Spring 2001 Program
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SPRING MEETING
2001 PROGRAM
University of Missouri-Kansas
City, Conservatory of Music
Saturday, 24 March
8:30 Registration
Musical
Conundrums and Hidden Meanings
Lawrence Bennett (Wabash College), Chair
9:00 Elinor Olin (National-Louis University), "Searching for Offenbach's Intentions, or Les Contes d'Hoffmann De-Composed"
9:40 Renee Cherie Clark (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "ReadingVaughn Williams Reading Housman: On Wenlock Edge as Nationalist Rhetoric"
10:20 Break
10:30 Karen M. Bottge (Madison, Wisconsin), "Brahms, the Sonorous Envelope, and the Infantilization of Musical Listening"
11:10 Steven Moore Whiting (University of Michigan), "Satie's Vexations: New Queries and Connections"
11:50 LUNCH
New Perspectives
in Form and Analysis
James Parsons (Southwest Missouri State University), Chair
1:30 Stephen Self (Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota), "The Origins of the Cantus Firmus Mass: Surveying Large-Scale Architecture"
2:10 Kurt Markstrom (University of Manitoba), "Caesura and Mechanical Rules of Melody"
2:50 Break
3:00 Neil Minturn (University of Missouri, Columbia), "Rhetorical Economy and Rhetorical Opulence in Some Harmonic Dramas in Tonal Music"
3:40 Shersten Johnson (Lawrence, Kansas), "Britten's Musical Syllables"
4:20 Business Meeting, followed by hora felix and Chapter Dinner at KC Masterpiece Barbecue and Grill
Sunday, 25 March
Patronage
and Promotion
Dane Heuchemer (Kenyon College), Chair
9:00 Roberta Freund Schwarz (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "En busca de liberalidad: Modalities of Music Patronage by the Spanish Nobility, 1470-1640"
9:40 Michael J. Budds (University of Missouri, Columbia), "Prince Albert, an 'Early' Connoisseur of 'Early Music': An Opportunity Taken, an Opportunity Missed"
10:20 Break
10:30 Sarah Schmalenberger (University of Minnesota), "The Three Periods of Negro Music and Drama (1921-1922): Negotiating a Place for African-Americans in Music History"
11:10 Craig B. Parker (Kansas State University), "Stravinsky in Los Angeles: New Perspectives"
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