AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

Bios and abstracts are posted as they become available and will be edited for length. Exact location and parking information will be posted soon. Location : Brooks Music Center Concert Hall, second floor (No. 2 opposite St. Joseph Memorial Chapel on this map ). Parking: Visitors may park in the Loyola Lot (closest) or above the Hogan Center (Gate 7) 
 NOTE! At the meeting we will be  holding  elections for Secretary/Treasurer and for one of our two student representative positions . Please send nominations to Jacqueline Sholes at jsholes at ccsu.edu not later than 5 PM on Thursday, 4/25. Self-nominations welcome. Thank you! 
 9:45-10:15       Refreshments and Registration in Brooks 133 (first floor) Morning Session 10:15  Welcome 10:20  Antonio Cesti and Musical Convention: The Uses and Limits of Voice-Leading Schemas in His Operas – Kyle Masson (Princeton University) 10:50  Cantopop and Speech-Melody Co...

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...