AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

  AMS-NE Winter Chapter Meeting Saturday, February 4th, 2017 Slosberg Recital Hall Brandeis University Waltham, MA 9:30-10:00       Refreshments and Registration Morning Session: Gateways to Perception 10:00               Welcome 10:05                John Klaess (Yale University),  Music and Race in the Emergence of the "Urban Contemporary" Format, 1977-1987 In the early 1980s, radio industry commentators noted the arrival of a new station format, suggestively tit led "Urban Contemporary." Stations employing this format--a mix of classic and new R & B, disco, and fun k, book -ended by weekend rap programs--rose to prominence in several major markets.  By 1982, two Urban Contemporary stations competed for highest-rated station in New York City. Yet commenta...

The Winter 2017 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on  Saturday, February 4th , at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 30-minute papers and for roundtable sessions. All abstracts are subject to blind review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged and welcome. Abstracts should be submitted by  Sunday, December 11th, 2016  via email to  jschwindt@ bostonconservatory.edu , or by mail to Joel Schwindt, AMS-NE Program Chair, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, 8 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02215. Please refer to the AMS abstract guidelines: “Proposals should represent the presentation as fully as possible. A successful proposal typically articulates the main aspects of the argument or research findings clearly, positions the author’s contribution with respect to previous scholarship, an...

Please note: Bios & Abstracts will be added as they become available. The meeting will take place in the Earle Recital Hall (Sage Hall , First Floor) at Smith College. Maps/Directions/Parking info are found under the Upcoming Meetings tab . ------------ 9:30-10:00 a.m.       Refreshments and Registration 10:00 a.m.           Welcome Morning Session: The Dynamic Canon   10:05 a.m.    
 "Surface and Depth": Beneath the Reception of Rudolph Reti's Thematic Process, A Mid-Century Interdisciplinary Theory of Music Eric Elder (Brandeis University) The place of Rudolph Reti’s 1951 book, The Thematic Process in Music , has been greatly understated in considerations of the history and development of current streams of musical thought. While frequently included in such outlines, the work’s long reception history, stretching from Vincent Persichetti (1951) and Alvin Bauman (1952) to Peter Ki...

Call for Papers: AMS-NE Fall 2016 Smith College (Northampton, MA) October 1st, 2016 Submission deadline: August 19th, 2016 The Fall 2016 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday, October 1st, 2016 at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 30-minute papers and for roundtable sessions.  All abstracts are subject to blind review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged and welcome. Abstracts should be submitted by Friday, August 19th, 2016 via email to jschwindt at bostonconservatory dot edu, or by mail to Joel Schwindt, AMS-NE Program Chair, The Boston Conservatory, 8 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02215.  Please refer to the AMS abstract guidelines: “Proposals should represent the presentation as fully as possible. A successful proposal typically articulates the main aspects of the argument or researc...

We had an outstanding group of papers that were submitted for the 2015-2016 Hollace Anne Schafer Memorial Award . The award is presented annually by the AMS-NE for the best scholarly paper read by a graduate student at a chapter meeting. The full details and requirements, as well as a list of recent winners, can be found here . This year's committee selected Kirill Zikanov (Yale University) as this year's award recipient for his paper "Glinka's Three Models of Instrumental Music," delivered at our Winter 2016 meeting at Hartt School of Music. Congratulations to Kirill, and many thanks to all those who submitted their papers for consideration! We encourage graduate students in the chapter to keep this award in mind and to submit proposals for chapter meetings. CFPs for each meeting are posted here, our Facebook page , and to our mailing list via GoogleGroups.

The following is an alphabetical list of AMS-NE presenters , abstracts, and bios for the Joint Meeting of the NECMT and AMS-NE on April 8-9 at MIT, program here . If information is missing, it is because it is not yet available. Melody Chapin (Tufts University) Opera and Modernity in Brazil: Camargo Guarnieri and Mário de Andrade's  Pedro Malazarte   The ethnomusicologist Gerard Béhague defined Brazilian modernism as coinciding with Brazilian nationalism whereby a musical brasilidade was developed by shedding European influences and legacies. Yet a modernist work such as the one-act comic opera Pedro Malazarte (1932) offers a different account of early twentieth-century Brazilian national style. This paper argues that the composer Camargo Guarnieri and the librettist Mário de Andrade hybridized, rather than rejected, European heritage with national musical traditions. Their one-act comic opera aspires to bring the traditional character of Malazarte...