AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

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! ...

AMS-NE Fall Chapter Meeting October 4, 2014 Clark University Traina Center for the Arts ( Directions and Campus Map ) 10:00-10:35 Refreshments and Registration (Annual Dues $10--exact change appreciated!) Morning Session 10:35 Welcome 10:40    New Sonic Landscapes: Otto Luening, Ferruccio Busoni, and Electronic Music Erinn Knyt (University of Massachusetts Amherst)   Erinn Knyt is currently an assistant professor of music history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.   She received her B.A. in Music with highest honors from the University of California, Davis in 2003, an M.M. in Music from Stanford University in 2007, and a Ph.D. in Music and Humanities from Stanford University in 2010. Knyt received a Mellon Fellowship for her dissertation research and has an article that explores Busoni's idiosyncratic compositional process in the Journal of Musicology. Her article, Ferruccio Busoni and the Absol...