Paul C. Konye

Dr. Konye is a musicologist, composer, violinist, and a conductor.

My Professional Experience

Articles & Book Reviews

• Black Symbolisms Embedded in Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata Op. 47
  Music Research Institute, vol. 2
  Summer I, 2010
• Conceptualizing African Pianism
  Music Research Institute
  Summer I, 2008
• Nigerian Art Music
  Music Research Institute
  Winter, 2008
• The Intellectualization of the Creative Process: Crime of the 20th Century
  International Journal of the Arts & Sciences
  Fall, 2011

Books & Book Chapters

• Six African Miniature Songs Without Words
  SMPH Press
  2009
• Anthology of African Piano Music
  SMPH Press
  2008
• African Art Music: Political, Social, and Cultural factors behind its Development
  Edwin Mellen Press
  2007

Presentations

• Aesthetics, Cultural Context, and Cognition in Music and Dance
  October, 2012
  McMaster University Institute for Music and the Mind NeuroMusic Conference, Ontario Canada, Canada-Ontario
• The Intelectualization of the Creative Process: Crime of the 20th Century
  November, 2010
  International Conference of the Arts and Sciences, Rome, Italy, Italy
• Words and Identity in African Art Music
  June, 2009
  University of Nottingham Ethomusicology Conference, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
• African Art music: Origin and Definition
  September, 2008
  Georgia State University Public Lecture, Atlanta, GA, United States of America
• Genre and Style in African Art Music
  September, 2008
  College Music Society Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, United States of America
• Religious, Political, & Nationalistic Sentiments and the Emergence of Modern African Art Music in the 19th Century
  October, 2003
  International Conference on Romanticism and Nationalism, Corfu, Greece, Greece