AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

 The Fall 2021 Meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will take place virtually on Saturday, October 2nd, hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst. If you plan to participate in this virtual meeting, please register (for free) in advance at this link . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Chapter meeting on October 2, 2021 (including the Zoom link for the meeting). PROGRAM  (Full program with abstracts and bios as provided as of 9/18 available here as a pdf). All times listed below are EDT. 10:15 - 10:30 AM  Welcoming Remarks 10:30 - 12:00 PM MORNING SESSION "For Your Eyes Only? Optical Illusion and Offstage Music in Nineteenth-Century Europe" -  Feng-Shu Lee (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) "Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin  as Modern Symbolist Opera" - Madison Spahn "Stockhausen's Weltmusik  at the Crossroads of Serialism and Postwar U...

 For the full program with linked abstracts and bios, please click here . Full abstracts and bios here.  Registration info is at the bottom of this post. AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER Spring 2021 Meeting Virtual Meeting hosted by University of Massachusetts Amherst SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2020 Program (all times listed below are EDT)   10:15-10:30AM            Welcoming Remarks  (ZOOM)   10:30AM-12:00PM       Morning Session (ZOOM)  “Reassessing Eichheim’s Oriental Music: Some Preliminary Remarks” Richard Mueller (Willington, Connecticut) “Monteverdi and Striggio’s  Orfeo : Modern Music, for a Pre-modern Play” Joel Schwindt (Boston Conservatory at Berklee) “‘The soul of man is a limpid wave’: Liszt, Lamartine, and  Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude ” Andrew Haringer (Saint Anselm College)  12:00PM-1:15PM         Lunc...

 The Spring 2020-2021 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday, May 15, 2021. It will be hosted virtually by the Department of Music & Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; details and Zoom link will follow with the program announcement in late April. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers and for roundtable sessions or workshops (pedagogical, performative, and/or scholarly). All abstracts are subject to blind review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and students are all encouraged and welcome. Abstracts should be submitted by  Friday, April 16, 2021, to Mark DeVoto: mdevoto -at- granite dot tufts dot edu. Please refer to the AMS guidelines: “Proposals should represent the presentation as fully as possible. A successful proposal typically articulates the main aspects of the argument or research findings clearly, positions the author’s ...

Elections for the Chapter will be held on Saturday, April 21st at the Business Meeting. Voting will be conducted by paper ballot. The slate of nominees is as follows: President Jacquelyn Sholes (re-election) Program Chair Karen Cook (The Hartt School/University of Hartford) Student Representatives (vote for 1) Miklós Veszprémi (Yale University) Cat Slowik (Yale University) Eric Elder (Brandeis University) Offices are described in Article V of the Chapter Bylaws . The program for Saturday's meeting is here .

AMS-NE Spring Chapter Meeting Saturday, April 21st, 2018 University of Massachusetts at Amherst Room N610, Life Science Laboratories Building (LSL) Amherst, MA **Will be updated with bios and abstracts as they become available.** 9:15 - 9:45 a.m.  Refreshments and Registration Morning Session: French identity, Identifying as French 9:45 a.m.                Welcome 
 10:00 a.m. "American Perspectives on the Fauré Centennial, 1945: The Writings of Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, and Irving Fine” Heather DeSavage (University of Connecticut) Heather de Savage holds a Ph.D. in music history and theory from the University of Connecticut. Her primary research considers Gabriel Fauré’s American reception, with a focus on activities in Boston; she has presented portions of this research, and her work on biblical exegesis in the late motets of Heinrich Schütz, at numerous conferences. Publications include items for...

The Spring 2018 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday, 21 April 2018 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The Program Committee 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 encouraged and welcome. Abstracts should be submitted before midnight on Sunday, 11 March 2018 via email to jschwindt at berklee dot edu or by mail to Joel Schwindt, AMS-NE Program Chair, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, 8 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02215. Please refer to the AMS abstract guidelines: “Proposals should represent the presentation as fully as possible. A successful proposal typically articulates the main aspects of the argument or research findings clearly, positions the author’s contribution with respect to previous scholarship, and suggests the paper’s significance fo...

For those of you attending the AMS-NE Spring meeting this Saturday or NECMT , you may be interested in a number of opportunities taking place in the 5-college area. Friday, April 7  -  7:30-9:00pm Mount Holyoke College Glee Club and Chamber Singers - “Journeys” Abbey Chapel, Mount Holyoke College https://www.mtholyoke.edu/even ts/66592/glee-club-and-chamber -singers-present-journeys Saturday, April 8  -  5:00-6:30pm Mount Holyoke College Faculty Baroque: “April in Paris" McCulloch Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Court airs by Bataille and Sebastien le Camus, a cantata by Clérambeault, instrumental music by Leclair, Couperin and others. Robert Eisenstein directs. Saturday, April 8  -  7:30-9:30pm Springfield Symphony Orchestra - “Nights in the Gardens of Spain” http://www.springfieldsymphony .org/concerts-events/event/04/ 08/2017/nights-in-the-gardens- of-spain Sunday, April 9  - 4:00-6:00p m G...

AMS-NE Chapter Meeting Saturday, September 28, 2013 University of Massachusetts Amherst Erinn Knyt, " New Instruments, New Sounds, and New Musical Laws:   Ferruccio Busoni, Edgard Varèse, and the “Music of the Future”" The disparity between Edgard Varèse’s early European compositions, described in Romantic or Impressionistic terms by those who heard them, and his experimental American compositions has contributed to the widespread assumption that Varèse reinvented himself after encountering the sights and sounds of New York. When composers are named as sources of influence, Richard Strauss and Claude Debussy are most frequently mentioned. Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky sometimes follow. While these composers undoubtedly influenced Varèse, especially with regard to his harmonic choices and use of episodic structures, they did not provide models for more characteristic features of his experimental compositional style: rhythmic simultaneity, expansion of the tonal...