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SSCM 2010 Conference schedule

 

Thursday, March 4

noon-5pm

Registration in the Shepherd School of Music (SSOM), Foyer

1:15-2:30pm

Meeting of JSCM Board, SSOM, Room 1705

1:15-2:30pm

Meeting of WLSCM Board, SSOM Conference Room

2:45-4:45pm

Meeting of the SSCM Governing Board, SSOM, Room 1705

5-7pm

Opening reception with food and drinks in SSOM, Foyer

7-9pm

Dance Workshop led by Yvonne Kendall with musical accompaniment by Mercury Baroque (www.mercurybaroque.org), 7-9pm in SSOM, Hirsch rehearsal hall

 

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Friday, March 5

8:30-9am

Pastries & coffee in the Shepherd School of Music (SSOM), Foyer

9am-noon

PAPER SESSION I in SSOM, Duncan Recital Hall: ENGLISH VOICES AND STRINGS. Chair: Linda P. Austern (Northwestern University)

            9:00-9:40am

Graham Freeman (University of Toronto, Canada)
“Upon the lute doth ravish human sense”: John Dowland and the Culture of Orality in Early Modern England

            9:40-10:20am

Loren Ludwig (University of Virginia)
“These things were never made for words”: The Instrumental Wit of William Lawes’ Music for Viol Consort

            10:20-10:40am

Break

            10:40-11:20am

Carlo Lanfossi (University of Pavia, Italy)
Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex in Seventeenth-Century Opera: From La regina Floridea (Milan, 1670) to Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (London, 1705)

            11:20am-noon

Stacey Jocoy (Texas Tech University)
“You Noble Diggers”: A Seventeenth-Century Musical Contrafact and Its Significance in the History of English Radical Song

noon-2pm

Lunch and formal business meeting in SSOM, Foyer

2-5pm

PAPER SESSION II in SSOM, Duncan Recital Hall

 

SHORT SESSION A: MUSIC AND IMAGERY, I. Chair: Georgia Cowart (Case Western Reserve University)

            2:00-2:40pm

David Schulenberg (Wagner College)
Artistes in Rome: Froberger, Poussin, and the Modes of Music and Painting

            2:40-3:20pm

Elizabeth Weinfield (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Performance, or Self-Promotion?: Giorgione, Watteau, and the Politics of Music Making

            3:20-3:40pm

Break

 

SHORT SESSION B: LOVE AND HATE. Chair: Rose Pruiksma (Lewiston, Maine)

            3:40-4:20pm

Kaneez Munjee (Stanford University)
“Eurydice’s Silence”: The Absent Female Voice in the French Orpheus Cantatas

            4:20-5:00pm

Brian Oberlander (Northwestern University)
The Rhetoric of Witchcraft in Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Mors Saülis et Jonathae, H. 304

8-10pm

Concert 1: Ensemble Caprice (www.ensemblecaprice.com) at Christ the King Lutheran Church

 

 

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Saturday, March 6

8:30-9am

Pastries & coffee in the Shepherd School of Music (SSOM), Foyer

9am-noon

PAPER SESSION III in SSOM, Duncan Recital Hall: VIRTUOSITY AND MECHANICITY. Chair: John Suess (Case Western Reserve University)

            9:00-9:40am

Jeremy Grall (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
The Significance of Kapsberger’s Partite sulla folia in the Evolution of the Folia

            9:40-10:20am

Patrick Wood Uribe (Princeton University)
“He plaid on that single Instrument a full Consort”: Thomas Baltzar’s Polyphonic Music for Solo Violin

            10:20-10:40am

Break

            10:40-11:20am

Kimberly Parke (Mahidol University, Thailand)
“Bodies without soules, sweete substances without sense”: Automatic Birds in the Early Modern Pleasure Garden

            11:20am-noon

Daniel Zuluaga (University of Southern California)
¿Hay quien me quiera comprar castañas?: Matheo Bezón’s 1599 alfabeto Songbook and the Erotic Spanish Lyric Tradition in Notated Guitar Song

noon-1pm

Concert 2: Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles, Matthew Dirst & Ars Lyrica (www.arslyricahouston.org) with Phillip Kloeckner (http://music.rice.edu/facultybios/kloeckner.shtml), organ, in SSOM, Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall

1-2pm

Box lunch in SSOM, Foyer

2-5pm

PAPER SESSION IV in SSOM, Duncan Recital Hall

 

SHORT SESSION: PATRONAGE ISSUES. Chair: Frederick K. Gable (University of California, Riverside)

            2:00-2:40pm

Andrew H. Weaver (Catholic University of America)
Putting Words in the Emperor’s Mouth: Representations of Emperor Ferdinand III in a Milanese Motet Anthology

            2:40-3:20pm

Arne Spohr (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, Germany)
“Was hört man da vor Seytenspiel / Orpheus nicht dabey gleichen will”: The Hamburg Huldigung (1603) and its Musical Consequences

            3:20-3:40pm

Break

 

SPECIAL SESSION: GUEST SPEAKER. Chair: Gregory S. Johnston, Chair, American Heinrich Schütz Society (University of Toronto)

            3:40-5:00pm

Prof. Dr. Walter Werbeck (Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald, Germany),
President, International Heinrich Schütz Society

The Present State of Seventeenth-Century Music Research in Germany

7-8pm

Cocktails in SSOM, Foyer

8-10pm

Banquet in SSOM, Foyer

 

 

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Sunday, March 7

8:30-9am

Pastries & coffee in the Shepherd School of Music (SSOM), Foyer

9am-noon

PAPER SESSION V in SSOM, Duncan Recital Hall

 

SHORT SESSION A: MUSICAL MIGRATIONS. Chair: George Torres (Lafayette College)

            9:00-9:40am

Graham Sadler (University of Hull, United Kingdom)
The West Wind Blows North: Marc-Antoine Charpentier and the “Zefiro” Bass

            9:40-10:20am

Anita Hardeman (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Travels with Hésione: The tragédie en musique Outside Paris

            10:20-10:40am

Break

 

SHORT SESSION B: MUSIC AND IMAGERY, II. Chair: Robert Holzer (Yale University)

            10:40-11:20am

Beverly Stein (California State University at Los Angeles)
Stormy Weather: Water as an Erotic Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century Italian Music

            11:20am-noon

Michele Cabrini (Hunter College, City University of New York)
Witness to the Execution: The Role of the Composer as Narrator in French Cantatas on Judith.

 

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Mauro Calcagno (Stony Brook University), chair

Olivia Bloechl (University of California at Los Angeles)

Alexander Fisher (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Christine Jeanneret (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Barbara Russano-Hanning (City University of New York)

 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZER:

Gregory Barnett (Rice University)