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American Musicological Society, Midwest Chapter Meeting

24–25 March 2007

Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Program
Saturday, March 24, 9:45-11:45 a.m.

Session I: Operatic Subjects
Effie Papanikolauo, Miami University, Chair

Heather Foote, University of Iowa
“A Bombastic Baritone and Scheming Soprano: Unconventional Characters in Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff”

Shinobu Yoshida, University of Michigan
“Puccini's Exotic Women?: Subverting Conventions of the Tragic Heroine”

Maria Cristina Fava, Eastman School of Music
“Transforming Text: Weill’s Use of Circularity as a Framing Device”

Melinda Boyd,  College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
“Unmasking the Ballroom Scene in Thea Musgrave’s Mary, Queen of Scots”

Sat. 12:00–2:00 p.m.
Group Lunch

Sat. 2:15–4:15 p.m.
Session II: Keynote Address and Panel
Dr. Charles Atkinson, The Ohio State University
President of the American Musicological Society
“Musicology  Today and Tomorrow”

Sat. 4:30 p.m.
Business Meeting

Sunday, March 25, 9:00–11:00 a.m.

Session III: Reassessing Analysis

Lynn Kane, Wheaton College
“The Influence of Basso Continuo Practice on the Late Eighteenth-Century Lied”

Julie Hedges Brown, Oberlin Conservatory
“The style hongrois and Schumann's Formal Experiments of 1842”

Ryan Ross University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“'Night and Day': New Thoughts on the Conclusion to Mahler's Seventh Symphony”

Sun. 11:15 a.m.–12:45 p.m.

Session IV: Religious Topoi

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

Christopher Urbiel
“A House Divided May Indeed Stand:  Edward Elgar’s Roman Catholic Motets and Anglican Anthems”

American Institutions

Jane Riegel Ferencz, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
“Music for Wisconsin: The WPA Federal Music Project in Madison”

Mark D. Porcaro,  Muskegon, MI
“Beatlemania Magically Recreated: Hyperreality and Tribute Bands in the United States"

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