AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

 For the full program with linked abstracts and bios, please click here . Full abstracts and bios here.  Registration info is at the bottom of this post. AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER Spring 2021 Meeting Virtual Meeting hosted by University of Massachusetts Amherst SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2020 Program (all times listed below are EDT)   10:15-10:30AM            Welcoming Remarks  (ZOOM)   10:30AM-12:00PM       Morning Session (ZOOM)  “Reassessing Eichheim’s Oriental Music: Some Preliminary Remarks” Richard Mueller (Willington, Connecticut) “Monteverdi and Striggio’s  Orfeo : Modern Music, for a Pre-modern Play” Joel Schwindt (Boston Conservatory at Berklee) “‘The soul of man is a limpid wave’: Liszt, Lamartine, and  Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude ” Andrew Haringer (Saint Anselm College)  12:00PM-1:15PM         Lunc...

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 ...

AMS-NE Spring Chapter Meeting Saturday, April 21st, 2018 University of Massachusetts at Amherst Room N610, Life Science Laboratories Building (LSL) Amherst, MA **Will be updated with bios and abstracts as they become available.** 9:15 - 9:45 a.m.  Refreshments and Registration Morning Session: French identity, Identifying as French 9:45 a.m.                Welcome 
 10:00 a.m. "American Perspectives on the Fauré Centennial, 1945: The Writings of Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, and Irving Fine” Heather DeSavage (University of Connecticut) Heather de Savage holds a Ph.D. in music history and theory from the University of Connecticut. Her primary research considers Gabriel Fauré’s American reception, with a focus on activities in Boston; she has presented portions of this research, and her work on biblical exegesis in the late motets of Heinrich Schütz, at numerous conferences. Publications include items for...

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...