LSU School of Music Scholars/Researchers

Everyone should know about the high profile of LSU's musicology and
music theory faculty and graduate students at the recent joint meeting of
the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory in
Indianapolis (Nov. 3-7).

  In all, six faculty members and thirteen students (the latter an
unprecedented number) attended. One faculty member, Dr. Robert Peck, gave a
paper; another, Dr. Jeff Perry, chaired a paper session, and another, Dr.
David Smyth, gave his final report, concluding his four-year term as
treasurer of SMT. At the SMT business meeting, Perry was announced as the
incoming chair of the organization's Nominations Committee.

    Other LSU participants are active in both societies. Dr. Andreas Giger
(musicology) currently serves on the AMS Committee on Communications; Dr.
Inessa Bazayev (theory) has been named to the SMT Committee on the Status of
Women, and in January, Dr. Robert Peck (music theory) will be joining the
editorial board of Music Theory Spectrum, the flagship peer-reviewed
publication of SMT. Matthew Steinbron, doctoral student in music theory,
serves as a member of the SMT Professional Development Committee; Tim Love,
doctoral student in musicology, serves as student member on the AMS Council
and as a member of the Committee on Cultural Diversity. An LSU music theory
alum, Dr. Horace J. Maxile (Associate Director of Research at the Center
for Black Music Research, Columbia College, Chicago), was announced as
incoming chair of the SMT Diversity Committee. Dr. Maxile received his Ph.D.
in music theory, the first awarded by our program, in 2002.

    All in all, LSU made an impressive showing, and helped maintain and
expand our school's high profile in our disciplines' respective
organizations.

(report by Dr. Jeff Perry)