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American Musicological Society, Midwest Chapter Meeting

8–9 April 2006

Butler University -- Jordan College of Fine Arts, Indianapolis, Indiana

 

Friday, April 7

7:00 PM: Optional Chapter Dinner, email jbriscoe@butler.edu to join.

 

Saturday, ApriL 8

SATURDAY MORNING
Dr. Lisa Feurzeig (Grand Valley State University), chair

8:30 AM Registration and Coffee

9:00 AM – 11:00: Music, Theory, and Style

9:00            Early Schenker Reception through English-Language Writings Prior to the Mid-1950s – David Carson Berry

9:30            Cyclic Integration in the Classical String Quartet: Haydn’s Op. 20, No. 2 Reconsidered – Jennifer Hambrick

10:00            The Soloist’s Role During Tutti Sections of Mozart’s Concerti for Violin and Woodwinds: a Reevaluation – Carey Campbell – University of Minnesota

10:30            Berg Before Berg: Romanticism in the Jugendlieder (1901–1904) – Sara B. Adams – Madisonville Community College

11:00 BREAK

11:15 – 12:15: Music and Literature

11:15            Voice and Illusion: Strauss, Falla, and the Quixotic Search for Musical Language – Julia Randel, Hope College

11:45            “Ursprung ist das Ziel”: Anton Webern’s Reception of Karl Kraus – Jerry M. Cain – University of Iowa

12:15 LUNCH

Saturday Afternoon Sessions
Dr. James Borders (University of Michigan), Chair

1:45 – 3:15: Music at Court

1:45            Expressions of power and meaning in Jacob et Rachel by Jacquet de la Guerre – Lisa Hooper

2:15            Music (Un)maketh the (Wo)man: Anne Boleyn’s Musical Reputation from the Scepter to the Scaffold – Nicole Ottjes, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

2:45            Marching to the Beat of a Different Drummer: An Ethnographic History of Timpanists in Early Modern England, 1542-1660 – Andrew R. Martin, University of Minnesota

3:15 BREAK

3:30 – 5:00: Music, Theater, Ritual

3:30            “Tout, dans ses charmes, est dangereux:” Physical and Musical Gestures in French Pantomime, 1748-1773 – Sin-yan Hedy Law, University of Chicago

4:00            Conceiving a National Opera: Weber as Novelist and Critic – Kevin Burke, University of Cincinnati

4:30            Viezzer's Passio: an example of self-produced oratorio in late twentieth-century Italy – Francesco Dalla Vecchia, University of Iowa

5:00 Business Meeting (Election of Officers)

5:30 Hora Felix

SUNDAY, APRIL 9
Dr. Craig B. Parker (Kansas State University), Chair

9:15–12 Noon Music in the Americas

9:15            “Into my Blood”: Louis Armstrong the Singer – James D. Leach, Boston University

9:45            Juan Bautista Plaza, Venezuelan Musicological Pioneer – Marie Elizabeth Labonville, Illinois State University

10:15            Walter Kaufmann and the Winnipeg Ballet: A Fruitful Collaboration Quickly Forgotten – Albrecht Gaub, A-R Editions

10:45 Break

11:00–12 Noon Immigrant Musicians in Germany

11:00            “Even Uncle Sam Has His Little Heart and Can Produce Good Artists”: An Unsung American Opera Pioneer – Luis Fernando Lopes, Indiana University

11:30           The Venetian Diaspora of Music and Musicians at the Dresden Court, 1717-1733 – Robert Torres, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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