abhandlung von der Fuge* (*Treatise on Fugue*), 1753, from the original German.

Decker wins Society for Music Theory Publication Award Nov 20, 2024 3:25 PM Dr. Greg Decker (professor, music theory) as been awarded a prestigious publication award by the Society for Music Theory, the primary academic society for the study of music theory and analysis internationally. Decker's publication *Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater* (University of Michigan Press, 2023) won SMT's Outstanding Multi-Author Collection publication award.

Associate Professor, Sidra Lawrence recognized by the Society for Ethnomusicology Nov 5, 2024 9:00 AM "intimate entanglements in the ethnography of performance", co-edited by Sidra Lawrence, was awarded honorable mention for the Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology.

CMA Students travel to New Orleans for Musicological Conference Aug 24, 2023 1:15 PM In November of 2022, Colin Hochstetler traveled to New Orleans, LA for the joint conference of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Society for Music Theory.

Effie Papanikolaou (musicology) is the co-editor of an exciting new publication! Effie Papanikolaou (musicology) is the co-editor of an exciting new publication. Titled Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall (Lexington Books, 2022), the book explores the impact of religious subjects on secular music in the long nineteenth century.