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Spring 2008 Meeting

Western Michigan University

April 26–27, 2008

-PROGRAM-

Saturday, April 26

Sat. 9:30–11:00 a.m. • Session One

Aesthetics of Opera

• Emily Adamowicz, University of Western Ontario
  Don Giovanni: The Musical Work in Nineteenth-CenturyAesthetic Theory
• Paul Killinger, Western Illinois University
  Feminine Departures: Gestures of Power and the Suppression of Expressivity in Josef Bohuslav Foerster’s Eva
• Brian Locke, Western Illinois University
  “The End of Music”:  Modernism, Phenomenology, and Czech Operatic Aesthetics in the 1920s

Sat. 11:00–12:00 a.m. • Session Two

Music, Religion, and Society

• James Borders, The University of Michigan
  The Ritualization of Desire: Antiphons and Responsories for the Consecration of Virgins
• Richard Adams, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Genre in the Miserere: Communicating Social Values

Sat. 12:00–1:45 p.m. • Lunch (Student Lunch information TBA)

Sat. 1:45–2:45 p.m. • Session Three

Music and Cultural Questions

• Mary Paquette-Ab
  Burney’s “Historical Anthology” and the Mapping of Contemporary Cultural Terrain
• Karen Fournier, The University of Michigan
  The Social Construction of the Listener

Sat. 2:45–3:45 p.m. • Session Four

Adorno Studies

• George Harne Magdalen College, NH
  The Truth Content of Musical Works: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Relation between Analysis and Criticism
• Rebecca Bennett, Northwestern University
  Virgil Thomson and Theodor Adorno: An Unlikely Team Fights an “Appreciation Racket”

Sat. 4:00–5:00 p.m. • Keynote Address

Professor John Hill, University of Illinois
"A Small Selection from among the Many Things That I Still Do Not Know about Baroque Music"

Sat. 5:00–5:30 p.m. •  Business Meeting

Sat. 8:00 p.m. • Chapter Dinner at Gallagher’s Eatery and Pub (4210 Stadium Drive)

Sunday, April 27

Sun. 9:00–10:30 a.m. • Session Five

Popular Music and Jazz

• Julio Gozalez-Appling, Tiffin University
  The Ox in the Concert Hall: Jazz Identity and La Création du monde
• Brian D. Hoffman, Cincinnati College-Conservatory
  If I Loved You:  Problems and Solutions in the First-Act Love Songs of Richard Rodgers
• Paul Anderson, The University of Michigan
  Jazz for Lovers: The Question of Mood Music in Jazz Studies

Sun. 10:45–12:15 a.m. • Session Six

Composer Studies

• Stephanie Frakes, The Ohio State University
  What’s in a Word? An Investigation into Chopin’s Cantabile
• Christopher  M. Scheer, University of Michigan-Dearborn
  “Significant Form”: Gustav Holst on the Composer and Music in the Modern World
• John Schuster-Craig, Grand Valley State University
  Self-Quotation in the Later Works of Sir Michael Tippett

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