DEADLINE FOR SPRING
2006 ELECTION:
Vote must be received by 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time) on 6 April 2006.
Dear Member of the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society,
Listed below are the names of two candidates for the positions of Chapter Representative and President. Members in good standing may vote by e-mail or mail. Send a ballot via e-mail to the President, Scott Messing <messing@alma.edu> or to the same person via U.S. mail at Department of Music, Alma College, Alma MI 48801. Members may also vote if they are present at the business meeting at the Spring Conference in Indianapolis on Saturday, April 8. Short biographical sketches are appended below.
2006 AMS MIDWEST CHAPTER BALLOT
(copy and paste the text below into your email, mark your selections)
Chapter Representative (to the AMS Council, 2-year term), vote for one
___ C. Matthew Balensuela
___ Stephanie P. Schlagel
Chapter President (2-year term), vote for one
___ Mary Natvig
___ Mark Clague
Email to <messing@alma.edu>
Nominees for Chapter Representative:
C. Matthew Balensuela is an assistant professor at DePauw University. He has served as Secretary of the AMS Midwest chapter, and on the chapter's program committee. His interests are in the history of music theory and his research has appeared in the New Grove and Acta musicologica. The University of Nebraska Press has published his critical edition of the Ars cantus mensurabilis mensurata per modos iuris.
Stephanie P. Schlagel is an associate professor of musicology at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on the posthumous reception of the music of Josquin des Prez. Her work has been published in Journal of Musicology and Notes and a volume of music is currently in production with A-R Editions. A viola da gamba and recorder player, she also directs early music activities at CCM. She has served on numerous committees at the University of Cincinnati, including one that established a university-wide General Education Program, and is a member of the board of the early music ensemble Catacoustic Consort. She is looking forward to participating actively in the professional organizations of our discipline.
Nominees for President:
Mary Natvig is associate professor of music at Bowling Green State University. She received her doctorate in musicology with a minor in theory from the Eastman School of Music. Her research areas include the music and culture of the fifteenth-century composer Antoine Busnoys, music and liturgy in convents in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and women in music. She has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences. She is the author of Teaching Music History, published by Ashgate Publishers, and has chapters published by Oxford University Press and the University of California Press. She performs on modern and Baroque violin and directs the BGSU Early Music Ensemble.
Mark Clague (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Assistant Professor of Musicology and American Culture at the University of Michigan, where he serves as Associate Director of the American Music Institute. He worked for two years at the Center for Black Music Research in Chicago and for six years as Executive Editor of the AMS critical editions project, Music of the United States of America (MUSA). His first book, Culture at the Crossroads: The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams and Music in the Virgin Islands will be published by the University of California Press in 2007. A second book, Chicago Counterpoint: Music and the Civic Imagination, is forthcoming and is based on his dissertation of the same title that won the Housewright Dissertation Prize of the Society for American Music. His research interests center on the social function of music and include patriotic music, film music, copyright and creativity, cultural institutions, instructional technology, and music editing. His articles appear in American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and he has presented talks for academic societies including the AMS and its Midwest Chapter, National Association of Schools of Music, Society for American Music, American Studies Association, Michigan Music Educators Conference and schools such as the Peabody Institute, Bowling Green State University, and the University of Southern California (April 2006). Mark has served as webmaster for the AMS Midwest Chapter for six years. If elected, his primary initiative would be to develop programs to increase participation in Chapter events. Mark plays bassoon.
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