Musicology/Performance Studies
About
Activities in this cluster engage with numerous performance genres, histories, and practices (including theatre, musical performance, dance, writing/rhetorics) and take up diverse questions across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Working groups focus on various topics, including: collaborative performance; cultural enactment and its broader meaning across temporal, geographical, and cultural contexts; performance/musicology pedagogies and methods; improvisation; questions of world-making, play, embodiment, and ritual; and performance as a political project/possibility. Often drawing from the region’s resources (conservatories, theatre and dance groups, recording and sound holdings, and historical instruments), working groups organize activities such as teaching exchanges, collaboratively staged works, master classes, conducting podia, collaborative compositions, and symposia (e.g., on practice-based research, questions of staging, copyright law, and more).
Topics
Music Performance Arts
Activities
Banding Together: Sally Lamb McCune guest composer residency
April 22, 2024, 4:45 p.m.
Improvisation at Work: A Dialogue with the Instrument
April 26, 2024, 12:30 p.m.
Groups
MP2: Cultural Competencies in Arts Performance and Research
- Cornell University
- Hamilton College
- Hobart & William Smith Colleges
MP3: Music Theory Examples by Women
- University of Rochester
- Cornell University
MP4: Practice-Based Performance Studies
- Syracuse University
- University of Rochester
- Colgate University
MP5: Historical Keyboarding
- Syracuse University
- University of Rochester
- Cornell University
MP6: Jazz and Culture
- University of Rochester
- St. Lawrence University
MP18: Improvisation in Theory and Practice
- Syracuse University
- University of Rochester
- Cornell University
MP7: ALACI: Afro-Latinx, Latin American, Caribbean and Indigenous Performance
Highlighting diversity in performances from Spanish-speaking regions, this group explores theater as a tool to foster equity and social justice by analyzing existing works and creating and performing our original pieces to share across CNY institutions.
- Syracuse University
- Cornell University
- Colgate University
- Hobart & William Smith Colleges
MP26: Banding Together: Exploring the Collegiate Wind Band as a Vehicle for Community, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Syracuse University
- Cornell University
MP27: Asian Music Initiative
- Cornell University
- Rochester Institute of Technology
MP28: Evolving Practices in Embodiment Education and Performance
- University of Rochester
- Hamilton College
- Hobart & William Smith Colleges
- Skidmore College