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—1— Seattle—2004 continued from page 1 forms will receive complimentary beverage Society Election Results tickets at the Thursday evening reception. If The results of the 2004 election of AMS offi- to Balto-Finnish choral works (see the Pre- you contribute $100 or more, you will cers and the Board of Directors: liminary Program, pp. 11–17, for the full receive five tickets to share with your Vice President: Jeffrey Kallberg story). friends. Treasurer: James Ladewig The evening entertainments spotlight Registration. This mailing includes a regis- Directors-at-Large: Seattle’s early-music community. Gallery tration form. All members registering on or M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Concerts and Seattle Early Dance lead off before Friday, 1 October will enjoy a dis- Thomas Christensen Thursday night with “Theatre Music and counted rate. The AMS Web site also Cristle Collins Judd Dance of the French Baroque Court,” a includes online and PDF registration forms. AMS Membership Records pageant of dances by Lully, Rameau, and Child care. In response to individual Leclair. Andrew Manze and the English requests, the AMS is considering a more Please send AMS Directory corrections and Concert follow on Friday with program- updates in a timely manner in order to avoid extensive child care program in Seattle than matic concertos by Vivaldi, Schmelzer, we have done in recent years. Please com- errors. The deadline for Directory updates is 1 Biber, and Locatelli. Finally, on Saturday a December 2004. Send all corrections, updates, municate your interest to the AMS office as bus will convey concert-goers to magnifi- soon as possible. membership inquiries, and dues payments to cent St. Mark’s Cathedral to hear the the AMS, 201 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA Transportation. Seattle-Tacoma Interna- Tudor Choir and Cappella Romana present 19104-6313; 215/898-8698; toll free 888/611- tional Airport serves the Seattle area. The “Everlasting Light,” a concert combining 4267 (“4AMS”); fax 215/573-3673;
—2— President’s Message Professional Development has an ambi- Europe!), and many non-student mem- tious agenda, seeking better ways to address bers also lack access to travel funds. Looking back over the past academic year the needs of the entire range of our mem- Many of our members are indepen- and forward to the coming one, I have a bers. The Presidential Forum at the annual dent scholars, work in corporations, or strong sense of vibrancy and energy in the meeting this fall in Seattle will focus on the teach at smaller institutions that do not American Musicological Society. Several work of this committee and on the broad support their research, assist them in significant initiatives have come or are question of how the AMS can better serve attending the annual meeting, or provide coming to fruition, and others are well its members. access to essential online scholarly underway. resources. We are seeking ways to pro- Development campaign. In order to do Accomplishments. This spring saw the vide assistance in these areas through more, the AMS needs more resources to the AMS, helping to enable all our mem- first issue of JAMS from University of work with. One of the most exciting initia- California Press. The change to a new bers to engage productively in research tives now getting underway is a five-year and participate at our meetings. publisher and the redesign of JAMS have fundraising campaign, set in motion by the required the time and commitment of Development Committee, chaired by Jes- Publication support. Academic pub- many people, including especially JAMS sie Ann Owens and guided by an active lishers are under pressure, and many are Editor Joseph Auner, Reviews Editor and growing Campaign Committee. The cutting back their lists or changing to Pamela Starr, Assistant Editor Catherine campaign is set to conclude in 2009, mark- models in which each book must be Gjerdingen, our Executive Director, Rob- ing our seventy-fifth anniversary as an profitable, putting smaller fields like ours ert Judd, and the staff of the University of organization. We are now in the quiet at risk. We currently offer subventions California Press. My profound thanks to stage of the campaign, planning strategies to support excellent books and editions, all of them for a job well done. and making initial contacts, but I want to and our AMS Studies series has funding This year also was the periodic review share with you our goals and some of our for two books each year. But we would of Bob Judd’s performance as Executive progress so far. like to expand both programs and pro- Director. A review committee solicited mote scholarly publishing in other ways comments from several people who had Banquet. The campaign will be officially as well. worked with Bob over the years in various launched during the annual meeting this We are very proud of our series capacities. They were all glowing, calling fall at a special Friday evening banquet to Music in the United States of America Bob “uniquely talented for the position of which everyone is heartily invited (see the (MUSA), publishing critical editions of Executive Director” and “the best thing enclosed Annual Meeting Registration important American music. The series that has happened to the AMS.” The Form). The banquet is being chaired by has been funded by the NEH, the AMS, Board of Directors renewed Bob’s con- Anna Maria Busse Berger and Michelle Fil- and the University of Michigan. We tract for five years, and I am delighted lion and will showcase what the AMS has hope to create a publications endow- that he accepted. He continues to be a been able to do in the past, what the cam- ment large enough to continue the series mainstay of the Society, supporting the paign seeks to accomplish, what has been when NEH funding ends. officers, Board, committees, and mem- achieved so far, and what is yet to come. bers; overseeing the office and Web site; We hope everyone at the meeting will join Awards. Thanks to the generosity of and providing institutional memory. in the festivities. several members, we have already achieved one of our goals, even before Another task completed is the new Fellowships. Our latest major fundraising Administrative Handbook for the AMS, pre- the campaign officially begins. I will campaign, AMS 50, had one goal: to endow announce at our annual meeting the pared by the Committee on Committees fellowships for graduate students to work under the leadership of its past three creation of awards for the best book by on their dissertations. The AMS 50 pro- a scholar in the early stages of his or her chairs—the late John Daverio, Past Presi- gram (subsequently named for our long- dent Jessie Ann Owens, and President- career, the best edition, and the best arti- time Treasurer and Executive Director, cle by a mid-career or senior scholar, Elect Elaine Sisman. At its meeting in Alvin H. Johnson) has been a resounding March, the Board adopted the Handbook which will help us better recognize the success. But the endowment has eroded most distinguished achievements of our as an official AMS document. It will soon over time and is no longer adequate. We be published and made available on the profession. have had to reduce the number of fellow- After the campaign is launched AMS Web site. The Handbook will always ships from five to four and draw on our be a work in progress, undergoing peri- this fall, details will be published in the operating funds. Moreover, the fellowship February Newsletter and on the AMS odic revision. But adopting it officially stipend has not kept pace with similar and making it available to every member Web site. I hope you will participate awards available elsewhere. The same is with enthusiasm. will clarify the structure and workings of true of the Howard Mayer Brown Fellow- the AMS, encourage more members to ship. So one goal of our forthcoming cam- Thanks and farewell. This is Andreas participate, and enable us to do more with paign is to add substantially to both of Giger’s last issue as Editor of our News- less effort. these endowments. letter. He has been a pleasure to work The Committee on Committees is one But fellowships are not our only need. with and has produced a beautiful prod- of several new committees that grew out Our forthcoming campaign must be uct. On behalf of the entire AMS, thank of the Board retreat in March 2002, where broader than the last one. you, Andreas! the Board considered what the AMS This is also my last President’s Mes- should be doing and how we can do it Travel and research funds. The new sage, for my term ends after the Seattle better. The Committee on the Annual Eugene K. Wolf Travel Fund made its meeting. Warmest thanks to all who Meeting is exploring ways to enhance our first awards this year, supporting two stu- have helped me and the Society during annual gatherings. The Committee on dents to do dissertation research in Europe my time in office, and keep in touch. Communications is overseeing our com- (see report on p. 6 of this Newsletter). We —J. Peter Burkholder munications with members and beginning know the need is much greater; dozens of to consider outreach to the general public. graduate students would benefit from And the Committee on Membership and funding for research travel (and not just to
—3— The Society’s Membership and Profes- sional Development Committee has insti- tuted a pilot program intended to assist those without funding to travel to the annual meeting. See the Web site at
Publications. JAMS. This year has seen the appearance of a new design for JAMS, coupled with the The Public Market Sign Hovers over Seattle’s Pike Place Market change of publisher to the University of Cal- Courtesy of the Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau ifornia Press. The first issue came out on schedule in April, simultaneously with the first online issue. Thanks are due to all who made the transitions proceed so smoothly: Executive Director’s Report The annual meeting proposal submis- sions process occupies quite a bit of the Joseph Auner, Editor-in-Chief, Pamela Starr, In this issue, I want to take a broad look at AMS office time and energy during the Reviews Editor, Catherine Gjerdingen, Assist- ant Editor, and the very capable staff at the the AMS and its goals and activities. The month of January. Our Web site application University of California Press journals divi- purpose of the AMS is well known: our process, now in its third year, went quite sion. shared goal is to advance research in the smoothly this time. I would encourage all In the February 2004 AMS Newsletter, a various fields of music as a branch of learn- who intend to submit a proposal for consid- call for applications for the position of ing and scholarship. Our primary means to eration by the AMS Program Committee do this are three: annual meeting, publica- Assistant Editor appeared; we appointed the next year (the deadline is 17 January) to plan person in early June (see p. 20). tions, and member support. I view my job ahead and submit the proposal a few days (to speak graphically) as a kind of “triple-V” The JAMS editor typically receives from early. Computers (or U.S. Mail) are not fool- fifty to sixty submissions a year; she or he is shape: there is a lot to take in on top, all of proof, and preliminary planning, setting up which essentially funnels down to three foci. able to accept about fifteen articles per year. your account, etc. will save last-minute frus- The target response time (i.e. notification of Annual meeting. The Seattle meeting (joint tration. acceptance or decline) is three months or with the SMT; 11–14 November) is shaping For Seattle, we received a record 577 less. up well. Program chair Robert Kendrick, proposals for the 144 openings. The new performance chair Neal Zaslaw, and local Board Committee on the Annual Meeting is AMS Studies. We expect two volumes to arrangements chair Stephen Rumph (and looking at this carefully and hopes to address be published in 2005. About a dozen propo- their respective committees, over a dozen the concerns surrounding the proposed/ sals are currently with series editor Mary people in all) have put together an impres- accepted ratio in an equitable way. The Hunter and in various stages of review and sive lineup of events, published elsewhere in breakdown of submissions and acceptances development. We anticipate the full flower- this issue. Seattle has been on our “let’s go is as follows (categorizations are necessarily ing of this influx of materials in about five there!” list for some time and promises to rough but reflect something of the reality): years. be a very special meeting. I hope you will Category Received Accepted Author subventions. Our semiannual call plan to attend. One little known but won- for subvention applications typically yields derful bonus: our hotel, the Sheraton, con- Medieval 23 10 five to ten submissions, most of which are tains an impressive collection of Chihuly Renaissance 34 16 accepted in one form or another. This pro- glass! Seventeenth Century 35 12 gram is intended to provide financial sup- The AMS relies on the support of many Eighteenth Century 52 10 port to authors directly for their out-of- people to present a successful conference. Nineteenth Century 113 27 pocket expenses, and all members are An important element is the book exhibit, Twentieth/ encouraged to pursue this line of funding if and attendees uniformly enjoy browsing Twenty-First Century 120 36 appropriate. See the Web site for full details among the publishers’ displays. This year, a North American Music 49 10 as well as the AMS “Trophy Case” of vol- committee of exhibitors has helped organize Mass Media umes (over twenty and growing) that have this aspect of the meeting: I am grateful to (including film, popular)44 10 received support in this way. Christine Clark (Theodore Front Music Lit- Miscellaneous 18 2 erature), Jim Zychowicz (A-R Editions), and World Music 7 2 Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology. The Margo Chaney (University of Illinois Press) Formal Sessions Web database directed by Thomas J. for their help. [sessions (papers)] 19 (77) 2 (4) Mathiesen (Indiana University) flourishes; —4— over the past three years about two thou- progress over the past four years: there has Committee Reports sand records have been added, bringing the been a rise of funded applications from 520 total to over 12,000. If you have not yet to 720 since 2000, including a rise of sum- Committee on Career- done so, please check the database for your mer scholarships from 117 to 142 in the Related Issues (CCRI) own dissertation (whether complete or in same period. Their Web site should be con- The CCRI will sponsor four sessions in progress), and contact Tom with correc- sulted for full reports on funded programs Seattle. All will emphasize the concerns of tions or updates as necessary. and instructions for how to apply for fund- musicologists (or aspiring musicologists) ing. Since the AMS will be meeting in Wash- in and out of the academy and will Membership support. The current mem- ington, D.C., in 2005, plans are afoot now involve discussion and questions from the bership stands at 3,167. About four hun- to arrange special meetings or presentations floor. This year’s student session, “‘Walk, dred 2003 members (roughly ten percent) with the staff of the NEH. Don’t Run’: Professionalism and Writing have not yet renewed. This is on a par with about Music,” is a joint AMS-SMT effort National Humanities Alliance (
—7— Yossi Maurey Kiri Miller S. Andrew Granade AHJ AMS 50 Fellow AHJ AMS 50 Fellow AHJ AMS 50 Fellow
ity graduate student pursuing a doctoral Prez: Courtly Patronage and Musical Strate- Guidelines for Announcements degree in music. The 2004–2005 Fellowship gies”; Roberta M. Marvin (University of of Awards and Prizes is awarded to Christina Sunardi (University Iowa), “Verdi’s Inno delle nazioni: A Docu- Awards and honors given by the Society of California, Berkeley), who is completing a mentary History and Critical Edition”; Gayle are announced in the Newsletter. In addi- dissertation on “East Javanese Cross-Gender M. Murchison (Tulane University), “William tion, the Editor makes every effort to Dance: Music, Movement, and the Expres- Grant Still in New York”; Howard J. Pollack announce widely publicized awards. Other sion of Regional Identity in a Muslim Soci- (University of Houston), “Gershwin: A Crit- announcements come from individual ety.” ical Biography”; Nancy Y. Rao (Florida Inter- submissions (see p. 9 for deadlines). The national University), “Aesthetics of Cultural Wolf Travel Award. Two doctoral candi- Synthesis: Contemporary Chinese Music”; Editor does not include awards made by dates in musicology have been selected as the recipient’s home institution or to Nancy B. Reich (Hastings-on-Hudson, New Wolf Travel Award Recipients: Gregory York), “The Girlhood Diaries of Clara Wieck: scholars who are not currently members Bloch (University of California, Berkeley), of the Society. Awards made to graduate Translation and Annotations”; and Deborah for research in the manuscript department of Schwartz-Kates (University of Texas, San student members as a result of national the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the or international competitions are also an- Antonio), “The Film Music of Alberto Gina- archives of the Musée d’Histoire de la Méde- nounced. The Editor is always grateful to stera.” cine et de la Pharmacie of the Faculté de individuals who report honors and awards Deborah Schwartz-Kates (University of they have received. Médecine of Lyon on his dissertation topic “Early Vocal Physiology and the Creation of Texas, San Antonio) received a grant from the Modern Operatic Voice”; and Sarah the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzer- Awards, Prizes, and Honors Eyerly (University of California, Davis), for land, for her project “The Film Music of AHJ AMS 50 Fellowship. Four doctoral research at the Universitätsarchiv der Evan- Alberto Ginastera.” gelischen Brüder-Unität in Herrnhut, Ger- candidates in musicology have been selected Timothy D. Taylor (Columbia University) for Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation many, on the improvisatory musical prac- tices of the Moravian church (1741–1750). has received a Charles A. Ryskamp Fellow- Fellowship Awards for 2004–2005. In alpha- ship from the American Council of Learned betical order they are: S. Andrew Granade The following individuals have received Societies for his project “Music in Advertis- (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), NEH fellowships: Jennifer W. Brown (Uni- ing from Radio to the Internet.” “‘I Was a Bum Once Myself’: The Dust versity of Rochester), “Recovering Seven- Rose Theresa (University of Virginia) is the Bowl and Harry Partch in the American teenth-Century Venetian Opera”; Beth L. recipient of a Harry Ranson Research Center Imagination”; Yossi Maurey (University of Glixon (University of Kentucky), “Venetian Fellowship, awarded by the Andrew W. Mel- Chicago), “Music and Ceremony in Saint- Opera Theaters of the Seventeenth Century: Martin of Tours, 1205–1500”; Kiri Miller lon Foundation, for her project “Melo- A Documentary Study”; Jonathan Glixon drama, Minstrelsy, Shirley Temple and Me.” (Harvard University), “A Long Time Travel- (University of Kentucky), “Music at the ing: Song, Memory, and the Politics of Nos- Nunneries of Venice”; Gabriela Ilnitchi (Uni- talgia in the Sacred Harp Diaspora”; and Theodore Karp (Northwestern University) versity of Rochester), “Music Cosmology has been awarded a grant from the Weiss- Heather Wiebe (University of California, and Medieval Scholasticism: Musica Mun- Berkeley), “Rituals of a Lost Faith: Britten Brown Fund to facilitate the publication of dana in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Cen- his forthcoming monograph and edition An and the Culture of Postwar Reconstruc- turies”; Claudia R. Jensen (University of Introduction to the Post-Tridentine Mass Proper, tion.” Washington), “Music for the Tsar: Music at 1590–1890 and an accompanying CD with Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship. The the Muscovite Court in the Seventeenth performances of chant that has not been Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship is pre- Century”; Patrick Macey (Eastman School of heard for centuries. The fund, established to sented by the Society to a promising minor- Music), “The Sacred Music of Josquin des commemorate the career of Howard Mayer —8— Heather Wiebe Sarah Eyerly Gregory Bloch AHJ AMS 50 Fellow Wolf Travel Award Recipient Wolf Travel Award Recipient
Brown and administered by the Newberry Michael S. Cuthbert (Harvard University) has Library of Chicago, supports the publica- been awarded the Lily Auchincloss Pre- Howard Mayer Brown tion of outstanding works of scholarship Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship to pursue Fellowship that cover European civilization before 1700 his work on Trecento music fragments. The Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship in the areas of music, theater, French or J. Peter Burkholder (Indiana University) Italian literature, or cultural studies. was established by friends of the late received the 2004 Irving Lowens Award Howard Mayer Brown on the occasion Rebecca Wagner Oettinger (University of from the Society for American Music for his of his sixty-fifth birthday. Intended to Wisconsin) received the 2004 William B. article “The Organist in Ives,” published in increase the presence of minority schol- Hunter Lecture Prize from the South Cen- the Summer 2002 issue of JAMS. ars and teachers in musicology, the fel- tral Renaissance Conference for her paper Craig Wright (Yale University) received the lowship is awarded annually to support “Public Relations in the Sixteenth Century: honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Let- one year of graduate work by a member Luther’s Image in Popular Songs,” presented ters from the University of Chicago. of a group historically underrepresented at a plenary session opening this year’s meet- in the discipline. Applicants must have ing in Austin. completed at least one year of graduate- level academic work in music scholar- Jon Finson (University of North Carolina, AMS Fellowships, ship and must be presently continuing Chapel Hill) has won a 2003 Music Edition Awards, and Prizes studies with the intention of completing Award for his edition of Robert Schu- Descriptions and detailed guidelines for a Ph.D. in musicology, music theory, or mann’s Symphony No. 4 (first version; Breit- all AMS awards appear in the Directory ethnomusicology. Nominations may kopf & Härtel, 2003). The award is pre- and on the AMS Web site. come from a faculty member (e.g., an sented at the Frankfurt Music Exhibition by advisor or departmental chair), from a Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 member of the AMS at another institu- the Association of German Music Publish- Dissertation Fellowship Awards ers. tion, or, most typically, directly from the Deadline: 15 January 2005 student. All application materials must be Michael Burden (New College, Oxford Uni- Otto Kinkeldey Award received by 15 January 2005. The award, versity) has been appointed a Trustee of the No specific deadline which carries a twelve-month stipend of Répertoire International des Sources Musi- Alfred Einstein Award $15,000, will be announced in the Au- cales Trust (U.K.). Deadline: 1 June gust 2005 AMS Newsletter: Applications Paul A. Pisk Prize should include a personal statement not Jeff S. Dailey (Brooklyn, New York) has Deadline: 1 October to exceed five pages; a curriculum vitae; won the National Opera Association Dis- Eugene K. Wolf Travel Fund three letters of recommendation; and sertation Competition. This contest is held Deadline: 1 March one writing sample (typically, a seminar biennially, and Dailey’s New York Univer- paper or section of a thesis chapter; the Robert M. Stevenson Award sample should not exceed thirty pages). sity dissertation “The Successful Failure: Deadline: 1 May Arthur Sullivan’s Ivanhoe” was judged to be Inquiries and applications should be ad- Noah Greenberg Award the best submitted study on an operatic dressed to the chair of the committee, Deadline: 1 August topic for the period 2000–2002. Ellen T. Harris, Department of Music, Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paul-André Bempéchat (Harvard University Deadline: 15 January 14N-112, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Bos- and Institut Culturel de Bretagne) has been AMS Publication Subventions ton, MA 02139-4301;
WEDNESDAY 10 November Compositional Strategies in Renaissance Sacred Music Richard Sherr (Smith College), Chair 2:00–8:00 AMS Board of Directors Meeting Thomas Schmidt-Beste (University of Heidelberg), “Psallite noe! Christmas Carols in the Renaissance Motet” THURSDAY 11 November Kenneth Kreitner (University of Memphis), “Two Early Morales Magnificats” 8:00–12:00 AMS Board of Directors Meeting Alison McFarland (Louisiana State University), “Another Look at 8:00–6:00 Exhibits Polyphonic Borrowing: Cristóbal de Morales, ‘Parody’ Tech- nique, and the Missa ‘Vulnerasti cor meum’ ” 9:00–5:00 Registration Daniel Katz (Jüdische Gemeinde Duisburg), “The Hidden Rhetoric 11:00–1:00 Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, Gov- of Biblical Chant in Renaissance Polyphony?” erning Board Meeting 12:00–2:00 Membership and Professional Development Politics and Music in Mid-Twentieth-Century Europe Committee Joy Calico (Vanderbilt University), Chair 12:30–1:30 Recital (sponsored by the AMS Performance Jeanne Thompson (University of Iowa), “The Cultural Politics of Committee): “Stories of Sturm und Drang: Melodrama from Benda to Beethoven,” Dutch Opera during the German Occupation” Rebecca Plack (Cornell University), soprano; Fran- Nathaniel Lew (Yale University), “Socialist Realism in England: cesca Brittan (Cornell University), fortepiano The Case of Alan Bush’s Wat Tyler” Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway, University of London), 1:00–5:00 Job Interviews “Doctor Faustus and the Demonization of Dodecaphony in 2:00 Committee on Communications Meeting Hungary, 1947–1963” Robert Adlington (University of Nottingham), “The Sounds of THURSDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS Struggle: Modes of Protest in the ‘Politiek-Demonstratief Experimenteel Concert’” 2:00–5:00 Orchestral Issues THURSDAY AFTERNOON SHORT SESSIONS Peter Laki (The Cleveland Orchestra), Chair 2:00–3:30 John Spitzer (Peabody Conservatory), “Nineteenth-Century Entre- The Sacred in the Nineteenth Century preneur-Conductors and Their Orchestras” Nancy Newman (Worcester, Mass.), “Public Concerts and Private Jesse Rosenberg (Northwestern University), Chair Orchestras: New Findings on the Repertory of the Germania Julian Rushton (University of Leeds), “The Pre-History of Berlioz’s Musical Society” L’Enfance du Christ” Christopher Anderson (University of North Dakota, Grand Forks), Francesco Izzo (New York University), “Verdi, the Virgin, and the “Max Reger, the Meiningen Court Orchestra, and the Reinven- Censors: The Cult of Mary in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Italy” tion of the Nineteenth Century: Evidence from the Reger Archive at Meiningen” Problems in Wozzeck Anna-Lise Santella (University of Chicago), “Century of Progress: Vera Micznik (University of British Columbia), Chair Progressivism, Professionalism, and the Festival Performances of the Women’s Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, 1935–45” Christopher Reynolds (University of California, Davis), “Why ‘It Ain’t Necessarily Soul’: On Porgy’s Debts to Wozzeck” Knowing and Thinking Music in the Eighteenth and Nine- Shuann Chai (Brandeis University), “A New Perspective on Berg’s teenth Centuries Drei Bruchstücke für Gesang und Orchester aus der Oper Wozzeck” Wye J. Allanbrook (University of California, Berkeley), Chair 3:30–5:00 Steven Zohn (Temple University), “Telemann’s Wit: Burlesque, Parody, and Satire in the Ouverture-Suites” Iconography Peter Hoyt (Wesleyan University), “Criticism’s ‘Strange Perversion’: Zdravko Blazekovic (City University of New York), Chair The Problem of Originality in Haydn’s Assessment of Mozart” Stephen Rumph (University of Washington), “The Sense of Touch H. Colin Slim (Berkeley, California), “The Identity of Joseph in Don Giovanni” Weber’s Diva, pinxit 1839” Cristle Collins Judd (University of Pennsylvania), “The Diffusion of Christopher Smith (Texas Tech University), “Ethnomusicology in Musical Knowledge: Anglo-American Theory in the Nineteenth Oils: Celtic-Americans, African-Americans, and the Antebel- Century” lum Paintings of William Sidney Mount” —11— Elliott Carter (AMS/SMT Joint Session) FRIDAY MORNING SESSIONS John Link (William Paterson University), Chair 9:00–12:00 Guy Capuzzo (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), “Orbits Film Topics in the Music of Elliott Carter” Jeff Nichols (Queens College, City University of New York), “Mis- Robyn Stilwell (Georgetown University), Chair taken Identities in Carter’s Variations for Orchestra” Giorgio Biancorosso (Columbia University), “Melodrama and Its 4:30–5:30 AMS Development Committee Meeting Aura: Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt” David Brackett (McGill University), “Bob Dylan’s Eat the Document 5:00–5:30 AMS Committee on Career-Related Issues and the Limits of Mass Cult Modernism” Conference Buddy Meeting Lloyd Whitesell (McGill University), “Concerto Macabre” 5:30–7:00 Journal of Musicology Editorial Board Meeting Anna Nisnevich (University of California, Berkeley), “Russian Ark: 5:30–8:00 No-Host Reception Temporary Floods, Eternal Returns” 6:30–8:00 Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music Editorial African-American Musics Board Meeting Samuel Floyd (Columbia College/Center for Black Music Research), 8:00 Seattle’s Gallery Concerts and Seattle Early Chair Dance, “Theatre Music and Dance of the French Baroque Court,” a pageant of dances by Willie Strong (University of South Carolina), “African-American Lully, Rameau, and Leclair. Town Hall, 8th Ave- Music Criticism at the Dawn of the Harlem Renaissance: nue and Seneca (four blocks from the hotel) James Weldon Johnson’s Books of Negro Spirituals” Sarah Schmalenberger (University of St. Thomas), “Tom Tom: The 8:00–9:00 AMS Committee on Career-Related Issues, Signal Call of Shirley Graham Du Bois” Student Session Lisa Barg (McGill University), “Between the Sugar Plum Fairy and 8:30–10:00 AMS Committee on the Status of Women, Sugar Rum Cherry: The Ellington-Strayhorn Nutcracker Suite” Open Meeting Loren Kajikawa (University of California, Los Angeles), “Millennar- 9:30–11:00 AMS Student Reception ian Soul: Aesthetics of Transcendence in D’Angelo and Char- lie Hunter’s ‘The Root’” 11:00 American Brahms Society Evening Reception Women and Music in Early Modern Europe THURSDAY EVENING SESSION Kimberlyn Montford (Trinity University), Chair 8:00–11:00—Panel Craig Monson (Washington University in St. Louis), “‘They Sing Heresies and Hear Says Revisited: Thoughts on Instrumental with Herodias in Herod’s Palace’: Confronting the Perilous Performance of Untexted Parts and Repertories 1350–1550, Allure of Convent Singing” Susan Weiss (Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University), Colleen Baade (University of Nebraska), “Two Centuries of Nun Chair; click here for full list of participants. Musicians in Spain’s Imperial City” Catherine Gordon-Seifert (Providence College), “‘Precious’ Eroti- cism and Hidden Morality: Salon Culture and French Airs FRIDAY 12 November (1640–1660)” Peter Bennett (Oxford University), “A Seventeenth-Century ‘Dou- 7:00–8:45 AMS Committee on Career-Related Issues ble Entendre’?: Antoine Boësset’s Parallel Repertories for the Meeting Court of Louis XIII and the Royal Benedictine Abbey of Montmartre” German Romanticism K. M. Knittel (University of Texas, Austin), Chair 7:00–8:45 Howard Mayer Brown Award Committee Meeting Jason Geary (Yale University), “Greek Tragedy as German Drama: From Mendelssohn to Wagner” 7:00–8:45 Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fel- Elizabeth Kramer (University of North Carolina), “The Concert as lowship Committee Meeting Gottesdienst: Sacred Time and Sacred Space in German Musical 7:00–8:45 AMS Chapter Officers’ Meeting Life of the Early Nineteenth Century” 7:00–8:45 AMS History of the Society Committee David Gramit (University of Alberta), “Becoming Musical, Becom- Meeting ing a Person: Learning Music in Nineteenth-Century German Autobiographical Narratives” 7:00–8:45 AMS Program Committees for the 2004 and Marian Wilson Kimber (University of Iowa), “Reading Shake- 2005 Annual Meetings speare, Hearing Mendelssohn: Concert Readings of A Midsum- 7:00–8:45 Student Representatives to AMS Council mer Night’s Dream in the Nineteenth Century” Meeting 7:30–8:30 Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy Editorial Nature and Culture in France Review Board Breakfast Barbara Kelly (University of Keele), Chair 7:30–8:45 American Brahms Society Board of Direc- Katherine Bergeron (University of California, Berkeley), “‘Artificial tors, Breakfast Meeting by Nature’: Ravel’s Histoires naturelles and the Limits of Mélodie” 8:00–9:00 Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Nicholas Wille (Cornell University), “‘Artificial by Nature’: Ravel’s Board of Directors Meeting Histoires naturelles” 8:00–5:00 Job Interviews David Code (University of Glasgow), “Debussy’s String Quartet in the Brussels Salon of La Libre Esthétique” 8:30–5:00 Registration Robert Fallon (University of California, Berkeley), “The Record of 8:30–6:00 Exhibits Realism in Messiaen’s Bird Style” —12— FRIDAY MORNING SHORT SESSIONS FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 9:00–10:30 2:00–5:00 Medieval Compositional Methods Memory, Sentiment, Place Sarah Fuller (Stony Brook University), Chair Annegret Fauser (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Chair Jennifer Roth-Burnette (New York University), “Plainchant Models Michael Christoforidis (University of Melbourne), “‘The Moor’s Last in the Oral Composition of Organum Duplum” Sigh’: Fin-de-siècle Paris, Symbolism, and the Alhambra” Yolanda Plumley (University College, Cork), “The Collective Mem- Nalini Ghuman Gwynne (Mills College), “‘Pale Hands I Loved ory: Citation and Compositional Process in Machaut” beside the Shalimar’: Memory, Myth, and Loss in the Anglo- Indian Imagination” 10:30–12:00 Bernardo Illari (University of North Texas), “The Buenos Aires of Sacred Spectacle in Medieval Tuscany María: Ritual, Reversal, Renewal” Judith Lochhead (Stony Brook University), “Music as Place: Anne Frank D’Accone (University of California, Los Angeles), Chair LeBaron’s ‘Southern Ephemera’” Marica Tacconi (Pennsylvania State University), “Sacred Ritual as an Instrument of Civic Unity: The Processions of Medieval Rhetoric and Allegory in the Baroque Florence” Alexander Silbiger (Duke University), Chair Benjamin Brand (Yale University), “Episcopal Prestige, Civic Devo- tion, and the Vesperes maiores of Medieval Lucca” Janette Tilley (University of Toronto), “‘Zu andern soltu meditirn’: Musical Meditations in Seventeenth-Century Germany” 12:00–1:00 Center for the History of Music Theory and Andrew H. Weaver (Northwestern University), “Toward a Rhetori- Literature, Board Meeting cal Analysis of Large-Scale Structure in Seventeenth-Century 12:00–1:00 AMS Committee on Career-Related Issues, Music: A Case Study Using Works by Giovanni Felice Sances” Session: “Getting and Spending: Applying for Deborah Kauffman (University of Northern Colorado), “Violons en Grants & Fellowships,” Kathryn Lowerre (Michi- basse as Musical Allegory” gan State University), Chair Minji Kim (Brandeis University), “Meaning and Effect of Stile Antico 12:00–1:15 Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, Busi- in Handel’s Israel in Egypt” ness Meeting Popular Music (AMS/SMT Joint Session) 12:00–1:30 AMS Committee on Cultural Diversity: Recep- tion for Visiting Students Robert Walser (University of California, Los Angeles), Chair 12:00–2:00 Mozart Society of America Meeting John Covach (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “Jimi 12:00–2:00 Performance: “Swingshift: The AMS 2004 Hendrix and the Pentatonic Experience” Swing Band,” Frank Tirro (Yale University), Joti Rockwell (University of Chicago): “Barline Breakdown: Blue- director; Howard Smither (University of North grass Rhythm and Banjo Transformations” Carolina), Robert Walser (University of California, Jairo Moreno (New York University), “Crossing Under and Beyond Los Angeles), David Borgo (University of Califor- with Rubén Blades: Latin American Music and the ‘Third Space’” nia, San Diego), and Frank Tirro, trumpets; Ray Daniel Sonenberg (Brooklyn College, City University of New York), Anderson (State University of New York, Stony- “‘Spreading Her Gorgeous Wings’: Joni Mitchell’s Adoption of brook), trombone; Scott DeVeaux (University of Jazz in ‘The Last Time I Saw Richard’” Virginia), piano; David Chevan (Southern Connec- ticut State University), bass; Andy Berish (Univer- FRIDAY AFTERNOON SHORT SESSIONS sity of California, Los Angeles), drums. 2:00–3:30 12:15–1:15 Yamaha Workshop 12:15–1:45 AMS Gay & Lesbian Study Group, Program Importing and Exporting Opera and Business Meeting Katherine Preston (College of William and Mary), Chair 2:00–3:00 Concert: “Profound and Devotional Music Larry Hamberlin (Brandeis University), “‘Play That Old Salomy Mel- from the Renaissance Manuscript ‘Panciatichi ody’: The American Response to Strauss’s Salome” 27’ of Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Gwynne Kuhner Brown (Puyallup, Wash.), “A Dubious Triumph: Firenze,” Ensemble Ciaramella: Adam Gilbert Porgy and Bess as Propaganda, 1952–1956” (Stanford University), Rotem Gilbert (Case Western Reserve University), Doug Milliken (Youngstown Early Medieval Theory State University), Debra Nagy (Case Western Reserve University), recorders, shawms, bagpipes; Dolores Pesce (Washington University in St. Louis), Chair Anna Levenstein (Case Western Reserve Univer- Blair Sullivan (University of California, Los Angeles), “A Sociolingu- sity), soprano; Julie Andrijeski (Case Western Re- istic Context for the Production of Ninth-Century Carolingian serve University), vielle. Plymouth Church, 6th Treatises on Music” Avenue and Seneca St. (two blocks from the hotel) Charles Atkinson (Ohio State University), “Alia via in Aliam musicam” 3:30–4:45 Lecture-Recital: “Performance Practice of Balto-Finnic Traditional Songs Transformed Twentieth-Century Russian Music in the Choral Music of Veljo Tormis,” The Uni- Marina Frolova-Walker (Clare College, Cambridge University), Chair versity of Washington Chamber Singers, Geoffrey Paul Boers, director; Mimi S. Daitz (City University Deborah Wilson (Ohio State University), “‘Never Was a Tale of of New York), lecturer. Plymouth Church, 6th Greater Woe’: The Unknown History of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Avenue and Seneca St. (two blocks from the hotel) Juliet” Maria Cizmic (University of California, Los Angeles), “Hammering 3:30–5:00 AMS/MLA Joint RISM Committee Meeting Hands: Galina Ustvolskaya’s Piano Sonatas and a Hermeneutic 4:00–5:00 AMS Performance Committee Meeting of Pain” —13— 3:30–5:00 FRIDAY EVENING SESSION Music and Confessional Politics in the Holy Roman Empire 8:00–11:00—AMS Panel Alexander Fisher (University of British Columbia), Chair “Disability Studies in Music,” Joseph Straus (City University of Rebecca Wagner Oettinger (Madison, Wisc.), “Public Relations in New York, Graduate Center), Chair; click here for full list of participants. the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Martin Luther and the Diet of Worms” Allen Scott (Oklahoma State University), “A Meeting of Peace and SATURDAY 13 November Piety: Music for a Royal Visitation” 7:00–8:45 AMS Committee on Cultural Diversity Meeting Noise and Notation in Trouvère Music 7:00–8:45 AMS Committee on the Status of Women Judith Peraino (Cornell University), Chair Meeting Emma Dillon (University of Pennsylvania), “Sounding Dissent: Representations of Sonic Outrage in the Poetry and Motets of 7:30–9:00 A-R Recent Researches Series Editors’ Break- Adam de la Halle” fast Elizabeth Aubrey (University of Iowa), “Trouvères, Scribes, and the 7:30–8:45 AMS-L Committee Meeting Development of Figurae simplices” 7:30–8:45 AMS Publications Committee Meeting Regicide and Music Emanuele Senici (St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University), Chair 7:30–9:30 Journal of Musicological Research Editorial Board Meeting Claudia Jensen (University of Washington), “The True False Dmitrii and the Death of Music in Muscovy” 8:00–9:00 Beethoven Forum Editorial Board Breakfast Anna McCready (Royal Holloway, University of London), “Auber’s Meeting Gustave III: Regicidal Opera and the Demise of the Ancien Régime” 8:00–5:00 Job Interviews 5:00–7:00 Rice University Alumni Reception 8:30–5:00 Registration 5:15–6:15 AMS Committee on Career-Related Issues, Session: “Stet! Career Choices in Editing for Musi- 8:30–6:00 Exhibits cologists,” James L. Zychowicz (A-R Editions), Chair SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS 5:15–6:30 JAMS Editorial Board Meeting 5:15–6:30 AMS Presidential Forum: “The AMS at Your 9:00–12:00 Service,” J. Peter Burkholder (Indiana University), Schoenberg President; Jessie Ann Owens (Brandeis University), Chair of the Development Committee; Judy Tsou Robert Morgan (Yale University), Chair (University of Washington), Chair of the Commit- Klára Móricz (Amherst College), “Anxiety, Abstraction, and Schoen- tee on Membership and Professional Development berg’s Gestures of Fear” 5:30–6:30 “Singing from Renaissance Notation,” hosted Holly Watkins (Eastman School of Music), “Schoenberg’s Interior by Early Music America Designs” Jennifer Shaw (University of Sydney), “Politics, the Arts, and Ideas 6:00–7:00 American Bach Society Editorial Board Meeting in Schoenberg’s Post-War Projects” 6:30–8:00 Oxford University Press Reception Amy Wlodarski (Orono, Maine), “‘An Idea Can Never Perish’: 7:00–9:00 Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Busi- Memory as Compositional Method in Arnold Schoenberg’s ness Meeting Holocaust Cantata A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46” 7:00 AMS Campaign Kickoff Banquet Race in and as Performance 8:00 Andrew Manze and the English Concert, Prog- Georgiary McElveen (Brandeis University), Chair rammatic Concertos by Vivaldi, Schmelzer, Todd Decker (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), “The NAACP Biber, and Locatelli. Town Hall, 8th Avenue and ‘Follies’ of 1929: A Forgotten Interracial Benefit on Broadway” Seneca (four blocks from the hotel) Richard Mook (University of Pennsylvania), “Beyond the Burnt 8:00–9:30 AMS and SMT Cultural Diversity Committees, Cork Mask: Racializing Barbershop, 1930–1970” “Cultural Diversity Imperatives and Music Scholar- Derek B. Scott (University of Salford), “The Reception of Black and ship” Blackface Minstrelsy in Nineteenth-Century Britain” 8:00–10:00 Musical Literacy and History of Pedagogy John Harris-Behling (University of Michigan), “‘I Gotta Be Me’: Consortium Performing Sammy Davis, Jr.” 8:00–11:00 Jam Session Franco-Russian Tonalities 9:00–10:30 Music Library Association Notes Authors’ and Mark DeVoto (Tufts University), Chair Reviewers’ Reception (by invitation) Jean Littlejohn (Northwestern University), “F.-J. Fétis and the 9:00–12:00 University of Pittsburgh Alumni and Friends Development of Plainchant Theory in Nineteenth-Century Reception France and Belgium” 9:00–12:00 University of Chicago Alumni Reception Paul Bertagnolli (University of Houston), “Halévy’s Quarter Tones” Carlo Caballero (University of Colorado), “Multimodality in Fauré” 10:00–12:00 Reception, Forum on Music and Christian John Schuster-Craig (Grand Valley State University), “‘A Few Scholarship Flimsy Enharmonic Devices,’ or What Stravinsky Learned 10:00–1:00 AMS Gay & Lesbian Study Group Party from Rimsky” —14— Problems in Baroque Opera 12:30–1:30 Lecture-Recital (sponsored by the AMS Perfor- Margaret Murata (University of California, Irvine), Chair mance Committee): “A Historical Document Rediscovered: Johanna Kinkel’s Lecture on Ellen Rosand (Yale University), “Francesco Cavalli’s L’Incoronazione Felix Mendelssohn,” Kenneth Hamilton (Univer- di Poppea” sity of Birmingham, U.K.), piano; Monika Henne- Maria Purciello (Princeton University), “Merchants, Mountebanks, mann, lecturer and the Commedia dell’arte: ‘L’insegnamento con il diletto’ in Chi soffre speri” 12:30–1:30 Early Music America Open Session for Early Mary Macklem (University of Central Florida), “A Tragedy at the Music Directors Opera: Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Style and Alessandro 1:00 Visqueen. Experience Music Project, 325 5th Ave. Scarlatti’s Mitridate Eupatore (1707)” N., Seattle Suzanne Aspden (Southampton University), “‘Let Discord Reign’? Managing ‘Faustina vs. Cuzzoni’” SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS Music, Illness, Medicine 2:00–5:00 Elizabeth Hudson (University of Virginia), Chair Alterity in Late Romantic Opera Richard Freedman (Haverford College), “Listening to Melancholy: Orlando di Lasso’s ‘Un triste coeur’ and the French Medical Heather Hadlock (Stanford University), Chair Tradition” Ralph Locke (Eastman School of Music), “Spanish Local Color in Gregory Bloch (University of California, Berkeley), “Pathological Bizet and Verdi: Unrecognized Borrowings and Transforma- Singing in 1840” tions” Francesca Brittan (Cornell University), “Berlioz and the Pathologi- Elizabeth Kertesz (University of Melbourne), “Exotic Parody or cal Fantastic: Melancholy, Monomania, and Romantic Autobi- Hispanic Masterpiece? National Identity and the Reception of ography” Bizet’s Carmen in Paris and Madrid” Laurie Stras (University of Southampton), “Sing a Song of Differ- ence: Connie Boswell and a Musical Discourse of Disability” Sherry Lee (University of British Columbia), “A Florentine Triangle: Wildean Opera and Male Homosocial Desire” Rituals, Books, and Performers in Renaissance Cathedrals Anne Seshadri (University of California, San Diego), “Signifying Race in Strauss’s Salome” Bonnie Blackburn (Wolfson College, Oxford University), Chair Timothy Dickey (University of Iowa), “A Specific Liturgical Func- Recording Music tion for Marian Motets: The Evidence of the ‘Siena Choir- Richard Leppert (University of Minnesota), Chair book’” Paul Merkley (University of Ottawa), “The Desprez(s), the Mark Katz (Peabody Conservatory of Music), “The Invisibility of Almoner, and the Cathedral of Aix” Music in the Age of Recording” Michael Noone (Cornell University), “Alonso Gascon, Toledo Alexander Rehding (Harvard University), “On the Record: Angelic Cathedral’s Codex 8, and a Rediscovered Manuscript Poly- Writing, the Gramophone, and the Opernkrise in Weimar Ger- phonic Choirbook (ToleBC 35)” many” Mitchell Brauner (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “On the Louis Niebur (University of California, Los Angeles), “Orpheus, Cusp of the Print and Manuscript Cultures: The Liber Quinde- Orphée, Orfeo ed Euridice: The BBC Radiophonic Workshop and cim Missarum of 1516” the Electronic Recycling of the Musical Past” Felicia Miyakawa (Middle Tennessee State University), “Turntabla- SATURDAY MORNING SHORT SESSION ture: Notating a ‘New Classical Era’” Late Medieval Issues 9:00–10:30 Karl Kuegle (University of Utrecht), Chair Haydn (AMS/SMT Joint Session) Margaret Bent (All Souls College, Oxford University), “What is Iso- Caryl Clark (University of Toronto), Chair rhythm?” Elizabeth Upton (University of California, Los Angeles), “The Myth Nicole Biamonte (Skidmore College): “Haydn’s and Beethoven’s of the Late Fourteenth-Century Avant-Garde” Duplicate Folksong Settings” Catherine Saucier (University of Chicago), “Music Patronage in Marshall Brown (University of Washington), “The Whimsy of Liège and Johannes Brassart’s Career (c. 1400–1455)” Haydn’s Songs: Poetry, Sexuality, Repetition” Murray Steib (Ball State University), “In the Workshop of a Late Medieval Editor: Johannes Martini’s Modernization of Music in 12:00–12:45 North American British Music Studies Associ- the Modena Mass Choirbook” ation Meeting 12:00–1:00 AMS Committee on Career-Related Issues, Viewing Music over Time Session: “From Program Annotations to Week- Robert R. Holzer (Yale University), Chair end Critic and Beyond: Writing about Music for General Audiences,” Scott Warfield (University of Andrew Dell’Antonio (University of Texas, Austin), “Lelio Guidic- Central Florida), Chair cioni’s Essay on Music: A New Perspective on Barberini Rome” 12:00–2:00 American Bach Society Advisory Board, Pamela Starr (University of Nebraska), “‘That Is the Reason the Sky Luncheon Meeting Itself Sings’: Revising the View of Music in Early Modern Eng- lish Society” 12:00–2:00 Seven Springs Consortium Christopher Wiley (Royal Holloway, University of London), “Biog- 12:00–2:00 American Handel Society, Board Meeting raphy, Historiography, and the Beethoven/Schubert Mythol- ogy” 12:00–4:00 AMS Committee on the Publication of Ameri- Kevin Karnes (Emory University), “‘You Should Begin Now to Ini- can Music, Luncheon Meeting tiate Your People into the Soviet System’: Soviet Musicology 12:15–1:45 AMS Council Meeting and the Writing of Baltic History, 1940–88” —15— SATURDAY AFTERNOON SHORT SESSIONS SUNDAY 14 November 2:00–3:30 7:00–8:45 AMS Board of Directors Meeting Dance Marian Smith (Carleton College), Chair 7:00–8:45 AMS Directors of Graduate Studies Meeting John McGinness (State University of New York, Potsdam), “Vas- 7:00–8:45 AMS Joint Meeting of the 2004 and 2005 Local lav Nijinsky’s Notes for Jeux ” Arrangements Committees Beth Levy (University of California, Davis), “Dancing Manifest 8:00–9:00 Verdi Forum Editorial Board Meeting Destiny: Aaron Copland’s Cowboy Ballets” 8:00–12:00 Job Interviews Rhythm across Continents 8:30–12:00 Registration Virginia Danielson (Harvard University), Chair Stephen Blum (City University of New York, Graduate Center), 8:30–12:00 Exhibits “Rhythmic-Harmonic Cycles in Musical Idioms of the Black SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS Atlantic” Harold Powers (Princeton University), “Logogenic Rhythm Revis- 9:00–12:00 ited” Nineteenth-Century German Topics 3:30–5:00 David Brodbeck (University of Pittsburgh), Chair Jazz Benjamin Steege (Harvard University), “Material Ears: Pathologies of Modern Attention in Helmholtz’s Physiological Aurality” S. Lawrence Starr (University of Washington), Chair Mark Burford (Columbia University), “Eduard Hanslick, Idealism, and the ‘Celebrities and Knights of Matter’” Dale Chapman (Mount Allison University), “Twilight at Birdland: George-Julius Papadopoulos (University of Washington), “Brahms’s Tin Pan Alley as Cultural Politics in John Coltrane’s ‘I Want Academic Festival Overture as a Lecture on the Comic in Music” to Talk about You’” Francesca Draughon (Stanford University), “The Landscape of a Elaine Hayes (University of Pennsylvania), “‘This Girl Isn’t Just a Wayfaring Soul: Constructions of the Modern Subject in Mah- Singer, She’s a Musician’: Sarah Vaughan, Instrumental Sing- ler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” ing, and Mannerisms in Jazz” North American Voices The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century French Music Mitchell Morris (University of California, Los Angeles), Chair Steven Huebner (McGill University), Chair Leta Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Influence and Paul-André Bempéchat (Harvard University), “How Russian Originality: Henry Cowell as Progenitor of Cagean Thought” Nationalism Influenced The Breton Eight: Paul Ladmirault’s Judith Tick (Northeastern University), “American Pragmatism and Artistic Manifest of 1928” Its Relevance to Twentieth-Century American Music Scholar- Jane Fulcher (Indiana University and Institute for Advanced ship: John Dewey as a Case Study” Study), “French Identity in Flux: Vichy’s Political Collabora- David Bernstein (Mills College), “The San Francisco Tape Music tion, Incoherence, and Antigone’s Triumph” Center: 1960s Counterculture Meets the Avant-Garde” Charles Kronengold (Wayne State University), “Composers’ Inten- 5:30–7:00 AMS Business Meeting and Awards Presenta- tions and the Problem of Others in Late Modernity” tion Performance and Reception, 1700–1900 7:15 Bus departs for concert: The Tudor Choir and Capella Romana, “Everlasting Light,” Byzan- Michelle Fillion (University of Victoria), Chair tine chant, English polyphony, and a major new Emily Dolan (Cornell University), “The Orchestra Machine, Tim- work by Greek-Canadian composer Christos Hat- bre, and the New Listener in the Eighteenth Century” zis. St. Mark’s Cathedral, 1245 Tenth Avenue Guido Olivieri (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Taste in East, Seattle Context(s): Italian Instrumental Music and the Aesthetic Debates 8:00–1:30 University of California, Los Angeles Alumni in Eighteenth-Century France” Reception Mary Hunter (Bowdoin College), “Performance and Aesthetics, 1790–1840” 9:00–12:00 Princeton University Department of Music Augustus Arnone (Cornell University), “The Aesthetics of Textural Reception Ambiguity: Brahms and the Changing Piano” 10:00–1:00 AMS Dessert Reception Ritual, Time, and the Foreign in Twentieth-Century Music SATURDAY EVENING SESSIONS Michael Tenzer (University of British Columbia), Chair Luciano Chessa (University of California, Davis), “A Futurist Look- 8:00–11:00—AMS Panels ing Back: The Influence of the Occult Tradition on Russolo’s Imperialism and Western Music c. 1750–1950: Directions for Futurist Phase” Future Research, Alain Frogley (University of Connecticut), Heather Wiebe (University of California, Berkeley), “Rituals of Re- Chair; click here for full list of participants. newal: Britten’s Ceremony of Carols and the Medieval Carol Revi- val” AMS Hispanic Study Group, “Issues of Music and Identity in Phil Ford (Stanford University), “‘We Are Primitives of an Spain, Mexico, and Brazil,” Walter Clark (University of California, Unknown Culture’: The Persistence of Exotica in the 1960s” Riverside), Chair; Carol Hess (Bowling Green State University), Brett Boutwell (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Mor- Leonora Saavedra (University of California, Riverside), and Cristina ton Feldman and the Metaphysics of Musical Time, 1957– Magaldi (Towson University) 1969” —16— SUNDAY MORNING SHORT SESSIONS 10:30–12:00 9:00–10:30 Rousseau Vocal Music at the Piano Thomas Christensen (University of Chicago), Chair Jeffrey Kallberg (University of Pennsylvania), Chair Charles Dill (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Language of Jonathan Kregor (Harvard University), “On the Limits of Tran- Opera Criticism in Rousseau’s France” scriptions: Franz Liszt’s Winterreise” Tille Boon Cuillé (University of Iowa), “Putting French Music to the David Kasunic (Princeton University), “Playing Opera at the Piano: Test: Rousseau’s Scientific Method” Chopin and the Piano-Vocal Score” A Usable Past for Seicento Opera Performers and Audiences in Renaissance Florence Louise Stein (University of Michigan), Chair John Walter Hill (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Chair Virginia Christy Lamothe (University of North Carolina, Chapel William Prizer (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Behind Hill), “Faith and Service to the Respublica Christiana as seen in the Mask: Patrons and Performers of Florentine Carnival and Stefano Landi’s Il Sant’Alessio” the Carnival Song” Wendy Heller (Princeton University), “The Breath of Pan and Nina Treadwell (University of California, Los Angeles), “On Seeing Apollo’s Bow: Recuperating Antiquity in Seicento Venice” and Hearing Music: Medicean Theater and the ‘Mystery of State’” Shostakovich (AMS/SMT Joint Session) History of Theory (AMS/SMT Joint Session) Patrick McCreless (Yale University), Chair Jessie Ann Owens (Brandeis University), Chair Stephen C. Brown (Oberlin Conservatory): “Tracing the Origins of Timothy R. McKinney (Baylor University): “Music Theory and Shostakovich’s Musical Motto” Rhetoric in Vicentino’s Solo e pensoso” Terry Klefstad (Southwestern University): “The Mass Appeal of Peter Schubert (McGill University): “Cerone’s Commonplaces: A Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony” Look inside Points of Imitation”
In 1948 Kurt von Fischer completed his and many of his former students continued Obituaries Habilitation, a study of form and motif in to attend them. Discussion ensued when- Beethoven’s instrumental works. After sev- ever he met interested listeners. Those who The Society regrets to inform its mem- eral months of research in foreign libraries, had the chance to listen and learn will miss bers of the deaths of the following mem- mainly in Italy, he began teaching at the him. bers: University of Berne, specializing on the —Dorothea Baumann music of the Italian Trecento. This work led J. Bunker Clark to the publication of a catalogue of Tre- Janet Levy (1938–2004) 26 December 2003 cento music (1956) and later the RISM vol- umes on the sources of polyphonic music of Janet M. Levy, a musicologist whose Edward R. Reilly the fourteenth century (1972; with Max research interests covered the theory and 28 February 2004 Lütolf). He also was the general editor of analysis, criticism, and aesthetics of music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the series Polyphonic Music of the Four- died on 16 March following a seven-year Janet Levy teenth Century (1976–1987). The year 1954 15 March 2004 battle with cancer. Educated at Vassar Col- brought the first signs of a new research lege (B.A., 1960) and Stanford University interest, the settings of the Passion, which (Ph.D., 1971), she was the recipient of fel- culminated in Die Passion: Musik zwischen lowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foun- Kunst und Kirche (1997). dation, the Fulbright Commission, and the In 1957 Kurt von Fischer was appointed National Endowment for the Humanities. Kurt von Fischer (1913–2003) Ordinarius and chair of musicology at the She taught briefly at Cornell University On 27 November 2003, Swiss musicologist University of Zurich, where he taught until (1965–66) and the University of Virginia Kurt von Fischer died in his native city of his retirement in 1979. During his tenure, he (1966–67), and for eleven years at the City Berne at the age of 90. After studies in traveled extensively to do research and to College of the City University of New York piano with Franz Josef Hirt at the Conser- respond to calls for lectures and visiting lec- (1967–78). Stints followed at the New vatory of Berne (1932–1935) and musicol- tureships (University of Illinois, 1967 and School for Social Research (1982–83), the ogy with Ernst Kurth at the University of 1970; City University of New York, 1987). Eastman School of Music (1990), and Rut- Berne (1932–1938), he completed his disser- He helped establish the famous summer gers University (1991), but she spent the tation on the harmonic language of Edvard courses on Trecento music in the Italian city last decade of her life as an independent Grieg and subsequently taught piano and of Certaldo and was an active member of scholar. musical style at the Conservatory of Berne numerous associations, including the IMS Trained as a violinist, Levy was particu- (1939–1959). In spite of teaching a large (president, 1967–1972, later honorary mem- larly interested in the string quartet, an number of piano students and serving in the ber), the British Academy (corresponding interest first explored in her dissertation on military for many months during World and honorary member), the AMS (corre- the Quatuor concertant in Paris and subse- War II, he continued his own piano studies sponding member), and the commission mixte quently in her monograph Beethoven’s Com- with Czeslaw Marek. He later explained that of RISM (president, 1979–1989, then hono- positional Choices (1982). Her penetrating thanks to Marek’s method, based on the rary president). His teaching at the Univer- intelligence, sharpened by her study of phi- analysis of physical motions, he and his sity of Zurich covered the whole range of losophy at Vassar, marked all of her varied wife, the pianist Esther von Fischer-Aerni, Western music, often taking the form of and original publications. In addition to her were able to perform as a piano duo until open-minded discussions and inevitably monograph, these include several beauti- the last year of his life. inspiring his research. His lectures were full, fully crafted, oft-cited articles: “Texture as a —17— Sign” (1982), a pioneering study in musical initial focus, Ted expanded his work on semiotics; “Covert and Casual Values” (1987), Mahler in a number of directions: unpub- Policy on Obituaries in which she challenged the establishment lished letters; Mahler’s reception in America; by questioning the unexamined assumptions and, mostly importantly, manuscript studies. The following policy on discursive obit- of critical language about music; “Something Among other things, see the beautiful fac- uaries in the Newsletter was approved by Mechanical Encrusted on the Living: A simile edition of the autograph of the Sec- the Board of Directors in 1998. Source of Musical Wit and Humor” (1992); ond Symphony (1986) with his illuminating 1. The Society wishes to recognize the as well as her elegant biographical sketch of introduction. He continued to be productive accomplishments of members who her husband, Leonard B. Meyer, for his in his retirement and for many years was have died by printing obituaries in the Festschrift, Explorations in Music (1988). hard at work on a comprehensive catalogue Levy was a famously tough respondent of Mahler’s musical manuscripts. Newsletter. to the work of other scholars. One of her Ted was a man of enormous integrity as 2. Obituaries will normally not exceed formal responses at a conference ended up well as a delightfully warm and supportive 400 words and will focus on music- being published with the papers because it colleague. The great range of his interests related activities such as teaching, caused several of the contributors to modify and tastes is not only evident in his pub- research, publications, grants, and ser- their original arguments. She also served lished works, but was manifested in his vice to the Society. with distinction on a variety of editorial teaching career as well: while at Vassar, he boards as well as on several AMS commit- regularly taught nearly every one of the 3. The Society requests that colleagues, tees, including the Committee on Honorary department’s period courses as well as a friends, or family of a deceased member and Corresponding Members and, most course in world music—another interest of who wish to see him or her recognized recently, the Publications Committee. long standing. He will be sorely missed by by an obituary communicate that desire At the time of her death, she was at friends near and far: a longer and touchingly to the Editor of the Newsletter. The Edi- work on two major projects: an essay on the affectionate obituary can be read in the tor, in consultation with the Advisory nature of musical irony in opera and, Nachrichten zur Mahler-Forschung (Spring 2004). Committee named below, will select the expanding on issues adumbrated in her final —Brian Mann author of the obituary and edit the text article, “The Power of the Performer” for publication. (2001), a book on the relationship between interpretation and performance. Levy’s work J. Bunker Clark (1931–2003) 4. A committee has been appointed to was not trendy; it eschewed jargon; it dealt J. Bunker Clark, Professor Emeritus of Musi- oversee and evaluate this policy, to with fundamental musical problems in a cology at the University of Kansas, was born commission or write additional obituar- direct and articulate way. It will last. on 19 October 1931 in Detroit and died on ies as necessary, and to report to the —Ellen Rosand 26 December 2003 at Presbyterian Manor in Board of Directors. The Committee Lawrence, Kansas. He attended Cass Tech- comprises the Executive Director Edward R. Reilly (1929–2004) nical School in Detroit and Cranbrook School (Chair), the Secretary of the Council, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. After having and one other member. Edward R. Reilly died in Poughkeepsie, New received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees York, on 28 February of heart disease. Born in music from the University of Michigan, he in Newport News, Virginia, he spent his for- served in the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence mative years in San Francisco, where he Corps in Korea. He returned to the Univer- AMS Washington, D.C.—2005 graduated from Lowell High School. He sity of Michigan to earn a doctorate in musi- Call for Papers then attended the University of Michigan, cology and spent a year as a Fulbright Deadline: 17 January 2005 where he received the B.M. (1949), the M.M. scholar at Cambridge University in England. The 2005 annual meeting of the American (1952), and the Ph.D. in historical musicol- During his studies at the University of ogy (1958). After teaching appointments at Musicological Society will be held in Wash- Michigan, Clark was interim organist at ington, D.C., from Thursday 27 October to Converse College (1957–62) and the Univer- Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hill. Sunday 30 October. The Program Commit- sity of Georgia (1962–69), he went to Vassar In his first academic position, he taught tee welcomes proposals for individual papers, College, where he taught as a full professor music history at Stephens College in Colum- until his retirement in 1996. Besides his bia, Missouri. After having completed the formal sessions, and evening panel discus- membership in the AMS, he was also a doctorate, he joined the faculty of the Uni- sions in all areas of musicology. In response member of the Music Library Association versity of Kansas, where he taught a variety to recommendations recently approved by and the International Gustav Mahler Soci- of music history and musicology courses and the Board of Directors, guidelines for sub- ety. directed the Collegium Musicum for many mission and the Program Committee proce- Ted’s earliest publications grew out of years. In his research he specialized in music dures have changed. Please read these guide- his doctoral dissertation and include his ele- of the English Renaissance and Baroque eras lines carefully, as proposals that do not gant translation of J. J. Quantz’s Versuch (On and in American church music. Among his conform to them will not be considered. Playing the Flute [1966; second edition 1985]) most important publications are his book The Proposals must be received by 8 a.m., and a kind of companion volume, Quantz Dawning of American Keyboard Music (1988) and Eastern Standard Time, Monday 17 January and His Versuch: Three Studies, published by his edition American Keyboard Music through 2005. All persons submitting proposals are this society in 1971. A number of related 1865 (1990). He was a very effective teacher invited to do so by mail, addressed to AMS articles pursue various issues in eighteenth- with a clever and engaging sense of humor. Washington, D.C., Program Committee, attn: century performance practice. Clark was a founding member of the Robert Judd, American Musicological Soci- While at the University of Georgia, Ted Sonneck Society for American Music and ety, 201 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA prepared a catalogue of its library’s substan- active in the American Musicological Society 19104-6313, U.S.A., or on the Web at
Call for submissions, Imagining Terror Locally: New JAMS Reviews Editor New JAMS Assistant Editor Music in the Post-9/11 World. The months The AMS is pleased to announce the The AMS has recently appointed Louise and years following 11 September 2001 appointment of Julie Cumming as Reviews Goldberg Assistant Editor of JAMS. Dr. have witnessed a tremendous outpouring of Editor of JAMS for a three-year term Goldberg comes to the AMS with a musical activity in response to the violent beginning in 2005. Dr. Cumming received wealth of experience, having served as events of that day and their aftermath, her B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia Head of Rare Books and Special Collec- including the ensuing “war on terror” and University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and tions at the Sibley Music Library of the the University of California, Berkeley in Eastman School of Music, University of elsewhere. Scattered reports of music- Music and Medieval Studies. She is an making from around the globe, invoking Rochester, and worked as Managing Edi- associate professor at McGill University tor and Production Editor at the Univer- these events in myriad ways, suggest the and has served on the AMS Council, the need for both a broader comparative per- sity of Rochester Press. Most notewor- Committee on the Status of Women, and thy among her numerous publications is spective on music after 9/11 as well as a the Performance Committee. Her primary deeper analysis of what such music might the first English translation of Pierre research area is the fifteenth-century Baillot’s L’Art du violon (Northwestern tell us about how a global phenomenon motet; her first book, The Motet in the Age University Press, 1991). For a period she such as terrorism is continually being re- of Du Fay, was published in 1999 by Cam- read and re-interpreted through the lens of bridge University Press. will work together with outgoing Assist- local cultural practices. In light of these Books to be included in the Publica- ant Editor Catherine Gjerdingen, taking issues, the editors seek contributions for an tions Received List and to be considered up full editorial duties with JAMS 58 edited volume addressing music, terrorism, for review in JAMS should be sent (2005). and social commentary in the post-9/11 directly to: Dr. Julie E. Cumming, Faculty world. They are particularly interested in of Music, McGill University, 555 Sher- submissions based on music originating out- brooke St. W., Montreal, QC H4A 3L8, side of the United States or in domestic sub- Canada. cultures that have thus far received little
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