AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

 The Fall 2021 Meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will take place virtually on Saturday, October 2nd, hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst. If you plan to participate in this virtual meeting, please register (for free) in advance at this link . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Chapter meeting on October 2, 2021 (including the Zoom link for the meeting). PROGRAM  (Full program with abstracts and bios as provided as of 9/18 available here as a pdf). All times listed below are EDT. 10:15 - 10:30 AM  Welcoming Remarks 10:30 - 12:00 PM MORNING SESSION "For Your Eyes Only? Optical Illusion and Offstage Music in Nineteenth-Century Europe" -  Feng-Shu Lee (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) "Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin  as Modern Symbolist Opera" - Madison Spahn "Stockhausen's Weltmusik  at the Crossroads of Serialism and Postwar U...

AMS-NE Fall Chapter Meeting February 22, 2020 New England Conservatory -- Pierce Hall ( Directions and Parking ) 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:15 Welcome 10:20 Josquin’s Nymphes des bois and Lament Literature – Jeannette Di Bernardo Jones (College of the Holy Cross) Josquin’s Nymphes des bois is among the earliest polyphonic laments for musicians and joins poetic laments written honoring Jean de Okeghem after his death in February 1497. Musicologists have debated three problems surrounding this piece: its dating, its polytextuality, and its appearance in all-black notation in its sources. I address these issues by placing Josquin’s lament in a conversation with the existing poetic laments for Okeghem, namely Guillaume Crétin’s Déploration and Jean Molinet’s pair of poems, one of which is the French text Nymphes des bois in Josquin’s setting. I argue that Nymphes des bois , both Molinet’s poem and Josquin’s lament, is part of a larger ...

LOCATION at Amherst College Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI) Robert Frost Library,  2nd floor 61 Quadrangle Amherst, MA 01002  The entrance to the Library is from Quadrangle Drive (south end of the building).  More info regarding parking HERE Details as to specifics (hall/rooms, parking) will be posted as they become available. Bios, photos, and abstracts are posted as available. -------------------- 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:15 Welcome 10:20 From Poem to Dance via Music: Departures and Convergences in Jonathan Taylor’s Transfigured Night Nona Monahin (Mount Holyoke College) Richard Dehmel’s 1896 “Verklärte Nacht” (Transfigured Night), a poem centered on a crisis of confidence in a couple’s relationship, inspired composer Arnold Schoenberg’s string sextet of the same title (1899; arranged for string orchestra in 1917 and revised in 1943), which in turn inspired numerous choreographic versions. In this p...

AMS-NE Winter Chapter Meeting
 February 23, 2019 
Pendleton West 101 / Sargent Concert Salon
--Wellesley College ( Parking Info and Campus Map ) 
9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session
 10:15 Welcome 10:20 “Me at Last, Me at Last!”: Black Artists Freeing Themselves From Country Music’s 
“White Avatar” – Joel Schwindt (Boston Conservatory at Berklee) Mainstream country music has long been branded a “white” genre, even though this identity is based on ahistorical constructs that downplay regular borrowings from black musical culture (Malone 2017, Nunn 2010, Manuel 2008). This “white avatar” has even been used to justify the marginalization of black performers’ racial identity, most infamously in the refusal of Charley Pride’s label to include a photo in the singer’s promotional materials during the first two years of his career. This “hegemony of vision” (McCrary 1993), however, has been challenged by two emerging black singers, Kane Brown and Jimmie Alle...

AMS-NE Winter Chapter Meeting Saturday, February 24th, 2018 Lyons Hall, rm. 423  Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA Photo Source: https://www.bc.edu/offices/its/support/mts/classroomsupport/classrooms/lyons.html DIRECTIONS PARKING CAMPUS MAP 8:45 - 9:15 a.m. Refreshments and Registration Morning Session: The politics of music’s transmission 9:15 a.m. Welcome 9:20 a.m. "Hannibal Lokumbe’s One Land, One River, One People as Political Resistance”   Benjamin Safran (Temple University) Hannibal Lokumbe’s identity markers and presentation make him the ultimate outsider within the classical music world. Born in the segregated south as Marvin Peterson and known mononymously as Hannibal, during a residency with the Philadelphia Orchestra he has so far created music for black churches, prisoners, and neuro-diverse communities. Unlike some of his other projects, his large-scale work One Land, One River, One People appears on the surface to...