AMS NEWSLETTER THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONSTITUENT MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES VOLUME XL, NUMBER 2 August 2010 ISSN 0402­012X “Dialogue…is Indianapolis talk” AMS/SMT Indianapolis 2010 4–7 November www.ams­net.org/indianapolis/ “Dialogue…is Indianapolis talk.” Native son Kurt Vonnegut thus remarked on In­ dianapolis discourse in a 1987 interview. Association Visitors & Convention courtesy Indianapolis Indeed, opportunities for dialogue will abound when AMS and SMT meet jointly in Indianapolis this November for the first time in the societies’ histories. Whether in comments following papers, at panels, or in fruitful hallway discussions, the critical exchange of ideas promises to follow upon Vonnegut as a trope throughout the Annual Meeting. Although the twelfth­largest city in the Indianapolis and the Central Canal country, Indianapolis is remarkably genial, progressive despite the tough economic times, and stimulating in its civic and arts Gauguin’s Breton Blessing of the Animals and von Wolkenstein to eighteenth­century Na­ culture. Downtown Indianapolis is com­ Kara Walker’s remarkable silhouette They ples to Mozart; or “Musicology and Place,” pact and eminently walkable. Local sights Waz Nice White Folks While They Lasted), which includes papers on pre­Columbian of special interest include the Indianapolis the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indi­ Mexico, twentieth­century Chile, seven­ Museum of Art (whose masterpieces include ans and Western Art; and the White River teenth­century Massachusetts, and Celtic Park, Zoo, and Butterfly Garden. Theatres antiquity. Yes, Schumann and Chopin will will be at the peak of their seasons, present­ be well represented in their anniversary year, ing Louis Sachar’s Holes and Stephen Mas­ but there is much more. Attendees may also In This Issue… sicotte’s Mary’s Wedding (Indiana Repertory choose from four daytime lecture­recitals of Theatre), Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen’s twentieth­century chamber music, African­ 2 President’s Message ............. Dreamgirls (Murat Theatre), and Ariel Dorf­ American music for voice and piano, con­ Musicology and the Blogosphere ..4 man’s Death and the Maiden (The Theatre temporary piano music, and a lute concert Awards, Prizes, Honors ..........6 Within). Ample information on restaurants of English Golden Age repertoire. Evening Humanities Advocacy Day .......8 and city sights will be included in the meet­ Panels include sessions on Schumann, docu­ AMS­LC Lecture Series..........9 ing registration packet. mentary film, and pedagogical scholarship, News from the AMS Board ......9 The Program. This year’s Program and Per­ in addition to panels by AMS Committees Indianapolis Preliminary Program ..11 formance Committees have selected a par­ and Study Groups. Browse the Preliminary Indianapolis Performances....... 23 ticularly stimulating array of papers, lecture­ Program carefully (pp. 11–22) to see the de­ Indianapolis Program Selection .. 23 recitals, concerts, and panels. Their creative lights that await you! AMS San Francisco 2011 ........ 24 work in constructing sessions makes for in­ Special Performances. The Indianapolis Committee & Study Group News..25 teresting combinations, such as, for example, Symphony Orchestra has tailored a program News Briefs, Conferences ....... 28 the session on “Modes of Listening,” which partly with the AMS and SMT audience Legacy Gifts ................. 30 includes discussions of Monteverdi, elec­ in mind, including Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll AMS Fair Use Statement ....... 30 troacoustic music, and film; or “Cognition and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, under the Obituaries ....................31 and History,” which ranges from Oswald continued on page President’s Message Change is in the air! Our OPUS campaign recent initiatives include increased funding alternative formats proposed by AMS com­ and seventy­fifth anniversary celebrations for the Professional Development Travel mittees and study groups will now regularly have drawn to a close, and now is the time Grant program to assist scholars without take their place alongside formal paper pre­ to look back at what we have accomplished institutional support to attend the annual sentations. over the past few years. It is gratifying to see meeting and the Eileen Southern Travel Communications. Our Society recognizes so many important initiatives, some begin­ Fund, which encourages undergraduate the importance of reaching out to our mem­ ning as much as eight years ago and per­ and terminal master’s students from under­ bership and to the public at large. Dramatic colating ever since, come to fruition. These represented groups to attend our meeting. transformations have taken place in the way endeavors have strengthened the core objec­ Most recently, the AMS Teaching Fund we connect with one another. E­mail dis­ tives of our Society: to enhance the profes­ has been established to support innovative cussion lists, wikis, blogs, and tweets have sional development of scholars, to support teaching practices in the music history and recently joined our traditional modes of the publication of worthy works, to meet appreciation classroom. communication. The AMS web site has together annually and as chapters, and to Honors and Awards. Acknowledgment of been redesigned and the AMS Newsletter, present a vital face to the scholarly world academic excellence is another important under Marica Tacconi’s editorship, is now and the public at large. It is all the more endeavor of the AMS. Each year we pay undergoing a makeover. We have estab­ noteworthy that some of these endeavors tribute to the distinguished scholarship of lished a Google Group to help AMS chap­ have been achieved through the generosity our members through honorary awards. ter officers stay in touch throughout the of our membership. It gives me great pride The Society presented the first two prizes, year. Reaching out beyond the Society, the to point out that, although we are a small the Einstein and Kinkeldey Awards, in 1967; Communications Committee, chaired by society, we are one of the strongest in all the the Greenberg Award was introduced a de­ Director­at­Large Joseph Auner, has been humanities when it comes to honoring our cade later. It is remarkable that in the past working energetically on several ventures. scholars and providing them with financial five years, the number of prizes conferred at The AMS­Library of Congress Lecture se­ support. Simply put, relative to our size, the our annual meeting has swelled from this ries, in full swing for two years, offers live number of fellowships, travel and research presentations and webcasts by distinguished awards, and honorary prizes we confer each It is gratifying to see so many scholars, highlighting the collections of the year is without equal among our peers. Library of Congress Music Division (see p. Publications. Financial support of publica­ initiatives come to fruition. 9). Lecture series in collaboration with oth­ tions has always played a central role in the er public institutions are now being pur­ AMS. In recent years, our subventions have small handful to nearly a dozen for books, sued. The Communications Committee’s increased exponentially. Thanks to the con­ articles, editions and translations, papers, latest project, video podcasts by several mu­ tributions of foundations and our member­ and performance and recording projects. sicologists featured on the AMS web site, ship through the OPUS Campaign, nine Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting will introduce our discipline to a younger new funds named in honor of esteemed serves as the jewel in the crown of our So­ generation (see p. 5). members have been established to assist ciety’s activities—a place to present new Over the past few years, we have achieved music scholars with publication costs. In scholarship, connect with colleagues, and a great deal in furthering our Society’s mis­ addition, our new AMS PAYS fund with its exchange ideas. We have all noticed the sion of “advancing research in the various $900,000 endowment will provide support dramatic growth in abstract submissions, fields of music as a branch of learning and for the publication of first books by those which has made it all the more competi­ scholarship.” Needless to say, none of these in the early stages of their careers. tive for scholars to garner a place on the enterprises could have happened without Professional Development. The Society program. During the past two years, the your support. In this, my final President’s has actively encouraged the professional de­ Committee on the Annual Meeting, un­ Message, I would like to take the oppor­ velopment of our membership, whether it der the leadership of our Vice President, tunity to express my gratitude to those of be through financial assistance or recogni­ Honey Meconi, has sought tangible ways you who have served on AMS commit­ tion of scholarly excellence. Support of our to enhance the program. The first and most tees, the AMS Council, the AMS Board of graduate students, independent scholars, significant initiative that will occur in Indi­ Directors, the JAMS Editorial Board, and and those at the beginning of their aca­ anapolis is an augmentation in the number the OPUS Campaign. I am particularly demic careers has been a primary interest. of daytime sessions on the program (see the indebted to Bob Judd—our Executive Di­ Since 1984, the AMS has awarded over one report from the Committee on the Annual rector par excellence—who has worked tire­ hundred graduate fellowships under the Meeting, p. 25). These additional sessions lessly behind the scenes to make the Society auspices of the Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 will allow for a 33% increase in paper accep­ a better place for us all. Finally, I want to Dissertation and the Howard Mayer Brown tances, enabling a considerably larger num­ thank all AMS members for your dedica­ Fellowship programs. To these resources, we ber of scholars to present their research. tion to our Society. I look forward to seeing have added five new grant programs to help Another change in the program diversifies you in Indianapolis.