AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

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...

It is only August, but the Fall term will be here before we know it! So, here's a few items of note for the Fall. And do remember to send conference announcements (and other relevant information) that you think might be of interest to ams.newengland@gmail.com --Rebecca Marchand CALL FOR PAPERS: AMS-NE Fall Chapter Meeting at Clark University Call for Papers AMS-NE Fall 2014 The Fall 2014 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday, 4 October 2014 at Clark University in Worcester, MA. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 30-minute papers and for roundtable sessions. Abstracts should be submitted by Sunday, 24 August 2014 via email to jsholes at 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. Please refer to the AMS abstract gu...

AMS-NE Chapter Meeting Saturday, May 3, 2014 Providence College (RI) Ji Yeon Lee, “Tristan und Isolde and Francesca da Rimini: An Intertextual Reading” Wagner’s· Tristan und Isolde ·(1865) and Zandonai’s· Francesca da Rimini ·(1914) share important musical and dramatic similarities. Wagner and Zandonai’s compositional languages are both characterized by chromatic harmony and goal-driven mobility, although the latter’s approach is naturally more radical. Both plots portray illegitimate romance and uncontrollable passion leading the protagonists to fatal ends; furthermore,·Francesca’s narrative—drawn from “Inferno” of Dante’s La Divina Commedia—invokes·Tristan at key points. In Act 1, a minstrel recounts the Tristan story; “Isolde” is mentioned during the ladies-in-waiting scene in Act 3, as an analogy for Francesca; in the same act, Paolo’s “Daylight is my enemy, the night is my friend” recalls phrases from the Act 2 love duet of Tristan . · Beyond surface similarities,...

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...

Posted on behalf of the Beethoven Research Center at Boston University --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Beethoven Research Center at Boston University presents Beethoven's String Quartet in A Minor, op. 132: New Perspectives, A Symposium, Open Workshop, Public Lecture, and Performance April 8-9, 2014 William Kinderman, Professor of Music and Germanic Studies, University of Illinois David Levy, Professor of Music & Associate Dean for Faculty Governance, Wake Forest University Lewis Lockwood, Distinguished Senior Scholar; Co-Director, Beethoven Research Center Jeremy Yudkin, Professor of Music; Co-Director, Beethoven Research Center Peter Zazofsky, Professor of Violin, Muir String Quartet Tuesday, April 8, 2-5 PM  The Marshall Room, 855 Commonwealth Ave. SYMPOSIUM ON OP. 132 with William Kinderman, David Levy, Jeremy Yudkin, and Lewis Lockwood Wednesday, April 9, 12-2 PM  The Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth A...

 The Spring 2014 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday, 3 May 2014 at Providence College. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 30-minute papers and for roundtable sessions. Abstracts should be submitted by Monday, 31 March 2014 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, B oston University, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, 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 for the musicological community, in language that is accessible to scholars with a variety of specia...

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...