AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

Spring Meeting CANCELLED Due to COVID-19 Outbreak Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, Harvard University will be holding classes online for the remainder of the semester and is limiting on-campus events to twenty-five or fewer participants. For this reason, unfortunately, we are going to have to cancel the Spring 2020 AMS-NE meeting that was to be held at Harvard on 18 April. We hope to see you at our fall meeting at Clark University on 26 September and at our meeting on 13 Febru ary 2021 at Tufts University. If you have already submitted an abstract for consideration for the spring meeting, it will automatically be considered for the fall meeting unless you contact our program chair, Karen Cook (KACOOK@hartford.edu) to retract your submission. Elections for several Chapter offices were scheduled to take place at the spring meeting. We are exploring optons for conducting elections online. Please stay tuned.

AMS-NE Winter Chapter Meeting Saturday, February 21, 2015 Marshall Room, College of Fine Arts Boston University 10:00-10:35  Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:35   Welcome 10:40     “As Obscure and Unintelligible as the Warbling of Larks and Linnets”: Latent Agendas in C. P. E. Bach’s C-Minor Trio, Wq. 161/1 (H.579) Yonatan Bar-Yoshafat (Cornell University) ABSTRACT: Ever since its publication in 1751, C. P. E. Bach’s famous program trio (‘Sanguineus und Melancholicus’) has generated much debate. A quintessential example of eighteenth-century dialogue-in-tone, the work nonetheless received mixed reviews and Bach refrained from repeating it. It would be unfair to pass judgment on Bach’s contemporaries, however, since the work is not devoid of ambiguities. And yet, with only one notable exception (Mersmann, 1917), most modern reviewers tend to take Bach’s program at face-value, and interpret ...

Here is the Program for the Spring Chapter Meeting. Please note that elections will be held during the business meeting. Nominations will be taken from the floor for President Program Chair AMS Chapter Representative AMS Student Representative We will also be voting on the chapter bylaws.  Any chapter member in good standing (dues paid for the year) may vote at the meeting. The draft is posted at the chapter Google group and the open comment period ends tomorrow, 4/25: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ams-newengland PROGRAM AMS-NE Spring Chapter Meeting Saturday, May 3, 2014 Ryan Concert Hall Smith Center for the Arts at Providence College 9:45-10:15 a.m. Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:15 a.m. Welcome 10:20 a.m. Tristan und Isolde and Francesca da Rimini : An Intertextual Reading    Ji Yeon Lee (CUNY Graduate Center) 11:00 a.m. Plorer, Gemir, Crier : Musical Mourning and the Composer Jane Daphne Hatter (McGill Universit...

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...

The Fall 2013 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday, 28 September 2013 at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for papers and roundtable sessions. Abstracts should be submitted by Wednesday, 31 July 2013 via email to jsholes@bu.edu or by mail to Jacquelyn Sholes, AMS-NE Program Chair, Department of Musicology & Ethnomusicology, School of Music, College of Fine Arts, Boston University, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Presenters must be members of the American Musicological Society. Those who are not currently dues-paying members of the New England Chapter will be asked to kindly remit the modest Chapter dues ($10).

Parking/Maps/Directions Directions to Northeastern can be found at: http://www.northeastern.edu/campusmap/directions.html Parking and Transportation information from our hosts:  Guests can park in the Gainsborough Garage or the Renaissance Park Garage. The Renaissance Park garage is the closest to Ryder Hall--it is located at 835 Columbus Avenue. From the garage, you have to walk through Ruggles station to the other side of the tracks, and once you exit Ruggles station, Ryder Hall is the first building to the left. The garages are not cheap--($18-$24 for the day). If people want to give street parking a shot, they'll have better luck looking on the side streets off of Columbus." If you prefer to take public transportation, Northeastern is easily accessible via the Orange Line (Ruggles Sta.) or the Green Line (Northeastern Sta.). Printable Campus Map: http://www.northeastern.edu/campusmap/printable/campusmap.pdf Gainsborough Garage- #45 Renaissance P...

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...

With over 35 members in attendance, the Fall chapter meeting at College of the Holy Cross was a success. The papers covered a wide variety of topics including Haydn, opéra comique, chant, Schubert, Mahler, Busoni and Coltrane. Many thanks to Jessica Waldoff and Daniel DiCenso for their hospitality and organization. The following announcements were made at the business meeting: The chapter has now expanded its online presence to include the website, the blog, and the Facebook group. While the Google Groups continues to function as a mailing list, this may be switched over to a different way to maintain a mailing list that does not require subscription to the group. Important announcements (CFPs, meeting info, etc...) will be posted in all fora. Our Chapter Rep to the AMS, Michael Baumgartner, would like to hear from chapter members in regard to issues they feel might be brought to the AMS Council. In particular, he welcomes feedback regarding the proposed change to the AMS by-l...