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...

PAUL CREATIVE ARTS CENTER, Rm. M-223 University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH) Saturday, September 23, 2017 Campus Maps/Directions (Abstracts and bios posted as they become available) ------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00-10:30 Refreshments and Registration 10:30  Welcome 10:35   The Perceptual Origin of the Sublime in György Ligeti's Violin Concerto (Daniel Fox, Graduate Center, CUNY) This paper positions the sublime in György Ligeti’s Violin Concerto in relation to three reference points: 1) Jerome Carroll’s argument for a conception of the sublime in art “as a navigation of the boundaries of representation and meaning,” 2) Max Paddison’s suggestion that, in art, the sublime is a moment of political resistance that can lead to a rearrangement of the symbolic order, and 3) the recent call by Peter Edwards for a renewed consideration of the influence of Adorno’s conception of musique informelle and historical thinking on Liget...