AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

The following is an alphabetical list of AMS-NE presenters , abstracts, and bios for the Joint Meeting of the NECMT and AMS-NE on April 8-9 at MIT, program here . If information is missing, it is because it is not yet available. Melody Chapin (Tufts University) Opera and Modernity in Brazil: Camargo Guarnieri and Mário de Andrade's  Pedro Malazarte   The ethnomusicologist Gerard Béhague defined Brazilian modernism as coinciding with Brazilian nationalism whereby a musical brasilidade was developed by shedding European influences and legacies. Yet a modernist work such as the one-act comic opera Pedro Malazarte (1932) offers a different account of early twentieth-century Brazilian national style. This paper argues that the composer Camargo Guarnieri and the librettist Mário de Andrade hybridized, rather than rejected, European heritage with national musical traditions. Their one-act comic opera aspires to bring the traditional character of Malazarte...

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! ...

PLEASE NOTE: This program has been revised with new times to reflect a last-minute change (9/30/15) AMS-NE Fall Chapter Meeting October 3, 2015 Amherst College Arms Music Center, Room 3 Free Weekend Parking Available in lots 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration (Chapter Dues $10: exact change appreciated) Morning Session 10:15   Welcome   10:20  Arnold Dolmetsch against Antiquarianism: The Development and Endurance of Period Instrument Revival Ideologies Maia Perez (Boston University)   Arnold Dolmetsch cut a fascinating figure in the eyes of his contemporaries: the eccentric but devoted leader of one of the first major early music revivals of the 20th century, essential to its success, and the primary force behind its dissemination. But as the century continued, his amateurism and his unshaken belief in the musical authority of a semi-mystical “performer’s insight” prevented most musicologists (and even his own studen...