[ANPPOM-L] Mannes Institute on Chromaticism

[Carlos Palombini]

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MANNES INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN MUSIC
2006 INSTITUTE ON CHROMATICISM - JUNE 22-25, 2006
@ YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
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Wayne Alpern, Director

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 
musicologists and theorists 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 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. Please direct all 
inquiries to Wayne Alpern, Director, The Mannes Institute, at 
mannesinstitute em aol.com.

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Wayne Alpern, Director
The Mannes Institute
www.mannes.edu/mi
waynealp em aol.com

-- 
carlos palombini
diretor
centro de pesquisa em música contemporânea
universidade federal de minas gerais
cpmc-ufmg
<palombini em terra.com.br>