AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

AMS-NE Spring Chapter Meeting Saturday, April 8th, 2017 Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA Pratt Music Hall, Rm. 109 Parking and Accommodations info here . Abstracts and bios are posted as they become available. 9:30-10:00       Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:00               Welcome 10:05    Ferruccio Busoni and the Liceo musicale di Bologna : Transnationalism and Italian Musical Culture Erinn Knyt (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) When Busoni accepted the directorship of the Liceo Musical di Bologna in the spring of 1913, he assumed leadership of a well-respected music institution in Italy. Yet, his goal was not simply to direct the prestigious conservatory—he also wanted to revitalize the entire Bolognese musical scene, and with it, lay the grounds for an Italian music revival.     While the year was disappointing, as 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 ...