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 Chapter Meeting Saturday, March 8, 2014 The Boston Conservatory Samantha Bassler, "John Dowland and Constructions of Melancholy as Disability in Early Modern England" In the past, scholars of early modern England considered John Dowland's lute songs as seventeenth-century examples of religious melancholy and the cult of melancholia. Recent scholarship on melancholy and music in early modern England argues that cultural thinking about melancholy evolved significantly throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, calling for a nuanced view of the relationship between early modern conceptions of melancholy and Dowland's lute songs. As Eubanks Winkler has shown, the early modern English conception of melancholy is complex; often intertwined with theories about madness, gender, and the supernatural. To navigate these complexities, I utilize disability studies and investigate melancholy as a narrative prosthesis in Dowland's lute songs, demonstrati...

Please join us for the Winter meeting of the AMS-NE at The Boston Conservatory .  The meeting will be held in STUDIO 401, located on the 4th floor of the Theater Building at 31 Hemenway Street. ** Given limited and expensive parking options in downtown Boston and Back Bay, it is recommended that you take public transit.  The nearest T-stop is Hynes Convention Center. We look forward to seeing you there! 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:15 Welcome 10:20  John Dowland and Constructions of Melancholy as Disability in Early Modern England Samantha Bassler (Rutgers University at Newark / Westminster Choir College) 11:00 A Tale of Two Walters: A New Biography of Walter “of Odington”  Elina Hamilton (Bangor University) 11:40 Memory, Trace, and Expressiveness in Chopin’s Nocturnes  Adriana Ponce (Illinois Wesleyan University) 12:20-2:00    Lunch Break 2:00-2:30    Business Meeting Afterno...