AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

The following is an alphabetical list of AMS-NE presenters , abstracts, and bios for the Joint Meeting of the NECMT and AMS-NE on April 8-9 at MIT, program here . If information is missing, it is because it is not yet available. Melody Chapin (Tufts University) Opera and Modernity in Brazil: Camargo Guarnieri and Mário de Andrade's  Pedro Malazarte   The ethnomusicologist Gerard Béhague defined Brazilian modernism as coinciding with Brazilian nationalism whereby a musical brasilidade was developed by shedding European influences and legacies. Yet a modernist work such as the one-act comic opera Pedro Malazarte (1932) offers a different account of early twentieth-century Brazilian national style. This paper argues that the composer Camargo Guarnieri and the librettist Mário de Andrade hybridized, rather than rejected, European heritage with national musical traditions. Their one-act comic opera aspires to bring the traditional character of Malazarte...

What follows is a snapshot of the program for the joint meeting of the   AMS-NE  and the New England Conference of Music Theorists (NECMT), which includes registration times, papers, and receptions. The full can be found  here ). Many thanks to our two program committees and special gratitude goes to Michael Scott Cuthbert  for volunteering to help merge the schedules of our two societies and for his work on laying out the joint program. We are also very indebted to Emily Richmond Pollock and Elina Hamilton for their work regarding local arrangements at MIT.  Please note that the meeting will be held on Friday-Saturday, 8-9 April at MIT;  AMS-NE  papers will be heard on Saturday only, but everyone is invited and encouraged to attend the paper sessions and the informal dinner on Friday, to be held at the house of NECMT president, Suzie Clark (please note that this is a change of location).   We look forward to seeing you at the meeting! ...

Call for Papers: AMS-NE Spring 2016 Joint Meeting of the AMS New England Chapter & New England Conference of Music Theorists MIT 8-9 April 2016 Submission deadline:  4 March 2016 The Spring 2016 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society (AMS-NE) will be held jointly with the New England Conference of Music Theorists ( NECMT ) on Friday, 8 April and Saturday, 9 April 2016 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA. NECMT papers will be programmed for both days; AMS-NE papers will be programmed for  Saturday  only, but members are encouraged to attend  on Friday  as well. The Program Committee of the AMS-NE  invites proposals of up to 300 words for 30-minute papers and for roundtable sessions. All abstracts are subject to blind review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and graduate students are all welcome. Abstracts should be submitted by  Friday, 4 M...

AMS-NE Winter Chapter Meeting February 20, 2016  Fuller Music Center , Rm. 021  The Hartt School 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration  Morning Session 10:15 Welcome 10:20 Why Striggio W as Not on Monteverdi’s Side: Orfeo (1607), Academy Culture, and the Staging of the “ Artusi C ontroversy” Joel Schwindt (The Boston Conservatory) Musicologists have addressed various aspects of the "Monteverdi-Artusi Controversy," including compositional philosophy (Palisca 1985, Carter 1992, Ossi 2003, etc. ), court politics (Siegele 1994), gender (Cusick 1993), and religious philosophy (Carter 2012). Yet to be considered, however, is how certain academic discourses that paralleled this polemic were essentially "staged" through the production of Orfeo in 1607 for the Mantuan Accademia degli Invaghiti (of which librettist Alessandro Striggio the Younger was a member). The academy members' writings on music—including a long dichiarazone ...