AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

  If you plan to participate in this virtual meeting, please register (for free) in advance at this link: https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/ register/tJMld- irpjIjG9OtYGyavj-U-T8CeFvUrFOz Program (all times listed below are EDT)  ABSTRACTS AND BIOS 9:30-9:45AM  Welcoming Remarks 9:45AM-11:15AM  Session #1  (session c0-chairs: Zachary Stewart and Renée Becker, Yale University) Mary Greer (Cambridge, Massachusetts): "Hercules the Serpent-throttler as Model for Christ the Serpent-trampler: Overlooked Parallels between 'Hercules at the Crossroads" (BWV 213) and Bach's  Christmas Oratorio "  McKay Perry (University of Massachusetts Amherst): "'Amphion's Warbling Strings': A Case Study of Mythical Music in English Madrigals" Emily Korzeniewski (Yale University): "Machaut's Notations in Flux: The Chansons of the  Remede de Fortune " 11:15AM-11:30AM  Coffee Break #1 11:30AM-12:30PM  Session #2  (session chair: Philip Bixby, Yale University)...

AMS-NE Fall Chapter Meeting September 28, 2013 Bezanson Recital Hall, Fine Arts Center University of Massachusetts Amherst 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session        10:15    Welcome 10:20    New Instruments, New Sounds, and New Musical Laws: Ferruccio Busoni, Edgard Varèse, and the “Music of the Future”         Erinn Knyt (University of Massachusetts Amherst) 11:00    The English Voyage of Pietrobono         Evan MacCarthy (College of the Holy Cross) 11:40     A Late Blossom: Torquato Tasso’s Lyric Poems and Neapolitan Madrigal Culture         Emiliano Ricciardi (University of Massachusetts Amherst) 12:20-2:00    Lunch Break 2:00-2:30      Business Meeting Afternoon Session 2:30      Masse...

Please join us at Distler Hall, Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center at Tufts University this Saturday for the Winter 2013 Meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society. Refreshments begin at 9:45am. In addition to a wide variety of paper topics, this meeting will include the option of visiting the Lilly Library and Ritter Special Collections during lunch; tours are available, and food and drink are permitted. Directions and Parking info can be found here . ---- Program: 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:15 Welcome 10:20 Triple Threat: Ida Rubinstein as Patron, Impresario, and Director (Louis Epstein, Harvard University) 11:00 Music and the Pirates of Madagascar (Basil Considine, Boston University) 11:40 Copland, Mahler, and the American Sound (Matthew Mugmon, Harvard University) 12:20-2:20 Lunch Break (The Lilly Library and Ritter Special Collections (downstairs) are open to visitors during this time; tours...