AMS NEWSLETTER
THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY ' CONSTITUENT MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF lEARNED SOCIETIES
VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER I February I999 ISSN 0402-ouX
Kansas City-1999 was, perhaps, eclecticism: it would be diffi The sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Amer Boston-1998 cult, in most cases, to separate them into ican Musicological Society ·will be held in The Society's 64th annual meeting gave such arbitrary categories as "new" or "tra Kansas City, Missouri, from Thursday 4 many of us the feeling of a homecoming ditional." Traces of newer critical methods November through Sunday 7 November for several reasons: memories of the I98I could be found in many papers devoted to I999· The meeting will be hosted by the meeting, the number of universities in the mainstream subjects or classical problems, University of Kansas with a local arrange area, the fact that Boston feels like home while even the most postmodern topics ments committee staffed by AMS members to many intellectuals and artists regardless were presented with due regard for canons from a number of schools in the region. The of where they actually live. The setting of evidence and argumentation. Perhaps meeting will be centered at the Hyatt was lovely. The Park Plaza Hotel, although this suggests the way in which our disci Regency Crown Center, 2.345 McGee. A renovated, retains much of its old charm. pline will heal the rifts opened during the spacious, modern building located near• the It stands but a few steps from Trinity past ten or twelve years. city center, the hotel is connected by elevated Church at the foot of the Public Garden The large number of papers on nine walkways to another hotel, numerous restau and fashionable Newbury Street. Some teenth- and twentieth-century topics rants, and stores in the Crown Center, a lucky members heard the Boston Sym reflected the submission statistics. And shopping area developed by Kansas City's phony sounding its best ever, while others Americanists can feel gratified that Hallmark Cards. revisited New England Conservatory's twenty-six papers (by my count, at least) Noteworthy attractions in Kansas City Jordan Hall for a performance of the were concerned in some way with the include the renovated I 8th & Vine Historic newly recovered Der Stein der misen musical cultures of the New World. The District, location of the Kansas City Jazz (I 790) with music by W. A. Mozart. Many musical activities of women and minori Museum and site of a jazz-and-barbecue of us enjoyed lunches and dinners at the ties were reported in a considerable num evening on S November. The Nelson-Atkins Legal Seafood locations in the hotel and. ber of presentations. Museum of Art contains the eighth largest just outside its doors. We enjoyed more Mornin~. noon-times, and evenings general collection in the nation, and is com good edibles and potables at open recep were crammed with events: committee, plemented by the Kemper Museum of Con tions generously hosted by publishers and board, and society meetings; perfor temporary Art only two blocks away. Other music departments. mances; panels; study sessions; and even interesting museums include the Toy and The difficult job of selecting uS papers (the latter an unpopular innovation Miniature Museum and the "Arabia" Steam papers from among 4I7 abstracts was car that will probably not be repeated). The boat Museum. In nearby Independence, ried out with diligence and equanimity by meeting rooms seemed ample for almost American history buffS will enjoy the Harry the Program Committee, consisting of all events, and we enjoyed excellent sound S Truman Home, Library, and Museum, as Gillian Anderson, Katherine Bergeron, and visual equipment, including shining well as the National Frontier Trails Center, Scott Burnham (Chair for the upcoming new Yamaha pianos in each venue. The which commemorates the starting point of I999 meeting in Kansas City); Martha Local Arrangements Committee, co the Oregon, California, and Santa Fe Trails. Feldman, Pamela Starr, and myself as chaired by John Daverio and Helen Kansas City is also home to several excellent Chair. Greenwald, did an outstanding job. performing organizations, including the If there was a general theme or charac -:fohn Walter Hill Kansas City Symphony, Kansas City Cham ter to the program of papers this year, it ber Orchestra, Friends of Chamber Music, and Lyric Opera. During our meeting, the Lyric Opera will be performing Mozart's atures in the low sos. A raincoat and an information is available on the web page for Cosl fan tutte. A special treat is the Countty overcoat are in order. AMS 99 at
-I- Ad Hoc Committee on AMS Membership Records Programs Committee Membership Please send AMS Directory corrections At the Boston meeting the AMS Council The President would be pleased to and updates in a timely manner in voted to form an Ad Hoc Committee to hear fiom members of the Society who order tO avoid errors. Send all correc examine the procedures used by the Program would like to volunteer for committee tions, updates, membership inquiries, Committee in preparing our annual meeting. service. Interested persons should write and dues payments to University of The majority of Council members felt it to Ruth A. Solie, President, AMS, Chicago Press, Journals Division, PO might be appropriate to have a set of clear Department of Music, Smith College, Box 37005, Chicago IL 60637; 773/ procedural guidelines in place. These guide Northampton, MA 01063, and are 753-3347; fax 773/753-08II;
-2.- Presidential· Message
Having been in this office for only about encountered anyone who didn't have a *** ten days as I write, I haven't had a chance good time in the elegant ambience of the to mull over many topics that might be Park Plaza and Boston's own inimitable Energetic work is already under way appropriate to address in this space. Of atmosphere. I have heard it said that the for the I999 meeting in Kansas City, one thing I am acutely aware: I have been program gave evidence of a dulling of the which will be upon us sooner, I'm sure, fortunate enough to come into the posi critical edge of new scholarship. On the than we are prepared to imagine. What tion following on the heels of what I other hand, I have also heard the view that · may be more surprising is how far the regard as three heroic presidencies in the many of the ideas associated with that planning for the Toronto 2.000 meeting Society's history. I watched from close scholarship have now found their way has already progressed. With fifteen soci quarters as Ellen Rosand, Philip Gossett, into mainstream musicological thought; eties meeting together, and a general and then Jim Webster wresded with major issues of gender and sexuality appeared in determination to make the event more issues both planned and unplanned. As a number of papers that didn't necessarily truly interdisciplinary than past joint you all know, a series of emergencies and wear those labels, politics and ideology meetin~ have sometimes managed to be, bolts from the blue necessitated extensive seemed thoroughly accepted aspects of the a great deal of the truly daunting logistical and lightning-fast rethinking of the Soci history of music, and "social context" in and conceptual work had to be done far ety's operations and administration. Even various guises was fairly taken for granted. in advance. AMS members have found after the dust finally settled from these In any event, no one could consider the themselves in positions of central leader exertions, my formidable predecessors program excessively staid, with its con ship, and I want to mention especially the went on to undertake major changes that tentious and media-covered Shostakovich heads of the major joint committees had long been on the minds of officers session and the innovative panel arranged Margaret Murata for the joint program and directors: the revision of the By-Laws, by the Council's Outreach Committee. I and Timothy McGee for local arrange the redesign and relocation of the joUR was able to attend the latter, and I found ments-who have for some time already NAL and attendant membership services, the three charismatic (and touchingly been performing miracles of coordination and the drafting of a statement of profes musicophile) guests-Stanley Cavell, Mar and diplomacy on our behalf. Elsewhere sional ethics for musicology. There seems gery Garber, and Lawrence Levine-to be in this issue of the Newsletter you will find to be hardly anything left to do. impressive and inspiring. As to the former, a call for proposals for joint sessions for I hope you will forgive me a mawkish which I didn't manage to hear, I confess Toronto. Please note that these sessions are word or two about the way that all these to a perhaps naive astonishment at the separate from (and in addition to) the reg milestones have actually been achieved- prurient interest 71Je New York Times takes ular AMS program, and that the deadline not, indeed, by these former presidents in us, but only at our most argumentative for proposals has been timed carefully to alone, however heroic. In the years that I moments. Now, if it ran a regular daily precede the normal deadlines for submis have been involved with the AMS I con column on hot news from musicology sions to AMS's own program committee. tinue to be amazed and awed by the num ("Musicology Times"?) .... Think ahead, and do submit your most bers of members who are willing to add This retrospect of the Boston meeting creative ideas for interdisciplinary sessions. AMS work to their already overbusy lives, gives me the opportunity to offer my own *** often even volunteering to undertake new heartfelt thanks to those who made the projects and initiatives, and carry it out meeting happen: to John Hill and the As you may imagine, the subject ofJim with professional aplomb and without members of the Program Committee for Webster's "mini-meta-address" on the stint. I'm well aware that there are many at yet again giving us evidence of the cease issue of presidential addresses is a matter of the moment who feel some degree of lessly fascinating intellectual mutations some moment to me. I share a good deal alienation from the discipline of musicol that our discipline is capable of; and to the of his unease about the institution and ogy as such. I urge them to be involved Local Arrangements Committee, under particularly about the way in which it has anyway, because I can say without hesita the deft leadership of John Daverio and evolved from its origins, though I don't tion that the collection of people making Helen Greenwald, for a meeting that ran yet know what I myself will choose to do up this organization will always rise to the so smoothly that, ironically, one hardly about it in Toronto. It's difficult to get occasion, and will always provide ample noticed the expert management behind much sense of the membership's opinion reason for continuing to do the Society's the curtain. Any of you who have not of the matter, if indeed there is one, and I work. served on one of these committees should would be happy to hear from any of you who may have strong feelin~ about it *** be aware that their work is immense and demanding, and is annually undertaken not, I hasten to add, that I promise to do The buzz ori the Boston meeting is with astonishing dedication and good what you tell me to. interestingly mixed, though I haven't will. -Ruth Solie i',:
Toronto 2000: on computer instruction can be comple Coupled with the other actlVltles that Musical Intersections mented by lecture-demonstrations and even accompany the paper sessions presented by ing study groups that involve computers in the fifteen societies, there should be some The American Musicological Society will music theory, composition, and data storage. thing for everyone. Plan to join us at the end mark its last meeting of the century 1-5 and retrieval. Inquiries and proposals related of the millennium-and bring a friend. The November 2.000 in Toronto, Canada, in an to digital technology may be addressed to the web site should be up in early 1999, go to extraordinary gathering of fifteen Canadian president of ATMI: Peter R. Webster, School the AMS web site for the link. and U.S. organizations devoted to musical of Music, Northwestern University, Evanston, research and the college-level study of music. IL 602.08;
New Honorary Members has consistendy attempted to contribute to (r962.) and the scholarly works Clossic Music: ne)'! fields such as the study of watermarks Expression, Form, and Style (r98o) and The AMS By-Laws describe Honorary (Acta musicologica I96I, MGG, Grove VI), Romantic Music: Sound and Syntax (I992.). His Members as "long-standing members of the methods for establishing authenticity, com most influential musicological writings have Society who have made outstanding contri puter aids to musicology (NEH grant I98o- been those on the Classical period; those butions to furthering its stated object and 82.), and comprehensive style analysis. He is regarding the harmonic basis of musical whom the Society wishes to honor." _Two currendy at work on Models for Style Analysis, form, period structure, and musical topics new Honorary Members were nominated by a companion volume to Guidelines. During remain of fundamental importance. Ricordi the AMS Council and elected by the Board his long membership in AMS, he has served of Milan has published an Italian translation of Directors at the r998 meeting, bringing as national Secretary (r965-66) and Presi of Harmony and is preparing translations of the total number to thirty-five. The two new dent (r967-68), introducing constitutional the Classic and Romantic books. The pro members of this distinguished body are Jan changes such as the preparatory and advisory ceeds from Professor Ratner's latest boo~ LaRue and Leonard Ratiler. years before and after each presidency. He has The Beethoven String Quartets (published in represented AMS as a counselor or board I99 5 by the Stanford Bookstore) will sup Jan LaRue was born in Sumatra-a fact member of other learned societies, among port the Stanford graduate program in musi which motivated his lifelong interest in Far them the Guggenheim Foundation (r97o- cology, from which many of his former stu Eastern music and resulted in a dissertation 75), the Society for Eighteenth-Century dents have gone on to distinguished careers. on Okinawan music and articles for JAMS Studies, and the Zentralinstitut fiir Mozart and Grove VI. He studied at Harvard (SB forschung, Salzburg. I940) and Princeton (MFA I942.), begin Honors, Awards, and Prizes ning as a composer but turning to musicol Leonard Ratner, Professor Emeritus of Music The Otto Kinkeldey Award, presented annu ogy after World War II (PhD Harvard I 9 52.) at Stanford University, where he has taught ally by the Society to honor the most distin and extending his interest in composition since I947• was born in Minneapolis and guished musicological publication of the pre into the area of style analysis (Guidelines for educated at the University of California, Los ceding year, was presented at the Boston Style Analysis, I972.; 2.nd ed. I992., also trans Angeles, and the University of California, meeting to Scott DeVeaux, Associate Profes lated into Spanish and Japanese). His teaching Berkeley (MA I939, PhD I947); he studied sor in the Mcintire Department of Music, career began at Wellesley College and contin composition with Arnold Schoenberg and University ofVirginia, for The Birth of Bebop: ued at New York University, where his musicology with Manfred Bukofzer. His A Soda/ and Musical History (University of research on the Haydn-Mozart period led to compositions include a symphony, string California Press, I997). The book has also union catalogues for the concerto and sym quartets, a chamber opera, The Necklace, and won the American Book Award (Before phony ~ -6- Berthold Hoeckner Musicians of the Old Post Road Einstein Award Wanner Greenberg Award Wanner The Alfred Einstein Award, given annually William Ashbrook (Indiana State University) Jessie Ann Owens (Brandeis University) is an for the most outstanding article by a scholar has been declared an honorary citizen of the NEH Long-term Fellow at the Folger Shake in the early stages of his or her career, was city of Bergamo, Italy. Although the honor speare Library for I998-I999, working on a won by Berthold Hoeckner, Assistant Profes was officially conferred in December I997. project called "English Tonalities." sor of Music at the University of Chicago, for formal presentation of a parchment and gQld his article "Schumann and Romantic Dis medal was made at the Bergamo City Hall in Anne Swartz (Baruch College and the Grad tance;• which appeared in JAMS so (I997), October I998,in the presence ofthe mayor, uate Center of the City University of New SS-I32.. city council, and members of the conference York) has received a I998-I999 Short-term held in commemoration of the sesquicenten Grant for research at the Kennan Institute for The Noah Greenberg Award, which recog nial of the death of Gaetano Donizetti. Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow nizes outstanding contributions to histori Wilson Center. Her research topic is "Russ cally aware performance and the study of his Philip Gossett (University of Chicago) was ian music and the conquest of Central Asia:• torical performing practices, was won by the made a "Cavaliere di gran croce" of the Re Musicians of the Old Post Road, Daniel public of Italy for his contributions to Italian Rob C. Wegman (Princeton University) has Ryan and Suzanne Stumpf, Co-Artistic music. The award, the highest civilian honor been awarded the Edward J. Dent Medal for Directors, for a recording of works-folk given by the Italian government, waS presented I998.The Dent Medal is awarded annually by song settings for voice and chamber ensem by President Eugenio Scalfaro of Italy in a pri the Royal Musical Association (UK) to recipi ble, and two piano trios-by Johann Nepo vate ceremony at the Quirinale Palace. ents from a list of candidates drawn up by the mukHummel. Council of the Association and the Directo Blake Wilson (Dickinson College) was a fel rium of the International Musicological Soci The Philip Brett Award, for exceptional musi low at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for ety, in recognition of their contribution and cological work in the field of gay, lesbian, Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, dur original research in the field of musicology. bisexual, transgender/transsexual studies, was ing the I997-98 academic year, for work on won by Gillian M. Rodger for her disserta the topic "Music in the Culture of Fifteenth Honey Meconi (Rice University) has re tion (University of Pittsburgh, I998), "Male Century Florence." ceived a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Publi Impersonation on the North American Vari cations Subsidy to assist in the publication of ety and Vaudeville Stage, I868-I93o:• Reinhold Brinkmann (Harvard University) Fortuna desperata: Thirty-Six Settings of an Ital was awarded the Humboldt Prize for Schol ian Song, to be published by A-R Editions in The Paul A. Pisk Prize, normally given to a ars in the Humanities. The prize is given by their series Recent Researches in Music of graduate student for the best scholarly paper the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung "in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance. accepted for presentation at the Annual recognition of outstanding achievements in Meeting, was not awarded in I998. For the scholarship and teaching:• In April I998, Neal Zaslaw (Cornell Univer I999 competition, the deadline has been sity) was elected to the American Academy of changed from I August to I September; the Gail Hilson Woldu (Trinity College, CT) Arts and Sciences. Other AMS members Committee hopes that the later date will held a I998 NEH Summer Stipend for her elected at the same time, as announced in the result in a larger number of submissions for project "Art et Beaure: Vincent d'Indy and August issue, were Ellen Harris, Leonard the prize. See the Directory for guidelines. Music in France, I87o-I930." Ratner, and Frank D' Accone. The American Council of Learned Societies sity, 2.69 Mercer Street, Suite 6or, New has awarded grants for East European Studies York, NY 10003-6687; 2.1U583-1727; to Gabriela Ilnitchi (New York University) for -8- Competitions AMS soWmners to Date The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, With the selection this year of eight individuals as recipients ofAMS so Dissertation Fel announces competition for its Dissertation lowships (five monetary and three honorary awards), our Society has now honored a Award, 1999-2.000. Deadline: IJ Mardi round total of sixty young scholars over the thirteen-year span of the award. The com I999· For information on the competition plete list, which we print below and which includes Honorary Fellows, is an impressive and other research opportunities: Renee Taft, one. Most of these recipients, as a quick perusal will verify, are now active and produc Director, Visiting Scholar Progiams, Center tive scholars in our profession, confirming the promise of their applications selected by for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United past review committees. States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 In the future, we hope to continue supporting the broadest spectrum of deserving Raoul Wallenberg Place SW. Washington, DC students, and we are always striving to make the selection process as fair and democratic 2.002.4-2.12.6; 2.02i314-o378; fax 2.02./479- as possible. As always, we welcome the suggestions and support of any Society member, 972.6; -1D-- in this Society. (It must have derived in part labored heroically to make a success of this intellectual, economic, or political--should from the example of other societies, some of problematical institution (as I see it), and be submitted by IJ March 1999 to John which-for example the American Historical whose efforts may well have contributed to Isbell, Dept. of French & Italian, Ballantine Association or even the Modern Language the improved atmosphere among our subdis Hall 642, Indiana University, Bloomington, Association-can lay claim to "public" inter ciplines I referred to a moment ago. Least of IN 47405; Sn/855-1952, fax 8n.l8ss- est of a sort that we, for better or worse, don't all do I wish to compromise the freedom of 88n; -II- Report from the AMS Director or the current President of the new study, Most Musical of the Arts: Musicology Committee on the Society. Such a stipulation is part of the orig and Society from the ~imar Republic to the End History of the Society inal document transferring ownership of the of Hitler's Reich (Yale University Press, I998). AMS Archives to the University of Pennsyl I am convinced, however, that "some The Committee on the History of the Soci vania. Other restrictions for access may also thing"-indeed, many "somethings"-will ety was established in I993 during the presi be imposed when necessary. be uncovered in the Archives by "someone, dency of Ellen Rosand. Margot Fassler and I am pleased to note that the Society's sometime," the dimensions of which no one Pamela Potter were the original Co-Chairs, Archives could not be handled any more effi at present can have any inkling. As the major and I succeeded them in November I997· ciendy and effectively than they are at pre ity of us are well aware, such is the joy and To date the existence and purpose of this sent. As of May I998 there is an official reward of working with archival material in Committee remains more unknown than not Register of I2.0 boxes of general records any shape or form. to the general membership of the AMS, and from I934 to I992. as received from I989 I urge all members of the Society to this report is offered in an attempt to change through I996. There is also a separate Regis become sensitive to what the Committee on this situation. ter of sixty boxes of records from I946 to the History of the Society is attempting to Following its establishment, the Commit I 99 5 which pertain to JAMS. Materials will accomplish, and when called upon for assis tee developed three major areas of interest in continue to be added to the Archives. tance, to offer your services willingly. We also order to fulfill the original "charge;' which The Oral History Interview Project under request advice, suggestions, and recommenda focused on the goal of gathering information taken by the Committee is under way. At tions for consideration from the general mem concerning both the history of the Society in present the Committee has defined "distin bership; please send these to me at 4806 Star the United States as well as the history and guished members of the Society" as being mount Dr., Greensboro, NC 2.74Io; 336/ development of the field of musicology in Past Presidents, Board members, Council 852.-0449; -I2.- the following members: Ian Bent, Lawrence Elizabeth Keathley, Yvonne Kendall, Anne of NASM, who reported that the require F. Bernstein, Richard Crawford, Walter MacNeill, Marilynn Smiley, and Judy Tsou) ments do not specify particular course offer Frisch, Douglas Johnson (chair), Kerala Sny sponsored a panel, chaired by Tsou, entided ings, but that they do expect a BA program der, Ellen Rosand, Leo Treider, and "'They Won't Let You Do That': Women, to include a varied overview of repertories Christoph Wolff. Retiring members Ian Bent Minorities, and Professional Choice in and musical cultures. Briscoe concluded that and Douglas Johnson will be replaced in Teaching and Writing.'' the NASM can be used as a tool for progress. I998-99 by Sarah Fuller and Janet Levy. The Mary Hunter began with a presentation Ellen Koskoff presented "Views fiom the new chair of the Committee as of November entided "Fences, Hahas and DMZs;' whose Margins: On Being a Jewish Feminist Ethno I998 is Walter Frisch. All future inquiries chief concern was whether women are more musicologist.'' She related her experiences in concerning subventions or other Committee likely than men to cross intellectual bound ethnomusicology fiom c. I 97 5, when, as an business should be sent to Walter Frisch, aries, as stereotype would have it. She sur unhappy student of conventional musicology Department of Music, Columbia University, veyed several journals, including JAMS, the in an era when "women in musicology were MCr82o, 2.960 Broadway, New York, NY Journal of Musicology, and the Cambridge Opera still a new thinS:' she discovered the Anthro !002.7; 2.I2./854-I2.56; fax 2.IU854-8I9I; journal, which she edits, and noted that pology of Music and chose to study an Ameri -I5- News Briefs and Swedish governments. He died on :Z.I his family, students, and friends. His was a life well lived in difficult times. continued from page 15 December I996 in Hudson, New York. -Frederick Hammond -Ralph R Locke andJurgen Thym RldiM Newsletter, will be published twice yearly under the editorship of Zdravko Ernest F. Livingstone George Nugent (1932-1998) Blazekovic. The first issue will appear in early I999. with guest editor Ann Buckley, on the (1915-1997) George Edward Nugent died 6 October I998 in Syracuse, New York. Born in Balti theme "Transmission and Transformation of In a spirit of jest, Ernest Livingstone once more, he was a graduate of the Peabody Symbolic Images:• For further information: characterized himself as a "jack(ass)-of-all Conservatory as well as Harvard and Prince The Research Center for Music Iconogra trades:• Forced by the political events in Ger ton Universities, where he studied variously phy, City University of New York, 33 West many in the I930S to discontinue his pur with Henry Cowell, Randall Thompson, 42.nd St., New York, NY I0036; :z.u/642.- suit of jurisprudence and finally to leave Oliver Strunk, Arthur Mendel, Richard 2.709; fax :z.u/642.-I973; -I6- verstttes of Erlangen-Niirnberg. Basel, and Robert J. Snow (1926-1998) Freiburg im Breisgau with a major in musi Correction cology and a minor in medieval Latin philol Robert J. Snow died in Austin, Texas, on 9 ogy. The latter was strikingly in evidence in june 1998. He grew up in Crothersville, The obituary for Louise Cuyler printed his 1965 dissertation, "Der Musiktraktat des Indiana, and attended Catholic seminarY after in the previous issue includes the asser Anonymus .4;' an edition and commentary graduating from high school. His early pro tion that she was elected Secretary of (published as vols. 4 and 5 of Beihifte zum fessional years included service as a church the Society at a time "when the By Archiv jar Musikwissenscl~tift}, in which he choir director, composer, and music adviser Laws stated that the Secretary would provided not only a new, trustworthy edition to the American Council of Bishops during automatically become the next Presi of the text but also a brilliant study of Notre the controversy-filled years of the late 1960s. dent:' This is erroneous. At least since Dame organum purum, and in a corollary These experiences left deep influences upon 1948 (and presumably since the Soci study, Die Copula (Mainz, 1972). These two his later career as a musicologist, for he ety's incorporation in 1934) there has works and articles related to them set a new remained committed to reliving musical tra never been such a provision; since standard for scholarship on the music and ditions through performances, and much of 1948 all officers have been elected, music theory of Notre Dame and firmly his thought was devoted to understanding according to procedures essentially sim established Fritz Reckow as a new star in the the liturgical contexts for the art music he ilar to those in effect today. firmament of great scholars who had worked loved. He held BMus. and MA degrees from in this area. This status was confirmed in Indiana University. where he. studied primar 1975 with the publication ofhis magisterial ily with Willi Apel, and completed his doc Policy on Obituaries "Organum-Begriff und friihe Mehrstim torate at the University of Illinois, his princi migkeit" (Forum Musicologicum I, 1975}, a pal teachers being Dragan Plamenac and The following policy on discursive obituaries monograph on instrumentality in ancient Charles Hamm. in the Newsletter was approved by the Board and medieval theory that won the annual Robert Snow joined the faculty at the of Directors in 1998. The annual necrology prize of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft in University of Texas in 1976, after having of all deceased members will be published Freiburg. After completing his dissertation, held appointments at the University of Notre each August as before. Reckow worked together with H.-H. Egge Dame, the University of Illinois, Duquesne I. The Society wishes to recognize the brecht to found the Handwiirterbuch der University, and the University of Pittsburgh. accomplishments of members who have musikalischen Terminologie, serving as its editor His research traversed centuries of music, died by printing obituaries in the from 1973 to 1979. He completed his from his first studies on chant and early Newsletter. Habilitation at Freiburg in 1977 with a study polyphony through his dissertation on music 2.. Obituaries will normally tange in length entided "'Sprachahnlichkeit' der Musik als in a fifteenth-century manuscript from the from one to three paragraphs, and will terminologisches Problem: Zur Geschichte Strahov Abbey in Prague. During his final focus on music-related activities such as des Topos Tonsprache;• then became Profes decades his interests turned to sacred music teaching, research, publications, grants, sor and Director of the Institute for Musicol of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in and service to the Society. ogy at the University of Kiel in 1979 fol the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, and 3. The Society requests that colleagues, lowing a guest professorship at the University this is the area where his impact has been friends, or family of a deceased member ofHamburg.ln 1986 he was a Distinguished most pronounced. who wish to see him or her recognized Visiting Professor at Ohio State University in Snow has left us major studies and edi by an obituary communicate that desire Columbus, and in 1987 he became Professor tions involving the music ofjuan EsquiveCde to the Editor of the Newsletter. The Edi and Director of the Institute for Musicology Barahona, Francisco Guerrero, Gaspar Fer tor, in consultation with the advisory at the University ofErlangen-Niirnberg. nandes, Rodrigo de Ceballos, and related committee named below, will select the Although the medieval period was Fritz Hispanic topics, and he also contributed gen author of the obituary and edit the text Reckow's scholarly foundation, his interests erously to The Census-Catalogue of Manuscript for publication. and his research covered a wide range of sub Sources of Polyphonic Music, qoo-IJJO. 4· A committee has been appointed to over jects, including the music of Lully, Bach, Many would point to his recent edition of see and evaluate this policy, to commis Wagner, Berlioz, and Bizet. Throughout his Guatemala Cathedral Music Manuscript 4 sion or write additional obituaries as nec career he was interested in the interconnect (Monuments of Renaissance Music, Univer essary, and to report to the Board of edness of music with other disciplines. His sity of Chicago Press) as his crowning Directors. The committee comprises the was not interdisciplinarity for its own sake, achievement, one where scholarship and per Executive Director (Chair}, the Secretary however, but a constant seeking to illuminate formance again join hands. Bob was deeply of the Council, and one other member. the compositional process itself and the ways touched that this publication was acclaimed in which it is perceived and understood. One by Bruno Turner, a scholar also famous as a Guidelines for Announce of the richest expressions of this interest was conductor of Renaissance music. But those "Unmittelbarkeit und Handwerk: Komposi who knew Bob knew of another special ments ofAwards and Prizes torische Probleme mit der 'Natiirlichkeit'," a quality, one dramatized for me while editing Awards and honors given by the Society lecture he gave in 1989 for Bavarian State a set of thirty-nine essays written in his are announced in the Newsletter. In addi Radio. In it he combined his skills as both honor (now in press). A great many of the tion, the Editor makes every effort to scholar and teacher to trace the dynamic contributors volunteered information to me announce widely publicized awards. relationship between "naturalness" and craft about instances when Bob personally helped Other announcements come fi:om indi in the history of composition from Lully to the~lending microfilms, sharing store vidual submissions (see colophon for Stravinsky. One hopes that the lecture will houses of information, or offering words of deadlines). The Editor does not include soon be published; although it was not encouragement. He will be sorely missed for awards made by the recipient's home intended as such, a more apt valedictory his intellectual and musical integrity. for his institution or to scholars who are not cur address could hardly be imagined. friendship, and for his many acts of kindness rendy members of the Society. Beginning -Charles M. Atkinson to students and colleagues. with the February 1999 issue, awards -David E. Crauford made to graduate student members as a result of national or international compe titions are also announced. The Editor is always grateful to individuals who report honors and awards they have received, including those listed above. Papers Read at Chapter R.ithatrJ ·Kitson (University of Maryland): 8 November 1997 Meetings, 1997--98 "American 'News' and 'Reviews' in British Rutgers University, Douglass Campus Nineteenth-Century Music Journals" (University of North Car Howard Serwer (University of Maryland): James Haar olina, Chapel Hill): "Petrucci's ]ustiniane AUegheny Chapter "Handel in Boston among the Moderns" Revisited" Mark Katz (University of Michigan): Rob C. Wegman (Princeton University): 2.5 October 1997 "Aesthetics Out of Exigency: Violin Vibrato "Alexander Agricola in Ghent" University of Pittsburgh and the Phonograph" Alexander Bkzchly (Pomerium Musices): Robin ArmstrM,g (Western Maryland Col Irving Godt (Indiana University of Penn "Performing Issues in Renaissance Music" lege): "Women in Music: No Longer a Class sylvania): "Anonymous Saint Francis Hymns Stanley Boorman (New York University): by Ourselves" in a Venetian Print of1592." "Quis?" Mary H. 1-t&gner (Cleveland, OH): "The Cleveland Municipal Orchestra and Chris 3 I January 1998 George Washington University 7 February 1998 tiaan Timmner" NewYork University jack Stamp (Indiana University of Penn Gregory Barnett (Princeton University): Joint Meeting with the American Insitute sylvania): "The Evolution of an American "Corrente da Piedi; Corrente da Orecchie: Two for Verdi Studies Concert Band Repertoire" Ends of the Sonata da Camera" Francesco Izzo (New York University): Kelli A. Dryer (Kent State University): "In Mekznie Bookout (Indiana University/Pur "Some Observations on the Sources of Un the Spirit of Chickering: The Centennial due University, Fort Wayne): "Tacit[-et] Invi Celebration" tation: The Audiences' 'Transubstantiation' in giorno di regno" james Hepokoski (University of Min Mary E. S. Buch (Kent State University): Cage, Duchamp, MacLow" nesota): "Verdi Revisits the Past: The Two "From Sketch to Press: Choral· Writing in Guthrie P. Ri:lmsey, Jr. (Tufts University): Versions ofDon Carlos's Romance" Beethoven's Fantasy, Op. 8o" "It's a Family Affair: African-American Fam Theodore Albrecht (Kent State University): ily Narratives and Musical Analysis" "Eduard Constantin Lewy and the First Per Ethel Norris (Virginia State University): 2.1 March 1998 Graduate Center, City University of New York formance ofBeethoven's Ninth Symphony" "Music in Post-Civil War Petersburg, Vir A Symposium in Honor of Leo Treitler ginia: In Black and White" 2.5 April 1998 Djimo Kouyate (Washington, DC): "Plac Edward Nowacki (University of Cincin Indiana University ofPennsylvania ing the Context for Teaching and Performing nati): "The Modes of the Old Roman Mass Carl &hkonen (Indiana University of Traditional Manding Music" Proper: What Kind of Glue?" Pennsylvania): "Vladimir Ussachevsky and Bruce Penner and Joseph Ayers (Charlottes Edward Roesner (New York University): the Advent of Electronic Music" ville, VA): "Mande Musical Influences in "Who 'Made' the Magnus liber?" Lisa A. Musca (Case Western Reserve Antebellum Banjo Methods" Sarah Fuller (State University of New University): "Mathematics of Art?-Boulez's York, Stony Brook): "On Singing to Delight: Struaures I and the Problem of a 'Serial Aes 4April 1998 A Medieval Theory ofPerformance Practice" thetic'" Towson State University Peter Kivy (Rutgers University): "Work, Performance, and Early Notation" Katherine Powers (University of Akron): Bliss Little (University of Maryland, College Richard Kramer (State University of New "Christian Music for All Good Men to Park):"Folk Elements in the Music ofManolis York, Stony Brook): "The Death Masks of Sing: The Spiritual Madrigal in Counter Kalmoris and Yannis Constantinidis: Towards a Walter Benjamin" Reformation Verona" Definition of Greek National Identity" Lewis Lockwood (Harvard University): Dane Heuchemer (Kenyon College): "Ital Stuart Cheney (University of Maryland, "Beethoven's Florestan and the Varieties of ian Musicians in Sixteenth-Century Ger College Park): "Origins of French Instru Heroism" many" mental Variation Style in the Early Seven George Dadisman (City University of New teenth Century" York): "Dramatic Gesture in Idomeneo: Ilia's Deborah Howley (University of Maryland, 'Quando avran fine ormai/Padre, germani, College Park): "Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Mid-Atlantic Chapter addio'" Troubadours: Redefining the Relationship" Richard M. Dowell (Kent State Univer Denise Gallo Oohns Hopkins University): :z.6 October 1997 Haverford College sity/Indiana State University): "The Career "'From Many Voices a Harmony Gathers': of Boston's Mendelssohn Quintette Club in Music in Botticelli's Primavera" You Young Kang (University of Pennsylva Historical Context" Gregory Barnett (Princeton University): nia): "Musica prattica and the.Art of Counter Judith &dell, Dieter Wu!fhorst, and Delight "Chronicles of Musical Success and Failure point" Malitsky (Indiana University of Pennsylva in Late Seventeenth-Century Italy" Mara Parker (Widener University):"Musi nia): "The 'Lost' Chamber Works of Clara cal Politics at the Court of Friedrich Wil Kathleen Rogers" helm II, 1786-1797" Greater New York Chapter Gristle Collins judd (University of Penn sylvania): "Traces of a Theorist Assimilating a Capital Chapter 2.1 September 1997 Theory: Musical Citations in Zarlino's Le Hunter College istitutioni harmoniche (Part IV)" 18 October 1997 College ofWilliam and Mary Antoni Piza (City College, City Univer sity of New York): "Some Thoughts about 10 May 1998 Swarthmore College James Armstrong (College of William and the Emergence ofAutobiographical Accounts Mary): "The Role of the Litany of Mary in in Early Printed Editions of Spanish Music" Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore College): Devotional Worship in Austria and Hungary, Carol Baron (State University of New "Modernity and Expression: Kant on the I62.7-1805: A Preliminary Documentary York, Stony Brook): "The Politics of Charles Value ofAbsolute Music" Study" lves: Findings in New Sources" · Lydia Goehr (Columbia University): Luke Jensen (University of Maryland): IMilter Frisch (Columbia University): "In "Wagnerian Endings: The Curse and "Chopin's Nocturne in D-flat, op. 2.7, no. 2., Search of a Brahms Tradition: Legacies of Promise ofPurely Musical Listening" as Sexual Expression: An Autobiography" Performing the First Symphony" -18- Midwest Chapter Don Fader (Stanford University): ''Sebas Dovid Almond (University of Connecti tion de Brossard as Music Historian: A Mod cut): "Aspects of Unity in Brahms's Bin 4-5 October 1997 ernist View of the Querelle des anciens et mo deutsches Requiem" Chicago, IL dernes in Music" Carol K. Baron (State University of New Mitchell Patton (University of Cincinnati): York, Stony Brook): "The Politics of Charles James M. Doering (Washington Univer "'After All, Who Shall Describe Beauty?'-: lves and His Family: Findings in New sity): "The Politics of Singing: German Music, Art, and the Politics of Aesthetics in Sources" Choral Societies in St. Louis, 190o-1945" the Harlem Renaissance" Kirsten Peterson (University of Connecti Naomi Andre (University of Michigan): Graham Wood (University of Minnesota): cut): "Structural Elements in Polystylistic "Not Just a Baroque Phenomenon: The "Re-viewing Oklahoma!: Musicals, Moder Composition: A Formalistic Approach to Legacy of the Castrato in Early Nineteenth nity, and National Consciousness" Alfred Schnittke's Concerto Grosso No. 3" Century Italian Opera" Luke B. Howard (Moorhead State Univer Michael Schiano (University of Hartford): Isabelle Belance-Zank (University of Illi sity): "From 'Trance Music' to Dance Music: "There's More than One Way to Spin a nois, Urbana-Champaign): "Dramatic Proce Minimalism and the Body" Cycle: Some Aspects of the Beatles' Musical dure in Thalberg's Opera Fantasies" Tammy L Kernodle (Miami University): Language" Mary Jean Speare (Washington Univer "Nothing But a Holy Ghost Party Goin' sity): "The Gypsy Before Carmen: Galli On: The Secularization ofBlack Gospel?" Marie and French Opera comique" New York Stat-st.lAwrena Chapter Rebea:ll Maluy (Antioch College): "New Perspectives on the Transmission and Chronol New England Chapter 27-28 September 1997 ogy of the Offertory Chant and Its Verses" Eastman School of Music Charles Atkinson (Ohio State University): 4 October 1997 Wayne Ca" Willis (Empire State College): "Dippermouth Blues and Ad te levavi: Modes Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology "Spirits of their Time: Arthur Farwell, ofTransmission and the Question of Musical joseph Dyer (University of Massachusetts, Claude Bragdon, and the Ambiguous Pro Identity" Boston): "Tropis semper variantibus: Composi gressive Cultural Reform" Denise Vcm Claim Cooney (Miami Univer tional Strategies in the Offertories of Old Michael V. Pisani (Vassar College): "Arthur sity): "Charles lves and the Second Piano Roman Chant" Farwell: A Life in Sounds, Words, and Sonata, 'Concord, Mass., 184o-186o': The Laura Dolp (Cambridge, MA): "The Images" Sound of a Place" Silent Garden: Russian Orthodoxy and the Thomas Stoner (Connecticut College): Allan B. Ho (Southern Illinois University, Berlin Mass ofArvo Part" "Arthur Farwell at Musical America, I909- Edwardsville) and Drnitry Feofanov (Chicago, Friedemann Sallis (University of Monc I9Is'' IL):"Shostakovich and the 'Testimony Affair'" ton): "Romanticism and the Fragmentary Graduate Student-Sponsored Panel: Michael Cooper (Illinois Wesleyan Univer Forms ofGyorgy Kurtag's Music" "Practical Skills for Musicologists: Preparing sity): "The Unknown St. Paul: New Light on Eftychia Papanikolaou (Cambridge, MA): Application Documents"; organized by Mendelssohn's First Oratorio" "Terrence McNally's Master Class: The Mas Debra Lacoste (University of Western Peter Mercer- Taylor (Valparaiso University): tery of Maria and the Class of Callas" Ontario), and Elizabeth Wells (Eastman "Taming the Romantic Weber: Mendels Mark De Vc>to (Tufts University): "Schoen School of Music); panelists Adrian Daly sohn's Capriccio brillant as Self-Mythology" berg's Gu"elieder Revisited" (Eastman School of Music), Timothy Scheie john Walter Hill (University of Illinois, (Eastman School of Music), Debra Lacoste Urbana-Champaign): "Thematic Transfor Wayne Shirley (Library of Congress): mation, Folksong, and Autobiography in 7 February 1998 Wellesley College "Community Songs and Symphonic Songs" Brahms's Horn Trio" Heidi Owen (Eastman School of Music): Scott Messing (Alma College): "Schoen Charles Turner (University of Hartford): "Thoughts on Stephen Sondheim's Pad.fic berg's Schubert" "Canonical Conundrum or Paradoxical Par Overtures" adigm?-Verbal Canon in the Early Renais jorge Torres (Cornell University):" ,strictly I8-I9 April 1998 sance" Ballroom? The Use of Rumba, Bolero, and University of Wisconsin, Madison Elizabedt Crotvnfield (New York Univer Clla Cha Cha in Rock 'n' Roll to 1963" sity): "Morley at 400: The Plaine and Easie Rosalie Athol Schellhous (Michigan State Ced/ia Sun (Eastman School of Music): Introduction as a Sixteenth-Century Dialogue" University): "The Tonal Drama in Mozart's "Beyond Urtext: Editions as Ideology and Mauro P. Calcagno (Yale University): "A Operas" Interpretation" Tale ofTwo Operas: Sources, Meaning, and Eric Frederick jensen (University of Illinois. Antonius Bittman (Eastman School of Audience in Aureli's Two Eliogabolos (1667- Urbana-Champaign): "Explicating Jean Paul: Music):" 'Swollen, Myopic Beetle' or Cut 68)" Robert Schumann's Program for Papil/ons, ting-Edge Modernist?-Max Reger in the jess Tyre (Yale University):" 'Patriotism et Op.2" Crossfire of Modernist Polemics" bon goat': Music and the Paris Commune of Heather Platt (Ball State University): Patrida Debly (Brock University): "Haydn's "Visions of the Past and Brahms's Temporal 1871" L'anima del filoscifo: An Italian Opera all'in joAnn Koh (Boston University): "Toru Shifts" glese?" Takemitsu and the Japanese Garden: Tempo Benjamin M. Korstvedt (University of Marjorie Hirsch (Hartwick College): ral Continuity and Formal Processes in Fan Iowa): "Hearing Wagner in Bruckner's Sym "'Gute Ruh', gute Ruh'!': Sleep and Death tasma/Cantos (1991)" phonies (An Essay on the Cultural Politics of in Schubert's Lullabies" Gregory Karl (Boston Symphony Orches Perception)" ]urgen Tityrtr (Eastman School of Music); tra): "McClary and Tchaikovsky: Narrative Billee A. Bonse (Ohio State University): "Schubert's Free Verse Settings" Paradigms and Cultural-Historical Deter "Elson de n'Alamanda: Another Melody by a minism" Trobairitz?" 25-26 April 1998 Gary Towne (University of North Brock University 18 April 1998 Dakota): "Cozenage and Cover-Up, or Will University of Connecticut Brian Porver (University of Toronto): the Real Pietro Cerone Please Stand Up!" "Approaching the Altar at Easter: Music for Lawrence Bennett (Wabash College): "A Peter Urquhart (University of New the Introit in Trent Codex 93" Tale of Three Cities: Vienna, Paris, and Hampshire): "Contra mi contra fa: Challeng Meiningen" ing the Harmonic Rule of 'musica ficta' " cotttinued on page 22 Forthcoming Meetings and Grants and Fellowships Available Conferences Given the increased availability of electronic communication and access to the World- Wide Web, and This column lists, in chronological order, in the interest of saving space in the Newsletter, the amount of infomJation formerly provided in meetings that may be of interest to AMS this column is being reduced. Programs included in this issue have application deadlines in the members. See colophon for address and spring and summer; for programs with deadlines in fall and winter, see the August issue. Persons deadlines for submissions. For information on interested in the suitability of a particular program for their needs should check directly 1vith that conferences that may not be included here, program for current information on awards, eligibility, deadlines, and application procedures. see the AMS web page, which has a section on conferences, as well as links to other sites. American Council of Office of Fellowships and Grants, ACLS, 2.2.8 East Learned Societies 45th Street, New York, NY 10017-3 3 98; American Philosophical Society, 104 South 5th American Philosophical Historic Brass Research, Pedagogy, Per Society Research Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3387; NEH-Other Grants Address, e-mail, and website above; 2.o2./6o6-82.oo. Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, 8-n April 1999, University ofVirginia. Sev enth annual conference. Local arrangements: Paul Walker, 1437 Rugby Avenue, Char Newberry Library Address: Research and Education, The Newberry lottesville, VA 2.2.903; 804/2.93-5339; fax Fellowships Library, 6o West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 8o4/92.4-6033; -2.o- music traditions, sponsored by the Critical Studies and Experimental Practices program. Newberry Library Address and website above; 312./255-3514; Address: University of California, San Diego, Center for -21- modernism: Henry Wolking's Forever Yester continued from page I 9 "Melodic Gap-Fill and Regression Toward the Mean" day" Paul Wiebe (University of Michigan):" 'To " 0'n Addis~n (University of Oregon): Adorn Them with Chaste Delights': Music at 2.5-2.6April I998 Native Amencan Performance Practice: In the Wedding of Duke Ludwig ofWiirttem University of California, Santa Cruz Performance Error Correction in Contem berg (I585)" Joint Meeting with the Pacific Southwes't porary Powwow Music" .. A~drew Hughes (University of Toronto): Chapter Edna Kilgore (LaConner, WA): "A Tune Mustc for the Office of the Presentation of Widely Used in Childhood and Its Signifi McDowell Kenley (Stanford University): the Virgin, I 3 72.: New Discoveries" cance" "On . Aural Tradition, Improvisation, and Richard Hardie (University of Western , Erich Schwandt (University of Victoria): Remussance Theatrical Dance: The Mata Ontario): "Domesticating Opera: Eighteenth 'A New Gloria for Erik Satie's Messe des chin'sTunes" Century English Publishing Practices" Pauvres" Doughls Smith (Menlo Park, CA):"A Brief Maureen Epp (University of Toronto): Linda Sato (University of Oregon): "The History of the Lute as Cultural Symbol" "Innovation versus Tradition in the French Role of'Gypsy' Characters in Verdian Opera" .. El~r Selfridge-Field (Sta_nford University): Chanson ca. I500" Carol Padgham Albrecht (University of Patrick Macey (Eastman School of Music): The ~tes of Autumn, Wmter, and Spring: Idaho): "Networking, Strategic Planning, and Decoding the Calendar ofVenetian Opera" "Song, Anthem, and Motet: Musical Settings Political Correctness: A New Look at Tobias Plebuch (Stanford University): "The of Savonarola's Meditation on Psalm 50 in Beethoven's Septet, Op. 20" Life of the Text: The Treatises of C. P. E. England" .. 1-i!lerie Mdntosh (Willamette University): Bach, L. Mozart, and J. ]. Quantz and their James Davis (State University of New The Role of the basse continue in the Sacred Edition History" York, Fredonia): "Aesthetic Questions and Cantatas of Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de Ia . KJJzuko H. Mockett (University of Califor Questions ofAesthetics in the Classroom" Guerre" ma, Santa Cruz): "East Meets West: Oroku lAura J Gray (University of Western .. Kenneth DeLong (University of Calgary): musume by Kunihiko Kashimoto" Ontario): "Culture Shock: T. W. Adorno's Ornament as Structure in Schoenberg's Alexandra Amati-Camperi (San Francisco 'Glosse iiber Sibelius' and the Sibelius Cult" Erwartung, Op. 2. no. I" Conservatory of Music): "Twice Dead and Austin Clarkson (York University): "The John Anderson (University of Calgary): Guilty?-A Feminist Reading of Euridice's Intent of the Musical Moment: John Cage "Recurring Motives in Elgar's The Dream of Role" and the Transpersonal" Gerontius" Maria Anna Harley (University of South Susan Fast (McMaster University): "Days Donna L Lynn (Coos Bay, OR): "Aspects ern California): "Gorecki and the Paradigm of Future Passed: Rock, Pop, and the Yearn of'the Modern' in Brahms's Op. II9/2." of the 'Maternal' " ing for the Middle Ages" Virginia Hancock (Reed College):"Brahms's Alison Deadman (University of California, David Rosen (Cornell University): "A Tale Revisions of the Fest- und Gedenksprilche, Op. Los Angeles): "'Graphological Freak' and the of Five Cities: The Peregrinations of Verdi's I09" Fa!!_ter ofThree?-The Unmasking of Han and Somma's Gustavo Ill" Sue Neimayer (University ofWashington): del Copyist RMI" "The Gershwin Second Prelude: Urban Blues . Francesca Draughon (University of Califor as a 'Song without Words' " Nmhem Califomi4 Chapter ma, -~ An~les): "'Truth and Poetry in MUSic : b.utobtography in the Funeral March of Mahler's First Symphony" 2.9 September I997 Pacific Southwut Chapter Steve Samyne (University of California, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley):"A Little Night Music and the Myth IS November I997 Kate 1-i!n Orden (University of California, of the Waltz Musical" Scripps College Berkeley): "Harmonic Governance: Court Robert Stevenson (University of California, Ballet during the French Wars of Religion" Los Angeles): "California's Golden Age of _Amy Graziano (University of California, John H. Roberts (University of California, Music Publishing" lrvme): "A Musical Revolution: Italian Vocal Berkeley): "Handel and the Shepherds of Music ca. I550-I65o" Ansbach" ]eongmee Kim (University of California, " ]o~n Speagle (Princeton University): Padjic Nortltwut Chapter Los Angeles): "Crossing Boundaries: The Makmg Mute Things Speak: Opera and Case ofDiasporic Composer lsang Yun" melodrame" 3-5 April I998 G. Truett Hollis (Los Angeles City Col Mary Ann Smart (University of California University of Oregon le~): " 'T~e Devil Dressed as a Monk' (El Berkeley): "Mimomania: Allegory and Diablo vestrdo de .fraile): Some Unpublished Sonya Ruth lAwson (University of Ore Embodiment in Die Walkure, Act I" Correspondence of Padre Soler ofEscorial" gon): "The Critical Reception of Charlie Eric Hing- Tao Hung (Stanford University)· C::amille Crittenden (Arnold Schoenberg Parker's Recordings: A Transformation in "Music as the 'Benshi' in Akira Kurosawa's Ran'; Institute): "Textual Sources for A Survivor Attitudes" from Warsaw" Kimberlyn Montford (Rutgers University): 7 February I998 Glenn Pillsbury (University of California, "Music of Devotion in Counter-Reforma Mills College Los Angeles):" 'Shut Up, We Know You Can tion Rome: Borboni's Musicali concentt' Play! Jesus . . .' : Technique, Transcendence, ]~hnA. Emerson (Benicia, CA):"An Intro Fran LeClair (Eugene, OR): "The Revo and Identity in the Music ofSteveVai" duction to the Medieval Offices of St. Mar lutionary Ideals of Contemporary Musicians Francesca Draughon (University of Califor tial de Limoges" and Poets Silvestre Revueltas, Langston nia, Los Angeles): "What is Happening .. Suzanne Macahilig (Carmel, CA): Hughes, Nicolas Guillen, and Federico Gar Beneath Fishman's Dress?-Phish and the Beethoven's Op. 57 and Op. 3I, no. 2.: A da Lorca" Making of a Postmodern Religion" Performance Interpretation" Kathleen O'Brien (Victoria, BC): "The Nadya Zimmerman (University of Califor C?regory S. Dubinsky (University of Cali Music of Evil: Hagen and Bertram" nia, ~s Angeles): "The Spiritual: Its Origins, forma, Berkeley): "Winfried Zillig: The Ruth .. , Sydney Keegan (Port Hadlock, WA): Evolution, and Place in the Civil Rights Career of a Schoenberg Student under Last of our accursed line': The Ghost Movement" National Socialism" Scene -2.2.- the 'Cinema of Twins' from Film Noir to Eric Saylor (Arizona State University): Fred Maus (University ofVirginia): "Agency Postmodernism" "Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Modality' and the Wall in Mozart's Piano Concertos" paper Principle: Scheherazade Reconsidered" Panel: Strategies for Today's Job Market; 2.I February 1998 Laurel E. Zeiss (moderator), Diane Steinhaus University of California, Riverside Pettit, Lauriejean·Reinhardt, Robin Wallace South-Centml Chapter Andrew Unsworth (Duke University): "The Daniel Goldmark (University of California, Romantic Opera Composer in LAhengrin and Los Angeles):" 'Vox et eros' in Ravel's Daph Gotterdammerung" nis et Chloe" 3-4 April 1998 Emory University Rachel Golden Carlson (University of North Kenneth Marcus (California State Univer Carolina, Chapel Hill): "Characterization and sity, Pomona):"The Rise of the Boston Pops" William T Flynn (Emory University): "Re Transformation in Mlnessa" Graydon Beeks (Pomona College):" 'Odes constructing Hildegard's 'Lauds' of St. Ursula" & Son~ on St. Cecilia's Day & Other Occa Kenneth Kreitner (University of Memphis): 2.1 February 1998 sions': A Neglected Source of Early Eigh "Reconstructing the Ceremonial Soft Band Davidson College teenth-Century English Secular Music" of Fifi;eenth-Century Barcelona" Byron Adams (University of California, jane Flynn (Emory University): "The Keith Cochran (University of North Car Riverside): "'The Dark Saying of the Mulliner Book and Practicall Musicke Mak olina, Chapel Hill): "Spontini's Appointment Enigma': Homoeroticism and the Elgarian ing" in 182.0 as General Music Director of the Paradox" juanita Karpf(University of Georgia): "Sim Prussian Royal Opera: New Sources, New jane O'Donnell (Scripps College):"Women ple, Easy, and Generally Popular: Representa Contexts" in the Orchestra: A History of Gender Bias" tions of the Sacred and Secular in Wtlliam Kathryn Lowerre (Duke University): ':John Philip Brett (University of California, Bradbury's Esther, the BeautifUl Queen" Dennis's Rinaldo and Peter Motteux's The Island Riverside): "Musicology, Sexology, and the Gregory N. Reish (University of Georgia): Princess and the 'Usefulness of the Stage'" Cultural Politics of Edward J. Dent (I876- "Beyond Pastiche: Stylistic Interaction in Ian D. Pearson (Winthrop College): I957)" Bruckner's Mass in E Minor" "Paisiello's 'Nel cor piu non mi sento' from jean Christensen (University of Louisville): L'amor contrastato, or LA Molinara, in Theme 2.5-2.6 April I998 "Why is Schoenberg's Bibliography So Hard and Variations, I79~I86s'' University of California, Santa Cruz to Complete?" David Schildkret (Salem College): "Per I Joint Meeting with the Northern California Patricia L. Schmidt (Vanderbilt Univer spective and Polyphony: Initial Thoughts on Chapter sity): "The Duality of Meaning in Erik Satie's Their Parallel Development" See listing above Cinq Grimaces pour 'Le Songe d'une nuit d'ete' " Reeves Ely Shulstad (Florida State Univer Marc Rice (University of Louisville): "The sity):"Dante, Liszt, and Musical Genius" Community Speaks Out: Commentaries on Mary Davis (University of South Carolina): Rocley Mountain Chapter the Fate ofJazz in Kansas City" ':Joan of Arc at the Conservatory: Louise Far Tom Schneller (University of Louisville): rene and the Parisian Musical Establishment" 13-14 March 1998 "Death and Desire: Bernard Herrmann's Sean Gallagher (University of North Car University of New Mexico Score for Vert(go" olina, Chapel Hill): "From Bordeaux to Phil Todd (University of Kentucky): "Ini Trent: Royal Commemoration and Scribal Mark McFarland (University ofTexas at El tial Antagonism, Ongoing Acceptance, and Intervention in a Motet for Charles VII" Paso):"A Surprising Inspiration for Debussy's Eventual Accolades: Pink Floyd's The Wall Works, I9II-I9I5" and its Reception History in Rolling Stone" Andrew L. Kaye (William Paterson Uni Robert Levin (Harvard University): "Impro Southern Chapter versity): "Music in Brazilian Cinema: An visation and Ornamentation in Classical Overview" Period Keyboard Music" (keynote address) 13-14 February Stephen Duncan (Eastern New Mexico Ernest Ha"iss (University of Tennessee, University of Mississippi University): "Time Shifts, Paradigms Martin):"Der nicht-so-gliickliche Gluck" Change-To the Victor Go the History Douglass Seaton (Florida State University): Round Table: Intersections of Perfor Books" "On Listening to an Old Picture: An Essay in mance and Scholarship; panelists Don 0. Alan A. Luhring (University of Colorado, the Aesthetics of Song" Franklin (University of Louisville}, Calvert Boulder):"Anacrusic Ornamentation in Dalla William Home (Loyola University): "Shap Johnson (Agnes Scott College), Robert Levin Casa, Caccini, and Maffei" ing Themes and Variations: Brahms and his (Harvard University) Alison Sanders McFarland (University of Hungarian Song" Texas, El Paso): "Crist6bal Morales and the lAri Seitz (Florida State University): Imitation of the Past" "Sacred Text and Political Subtext in the Mo Southeast Chapter john Douglas Gray (University of Col tet: The Fest- und Gedenksprilche of Johannes orado, Boulder): "Johannes de Muris and his Brahms" 2.7 September 1997 Notitia artis musice" Siegwart Reichwald (Florida State Univer North Carolina Central University Mary Jean Speare (Washington University): sity): "Persona in the Piano Trios of the "The Gypsy Before Carmen: Galli-Marie and Lilian P. Pruett (North Carolina Central Schumanns and Mendelssohns" French Opera comique" University): "Changing Attitudes Towards Mary Riggs and Robert Riggs (University of Gina Pellegrino (University of Northern Music: The Reigns of Maximilian II and Mississippi): "Third Symphony of Gustav Colorado): "A Critical Look at Carmen as Rudolph II" Mahler: Ballet by John Neumeier" Other" james R. Hines (Christopher Newport Stephen Miles (New College, University of Patrick McCreless (University of Texas, University): "What Did You Say That South Florida): "The Limits of Metaphorical Austin): "A Tonal Trope in the Music of Means?-Glimpses into Guyanese Society as Interpretation" Shostakovich in the 193os" (keynote address) Reflected through a Rich Body of Folk jennifer Williams Brown (Louisiana State Blase S. Scarnati (Northern Arizona Uni Son~" University, Baton Rouge): "Cesti's Tito in versity): "Sexual Double-entendre, Eroticism, William T Dargan (St. Augustine's Col Lucca: An Inside Look at Late Seventeenth and the Male Gaze in the English Adaptation lege): "Come Ye That Love the Lord: The Century Opera Production" ofVincenzo Bellini's Opera LA sonnambula as Genesis and Application of a Black Music Performed in America, I83os-I85os" Vernacular Continuum" continued on page 2.4 Forthcoming Meetings ies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ LA Wanda Blakeney (Louisiana State. Uni 08544; 609/2.58-42.48; dept. 6o9/2.58- versity, Shreveport): "The Kinmeitaiko of continued .from page 2I 42.4I; fax 609/2.58-6793; complete pro Koryo-cho Kitakatsuragi-gun" gram, abstracts, and registration information John Robison (University of South Arts of the British I89os, Io-12. 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