AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

AMS-NE Winter Chapter Meeting February 20, 2016  Fuller Music Center , Rm. 021  The Hartt School 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration  Morning Session 10:15 Welcome 10:20 Why Striggio W as Not on Monteverdi’s Side: Orfeo (1607), Academy Culture, and the Staging of the “ Artusi C ontroversy” Joel Schwindt (The Boston Conservatory) Musicologists have addressed various aspects of the "Monteverdi-Artusi Controversy," including compositional philosophy (Palisca 1985, Carter 1992, Ossi 2003, etc. ), court politics (Siegele 1994), gender (Cusick 1993), and religious philosophy (Carter 2012). Yet to be considered, however, is how certain academic discourses that paralleled this polemic were essentially "staged" through the production of Orfeo in 1607 for the Mantuan Accademia degli Invaghiti (of which librettist Alessandro Striggio the Younger was a member). The academy members' writings on music—including a long dichiarazone ...

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...