Symposium in Honour of William Caplin
Music scholars and musicians alike are invited to a Symposium celebrating the career of Professor William Caplin on the occasion of his retirement.
The Symposium will include short research talks and musical tributes from current and former colleagues and students. Detailed schedule below.
The afternoon's events will be streamed on Zoom at the following link:
Symposium in Honour of William Caplin | Schedule
13:30 | Nicole Biamonte and Jon Wild (㽶Ƶ), welcome and introduction
13:45 | David Sears (Texas Tech University), “The Psychology of the Close” (video)
14:00 | Andrew Schartmann (New England Conservatory), “Chameleon Cadences”
14:15 | François de Medicis (Université de Montréal), “Some Applications of Caplinian Formal Function and Rhythmic Theories to the Works of Franck and Debussy”
14:30 | Ellen Bakulina (㽶Ƶ), “Russian Theories of Form: The Case of Ekaterina Ruchievskaya”
14:45 | Steven Vande Moortele (University of Toronto), “EuroCaplin”
15:00 | BREAK
15:30 | Alan Gosman (University of Arkansas), “When Beginnings Invite Others In”
15:45 | Jon Wild (㽶Ƶ), “Chained Beginnings in the 4-Measure Phrase”
16:00 | Nathan Martin (University of Michigan), “Sentences”
16:15 | Janet Schmalfeldt (Tufts University), “The Romantic Subdominant”
16:30 | Christoph Neidhöfer (㽶Ƶ): Musical Interlude
16:35 | Closing remarks
16:45-18:00 | RECEPTION
For more information, please contact Nicole Biamonte (nicole.biamonte [at] mcgill.ca) and Robert Hasegawa (robert.hasegawa [at] mcgill.ca)