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PROGRAM FOR CHICAGO MEETING

MIDWEST CHAPTER

AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY

6–7 October 2007

National Lewis University

 North Shore Campus

Saturday 10:00-12:00
The Intersection of Music and Religion

Nicole Biamonte, University of Iowa
Chopin’s E-Minor Prelude and Bach’s ‘Crucifixus’

Stephanie P. Schlagel, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Josquin des Prez’s Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales and Its Compositional Cousins

Nicholas Johnson, The Ohio State University
The Influence of the Jesuits on Orlando di Lasso’s Passion Settings of 1582

Jessica A. Shelvik, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Pagan-Religious Merry-Making”: The Program(s) of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Svetlyi Prazdnik

Saturday 1:30-3:30
Manuscript Studies and Analyses
Chair, Carol Hess, Michigan State University

Peter M. Alexander, University of Iowa
The Viennese Symphony at Mid-Century as Reflected in the Works of Karl von Ordonez

Timothy S. Flynn, Olivet College, MI
Newly Discovered Works by Charles Gounod?  Some Unique Manuscript Sources at Northwestern University

Jerry M. Cain, University of Iowa
Webern’s Encounter with Kraus on the Wayward “Path” to Twelve-Tone Composition

Dina Lentsner, Capital University Conservatory of Music, Columbus, OH
Kurtág and Russian: The Secrets of a Happy Marriage

Saturday 4:00-5:00

Keynote Address
Anne Walters Robertson
Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music, The University of Chicago
The First Christ-Mass and the Beginning of the Cyclic Mass in England

Saturday 5:00-5:30
Business Meeting

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Sunday 9:00-10:30
The Schumanns
Chair, Marian Wilson Kimber, University of Iowa

Aaron Ziegel, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Chasing Schumann’s Papillons:  A Poetic Perspective on the Symphony in G minor

Jean Marie Hellner, Concordia College-Moorhead
Orchestration, Reorchestrations, and Misinterpretations: A Critical Study of Robert Schumann's Narrative Strategy in His Symphony in D Minor, Op. 120

Yu Choi Dahn, University of Iowa
The Novel Jucunde’s Influence on the Creation of Clara Schumann’s Sechs Lieder aus “Jucunde” von Hermann Rollett

Sunday 11:00-12:00
Roundtable:  Music History in Context: Teaching Strategies

Jessie Fillerup, Washburn University
Cage and the Chaotic Classroom: Pedagogy for the Avant-Garde

Per F. Broman, Bowling Green State University, OH
The Good, the True, and the Professional: Teaching Music History in an Age of Excess

James Briscoe, Butler University
Music History Teaching by Touchstone

Matthew Balensuela, DePauw University
Music History/History of Theory: Dynamic Tensions Between Theory and Composition in the Classical Era

 

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