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T H E A MERICAN M USICOLOGICAL S OCIETY
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VOLUME XXXVIII, NUMBER 1 February, ISSN 0402-012X AMS/SMT Nashville NEH / OPUS WNCOUNTDO 2008: Musicology in End-of-year figures for the OPUS campaign The Box Score Music City USA suggest that we are within about $, of having met the challenge of the National Date Donors k k www.ams-net.org/nashville Endowment for the Humanities: that is, / / ,, we have raised nearly percent of the tar- // ,, , The American Musicological Society and So- get $,. Loud, frequent, and heartfelt / / ,, , ciety for Music Theory will hold their thanks to all who have stepped forward with national meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, their gifts. Certified eligible for NEH: , “Music City USA.” Home to honky-tonks, to This strong response to appeals made at the Still needed for full certification: the historic Ryman Auditorium, to the Coun- annual meeting and in individual solicitations $330,000 try Music Hall of Fame, and to the newly in November and December suggests fered a spectrum of diversions that included opened Schermerhorn Symphony Center, one central task of the OPUS project may lute songs, Lieder, ragtime, a visit from Leoš Nashville regularly serves as a tourist haven soon be done—allowing the campaign com- mittee to focus on the big windup in . Janáček, and a never-to-be-forgotten commu- for the acoustically interested. Visitors might nity rendition of “All My Ex’s Live in Texas.” want to two-step at the Wildhorse Saloon, That such news coincides with inaugural awards from the M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet and “Not your grandpa’s AMS,” Peter Burkholder to experience music in the round by aspiring was heard to remark. singer-songwriters at the Bluebird Café, to Harold Powers endowments—and imminent subventions from the Claire and Barry Brook, Also in Quebec City, the Board of Directors catch a show and a meal at B. B. King’s Blues approved renaming the Cultural Diversity Club, to listen to Bluegrass at the Station Inn, Margarita Hanson, and Martin Picker en- dowments—is cause for real satisfaction. So, Travel Fund to honor the memory of Eileen or to attend a concert of the Grammy-nomi- too, is the knowledge that there have already Southern ( – ), author of TheMusic of nated Nashville Symphony. been AMS Fellows, nine Howard Brown Black Americans ( ), and a beloved mem- The joint meeting will take place – No- Fellows, six Janet Levy laureates, and nine ber of the American Musicological Society. vember at the Nashville Renaissance Eugene Wolf laureates. The capital campaign Just short of two years remain in the OPUS Hotel and Nashville Convention Center. is driven in part by the notion of enhancing Campaign. The goal is, between now and Situated in downtown Nashville, the hotel opportunities for music scholars across the then, to double the total number of donors is within walking distance of dozens of res- board: something for everyone. If your strong continued on page taurants and clubs. Travel should be relatively support of the cam- easy to arrange; the Nashville International paign continues for Airport (BNA) is served by all major carriers, a few more months, we’ll complete the continued on page NEH match and at- tain the next plateau: the first-book subven- In This Issue… tions called AMS 75 President’s message ...... Publication Awards for AMS / Library of Congress Lecture . . . Younger Scholars. Treasurer’s Report ...... “Something for Ev- Exectutive Director’s report ...... eryone” might well News from the AMS Board ...... have been the theme News Briefs ...... of the Friday evening Awards, Prizes, Honors ...... cabaret at the Mu- sée des Beaux Arts in AMS Elections ...... Quebec City, where Committee News ...... Victor Coelho and his Study Group News ...... posse (Joshua Rifkin Papers read at Chapter Meetings . . . to Angela Mariani Obituaries ...... and Chris Smith) of- Angela Mariani and Victor Coelho at the OPUS Cabaret
–– President’s Message
C’était un congrès absolument formidable! It that either bore fruit at this meeting or will they enter the job market and proceed to ten- was a great meeting! Such was the comment I do so later. Many of you know that the Board ure. heard from a number of you both in Quebec established a pilot program this year that al- Finally, an event that was special for every- City and on the way home—and that despite lowed graduate students reading papers at the one was the seventy-third Business Meeting the difficult travel arrangements and poor ex- Annual Meeting to be supported by Travel and Awards Presentation on Saturday after- change rate. It was a reminder that each Annu- Grants from the Committee on Membership noon. It was an opportunity for the Society to al Meeting has a special character and attrac- and Professional Development. This created a take stock of where it stands and to recognize tion of its own: last year the glitz and glamour substantial amount of extra work for Richard the wonderful work being done by its mem- of Los Angeles, this year the old-world charm Freedman and the members of the Commit- bers. One of its early high points was Treasurer and wonderful restaurants of Quebec City. tee, but they handled it beautifully. Thanks to Jim Ladewig’s exhilarating report that our en- Indeed, this meeting could well be charac- their work and the success of the pilot pro- dowment accounts performed better this past terized as having been one of haute cuisine, gram itself, I am pleased to report that this year than ever before. In these difficult times, both culinary and scholarly. And being able program will be continued. it was good to be reassured that the Society is to hear a group of our colleagues performing Another initiative taken by the Board, this on a firm financial footing. A reminder that it works ranging from “In der Nacht” to “All My time through its Committee on Communi- is also on a firm scholarly footing was the con- Ex’s Live in Texas” at the Friday-night caba- cations, was to establish a lecture series on ferring of Honorary Membership upon Re- ret was confirmation, if ever one were needed, American music at the Library of Congress becca Baltzer and James Webster, and Corre- that music-making of every stripe is alive and that will be jointly sponsored by the Society sponding Membership upon Bathia Churgin flourishing in the AMS! and the Library. Judith Tick will inaugurate and Friedhelm Krummacher—four scholars The Program Committee, chaired by Tom the series on March with a lecture entitled whose distinguished work can serve as a mod- Riis, had put together a group of sessions with “Ruth Crawford Seeger, Modernist Composer el promoting “the advancement of research an even broader span than that which we ex- in the Folk Revival: Biography as Music His- in the various fields of music as a branch of perienced at the cabaret, with chronological tory” (see p. for further details). Current learning and scholarship.” Congratulations and geographical boundaries extending from plans call for two lectures per year in this new and best wishes to all of them! medieval Europe to the musical world of to- series—an exciting development indeed. Theend of the Business Meeting and Awards day; the Performance Committee, chaired by In addition to the wonderful cabaret, Presentation each year marks the ends of the Bill Mahrt, gave us two wonderful evening “Songs, Dances, and Jams,” held to benefit the terms of officers and members of committees. concerts in addition to the excellent ones we OPUS campaign, I should like to single out Much as I would like to acknowledge and heard at mid-day. Their selection of the con- thank all those members whose terms ended at cert by Pomerium for Saturday evening proved p.m. on November, I must limit myself here to have been prophetic: that concert had as its C’était un congrès to only a few: to Past President Elaine Sisman, focus the article that received the H. Co- absolument formidable! to our hard-working and multi-talented Secre- lin Slim Award at the Business Meeting and tary for the past six years, Rufus Hallmark, to Awards Presentation earlier the same day. two other special events held during the Que- Council Secretary Andrew Dell’Antonio, who With all its rooms on one level, the Que- bec City meeting for mention here. First was a has also done yeoman service as an ex officio bec City Convention Center proved to be a session on “The Future of Scholarly Publishing member of the Board for four years, and to particularly apt site for scholarly sessions and in Music and the Humanities,” jointly spon- outgoing Board members Evan Bonds, Carol concerts, as were the Musée des Beaux Arts sored by the Committee on Career-Related Oja, and Pamela Starr (although Pamela will and the church of Saint-Jean Baptiste for the issues and the Publications Committee, with continue on the Board as the new Secretary of evening performances. For arranging events in Lynne Withey (Director, University of Cali- the Society). All of them deserve our profound venues such as these, and for much else, we fornia Press) as featured speaker. Ms. Withey’s thanks. owe thanks to the Local Arrangements Com- remarks were both sobering and encouraging, Let me close by recalling that I had to con- mittee, which consisted of only three people: and included a call for action by scholarly so- clude my President’s Message a year ago with a Victor Coelho, chair, Bob Judd, and Marie- cieties themselves. Her presentation will soon report of the distressing situation of one of our Maude Goulet. The fact that the three of them be posted on the AMS website, and is must members, Dr. Nalini Ghuman, who had been managed to organize such a complex meeting reading for all of us. detained at the San Francisco airport, where is little short of amazing—an impression only Another special event for me and for all her visa was revoked and she was forced to re- strengthened when one learns that Victor put those in attendance was the Presidential Fo- turn to the United Kingdom. I and many of together the cabaret almost single-handedly. rum, “Diversity: Strengths and Challenges.” you wrote letters to the Department of State I discovered that the role of the President of Panelists Gurminder Bhogal, Seow-Chin to request that Dr. Ghuman’s application for the AMS at the Annual Meeting is primarily Ong, Guthrie Ramsey, and Leonora Saavedra a new visa be processed expeditiously. I am to attend meetings, starting and ending with presented position papers treating various as- happy to report that her visa has now been those of the Board on Wednesday afternoon pects of the topic, pointing out, among other restored; by the time you read this she should and Sunday morning. Far from being an ex- things, that we as a Society are characterized by have returned to the United States and her ample of “death by committee,” though, these “diverse diversities” that can not only divide, teaching position at Mills College. I should meetings were a chance for me to experience but unite. Amid the wealth of viewpoints, one like take this opportunity to thank all of you at first hand the amazing vitality of the Soci- stressed by all was the importance of sustained who wrote letters of support for Dr. Ghuman. ety and the tremendous energy and engage- mentoring, not just seeing students through By taking action both individually and collec- ment of its members. I take special pleasure their dissertations, but providing support as tively, sometimes we can make a difference. in several of the initiatives taken by the Board —Charles M. Atkinson –– 2007 Annual Meeting: Quebec City
The seventy-third Annual Meeting of the The committee’s procedure was nearly exploration of “music and the everyday” American Musicological Society took place identical to that of the past two years. All in the lives of teenage princesses and ama- just outside of the gates of the most beauti- abstracts were read and rated by all com- teur chamber players, cross-cultural and ful French city in North America, Vieux- mittee members separately on line before intercontinental borrowings, new views of Québec. The sessions were distributed our face-to-face meeting in March. The full jazz and American popular music, and the within the Hilton Québec and the adjoin- -word abstracts, although time-consum- traditional musicological concern for the ing Centre des congrès. The full program ing to digest, also allowed for a more care- preparation of well-made editions all found contained forty-six daytime sessions, six ful consideration of the topics under review a place here. At least ten overtly Franco- evening panel discussions, and four events and made for an enlightening discussion. phile panels and sessions ranged in time sponsored by the AMS Performance Com- I am especially grateful to the committee and topic from medieval to modern—from mittee (William P. Mahrt, Chair, Elisabeth for its creative arrangement of sessions and “The World of Jean Molinet” to “Musicol- Le Guin, and Christopher Smith). provocative session titles, including “Retro- ogy and Nation: A Canadian Perspective.” The hard work of the program commit- spection,” “Bodies,” “It’s a Man’s World,” Finally we were especially pleased to have tee—Peter Jeffery, Steven Huebner, Anne “The Art of Dying,” “Chanson Moderne,” been able to form a panel “Musicology and MacNeil, Guthrie Ramsey, and Annette and “Anonymous Editors.” Chairs were Its Institutions,” chaired by our Executive Richards—yielded an unusually diverse chosen from a list of self-nominated mem- Director, Bob Judd. menu of papers, forcing us to form bers, individuals deemed appropriate by the The fine performances included one lec- many two-paper sessions (twenty), chosen committee who had not recently served, ture-demonstration-performance, “Recre- from the abstracts submitted. Since and names forwarded from others, a good ating Acoustical Contexts for the Perfor- the chances of acceptance were only one in mixture of senior scholars and somewhat mance of Haydn’s Keyboard Music,” an four, inevitably many worthy papers had to younger members of the Society, nineteen outstanding evening concert in the extraor- be rejected. But in keeping with the tradi- women and twenty-seven men. dinary church of St-Jean Baptiste, “The tions of the Society, the committee strove The continued expansion of our disci- Caput and L’homme armé Traditions in to focus on quality and depth of analysis as pline to embrace the widest variety of mu- Music,” by Alexander Blachly and Pome- the principal criteria for selection. I am very sic and musical activity is amply illustrated rium (prefaced by remarks by Anne Walters pleased that as part of the anonymous selec- by the program. Sessions devoted to Hip Robertson), a mid-day lecture-recital at the tion process eighteen presenters currently Hop as a still provocative phenomenon, harpsichord by Vivian Montgomery, and a teaching in Canadian universities made the the unsuspected political activities of well- piano recital by Margaret E. Lucia of music cut, more than any other non-U.S. national known nineteenth- and twentieth-century composed by Cuban women from c. contingent represented on the program. composers, the uses of music in film, the to the present. The usual round of meetings, business breakfasts, receptions, interest group gath- erings, and independent excursions filled Arts—a mere four blocks from the conference AMS Nashville 2008 out the weekend in this beautiful and his- hotel—will be hosting a Rodin exhibition toric venue. continued from page (Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Founda- The Presidential Forum, “Diversity: tion) during November of , as well as the Strengths and Challenges,” drew our at- including Southwest Airlines, and a shuttle tention to the ongoing efforts within our from airport to hotel will typically take half standing Friday evening architectural tours of discipline to open our intellectual and per- an hour or less. the art deco building, the city’s former Post ceptual doors still wider. A special noon November weather is usually cool, with Office. reception was held to honor Robert Steven- temperatures hovering in the s during the The conference itself should merit your son, emeritus professor at UCLA, who this day and low s at night. Visitors may wish close attention. The Program Committee is to pack walking shoes; many of the local sites chaired by Steven Huebner; the Performance year was elected to Honorary Member sta- of interest are within a half a mile of the ho- Committee by Christopher Smith; and the tus in the International Musicological So- tel. History buffs may want to visit the replica Local Arrangements Committee by Cynthia ciety. Stevenson and AMS Corresponding of Fort Nashborough or the Nashville Room Cyrus (AMS) and Melanie Lowe (SMT). The Member Michel Huglo are the only new of the downtown Public Library. Somewhat meeting Web site, www.ams-net.org/nash- additions to this distinguished IMS roster farther out, the area offers tours of the Her- ville/, will be worth monitoring regularly since . mitage (home of President Andrew Jackson), from now till the November meeting. Watch The Local Arrangements Committee, of various antebellum mansions such as Belle for updates on travel, registration, roommate chaired by Victor Coelho, performed a Meade Plantation or the Carnton Planta- and conference buddy matching, and student mighty effort to put everyone in a comfort- tion in Franklin, Tenn., of Stone’s River Na- activities, as well as for further details of local able place. Many thanks to all who contrib- tional Battlefield (forty-five minutes south in happenings as the time for our annual gather- uted! Murfreesboro), and of a full-scale replica of ing approaches. —Thomas L. Riis the Parthenon located in Centennial Park. —Cynthia Cyrus Chair, Program Committee Note too that the Frist Center for the Visual Chair, Local Arrangements Committee
–– AMS Collaborates with the Library of Congress in Lecture Series
The American Musicological Society and the truth. They said to me: ‘Handle us with care. Music Division of the Library of Congress We are combustible. We set off chain-reac- are pleased to announce the first in a series tions. One thing leads to another.’ Through of lectures highlighting musicological research music to life; through a life to history. The goal conducted in the Division’s collections. The of my lecture is to revisit content and process initial talk, scheduled for 26 March 2008, in practicing musical biography in relation to will feature Judith Tick, who will speak about Crawford Seeger’s legacy. Music validates a aspects of her work on Ruth Crawford Seeger. composer. Our experience of that music shapes Open to the public, the program will be held the questions we ask about a composer’s life. in the Library’s famed Coolidge Auditorium As life and art intertwine, so biographical nar- in the Jefferson Building. rative illuminates the history of culture.” The title of Tick’s lecture will be “Ruth The series will continue with lectures by Jeff Crawford Seeger, Modernist Composer in the Magee (on Irving Berlin) and Annegret Fauser Folk Revival: Biography as Music History.” (on former Music Division Chief Harold Spi- “Shortly after the death of the musicologist vacke) in fall 2008 and spring 2009, respec- Charles Seeger, his children gave his papers tively. TheAMS Communications Committee and those of their mother, the composer Ruth and the LC Music Division are preparing a Crawford Seeger, to the Music Division of nominating procedure for additional lectures; the Library of Congress,” said Tick. “With- all members of the Society who have used the out yet knowing what to look for or why, I Music Division’s collections will be welcome to mad-dashed through one box after another. submit lecture proposals. Initial plans for the The boxes contained manuscripts of unpub- Judith Tick series were made by Carol Oja, past chair of lished songs and chamber music, typescripts Inaugural AMS / Library of Congress Lecturer of unpublished scholarship on American folk the Communications Committee, and Denise music, Christmas card-photos of the Seeger “I would return to these documents many Gallo at the Music Division of the Library of family, unfinished thank-you notes, grant ap- times, and I ended up editing some of the Congress. plications, and personal diaries through which unpublished scores. As time passed, the docu- Further details of the series are found at the an obscure artist and woman spoke directly to ments slowed me down into considering the AMS Web site: www.ams-net.org/LC-lectures. my scholar’s instincts and feminist heart. relation between narrative truth and historical —Denise Gallo
Treasurer’s Report OPUS Countdown continued from page I was very pleased to inform the membership tom line did especially well last fiscal year is at the annual Business Meeting and Awards that I kept our balance in favor of stocks, ap- as well as the number of donors at the $, Presentation in Quebec City last November proaching the % limit that we have set for level, and to quadruple the number at the that our Society’s endowment portfolio has ourselves in that area. One of the things that $ , level. With gifts of this magnitude we had a truly superb year. This was not only the makes any Treasurer extremely happy is when will be able to achieve, in our own time, the infrastructure of a music scholarship of un- fifth year in a row where my reports to the the stock portion of the portfolio is gaining limited paths. Board showed plus signs from top to bottom; so well that it expands beyond the % limit. this was the best report of all during my years Do, now, visit the Web site and dis- When this happens we rebalance by selling cover how easy it is to make a difference: as the Society’s Treasurer. the excess amount above % www.ams-net.org/opus. The bond portion of our port- and moving it into bonds, thus —Anne Walters Robertson folio sprinted ahead at the rate A truly superb year. locking in profits. This hap- and D. Kern Holoman of .%, a sharp acceleration pened a number of times this from the previous year’s .% return. Our real fiscal year, and in total we locked in $, investment gains this past fiscal year, however, in stock-market profits. What is more signifi- were in the stock market. The previous year cant, however, is that from the beginning to we made an admirable % in stock mutual the end of the fiscal year our endowment in- funds, but this year we doubled that with an creased by $, from gains in the stock average gain of %, and our best stock fund and bond markets and by $, from (an international one) rose %. Altogether, members’ generous OPUS donations. the total, real investment return on the en- It gives me great pleasure to report that dowment was .%. as of the November Annual Meeting our Our Society’s endowment is invested in a endowment stands at a new high point of balanced portfolio, consisting of both bonds for safety and income and stocks for long- $ , , . —James Ladewig term growth. One of the reasons that our bot- Bob and Cristle Judd at the OPUS Cabaret –– Executive Director’s Report News from the I always enjoy preparing the “ years ago / years ago” report for the AMS Newsletter. As I AMS Board dig in the old Newsletters and Board minutes, invariably I find remarkable discussions to read and follow: sometimes they are quaint; often profound; occasionally sad, as in this issue (p. The AMS Board met in Quebec City in ). Fifty years ago, Putnam Aldrich’s dissertation could have been published by the AMS, but November . In addition to receiving it languished in the hands of a publisher who would not return the copy. Aldrich went on to reports from the officers and committees of a highly successful musicological career, but surely this setback was a major disappointment. the Society, the Board: Twenty-five years ago, Wiley Hitchcock, who died last December, was busy establishing The • decided to allocate a portion of the previ- AMS Committee on the Publication of American Music and publishing his research on Char- ous fiscal year’s budget surplus to endow pentier. the Howard Mayer Brown Fund fully In Quebec City I chaired a session on the history of musicology: Rosemary Golding gave a paper on the Chair of Music at the University of Edinburgh in the early nineteenth century, • approved a Conflict of Interest Policy for and Steve Swayne gave one on musicological activities at the offices of G. Schirmer and The officers and members of the Board Musical Quarterly, with editors Virgil Thomson and Paul Henry Lang (both of whom must • approved the establishment of the AMS have known Putnam Aldrich quite well). Opportunities to explore our Society’s history through Ecocriticism Study Group its documents abound, and I believe the historiographical resources right under our noses are • renamed the Committee on Cultural Di- a rich treasure trove. versity Travel Fund the Eileen Southern I thought of this in light of today’s situation with regard to the Internet, copyright, and the “book of sand” (Borges) we live with today. With digital book collections growing exponen- Travel Fund tially, the problem Borges foresaw (it’s nearly impossible to find things, even things we read • accepted the revised draft of the Adminis- on the Web just yesterday) is upon us. This, I believe, is precisely the point at which the AMS trative Handbook (now at the AMS Web can be of real service to the community at large, and the most important starting point for site) an initiative in “public musicology,” the term I would like to use for outreach efforts to the • made a policy decision to permit an indi- community at large. The quantity of information available at one’s fingertips today is beyond vidual to receive no more than one AMS comprehension—upwards of billion indexed Web pages. Can we who have expertise direct travel award per calendar year information-seekers to the best, most desirable information? Can (or should) we do this in a way that focuses on education and avoids consumer-driven marketing and advertising? Can • approved a change in the guidelines for we do this while ensuring that we do not lose important information (“back up your data” is the MPD travel fund to permit graduate a mantra for good reason)? And, not least, can we do this in a way that is neither “dumbing students reading papers to receive sup- down” nor condescending? The Communications Committee is currently grappling with these port from this program questions as they begin to develop a strategy for public musicology. I believe this is one of the • acknowledged with deep gratitude the most important challenges now facing the Society. dedicated service of outgoing Secretary —Robert Judd Rufus Hallmark, Past President Elaine Sisman, Council Secretary Andrew Dell’Antonio, Board members Mark News Briefs Evan Bonds and Carol Oja, JAMS Edi- tor-in-Chief Bruce Alan Brown, and JAMS Now Accepting Electronic Further details: JAMS Review Editor Julie Cumming. Submissions www.udayton.edu/~nehinstitute2008 —Pamela F. Starr Authors of articles to be considered for pub- Philip Gossett (University of Chicago) and lication in JAMS may now submit their work Barbara Haggh-Huglo (University of Mary- electronically, if they wish. Material may be land) were elected to serve as Directors-at- sent as hard copy (only one copy is necessary) Large of the International Musicological So- ists of Lully’s music ca. –, with Pascal or by e-mail attachment. Authors should care- ciety from –. Barbara Haggh-Huglo Denécheau, also of the CNRS in Paris. fully review the newly revised “Directions to was elected by the Directorium to serve as one The Mannes Institute will convene a special Contributors” located in the most recent issue of two Vice Presidents of the IMS from event hosted by the Eastman School of Music of JAMS and at the Web site (www.ams-net. to . in Rochester, New York, - June , on org/contact.php) prior to submitting their the topic “Jazz Meets Pop,” coinciding with work. Bruce Gustafson (Franklin and Marshall College) has been named Directeur de Re- the Rochester International Jazz Festival. In- Richard Benedum (University of Dayton) cherche at the Centre national de la recherche tensive jazz and pop workshops will meet to has again been awarded a grant from the scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. During the six- explore a number of specialized topics. There National Endowment for the Humanities to month appointment, he will work on a critical is no fee for participation, and communal direct an interdisciplinary Institute for school edition of Lully’s Divertissement royal (), meals, a reception, and an elegant banquet are teachers, “Mozart’s Worlds,” from June to which includes Molière’s play “Les Amants all provided free of charge. Affordable confer- July . Twenty-five K– teachers will magnifiques,” to be produced at Versailles in ence housing is available. be chosen nationally as part of the Institute; ; a critical edition of the works of Cham- www.mannes.edu/mi each teacher will receive a stipend from the bonnières, with CNRS colleague Denis Her- Deadline: 1 March 2008 NEH for his/her participation. The Institute lin; and “Lully Scribes,” a study of the copy- continued on page will be based in Vienna, Austria.
–– Awards, Prizes, and Honors
Honorary Members à deux voix du manuscrit de Florence, Biblio- teca Medicea-Laurenziana, Pluteus ., fasci- Rebecca Baltzer is professor emeritus of mu- cule V, for the seven-volume critical edition sicology at the University of Texas at Austin, of the Magnus liber organi (Monaco, ). where she taught from until her retire- In addition, she co-edited The Union of Words ment in . During her tenure there she and Music in Medieval Poetry (Austin, ) helped to found the university’s Medieval with Thomas Cable and James I. Wimsatt, Studies Program, and also served for four and together with Margot Fassler co-edited years as an Associate Dean of its Graduate The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages School. She also taught at Boston University Methodology and Source Studies, Regional De- ( – ) and as a Visiting Professor of Mu- velopments, Hagiography: Written in Honor of sic at Princeton University (Fall, ). Professor Ruth Steiner (Oxford, ). This After receiving her A.B. degree magna cum book was one of three singled out for awards laude from Randolph-Macon Women’s Col- in the category of Philosophy and Religion lege in , she began her graduate study by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing at Boston University, completing a master’s Division of the Association of American Pub- degree ( ) and Ph.D. ( ) with the dis- lishers in . sertation “Notation, Rhythm, and Style in Although her research is firmly anchored in the Two-Voice Notre Dame Clausula.” Out the high Middle Ages, Rebecca Baltzer also has of that came her article “Thirteenth-Century strong interests in art history and in the Delta Illuminated Miniatures and the Date of the blues tradition of her native Mississippi. She James Webster Florence Manuscript,” which appeared in has served the Society in a number of capaci- Honorary Member JAMS in . That article won the Society’s ties, among them as member of the Board of tor of the journal Beethoven Forum, and was Alfred Einstein Award in . Directors (–), as Vice President (– musicological consultant for the recordings of Her award-winning article was but the first ), and as Treasurer (–). of many studies on the Notre Dame School, Haydn’s symphonies on original instruments the Ars antiqua, and the liturgy and liturgi- James Webster is the Goldwin Smith Profes- by the Academy of Ancient Music under cal books of medieval Paris that have marked sor of Music at Cornell University, where he Christopher Hogwood (Decca/L’oiseau-lyre). Rebecca Baltzer’s career. She has published has taught since . He has also held teach- His articles and reviews have been published articles and reviews in JAMS, the Journal of ing appointments at Columbia and Brandeis in JAMS, MQ, 19th-Century Music, Beethoven Musicology, the Journal of the Royal Musical Universities and in Germany at the University Forum, Haydn Studies, Mozart Studies, Brahms Association, Current Musicology, Notes, Specu- of Freiburg and the Humboldt University, Studies, and in various Festschriften. lum, the New Grove, and the Dictionary of the Berlin. He received the B.A. from Harvard in Webster’s scholarly work has been recog- Middle Ages. She has contributed chapters to and his MFA () and Ph.D. () nized with several awards and fellowships. In five books, and edited Volume , Les Clausules from Princeton, where he studied with Oli- addition to the Einstein Award, he received ver Strunk, Arthur Mendel, Roger Sessions, the Society’s Otto Kinkeldey Award in , Edward Cone, and Lewis Lockwood. His dis- for his book Haydn’s “Farewell” Symphony and sertation, for which he conducted research in the Idea of Classical Style (Cambridge Univer- Vienna with a Fulbright Fellowship, is en- sity Press, ). He has also received two Se- titled “The Bass Part in Joseph Haydn’s Early nior Research Fellowships from the National String Quartets and in Austrian Chamber Endowment for the Humanities, a Guggen- Music, –.” The article he drew from heim Fellowship, and a Research Fellowship that study, “Violoncello and Double Bass in from the German Alexander von Humboldt the Chamber Music of Haydn and his Vien- Foundation. nese Contemporaries, –,” published Webster is a Fellow of the American Acad- in JAMS in , won the Society’s Alfred emy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Einstein Award in . Executive Committee of the Board of Direc- James Webster specializes in the history and tors of the Joseph Haydn Institute, a member theory of music of the eighteenth and nine- of the Board of Directors of the Johannes- teenth centuries, with a particular focus on Brahms Gesamtausgabe, and a co-editor Haydn. His other interests include Mozart (–) and member of the editorial board (especially his operas), Beethoven, Schubert, (from ) of Beethoven Forum. He has and Brahms, as well as performance practice, served the Society in many capacities, most editorial practice, and the historiography of notably as member of the Board of Directors music. He also specializes in issues of musical (–) and President (–). Rebecca Baltzer form (including analytical methodology) and Honorary Member Schenkerian analysis. He was a founding edi- –– Corresponding Members rial work she has published articles in JAMS, Journal of Musicology, Musical Times, Studi Bathia Churgin retired in from Bar- musicali, Current Musicology, Israel Studies in Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, whose Musicology, and Mozart Jahrbuch, as well as Department of Music she founded in in several Festschriften and other volumes and served as head until . She began her of collected studies. Her book Transcendent teaching career at Vassar College ( – Mastery: Studies in the Music of Beethoven is and – ), and has also been a visiting in press (Pendragon). She has received two professor at Harvard Summer School ( ), fellowships from the American Council of Tel-Aviv University ( ), the University of Learned Societies. North Carolina, and several other universi- In addition to her role as founder and head ties in Israel and the United States. She did of the Department of Music at Bar-Ilan Uni- her undergraduate work at Hunter College of versity, she served as chair of the Israel Mu- the City University of New York (B.A. ), sicological Society (–) and was editor where Louise Talma was among her teachers. of that society’s journal, Israel Studies in Mu- While she was pursuing her master’s degree sicology ( and ). A Festschrift in her Friedhelm Krummacher at Radcliffe (M.A. ) she spent summers honor was published as a special issue of the Corresponding Member studying music theory with Nadia Boulanger Journal of Musicology in . at Fontainebleau. Beginning her doctoral sohn’s quartets, Krummacher’s monographs work at Harvard in , she studied theory Friedhelm Krummacher is professor emeri- have included Die Choralbearbeitung in der with Walter Piston and music history with tus of musicology at the University of Kiel, protestantischen Figuralmusik zwischen Schütz Otto Gombosi, receiving her Ph.D. in Germany. Before assuming the position of und Bach (Kassel, ), Gustav Mahlers III. with a dissertation on the symphonies of Ordinarius in Kiel in he taught at the Symphonie: Welt im Widerbild (Kassel, ), Giovanni Battista Sammartini. Her disserta- University of Erlangen (–) and at the Bachs Zyklus der Choralkantaten: Aufgaben tion advisors were Nino Pirrotta and, unof- Musikhochschule in Detmold (–). He und Lösungen (Göttingen, ), and Das ficially, Jan LaRue. was also the founding director of the Depart- Streichquartett, vol. of Handbuch der musi- Bathia Churgin’s scholarly work has focused ment for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt kalischen Gattungen (Laaber, –). His upon the origin and early phases of the Classi- University, Berlin, of which he was made an articles have appeared in numerous European cal symphony and style, and the contributions honorary member in . journals, Festschriften, and other volumes of of Sammartini and other Italian composers. Krummacher completed his doctoral work collected studies published on both sides of She has had a lifelong passion for the music of in musicology at the Freie Universität in Ber- the Atlantic. A Festschrift in his honor, Rezep- Beethoven, which has found its musicological lin, with additional studies at the universities tion als Innovation: Untersuchungen zu einem expression in studies of the composer’s com- of Marburg and Uppsala. Among his profes- Grundmodell der europäischen Kompositionsge- positional process and analyses of his style, sors were Fritz Dräger, Martin Ruhnke, and schichte appeared in . Ingmar Bengtsson. Following receipt of the AMS Awards and Prizes Ph.D. in , with a dissertation on the transmission of polyphonic chorale arrange- The Otto Kinkeldey Award is presented an- ments in the early Protestant cantata, he was nually by the Society to honor an outstanding invited to become Assistent in the Institute of Musicology of the University of Erlangen, where he completed his Habilitation with the book Mendelssohn der Komponist: Studien zur Kammermusik für Streicher (). To say that Friedhelm Krummacher’s re- search interests are wide-ranging would be an understatement. His publications have extended from Baroque organ music to mu- sic aesthetics, from the stylus phantasticus Bathia Churgin to the string quartet, and he has published Corresponding Member on the music of Josquin, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, stylistic development and stylistic context. Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, and Reger. He She co-authored the Thematic Catalogue of the has been closely involved in the collected Works of Giovanni Battista Sammartini: Or- editions of Brahms (for which he was ap- chestral and Vocal Music (Cambridge, Mass., pointed Director in ), Mendelssohn, and ) with Newell Jenkins, and has prepared Buxtehude. He has also edited and contrib- editions of symphonies by Beethoven, Sam- uted to four congress reports for the series martini, Antonio Brioschi, and Fortunato Kieler Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft, and Chelleri. Her critical edition of Beethoven’s co-edited the volume Rezeptionsästhetik und Third and Fourth Symphonies for the new Rezeptionsgeschichte in der Musikwissenschaft Gesamtausgabe (Laaber, ) with Hermann Danuser. In ad- of Beethoven’s works is cur- Philip Gossett rently in press. In parallel with her edito- dition to his Habilitationsschrift on Mendels- Kinkeldey Award winner –– Jeffrey Taylor Palisca Award winner ThePaul A. Pisk Prize for an outstanding pa- per presented by a graduate student at the An- nual Meeting was awarded to Emily Abrams Susan Boynton David Rothenberg Ansari (University of Western Ontario) for Lockwood Award winner Einstein Award winner “Aaron Copland and Cultural Diplomacy: ‘Un-American’ Composer Meets Cold War book by a senior scholar. This year’s award The Alfred Einstein Award for an outstand- Ambassador.” went to Philip Gossett (University of Chica- ing musicological article by a scholar in the go) for Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian early stages of her or his career was given to The Noah Greenberg Award for outstanding Opera (University of Chicago Press). David Rothenberg (Case Western Reserve contributions to historically aware perfor- mance and the study of historical performing The Lewis Lockwood Award for an out- University) for “The Marian Symbolism of practices was presented to Elisabeth Le Guin standing book by a scholar in the early stages Spring, ca. –ca. : Two Case Studies,” (UCLA) for “Audience Performance Practice: of his or her career was presented to Susan Journal of the American Musicological Society A Pilot Project.” Boynton (Columbia University) for Shaping ( ). a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the The Robert M. Stevenson Award, which The Ruth A. Solie Award, honoring a col- Imperial Abbey of Farfa, – (Cornell recognizes outstanding scholarship in Iberian lection of musicological essays of exceptional University Press). music, was presented to Kenneth Kreitner merit, was inaugurated in . The award was presented to Martha Feldman (Univer- The H. Colin Slim Award for an outsatnd- (University of Memphis) for The Church sity of Chicago) and Bonnie Gordon (Uni- ing article by a senior scholar was presented to Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain (Boydell & versity of Virginia) for The Courtesan’s Arts: Anne Walters Robertson (University of Chi- Brewer, ). Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Oxford University cago) for “The Savior, the Woman, and the The Claude V. Palisca Award for an out- Press). Head of the Dragon in the Caput Masses and standing edition or translation was given to Motet,” Journal of the American Musicological Jeffrey Taylor (Brooklyn College) for Earl Other Awards, Prizes and Honors Society (). “Fatha” Hines, Selected Piano Solos, – (A-R Editions). The Philip Brett Award, presented by the LGBTQ Study Group of the AMS for excep- tional musicological work in the field of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual studies, was given to Suzanne G. Cusick (New York University) for “Music as Torture, Music as a Weapon,” presented at AMS Los Angeles , and “Queer Performativity and the Gender Order in the GWOT [Global War on Terror],” presented at the “Queer Vibra- tions” conference, Cornell University, March, . Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University) re- ceived a three-year Standard Research Grant last spring from the Social Sciences and Hu- manities Research Council of Canada for her project “‘An Ornament of our Fatherland’: German Identity, Catholicism and the Re- vival of Hildegard.” Richard Benedum (University of Dayton, Emeritus) received a grant from the NEH to Anne Walters Robertson Kenneth Kreitner direct an interdisciplinary Institute for school Slim Award winner Stevenson Award winner –– the Leading Tone: Fourteenth-Century Music Theory and the Directed Progression,” Music Theory Spectrum (), received an honor- able mention for the same prize and received an Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory. bruce d. mcclung (University of Cincinnati) won the Kurt Weill Prize for outstand- ing scholarship on twentieth-century musical theater for Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical (Oxford University Press). The book also received the George Freedley Award, Suzanne G. Cusick Brett Award winner Special Jury Prize, from the Theatre Library Association. teachers, “Mozart’ Worlds,” from June to Bryan Proksch (University of North Caro- July , . lina, Chapel Hill) received an Avenir Founda- Elizabeth Bergman (Princeton University) tion-Research Grant to support a month-long won the Kurt Weill Prize for an outstanding residency at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in article for “Mutual Responses in the Midst of Vienna for research on Schoenberg’s reception an Era: Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land and of Debussy. Candide Journal of Musi- Elisabeth Le Guin Leonard Bernstein’s ,” Jewel A. Smith (University of Cincinnati) has Greenberg Award winner cology (). been awarded an NEH Fellowship for – A Special Recognition Award was given to for her project “Music Education in Nine- Sarah Day-O’Connell (Knox College) re- Claude V. Palisca (author) and Thomas J. teenth-Century American Female Seminaries: ceived a – Edison Fellowship from the Mathiesen (editor) for Music and Ideas in the A Neglected History.” Sound Archive of the British Library for her Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (University project “Haydn’s Canzonettas on Record: Per- The ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for of Illinois Press). formance Practice and Reception.” outstanding print, broadcast, and new media Also honored were: Michel Huglo (CNRS Paris) and Robert M. coverage of music included the following: • Elizabeth Bergman (Princeton University) Stevenson (UCLA) were awarded honorary Claire Fontijn (Wellesley College) won the for “Mutual Responses in the Midst of an Era: memberships at the eighteenth Congress of Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land and Leonard the International Musicological Society (July Musical Biography for Desperate Measures: The Bernstein’s Candide,” Journal of Musicology ). Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo (Ox- ( ); Elizabeth Eva Leach (University of London) ford University Press). • Philip Gossett (University of Chicago) for won the Pauline Alderman Award for Theodore Craig Levin (Dartmouth College) Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera outstanding research in Women and Music and Valentina Süzükei won the Béla Bartók (University of Chicago Press); for her article “‘The Little Pipe Sings Sweetly Award for Excellence in Ethnomusicology for • Ralph P. Locke (Eastman School of Music, as the Fowler Deceives the Bird’: Sirens in Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Mu- University of Rochester) for “Liszt on the Art- the Middle Ages,” Music & Letters (). sic and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond (Indiana ist in Society” (Bard Music Festival Paperbacks/ Her article “Gendering the Semitone, Sexing University Press). Princeton University Press).
Emily Abrams Ansari Bonnie Gordon Martha Feldman Pisk Prize winner Solie Award winner Solie Award winner –– AMS Elections 2008
AMS elections take place in the spring each Steering Committee Chair –; Board Fellowship, ; American Philosophical So- year. This year, two candidates have agreed of Directors, Pegasus Early Music, –; ciety grant, to stand for vice president, one for treasurer, Director, Medieval Studies Program, Rice Administrative experience: Chair, Notre and six for member-at-large of the Board of University, –; Board of Directors, Dame Music Dept., – and – Directors (three are elected). –, and Advisory Board –, ; Director of Undergraduate Studies, You may vote electronically at the Web site, Houston Early Music; Conference Organiz- Notre Dame music dept., – or by using the paper ballot included in the er, “Constructing Hildegard: Reception and AMS activities: Otto Kinkeldey Award AMS Newsletter mailing; if you lose it, a re- Identity, –,” ; Harvard Gradu- Committee, –; Board of Directors, placement may be obtained at the AMS Web ate Society Council, –: Nominat- –; Council, – site. Please follow the instructions found on ing Committee, Co-Chair Newsletter Com- the ballot carefully. Ballots not conforming mittee, and Chair of Centennial Medalists Candidate for the to the instructions are rendered invalid. Committee; Editorial Board, Yearbook of the Office of Treasurer Detailed descriptions of the three offices Alamire Foundation are found in the AMS By-laws, available in AMS Activities: Committee on Commit- JAMES LADEWIG the AMS Directory and at the Web site. tees, –; Board of Directors, – Professor of Music, University of Rhode Is- ; Committee on the Status of Women land Candidates for the Office –; President, Southwest Chap- Degrees: PhD, UC Berkeley, ; MA, of Vice President ter, –; Program Committee, ; UC Berkeley, ; BM, Northwestern, Council Nominating Committee, –, Research areas: Frescobaldi; Italian instru- HONEY MECONI chair ; Council, – mental and keyboard music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; early keyboard Professor of Music, College Music Depart- SUSAN YOUENS ment, and Professor of Musicology, Eastman notations J. W. Van Gorkom Professor of Music, Uni- School of Music, University of Rochester Publications: “The Use of Open Score as versity of Notre Dame Degrees: PhD, Harvard, ; AM, Har- a Solo Keyboard Notation in Italy, ca. - Degrees: PhD, Harvard, ; MA, Har- vard; BA, Pennsylvania State University ,” A Compendium of American Musicology vard, ; BMus, Southwestern University, (Northwestern University Press, ); Edi- Research Areas: Hildegard of Bingen; manuscript studies; fifteenth- and sixteenth- tor, nineteen volumes in Italian Instrumental Research areas: Nineteenth-century music; century musical culture, especially that of the Music of the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Lieder; Schubert, Schumann, and Wolf Habsburg-Burgundian court; musical bor- Centuries (Garland, –); “Bach and the Publications: Heinrich Heine and the Lied rowing, extreme singing Prima prattica: The Influence of Frescobaldi (Cambridge, ); “Heine, Liszt, and the Publications: Brussels, Royal Library, Ms. on a Fugue from the WTC,” Journal of Mu- Song of the Future” in Liszt and His World, IV.90 (Patrimonio Ediciones, in press); sicology (); “The Origins of Frescobaldi’s ed. Christopher Gibbs and Dana Gooley Early Musical Borrowing (editor, Routledge, Variation Canzonas Reappraised,” Frescobaldi (Princeton, ); “Maskenfreiheit and ); Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Studies (Duke University Press, ); “Luzza- Schumann’s Napoleon Ballad,” JM (); Habsburg-Burgundian Court (Oxford, ); schi as Frescobaldi’s Teacher: A Little-Known “Mendelssohn’s songs” in The Cambridge Fortuna desperata: Thirty-Six Settings of an Ricercare,” Studi Musicali () Companion to Mendelssohn, ed. Peter Mer- Italian Song (editor, A-R, ); Hildegard of Awards: American Council of Learned So- cer-Taylor (Cambridge, ); “Echoes of Bingen (University of Illinois Press, in prepa- cieties: Travel grant, , Research fellow- the Wounded Self: Schubert’s ‘Ihr Bild’,” in ration); “A Cultural Theory of the Chanson- ship, Goethe and Schubert: Across the Divide, ed. nier,” in “Uno gentile et subtile ingenio”: Stud- Administrative experience: General Editor, Lorraine Byrne and Dan Farrelly (Dublin, ies in Renaissance Music in Honour of Bonnie Italian Instrumental Music of the Sixteenth and ); Schubert’s Late Lieder: Beyond the Song Blackburn, ed. Gioia Filocamo and M. Jen- Early Seventeenth Centuries ( vols., Garland, Cycles (Cambridge, ); Hugo Wolf and his nifer Bloxam (Brepols, in press) –); Chair, various search committees, Mörike Songs (Cambridge, ); Schubert, Awards: Noah Greenberg Award, ; University of Rhode Island Department of Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin (Cambridge, Pennsylvania State University Arts and Archi- Music, –; has maintained an interest ); “Of Dwarves, Perversion, and Patrio- tecture Alumna Award (); Fellow, Rice in the financial world for over twenty years; tism: Schubert’s ‘Der Zwerg,’ D. ” 19th- Center for the Study of Cultures (–); as an active investor monitors the markets on Century Music (); Schubert’s Poets and Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Publication Sub- a daily basis the Making of Lieder (Cambridge, ); sidy (); Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral AMS activities: Treasurer, –; Chap- Hugo Wolf: The Vocal Music (Princeton, ); Fellowship (–); NEH Fellowship and ter Fund Committee, –, chair -; Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (Cambridge, Summer Stipends (, ); Fellow, Villa I Editor, AMS Newsletter, –; President, ); Retracing a Winter’s Journey: Schubert’s Tatti (–); Fulbright Fellow (–) New England Chapter, –; Committee Winterreise (Cornell, ) Administrative Experience: Director, on Academic and Non-Academic Employ- Awards: NEH Fellowships, –, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and ment in Musicology, –; Local Arrange- –, –, –; National Women’s Studies, Univ. of Rochester, –; ments Committee, Annual Meeting Humanities Center Fellowship, –; Univ. of Rochester Senate Executive Commit- Guggenheim Fellowship, –; DAAD tee, –, Faculty Council –, and
–– Candidates for the Office MARCIA J. CITRON Perspectives (Oxford, ); “Strange Births of Member-at-Large, Lovett Distinguished Service Professor of and Surprising Kin: The Castrato’s Tale,” in Board of Directors Musicology, Shepherd School of Music, Rice Italy’s Eighteenth Century, ed. Paula Findlen University et al. (Stanford, ); The Castrato in Na- JOSEPH AUNER Degrees: PhD, University of North Caro- ture [Bloch Lectures] (California, forthcom- Professor of Music, Tufts University lina, Chapel Hill, ; MA, University of ing); City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice Degrees: PhD, University of Chicago, ; North Carolina, Chapel Hill, ; BA, (California, ); “Music and the Order of MA, University of Chicago, ; BA, Colo- Brooklyn College, the Passions,” in Representing the Passions, ed. rado College, Research areas: Opera and film; gender; Richard Meyer (Getty Trust, ); “Staging Research Areas: Twentieth and twenty-first canon formation; Brahms the Virtuoso: Recovering the Anonymous century music, Schoenberg and the Second Publications: “‘An Honest Contrivance’: Subject in Cinquecento Vernacular Objects,” Viennese School, Weimar Berlin, music and Opera and Desire in Moonstruck,” Music & in Music and the Cultures of Print, ed. Kate technology, digital culture Letters (); “Operatic Style and Structure van Orden (Garland, ); editions in se- Publications: Music in the Twentieth and in the Godfather Trilogy,” MQ ( ); Opera ries TheSixteenth-Century Madrigal (Garland, Twenty-first Centuries (Norton, in prepara- on Screen (Yale, ); Gender and the Musi- –); general editor, Critical and Cultural tion); “Composing on Stage: Schoenberg and cal Canon (Cambridge, /R); Cécile Musicology (Garland and Routledge, – the Creative Process as Public Performance,” Chaminade: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, ) 19th-Century Music ( ); A Schoenberg ); Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendels- Awards: Ruth A. Solie Award for Best Reader (Yale, ); “‘Sing it for me’: Posthu- sohn (Pendragon, ); “Gendered Recep- Multi-Authored Collection, ; Ernest man Ventriloquism in Recent Popular Mu- tion of Brahms: Masculinity, Nationalism, Bloch Visiting Professor and Lecturer, UC sic,” JRMA (); ed., with Judith Loch- and Musical Politics,” Men Sounding Off: Berkeley, ; Dent Medal, Royal Musical head, Postmoder n Music/Postmodern Thought, Modernity, Masculinity, and Western Musical Association, in collaboration with the IMS (Routledge, ); “Soulless Machines and Practice, ed. Ian Biddle & Kirsten Gibson Directorium, ; Bainton Prize of the Six- Steppenwolves: Renegotiating Masculinity in (Ashgate; in press); When Opera Meets Film teenth-Century Studies Conference and the Krenek’s Jonny spielt auf,” in Siren Songs, ed. (in preparation) Centre for Reformation Studies, ; invited Mary Ann Smart (Princeton ); “Schoen- Awards: Humanities Research Center Fel- Getty Scholar, –; Long-term fellow- berg and His Public in : The Six Pieces lowship (Rice), –; Pauline Alderman ships from the Guggenheim Foundation, for Male Chorus, Op. ,” in Schoenberg Prize, best book on women and music (Gen- ACLS, NEH, Chicago Humanities Institute, and His World, ed. Walter Frisch (Princeton, der and the Musical Canon), International Delmas Foundation, AAUW ); “Schoenberg’s Handel Concerto and Alliance for Women in Music, ; Choice Administrative experience: Program the Ruins of Tradition” JAMS (); General Outstanding Book (Hensel Letters), –; Committee, Renaissance Society of America, Editor, Studies in Contemporary Music and NEH Summer Fellowship, ; DAAD Fel- ; editorial boards of Opera Quarterly and Culture, Garland/Routledge lowship, ECHO; Governing Board, Franke Institute Awards: Endowed Professorship, University Administrative experience: Advisory for the Humanities, –; University of of Alabama, ; Alexander von Humboldt- board, Studia Musica Norvegica, –; Chicago: Director of Admissions (–, Stiftung Research Fellowship, –; Board member, Humanities Research Center, –), Director of Graduate Studies (– NEH Summer Stipend, ; J. Paul Getty Rice, –; Editorial board Women and , etc.), Director of Undergraduate Studies Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, – Music, –; NEH Fellowship evalu- (–), Provost’s Committee on Awards Administrative Experience: Chair, Tufts ation board, ; Chair, Rice Musicology and Prizes (–), Acting Director, Con- Music Dept., –; Organizer, “Music Fu- Dept., – tempo (Contemporary Chamber Players of tures: A New Place for Music Studies,” Tufts, AMS activities: H. Colin Slim Award The University of Chicago, a professional new ; Associate Provost, Stony Brook, – Committee, –; Alfred Einstein Award music collective), – ; Advisory Board, Humanities Institute Committee, member – (Chair, ); AMS activities: Howard Mayer Brown Stony Brook (HISB), –; Organizer, Board Nominating Committee, ; Out- Award Committee, –; Program Commit- “Singing the Body Electric: Music, Multime- reach Committee, ; Chair, Committee tee, –, Chair ; Council, – dia, and Digital Technology,” Stony Brook, on the Status of Women, –; Program ; Acting Director, HISB, Summer ; Committee, MICHELLE FILLION Director of Undergraduate Studies, Stony Associate Professor, University of Victoria Brook, – MARTHA FELDMAN (British Columbia) AMS Activities: Member and Chair, Ruth Professor of Music and in the College, Uni- Degrees: PhD, Cornell, ; MA, Cornell, Solie Award Committee, ; Chair, Board versity of Chicago ; BMus, McGill, ; BA, Université de Nominating Committee, ; Editor-in- Degrees: PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Montréal, Chief, JAMS, –; Council, –; ; BA, University of Pennsylvania, Research areas: Classical instrumental mu- Editorial Board, JAMS, –; Chair, Research areas: Renaissance madrigals; sic; Beethoven; music and English literature Greater New York Chapter, –; AMS print culture; courtesans’ music; Renaissance in early twentieth century 50 Fellowship Committee, – oral traditions; musical anthropology; opera Publications: “Intimate Expression for a seria; the castrato; singing practices; perfor- Widening Public: The Keyboard Sonatas and mance and audience Trios,” in Cambridge Companion to Haydn, Publications: Opera and Sovereignty: ed. Caryl Clark (Cambridge, ); “Ed- Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century wardian Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Italy (Chicago, ); co-ed., with Bonnie Gordon, The Courtesan’s Arts: Cross-Cultural continued on page –– Committee News AMS-MLA Joint RISM Committee Corresponding Member David Hiley, please Quebec City. Thursday’s session on collab- send it to me ( [email protected]). orative internet tools provided fresh perspec- The AMS has provided a subvention to sup- The Committee also plans to publish an tives on blogging and wikis, while on Friday port the US RISM office, which is catalogu- online bibliography for work with primary attendees heard strategies for negotiating a ing music manuscripts at Yale University and sources of musicological interest from all style global job market. Those attending the Mas- Juilliard. See hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/loe- periods. Items for such a bibliography may ter Teacher presentation by Nora Beck (Lewis bmusic/isham/rism.html, and Acta musico- also be sent to me. & Clark College) left energized and uplifted logica ( ), – , a report on RISM —Barbara Haggh-Huglo by her pragmatic and upbeat talk. Saturday’s publications, for further details. presentation by Lynne Withey of the Univer- If you have information about manuscript Committee on Career-Related Issues sity of California Press (co-sponsored with the antiphoners in American libraries that might Publications Committee) was a valuable, no- be suitable for inclusion in the new RISM The members of the Committee on Career- project, “Antiphonaria,” directed by AMS Related Issues (CCRI) were thrilled with the enthusiastic turnouts at our programs in continued on page
Elections 2008 Publications : Music for Band, Works of Gio- Research areas: American music; jazz stud- achino Rossini (Bärenreiter, ); Opera: The ies; African American music; popular music continued from page Basics (Routledge, ); Gioachino Rossini: A and film Guide to Research (Routledge, /R); Publications: “Becoming: Blackness and the A Room with a View Music in E. M. Forster’s ,” “The Music of Verdi on Mechanical Boxes,” Musical Imagination,” Black Music Research 19CM ( ); “E. M. Forster’s Beethoven,” Verdi Forum (); “Pacini’s Carmelita and Journal (); “Secrets, Lies, and Transcrip- Beethoven Forum ( ); “‘Moonlight’ Reflec- Don Diego di Mendoza: A Case of Recycling,” tions: New Revisions on Race, Black Music, Beethoven Forum tions,” ( ); “Beethoven’s Intorno a Giovanni Pacini (ETS, ); en- and Culture,” in Western Music and Race Mass in C and the Search for Inner Peace,” tries on “Patronage,” “Motown,” and “Bar- (Cambridge, ); “Free Jazz and the Price Beethoven Forum Early Viennese Cham- ( ); bershop/Beautyshop Quartets,” Women and of Black Musical Abstraction,” Energy/Ex- ber Music with Obbligato Keyboard, vols. (A- Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclope- perimentation (Studio Museum in Harlem, R Editions, ); “C. P. E. Bach and the Trio dia, Oryx Press (); “Coccia, Maria Rosa,” ); “The Pot Liquor Principle: Develop- C. P. E. Bach Studies Old and New,” (Oxford, Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and ing a Black Music Criticism in American ) Musicians (); “The Correspondence of Music Studies,” American Music (); Race Awards: Mary S. Metz Chair for Excellence Pietro Metastasio and Maria Rosa Coccia” Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip Hop and Creativity in Teaching, Mills College, and “The Kerver Missale Romanum of ,” (California, ); “Who Hears Here? Black – in TheRosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial: Music Music, Critical Bias, and the Musicological Administrative experience: Head of Musi- History from Primary Sources, A Guide to the Skin Trade,” The Musical Quarterly (); cology ( –) and Graduate Advisor ( –), Moldenhauer Archives (Library of Congress, Series editor, Music in the African Diaspora University of Victoria School of Music; Sec- ) (California) retary to Board, Canadian University Music Awards: Capital Chapter Lowens Award for Media: Dr. Guy’s MusiQology, Y the Q? Beethoven Society, – ; Editorial boards, Student Research, ; Furfey Scholarship, (), composer, pianist; Reading Darkly Forum Intersections: Cana- ( – ) and Catholic University of America, – (), composer film score; Denise King, dian Journal of Music ( –); Board, North- Administrative experience: Section Head, Fever (), arranger, pianist American Haydn Society, – ; Professor Library of Congress, ; Co-Director of Awards: International Association for the ( – ), Chair of Music Department Music History, Catholic University of Ameri- Study of Popular Music, Outstanding Book ( – , – ), and Director of Gen- ca, –; Registrar, University of Mary- Award (); Society for American Music, eral Education ( – ), Mills College land European Division, Sicily, – Lowens Award, best article (); W.E.B. AMS activities: Council, – ; Presi- AMS Activities: Council, –; DuBois Institute Fellow, Harvard University dent, Northern California Chapter, – ; History of the Society Committee, –; (); Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fel- Council, – Communications Committee, –; lowship, Dartmouth College () DENISE GALLO AMS-MLA RISM Committee, – ; Adminstrative Experience: Director of Local Arrangements Chair, Washington, DC Graduate Studies, University of Pennsylva- Head of Acquisitions and Processing, Music Annual Meeting, ; Career-Related Issues nia Music Department (–); Society Division, Library of Congress Committee, –, chair –; for American Music, Lowens Book Award Degrees: PhD, Catholic University of Capital Chapter Chair, –, Vice- Committee (); Society for American America, ; MA, Antioch University, ; Chair, – Music Honors Committee (); Society for MA, Southern Illinois University, ; BA, American Music Program Committee (); University of Maryland, ; BA, Merrimack GUTHRIE P. RAMSEY, JR. Sonneck Society, Board of Directors (– College, Associate Professor of Music and Africana ); Sonneck Society, Chair, Minority Issues Research areas: Nineteenth-century Ital- Studies, University of Pennsylvania Committee (–) ian opera, early rock and jazz, text-music re- Degrees: PhD, University of Michigan, AMS activities: Program Committee (); lationships, nineteenth-century masculinity ; MA, University of Michigan, ; BA, Council (–); Co-Chair, Committee on studies, reception history Northeastern Illinois University, Cultural Diversity (–)
–– Committee News Committee on Membership and has tackled. Professor Hitchcock, a founding member of the Committee on the Publication continued from page Professional Development of American Music (COPAM) and editor of This year, the Committee on Membership the prize-winning edition of songs by nonsense discussion on the state of publishing and Professional Development (CMPD) Charles Ives (MUSA 12), managed to com- in the humanities. We plan to post handouts will assess its Travel Grant program, tempo- plete his duties—save the final proofread- from this and other sessions at the commit- rarily extended in to include students ing—before he died in December . For tee’s Web site. participating in the Annual Meeting. We are those of us who had the privilege of working Thanks are extended to all those who par- monitoring various ongoing projects of our with him over the years, the Stein-Thomson ticipated in the increasingly popular Buddy consitutent committees, including issues for opera’s lightness of spirit seems to fit the ar- Program in Quebec City. Over seventy people Graduate Studies chairs and their students, tistic flavor of its co-editor’s highly distin- participated, and we know the new members innovative and effective teaching, and ways guished scholarly career, infused always by the were extremely grateful. The CCRI will again to diversify the membership and interests of pleasures of musical sound at play. host the Buddy Program in Nashville, as well our society. We also continue to explore ways Also in production at A-R Editions, the as another Master Teacher Session. A call for of extending electronic research resources to series publisher, is MUSA 19, Florence Price, nominations will appear shortly, and faculty members who might not otherwise have ac- Symphonies No. 1 and No. 3, edited by Rae are encouraged to urge their students to at- cess through a home institution; member Linda Brown and Wayne Shirley. Price (– tend this valuable presentation. At our yearly access to JSTOR has recently been imple- ), a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, spent meeting the committee identified an area mented at the AMS Web site. And we plan most of the last three decades of her life in of particular concern to the membership of to consider the recent demographic survey Chicago. Brown, her biographer, traces the the AMS—the difficulties of balancing fam- of AMS members (see the August AMS career of a southern woman who, after receiv- ily issues with a career—so we are planning a Newsletter). Meanwhile we encourage AMS ing excellent musical training at the New Eng- session on this topic in Nashville. We foresee members to be in touch with their concerns, land Conservatory, became a wife and mother additional events and activities resulting from either through the chair of the CMPD, or its skilled as a pianist, organist, accompanist, this session. The committee has also invited constituent committees. Contact information teacher, songwriter, and composer, and whose the Pedagogy Study Group to lead a session can be found on the AMS Web site. blend of talent and perseverance led her to in Nashville. —Richard Freedman become the first African American female —James A. Davis symphonist. Price’s two surviving symphonies Graduate Education Steering Committee on the Publication of appear in this volume, to be published this Committee spring or summer. American Music Two more notes about the project deserve At the Society’s annual meeting in Quebec Since I last reported to the membership, mention: City, the Graduate Education Steering Com- MUSA (Music of the United States of Ameri- . MUSA 2, The Early Songs of Irving Ber- mittee sponsored an open forum on the role ca), the Society’s projected forty-volume series lin (–) in three Parts, edited by Charles of the master’s degree in musicology. Linda of scholarly editions, has published its seven- Hamm, having exhausted its first print run, Cummins (University of Alabama), Douglass teenth series volume and has two more now has been reprinted and is once again available Seaton (Florida State University) and Daniel in the production stage. from A-R Editions. (AMS members may pur- R. Melamed (Indiana University) made pre- The annual meeting in Quebec in Novem- chase this or any other MUSA volume at a sentations and led a lively discussion. ber saw the unveiling of MUSA 17, Charles percent discount.) We invite all interested members (and espe- Hommann: Surviving Orchestral Works, ed- . On November, COPAM, on behalf of cially directors of graduate studies, coordina- ited by Joanne Swenson-Eldridge. Hom- the AMS, applied to the NEH for a grant tors of musicology curricula, and department mann (–), a little-known Philadelphia to renew funding for the project. If success- chairs) to the next open forum at the composer, violinist, and organist of German ful, the award will be the ninth awarded to annual meeting in Nashville. The topic will ancestry, wrote inventively for orchestra at a MUSA by the United States government. be the mentoring of theses, dissertations and time when no other home-grown American is Day-to-day operations of MUSA lie in the student conference papers. known to have done so. Indeed, a work of his hands of James Wierzbicki, who will gladly We would also like to remind readers of the that survives from the middle s is the first respond to any and all who might still be Council of Graduate Schools’ “Resolu- symphony by an American-born composer. contemplating an editorial project in the tion Regarding Graduate Scholars, Fellows, This work is joined in Swenson-Eldridge’s field of American music. For ideas or ques- Trainees and Assistants.” Institutions may edition by two overtures: one from around tions about MUSA, Dr. Wierzbicki may be not require a response to their offers before the time of the symphony, and the other from contacted at the University of Michigan as April. Those who learn of violations of this . The volume begins with an extended es- follows: tel. () -; fax () - important principle should contact one of say by the editor, who, through painstaking ; [email protected];
Descriptions and detailed guidelines for all AMS Publication Subventions Robert M. Stevenson Award for outstand- AMS awards appear in the AMS Directory Deadlines: March, September ing scholarship in Iberian Music and on the AMS Web site. Alfred Einstein Award for an outstanding Deadline: May Publication subventions are drawn from article by a scholar in the early stages of her Philip Brett Award of the LGBTQ the Anthony, Brook, Bukofzer, Hanson, or his career Study Group for outstanding work in gay, Hibberd, Jackson, Kerman, Picker, Plamen- Deadline: May lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual/transgen- ac, and Reese Funds. Otto Kinkeldey Award for an outstanding der studies Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship for mi- book by a scholar beyond the early stages of Deadline: July nority graduate study in musicology her or his career MPD Travel Fund to attend the Annual Deadline: January Deadline: May Meeting Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation- Lewis Lockwood Award for an outstanding Deadline: July year Fellowships book by a scholar in the early stages of her Noah Greenberg Award Deadline: January for outstanding or his career performance projects Janet Levy Travel and Research Fund for Deadline: May Deadline: August independent scholars Claude V. Palisca Award for an outstanding Eileen Southern Travel Fund to attend the Deadlines: January, July edition or translation Annual Meeting M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Fund for research Deadline: May Deadline: September in France H. Colin Slim Award for an outstanding ar- Paul A. Pisk Prize for an outstanding paper Deadline: March ticle by a scholar beyond the early stages of presented by a graduate student at the An- Harold Powers World Travel Fund for re- her or his career nual Meeting search anywhere Deadline: May Deadline: October Deadline: March Ruth A. Solie Award for an outstanding col- Eugene K. Wolf Travel Fund for European lection of essays research Deadline: May Deadline: March
Committee News Richard Kramer, Unfinished Music (Oxford Specialization,” with guest speakers Nadine University Press) Hubbs (University of Michigan), Susan Cook continued from page Rebecca Miller, Carriacou String Band Ser- (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Kimber- subventions during the past year. According enade: Performing Identity in the Eastern Ca- lyn Montford (Trinity University), and Berta to the Society’s procedures, this funding was ribbean (Wesleyan University Press) Joncus (Oxford University). We discussed the recommended by the Publications Commit- Music in the USA: A Documentary Compan- various ways in which issues of gender and tee and approved by the Board of Directors. ion, ed. Judith Tick with Paul Beaudoin (Ox- subject specialization intersect in musicologi- The books are: ford University Press) cal careers, from the point of view of admin- Christina Bashford, The Pursuit of High Catherine Parsons Smith, William Grant istration (Susan Cook), music theory (Nadine Culture: John Ella and Chamber Music in Vic- Still (University of Illinois Press) Hubbs), our approach to the history of per- torian London (Boydell & Brewer) Ellen Rosand, Monteverdi’s Last Operas: formers (Berta Joncus), and interdisciplinary Lorenzo Candelaria, The Rosary Cantoral: A Venetian Trilogy (University of California contexts (Kimberlyn Montford). Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Press) For our Nashville meeting, we would like to Early Renaissance Toledo (University of Roch- Michael Veal, Dub: Song Scape and Shat- hear from graduate students in our discipline, ester Press) tered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (Wesleyan and to help members of the musicological Kay Dickinson, When Film and Music Won’t University Press) community understand more fully how gen- Work Together (Oxford University Press) We are especially pleased to announce that der considerations influence their experiences Halina Goldberg, Music in Chopin’s Warsaw Ellen Rosand’s book was subvened from the in graduate school, their research plans and (Oxford University Press) Margarita Hanson Fund, and is thus the career goals, and their outlook on the future Robert O. Gjerdingen, Music in the Galant first publication to receive support from the of musicology. Graduate students interested Style (Oxford University Press) OPUS Campaign. in participating or sharing their views should Clayton Henderson, The Charles Ives Tune- —Ruth A. Solie contact me ([email protected]). book, second revised edition (Indiana Univer- Committee on the Status of Women —Wendy Heller sity Press) Deborah Kapchan, Traveling Spirit Mas- The Open Meeting of the Committee on ters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Status of Women in Quebec City in Ongoing Grants: the Global Marketplace (Wesleyan University November featured a lively panel discussion www.ams-net.org/grants.php Press) “Gender, Prestige, and the Power of Subject
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Cold War and Music Study Group ) establishing a Web page of resources (in- role of pedagogy within the AMS, as well as The Cold War and Music Study Group cluding links to a current bibliography, events forming a committee to examine the role of (CWMSG) will convene a panel at the Nash- of interest, and Web sites of related organiza- teaching evaluations in university promo- ville meeting, “Cultural Globalization and tions) and an email discussion list; and tion and tenure decisions. AMS members the Cold War: Music Crossing Borders.” ) exploring ways in which we might re- with information to share may contact the Those interested in becoming involved with spond to contemporary ecological concerns PSG chair, Jessie Fillerup ([email protected]). the CWMSG should visit the Web site, www. in our everyday professional activities. The PSG also hosted a panel discussion with I encourage all interested AMS mem- ams-net.org/cwmsg, for further information. James Briscoe, José Bowen, and Marjorie bers to participate in discussing, debating, Roth, moderated by Patrick Fairfield, which Ecocriticism Study Group and shaping these activities by joining our shared ideas and resources on writing in the The Ecocriticism Study Group (ESG) aims email discussion list. To subscribe or receive further information, please contact me: music history classroom, as well as strategies to encourage scholarship on the relationships for coping with large class sizes and utilizing between music and the natural environment, [email protected], or see www.ams-net. org/esg. new technologies. drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to The PSG also supported Teaching Music culture and nature from literary ecocriticism, —Aaron Allen History Day (TMHD) at Baldwin Wallace environmental history, and the sciences. The LGBTQ Study Group College last fall. The thirty-five attendees con- ESG has been meeting informally since the Annual Meeting in Seattle, and received The next LGBTQ Newsletter will be pub- tributed to panel discussions and papers on official recognition from the AMS Board in lished in April, featuring a review of Michael courses for non-majors, syllabus design, and November . At the Annual Meet- Sherry’s Gay Artists in Modern American Cul- introductory classes for music majors. The ing in Nashville, we will approve bylaws and ture by Byron Adams. A Web page redesign is next Midwest Chapter TMHD will be held elect officers. By consent of attendees at the currently underway, to be accessible via the in Fall ; other chapters wishing to hold meeting, the ESG is currently led by co- AMS Web site. their own TMHD may contact Jessie Fillerup founders Aaron Allen, Catherine Cole, and Pedagogy Study Group for guidance. See the PSG Web site for more Robert Fallon. information on its activities, as well as forums At present, the ESG will focus its activities The eighty-plus members of the Pedagogy and resources for music history education: in three areas: Study Group (PSG) share resources and strat- www.ams-net.org/psg. Suggestions and com- egies related to teaching and to promote the ) sponsoring business meetings, interdisci- ments are welcome! value of music history pedagogy research. The plinary discussion panels, and informal gath- —Patrick Warfield erings at Annual Meetings; PSG met in Quebec City and discussed the
News Briefs pects of his oeuvre, aesthetic implications of bonnières (/–). Like JSCM itself, his compositional process, his perceptions in this is only available online and is free, thanks continued from page Britain and overseas, or his particular position to the support of the Society for Seventeenth- as a composer of “light” and “serious music” Century Music. JSCM Instrumenta are peer- U.S.-Spain Fulbright Commission The will in the UK are welcome. reviewed collections of data that provide re- celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in , and Further details: [email protected] sources to aid in the study and performance is searching for past U.S. grantees. Please con- Deadline: 1 April 2008 of seventeenth-century music. tact [email protected] if you www.sscm-jscm.org are a present or past grantee or for further The National Collegiate Choral Organiza- information. tion welcomes submissions for its new online The Korean Institute for Musicology an- journal, The Choral Scholar, a peer-reviewed nounces Musica Humana, a peer-reviewed journal presenting outstanding research re- Journals and Publications News journal to be published semiannually. The lated to the study and performance of choral inaugural issue is expected to appear in . A new musicological series, “Analysis in Con- music. Article contributions should be written in www.ncco-usa.org/tcs/ text: Leuven Studies in Musicology,” has English. been established. The first volume to appear The Journal of Film Music invites new book www.musicologykorea.org. is Canons and Canonic Techniques, 14th–16th reviewers. The journal welcomes internation- Philomusica on-line is an open-access jour- Centuries: Theory, Practice, and Reception His- al and broad ranging perspectives on sources nal created to present the research activity of tory, edited by Katelijne Schiltz and Bonnie J. that are useful to or inspire film music studies. the Department of Musicology of the Univer- Blackburn (Leuven, ). JFM publishes both book reviews (one or two sity of Pavia. Manuscripts may be submitted www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz. books) and book review essays (two or more in Italian, English, French, German, or Span- asp?nr=8265 books). ish. For further information, contact editor www.ifms-jfm.org. Prososals are invited for a collection of musico- Daniele V. Filippi via the Web site: philomu- logical, music-theoretical and aesthetic essays The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music sica.unipv.it on the British composer Sir Malcolm Arnold (JSCM) announces its new series, “JSCM In- (–). Contributions which address as- strumenta.” Volume is a thematic catalogue of the works of Jacques Champion de Cham- continued on page –– Papers Read at Chapter Meetings, 2006–07 Allegheny Chapter Bruno Nettl (University of Illinois, Emeritus), Karen Uslin (Catholic University of America), “Return to the Heartlands” “Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis 7 October 2006 William Grim (Columbus, Ohio), “Classical () from a Narrative Perspective” West Virginia University Music as Twentieth-Century Propaganda: The 28 April 2007 John E. Crotty (West Virginia University), Strange Case of Lyndon LaRouche” University of Baltimore “Which Paradigm? The Form of the C-minor Peter Mondelli (University of Pennsylvania), Fugue from Bach’s WTC I” “The German Volkslied and the Other Nation- Laura Youens (George Washington University), Nathan Bowers (University of Pittsburgh), “‘The alism of the Early Romantics: Notes on the “Nine Shepherds and the Virgin’s Milk” best friend of a hostess is the Victrola’: An Early Discursive Transformations of Orality in Ger- Paul Michael Covey (University of Maryland, Marketing Strategy for Music Machines” man Music” College Park), “Alessandro nell’Indie and the Carol Padgham Albrecht (University of Idaho), Erin Lambert (University of Wisconsin), “Tradi- Political Implications of Opera Seria” “The Respectable Career and Sensational Death tion Meets Trent: German Song and Catholic Bonny H. Miller (Rockville, Maryland), “A of Viennese Court Opera Singer Anna Ascher Liturgy in Counter-Reformation Austria” Polite and Commercial Music: British Song (ca. –)” Theodore Albrecht (Kent State University), Sheets in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals” Joanna Smolko (University of Pittsburgh), “Zi- “Otto Heinrich von Loeben: – : The Frank R. Latino (University of Maryland, Col- on’s Walls: Copland’s Transformation of an Old Real Poet of Beethoven’s Abendlied unterm ge- lege Park), “The Gieseking Affair: America’s American Song” stirnten Himmel, WoO ” Postwar Reception of a German Pianist” Alan Krueck (Brownsville, Pennsylvania), Amy Unruh (Kent State University), “Linking Kenneth Stilwell (Catholic University of Amer- “Maledictory Musicology, or The Jettisoning American Ballroom Dance to Africa: How Af- ica), “Rameau and the ‘Noble Savage’: Inter- of Scholarship for the Sake of Indulging in rican-Derived Elements Permeate the History, preting Compositional Approaches to Les Sau- the Supercilious and Mean-Spirited on Behalf Music, Movement, and Terminology of Con- vages” of Authoritative Posturing in Defamation of a temporary American Ballroom Dance” Nisha Chadha (George Washington University), Composer” Susan Margaret Taffe (Cornell University), “The Different Manifestations of Bhangra as a Theodore Albrecht (Kent State University), “Hear Us Sing: Music as a Means of Survival Reflection of Second Generation South Asian “‘More by his disapproval’: The Political Mach- for the Eastern Lenape” Culture in London and Washington, D.C.: A inations of Antonio Salieri” Wah-Chiu Lai (Kent State University), “The Cross-Cultural South Asian Diasporic Study” Chaozhou Daluogu (Gong and Drum Music) Sarah Culpeper (University of Virginia), “‘That 30–31 March 2007 in Los Angeles, United States, and in Chaoshan Clear Flow of Sound’: Themes of Vocal and Indiana University of Pennsylvania Region, China” Sexual Purity in Early Joan Baez Reception” Talia Wooldridge (York University), “Women Joint meeting with Society for and Exclusion in Rap cubano” Ethnomusicology, Niagara Chapter Priwan Nanongkham (Kent State University), Greater New York Chapter Lisa Jenkins (Pennsylvania State University), “Khaen Music in Capitalism: a Lao Instrumen- 2 December 2006 “The African-Celtic Connection in the Global tal Subsidiary of Lam Singing” City University of New Music Industry” York Graduate Center Michael Lanford (Western Carolina University), Capital Chapter “A Bird Takes Flight at the Chicken Shack: Elizabeth B. Crist (Princeton University), “‘Of Art Tatum’s ‘Pianistic’ Influence on Charlie 30 September 2006 Rage and Remembrance,’ Music and Memori- Parker” American University als: The Work of Mourning in John Coriglia- no’s Symphony no. ” Dennis Cole (Kent State University), “Oriental- ism, Enculturation, and Cultural Reinterpre- Daniel Bennett Page (University of Baltimore), 20 January 2007 “We Have Sinned With Our Fathers: Music tation: A Semiological Approach to the Santa Rutgers University Clara Drum & Bugle Corps” and the English Throne, ” Stephen Greene (University of Pittsburgh), R. Todd Rober (Kutztown University), “Selling Heather Laurel (City University of New York “‘Good Music’ and Radio: Illustrations of the Symphony: Context, Patronage, Recep- Graduate Center and Oberlin College), “To- Charles Seeger’s Theories on ‘Music and Class’ tion, and the Breitkopf Catalogues” wards an Understanding of Tonal Design in in Musical America” Therese Ellsworth (Washington, D.C.), “‘The the Music of Barbara Strozzi” Jim Kimball (State University of New York, Best Pianist in Europe’: The Legacy of Marie Maria van Epenhuysen Rose (Brooklyn, New Geneseo), “Rudolph Teschner—American Pleyel” York), “The Tale of the Single-Voice Nocturne: Ocarina Maker” Patrick Fairfield (University of Miami), “Reveal- a Transformation of Genre, or How the Piano Found its Voice” Hanita Margulies Blair (Eastman School of ing Marginalia: Ives’s Gendered Musical Re- Music), “Role and Self-Identity in Informally sponses to his Critics” Matthew Reichert (City University of New York Trained Female Cantors in American Jewish Michael Boyd (Towson University), “Trac- Graduate Center and Brooklyn College), “Carl Practice” ing the Evolution: Connecting the Music of Bergmann the Pioneer: The Introduction of Zukunftsmusik to the New York Concert Rep- David Huron (Ohio State University), “A Cross- Arnold Schoenberg to Nineteenth-Century ertory” Cultural Investigation of the Pitch-Elevation Compositional Practice Through Schenkerian Metaphor” Analysis”
–– Megan Jenkins (City University of New York Jessie Fillerup (University of Kansas, Washburn New England Chapter Graduate Center and Brooklyn College), “Sex University), “Delilah’s Arabesque: Saint-Saëns and Reason in Salome” and the Decorative Aesthetic” 30 September 2006 Ben Piekut (Columbia University), “Gender James L. Zychowicz (AR Editions), “Exactitude Providence College and the New Thing: The Case of the Jazz Com- with Expression: Imperatives of Performance Paula Bishop (Boston University), “‘Nana I posers Guild” Practice for Mahler’s Music” Hawai’i I Ko’u Mau Maka (See Hawai’i Through Maureen Gupta (Princeton University), “‘Un- Dan Blim (University of Michigan), “Under- My Eyes):’ Cultural Identity in Contemporary dressing the Muses’ and Stravinsky’s Apollo” standing Assassins Through Cultural Context, Hawaiian Music” or A Revue Re-Viewed” 28 April 2007 Paul-André Bempéchat (Harvard University), Hunter College Matthew Mihalka (University of Minnesota), “The Voices of Earl Kim: Cross- or Multi-Cul- “Theodor Adorno’s ‘Block Rockin’ Beats’: An turalism?” William Bauer (City University of New York and Application of Adorno’s New Music Essays to Jennifer Campbell (University of Connecticut), College of Staten Island), “First Licks: Louis Techno Music” “On Being a ‘Good Neighbor’: Roosevelt, Armstrong’s ‘Hotter Than That’ Revisited” Dennis Breier (University of Iowa), “Mendels- Rockefeller, and the Exportation of ‘American’ Louise Chernosky (Columbia University), “Eth- sohn to the Rescue: Felix Mendelssohn and the Musical Identity” nographic Experimentalism: The Politics of London Philharmonic Society – ” Louis Epstein (Harvard University), “Synchro- Representation in Brenda Hutchinson’s Mu- Hannah Chan (University of Illinois, Urbana- nization and Surrealism: The Role of Music in sic” Champaign), “Mediating Physical and Experi- La Belle et la Bête” Valeria De Lucca (Princeton University), “‘La ential ‘Space’ Through Marquee Programming Zbigniew Granat (Boston University) “Concep- sua benigna protezione’: The Colonnas, Mar- at the Krannert Center for the Performing tualizing Performance: The Problem of ‘Ex- co Faustini, and the musici of the Teatro SS. Arts” pressive Form’ in Jazz” Giovanni e Paolo in Venice ( – )” 24–25 March 2007 Margarita Restropo (Brandeis University), “Luis Corbett Bazler (Columbia University) “Semele’s Miami University of Ohio de Milan and the Origin of the Madrigal in Death and the Birth of the Diva” Spain” Heather Foote (University of Iowa), “A Bom- David Schulenberg (Wagner College), “Fugues bastic Baritone and Scheming Soprano: Un- and Fingering: Manual and Contrapuntal Midwest Chapter conventional Characters in Giuseppe Verdi’s Technique in Bach’s Contrapuntal Works” Falstaff” 7–8 October 2006 3 February 2007 National-Louis University Shinobu Yoshida (University of Michigan), “Puccini’s Exotic Women?: Subverting Con- Wellesley College ventions of the Tragic Heroine” Janet Hathaway (Northern Illinois University), Sean Gallagher (Harvard University), “The Ber- “Confraternities as Patrons of Devotional Mu- Maria Cristina Fava (Eastman School of Music), lin Chansonnier and French Song in Florence, sic in Seventeenth-Century Madrid” “Transforming Text: Weill’s Use of Circularity –: A New Dating and Its Implica- Megan Guenther (Northwestern University), as a Framing Device” tions” “‘Alas sweet lady, what imports this song?’: Melinda Boyd (University of Cincinnati Col- Emanuel Rubin (University of Massachusetts), Dramatic Performance of Feminine Madness lege-Conservatory of Music), “Unmasking “A Final Word on John Stafford Smith and on the Jacobean Stage” the Ballroom Scene in Thea Musgrave’s Mary, ‘The Anacreontic Song’” Queen of Scots” Alyson Payne (Bowling Green State University), Katarina Livljanic (University of Paris, Sor- “Peñalosa’s Passion: The Influence of Rheto- Charles Atkinson (Ohio State University), Key- bonne, Ensemble Dialogos) and Benjamin Bag- ric and Humanism on In passione positus and note Address: “Musicology Today and Tomor- by (Sequentia), “Medieval Cantors and Mod- Transeunte Domino Ies” row” ern Performers: How Did Chant and Medieval Katie Graber (University of Wisconsin, Madi- Lynn Kane (Wheaton College), “The Influence Song Become ‘Early Music’?” son), “Irish Comedians and Beethoven Societ- of Basso Continuo Practice on the Late Eigh- Panel discussion, “Chant Traditions and Modern ies: Perceptions of Immigrant Music in the Chi- teenth-Century Lied” Performance”: Katarina Livljanic (University of cago Daily Tribune in the Late th Century” Julie Hedges Brown (Oberlin Conservatory), Paris, Sorbonne, Ensemble Dialogos), Benjamin Katherine Baber (Indiana University), “Jazz as “Thestyle hongrois and Schumann’s Formal Ex- Bagby (Sequentia), Thomas Kelly (Harvard Trope in the Music of Leonard Bernstein” periments of ” University), Matthew Peattie (Harvard Univer- Anya Holland-Barry (University of Wisconsin, Ryan Ross (University of Illinois, Urbana- sity), Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University) Madison), “A ‘Dream’ of Unity: Collective Champaign), “‘Night and Day’: New Thoughts 5 May 2007 Memory and Musical Commemorations of Dr. on the Conclusion to Mahler’s Seventh Sym- Martin Luther King, Jr.” phony” University of New Hampshire Christopher M. Barry (University of Wisonsin, Christopher Urbiel (University of Michigan), Jacquelyn Sholes (Brandeis University), “Love- Madison), “Perchance to Dream” “A House Divided May Indeed Stand: Edward lorn Lamentation, or Histrionic Historicism?: Nathan Platte (University of Michigan), “‘In a Elgar’s Roman Catholic Motets and Anglican Reconsidering Allusion and Extra-Musical Certain Hinterland of the Human Conscious- Anthems” Meaning in the Version of Brahms’s B- ness’: A Reassessment of Prokofiev’s The Fiery Jane Riegel Ferencz (University of Wisconsin, Major Piano Trio, Op. ” Angel” Whitewater), “Music for Wisconsin: The WPA Jonathan Kregor (Harvard University), Joseph E. Jones (University of Illinois, Urbana- Federal Music Project in Madison” “Beethoven as Myth and Music, ca. ” Champaign), “Strauss’s Compositional Process Mark D. Porcaro (Muskegon, Michigan), “Bea- Peter Urquhart and Heather deSavage (Univer- and the Act I Trio of Der Rosenkavalier” tlemania Magically Recreated: Hyperreality sity of New Hampshire), “Re-evaluating the and Tribute Bands in the United States” ‘English Heresy’: The Contratenor”
–– Ryan Raul Bañagale (Harvard University), Theodore Cateforis (Syracuse University), tionship Between Solita Forma and the Pas de “From Isaac Goldberg’s Perspective: Creating “From Neurasthenia to New Wave: Nervous- Deux and Pas D’action in Swan Lake and The Gershwin in the Interwar Years” ness and Identity” Nutcracker” Rob Haskins (University of New Hampshire), Karen Fournier (University of Michigan), “Re- Jamie Lynn Webster (University of Oregon), “Variations on Themes for Geeks and Heroes: writing History: ‘Cut-and-Paste’ and Musical “The Budapest Ensemble’s ‘Csardas! Tango Leitmotiv, Style, and the Musicodramatic Mo- Meaning in Early Punk Rock” of the East’: Representational Mirrors of Tra- ment in Cues from Buffy the Vampire Slayer” ditional Music and Dance in a Post-Socialist, Post-Modern Landscape” Northern California Chapter Michelle Fillion (University of Victoria), “Hero- New York State–St. Lawrence 14–15 April 2007 ics under the Big Top: Gordon Mumma’s Cir- Chapter University of California, Los Angeles qualz ( )” Sharon Krebs (University of Victoria), “On the 14–15 April 2007 Trail of the Nightingale. . .” University of Western Ontario Joint with Pacific Southwest Chapter Kenneth DeLong (University of Calgary), “The Monika Susan Fazekas (University of Western Roland Jackson (Claremont Graduate Univer- Perils of Paradigm: Reflections on ‘Lyric Form’ Ontario), “Masons and Illuminati and Jaco- sity), “Guillaume de Machaut and Dissonance in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Opera” bins, oh my!: Revolutionary Allegory and The in Fourteenth-Century French Music” Alexander Carpenter (University of Alberta), Magic Flute” Hayoung Heidi Lee (Stanford University), “The “Putting Opera on the Couch: Psychoanaly- Myron Gray (University of Western Ontario), ‘Pa pa’ Duet of Papageno and Papagena as the sis in the Musical Dramas of Wagner, Strauss, “A Mode for Moral and Myth: Angiolini’s Le Comic Dialect in Early German Romantic Op- Schoenberg, and Weill” festin de Pierre and the Apotheosis of Ballet as era” Matthew Franke (University of Puget Sound), Nonverbal Drama” Mark Howard (Claremont Graduate Univer- “Explaining Away the Melancholy of John Kirsten Schultz (University of Toronto), “‘Her sity), “Beethoven Performance According to Dowland: Issues of Definition and Interpreta- Bright Smile Haunts Me Still’: Gender, Power Liszt and Klindworth: Two Sonata Movements tion” Relations, and Morale in Confederate Min- Considered” Jamie Weaver (University of Oregon), “‘Questa strel-Show Songs” Camilla Bork (Humboldt-Universität Berlin), nova seconda prattica’: A Study of the Ethical Graham Freeman (University of Toronto), “Per- “Theatricality in the Concert Hall: Paganini’s Precepts of the Seconda Prattica” cy Grainger’s Folksong Arrangements” Virtuosity” Neil Cockburn (University of Calgary), “In Sarah Carleton Latta (University of Toronto), Gwyneth Bravo (University of California, Los Greater Devotion: Towards an Aesthetic of “Heraldry in the Trecento Madrigal: A Reas- Angeles), “‘The New Angels of Death’: Tech- Music for the Elevation in Late Seventeenth- sessment of Bartolino da Padova’s Imperial nologies of Destruction and Transformations Century France” sedendo” of Dying in Viktor Ullman’s Opera Der Kaiser Elena Dubinets (Seattle Symphony), “Between von Atlantis” Charlène St.-Aubin (University of Toronto), Mobility and Stability: Earle Brown’s Compo- “Patriotic Nostalgia or the Purpose of French Kelsey Cowger (University of California, Los sitional Process” Popular Music in Francis Poulenc’s Oeuvre” Angeles), “‘this piece is little whirlpools out in Andrew Buchman (Evergreen State College), the middle of the ocean’: Fluxus, Art and Ob- Lara Housez (Eastman School of Music), “‘Put- “The Qin and the Folk: Mixed Musical Mes- jecthood” ting It Together’: From Seurat to Babbitt in sages in The Emperor’s Shadow” Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George” Joseph Sargent (Stanford University), “‘More Michael Baumgartner (University of British Pleasant than All Honeyed Sweetness’: Theo- Durrell Bowman (University of Guelph), “What Columbia), “Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt: In logical Ideals of Beauty in the Spanish Renais- Makes Some Popular Music Canadian? or, Is Search of A Lost Film Music” sance Magnificat” Neil Young Canadian?” Barbara Reul (Luther College, University of Re- Yen-Ling Liu (Stanford University), “The Con- Keynote Address, David Brackett (McGill Uni- gina), “Musical Poetry for the German Court cept of Monumentality in the Historiography versity), “Genre and Identity in Popular Mu- of Anhalt-Zerbst: A Newly Discovered Primary of the Nineteenth-Century Symphony” sic” Source from –” Walter A. Clark (University of California, River- Andrew Deruchie (McGill University), “Ca- Mary Térey-Smith (Western Washington Uni- side), “The Death of Enrique Granados: Con- mille Saint-Saëns, César Franck and the ‘He- versity, Emerita), “The Unusual Role of the text and Controversy” roic’ Symphony in Late Nineteenth-Century Orchestra in Thomas Arne’s Solo Cantatas France” Anthony Barone (University of Nevada, Las Ve- Composed for Vauxhall Gardens” gas), “Modernist Rifts in a Pastoral Landscape: Martin Nedbal (Eastman School of Music), Mekala Padmanabhan (University of North Da- On the Manuscripts of Vaughan Williams’ “‘How about Some Borsch with Cherries?’: kota), “Text and Context: The Viennese Lied Symphony No.” Musorgsky’s The Marriage and the Wagnerian (–) Outside Vienna” Leitmotif” Eva Sobolevski (University of California, Los Gwynne Kuhner Brown (University of Puget Angeles), “Karol Szymanowski’s Stabat mater as Heather Peters (York University), “Tradition Sound), “African American Styles, American a Discourse on Suffering, Faith, and Nation” and Modernism in the Bosnian sevdalinka” Opera: Nationalism and the Score of Porgy and Bess” Pacific Northwest Chapter Aimee Mell (University of Washington), “Aaron Did you know? Copland’s Dramatic Imagination and Ameri- 30 March–1 April 2007 can Style” All back issues of the AMS Newsletter are University of Puget Sound Geoffrey Block (University of Puget Sound), available at the AMS Web site: “Leonard Bernstein’s Senior Thesis at Harvard: Thérèse Hurley (University of Oregon), “Italian www.ams-net.org The Roots of a Lifelong Search to Discover an Opera in Russian Imperial Ballet: The Rela- American Musical Identity” –– Pacific Southwest Chapter Israel Solis (University of Arizona), “Re-examin- Kenneth Owen Smith (Cyprus College), “The ing Ruggles’ Twelve-Tone Technique” Airs of Sébastien de Brossard: The Hegemony 17 February 2007 David Forrest (Texas Tech University), “Phrase of French Galant Culture in Occupied Stras- University of California, Riverside and Cadence in the Music of Benjamin Brit- bourg” Robert Stevenson (University of California, ten” Martin Reinhold (University of Arizona), “Eval- Los Angeles), “South American National An- Aaron Templin (University of Arizona), “Altered uating German Anthems: A Schenkerian Ap- thems” Dominants and Avoided Cadences in Stravin- proach” Grey Brothers (Westmont College), “Empathy sky’s Apollo” James Stopher (University of Arizona), “Formal with Jesus, Identification with Peter, and the Bruce Quaglia (University of Utah), “Beethoven’s Design and Harmonic Structure in Chopin’s Feminine Prophetic Voice in the Polyphonic Pathétique Sonata, First Movement, and the Etude in D-flat Major, Op. / ” Passions of Mexico City” Normal Body: The Idea of Formal Prosthesis” Timothy Best (Indiana University), “Intertextu- Guy Obrecht (University of California, San Di- Janice Dickensheets (University of Northern ality and the Surreal in Bernard Rands’s Canti ego), “Finding Time for Roses: What Enactive Colorado), “Literary Connections Between Lunatic” Perception Reveals of Musical Time” the Novels of Jean Paul and Schumann’s Piano John Snyder (University of Houston), “Pseudo- Lisa Musca (University of California, Los An- Concerto in A minor, Op. ” Odo’s Musicae artis disciplina: Issues of Con- geles), “Music as a Way of Knowing: Idealism, Charles Madsen (University of Arizona), “No- tent, Transmission, and Influence” Bessonenheit, and Subjectivity in Beethoven’s tated Improvisation and Musical Commentary Richard Hermann (University of New Mexico), Late Bagatelles” in Franz Liszt’s Song Transcriptions” “Boundaries Transgressed: Text-painting in Margot Martin (Mt. San Antonio College), Shara J. Engel (Southwestern College), “Source, Dido’s Lament” “The Enigma of the Harpsichord” Methodology, and Song: Empowering Black Courtney J. Crappell (University of Oklahoma), Charles Kamm (Scripps College), “Mozart on Women from Slavery” “Erik Satie’s Embryons desséchés ( ): Playing the Pendulum of Liturgical Style” Sheaukang Hew (University of Oklahoma), with Parody” William Fried (University of California, San Di- “Early Irish Immigrants in Oklahoma: Music Ellwood Colahan (University of Denver), “Tra- ego??), “Evidence for a Dissident Shostakovich? in the Frontier Experience” dition and Innovation in Balinese Gamelan It’s All in the Testimony” Jim De Fazio (Arizona State University), “Re- Angklung: Issues in the Development of Ang- turning to Sorrento: Diasporic Hybridity in klung Kebyar and the Music of American 14–15 April 2007 Italian-American Popular Music” Gamelan Tunas Mekar” University of California, Los Angeles Michael B. Silvers (University of Arizona), “Mu- Angelo J. Joaquin, Jr. (University of Arizona), sical Creation, Reception, and Consumption “The Influence of Orquesta Tejano on Tohono Joint with Northern California in a Virtual Place: EnergyBR.com” O’odham Waila Bands” Chapter (see above) Don Traut (University of Arizona), “More on Brian A. Harpst (Northern Arizona University), Displacement in Stravinsky: A Response to van “Piazzolla’s Tango Nuevo: Constructions of den Toorn” New Authenticity” Rocky Mountain Chapter Gretchen Foley (University of Nebraska, Lin- Eric Smigel (Utah State University), “Metaphors on Vision: James Tenney and Stan Brakhage” 30–31 March 2007 coln), “Informed Interpretation: Preparing Perle’s Three Inventions for Solo Bassoon from Deepti Navaratna (University of New Mexico), Arizona State University the Perspective of Symmetry” “Women Composers in South Indian Classi- cal Music: Caste Dynamics to Colonialism in Joint with the Southwest Chapter Sara Heimbecker (University of Northern Colo- rado), “John Cage, HPSCHD, and Gesamt- South India” of the Society for Ethnomusicology kunstwerk” Bliss Little (Arizona State University), “Memo- and the Rocky Mountain Chapter Alta Graham (Northern Arizona University), ries of a Lost Homeland: Greek National Com- of the Society for Music Theory “Wife and Warrior: Character Types in Arias in posers and the Legacy of Asia Minor” Sabine Feisst (Arizona State University), “Arnold Cavalli’s La Doriclea” Schoenberg—American” James Leve (Northern Arizona University), “Tre- South-Central Chapter Peter Schimpf (Metropolitan State College of spolo là, Trespolo quà: A Comic Playwright’s In- Denver), “An American in Iran: Henry Cow- fluence on the Development of Comic Opera” 16–17 March 2007 ell’s Persian Set and the Structure of a Hybrid” Thomas L. Riis (University of Colorado, Boul- University of Georgia Victoria Lindsay Levine (Colorado College), der), “Frank Loesser’s Musical Dramaturgy in “Teaching Comparative Music Theory” The Most Happy Fellow ()” “Mega Regional Conference” with María del Carmen Vergara de los Ríos and David Claman (College of the Holy Cross), Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast Mariana de Jesús Vargas Mendoza (Facultad “Shakti’s Common Ground: Scalar Concep- and Caribbean Chapters, and the de Música, Universidad Nacional Autónoma tion and Usage in a Cross-Cultural Musical Music Theory Southeast Chapter de Tamaulipas), “La Fiesta de la Santa Cruz: Encounter” Struggling to Preserve a Tamulipecan Identity” Karen Fournier (University of Michigan), “Re- Gabriel Miller (Ohio State University), “Non- linear Time in Funk as Exemplified in James Harrison Powley (Brigham Young University), writing History: ‘Cut-and-Paste’ and Musical Brown’s ‘Say It Live and Loud’” “The Medieval Harp as Exterior and Interior Meaning in Early Punk Rock” Symbol” Eric Sewell (Columbia University), “Meter and Christopher Endrinal (Florida State University), “Burning Bridges: Defining the Interverse Us- Deborah Kauffman (University of Northern Teleology in ‘Black Stooges’ by The Melvins” ing the Music of U” Colorado), “‘We are the sheep of his pasture’: Paul Harris (University of Calgary), “The Re- Violons en basse as Theological Topic” naissance Roots Revival: Arcadelt’s Primo Libro Juan Chattah (Agnes Scott College), “Klang, at Forty” Kar, und Melodie: A Crash Course on Musical Narrative” –– Dale A. Olsen (Florida State University), “Fe- Patricia A. Dixon (University of North Carolina, Janet Page (University of Memphis), “A New male Pop Singers, Sexuality, Goddess Cults, Greensboro), “New Song Movement in Chile: History of the Viennese Sepolcro” and the Politics of Neatness in Twenty-first- The Committed Song of Victor Jara” Michael B. Bakan (Florida State University), Century Vietnam” Irna Priore (University of North Carolina, “WoMPIT-ing in the E-WoMP: Exploratory Jason McCoy (Florida State University), “Mak- Greensboro), “The Only Cool Song Is the Pro- Methods of Improvisational Music-Play in a ing Violence Ordinary: RTLM Radio and the test Song: Brazilian Popular Music during the Medical Ethnomusicology Program for Chil- Rwandan Genocide” s” dren with Autism Spectrum Disorders” Paul F. Moulton (Florida State University), “La- Michael Buchler (Florida State University), Plamena Kourtova (Florida State University), menting Stolen Culture to the Culture Thieves: “Personal and Tonal Transformations in Frank “Suffering and Transformation in the Firewalk- Dougie Maclean and the Deterritorialization Loesser’s ‘My Time of Day’” ing Ritual of the Bulgarian Nestinari” of Scotland” Karen Wicke (University of North Carolina, Jeff Jones (Florida State University), “Kachashi: Renato Buchert (University of Tennessee, Knox- Chapel Hill), “Tin-Pantithesis Man: Accelera- Dancing Transformative Potential in Okina- ville), “New Sounds in Jazz: The Role of Teo tion in Cole Porter’s AABA Songs” wa” Macero in Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew” Michael Baker (Western Carolina University), Ayden Adler (Eastman School of Music), Mark McFarland (Georgia State University), “Mendelssohn’s Allnächtlich im Traume, Op. “‘Stooping to Jazz’: The Repertory of the Bos- “Dave Brubeck and Polytonal Jazz” No. : Music, Text, and Meaning in a Nine- ton Pops Orchestra and Perceptions of Race in Reed David (University of Kentucky), “Jazz In- teenth-Century Song” the Classical Concert Hall” fluence in Two Concertos of Aaron Copland” Douglas Shadle (University of North Carolina, Nikos Pappas (University of Kentucky), “Exor- Matt Hoch (Shorter College), “The Structural Chapel Hill), “Performing Race, Perform- cising the Specter of George Pullen Jackson’s and Dramatic Role of the Piano in Richard ing Creed: Black Catholic Music in Durham, Upland South: Southern Identity and Its Ante- Strauss’s Krämerspiegel, Op. ” North Carolina” bellum Understandings of Region and Place” Kevin Kehrberg (University of Kentucky), Mark Richardson (East Carolina University), David Chapman (University of Georgia), “‘Ich “Taste in Transition: The Musical Entertainer “Hypermetric Irregularity, Incongruence, and hörte die Allmitter’: Interpreting the First Sym- and English Popular Song in the Late s” Innovation in the Songs of Roy Orbison” phony of Karl Amadeus Hartmann” Terry Klefstad (Belmont University), “Soviet Travis Stimeling (University of North Carolina, David B. Pruett (Middle Tennessee State Uni- Film Montage and Shostakovich’s Sympho- Chapel Hill), “‘Stay Out of the Way of the versity), “Moving beyond the Secondary: To- nies” Southern Thing’: The Drive-By Truckers and wards an Ethnomusicology of Mainstream Boyd Pomeroy (Georgia State University), “Vi- Southern Gothic” Popular Music” sions of Heaven and Hell, Chromatic Ascents, Chris Ballengee (University of Florida), “Henry Bryn Hughes (Florida State University), “Rock’s and the Displaced Ursatz: The First Movement Cowell’s ‘United Quartet’ as a Model of Trans- Compositional Space: The Stereo Field and Its of Bruckner’s Ninth” ethnicism” Relation to Formal Structure” James S. MacKay (Loyola University, New Brian C. Mosely (University of Cincinnati), Eugene Montague (University of Central Flori- Orleans College), “The Second Repeat in “Transpositional Combination and the Analy- da), “Rules of Engagement: Punk and the Ori- Beethoven’s Sonata-Form Movements: Tonal, sis of Form in George Crumb’s Lux aeterna” gins of Indie Rock” Formal, and Motivic Strategies” Stephen Husarik (University of Arkansas, Fort Clifton Callender (Florida State University), David Marcus (Clark Atlanta University), “Im- Smith), “Transformation of the ‘Psycho Theme’ “On the Z-relation Problem” provisation, Composition, and Pedagogy in in Bernard Herrmann’s Music for Psycho” Guy Capuzzo (University of North Carolina, Tomás de Santa Maria’s Arte de tañer fantasia” Trevor Harvey (Florida State University), “Ex- Greensboro), “Pitch in Rock Music: A Primer” Ken Kreitner (University of Memphis), “The huming ‘Le Cadavre Exquis’ in Cyberspace: Adam Ricci (University of North Carolina, Repertory of the Spanish Cathedral Bands” Musical Collaboration within a Community of Greensboro), “Maximal Evenness as Concep- Erica Lynne Watson (University of Memphis), DIYers at iCompositions.com” tual Framework for a Course on Twentieth- “The ‘Dr. Watts Hymns’ of the African- Frank Gunderson (Florida State University), Century Theory and Analysis” American Church: The Development of a Reli- “‘Throwin’ Rocks at Windows’: Ethnomusico- Jeremy Tubbs (University of Memphis), “Mario gious Song Tradition” logical Reflections on Human Skab” Maccaferri Presents the First Plastic Violin” Carrie Allen (University of Georgia), “Exalting Crystal Bright, “DIY Anarchy, Community, and Fred Maus (University of Virginia), “AIDS and the Valleys: Images of the Natural World in the Alterity: The Protest Music of Cakalak Thun- the Music of the B-’s” African-American Slave Spirituals” der” Laurie Semmes (Appalachian State University), Bella Brover-Lubovsky (Columbia University), Tomoko Deguchi (Winthrop University), “Nar- “The Second Trip, or ‘Be Careful What You “Le diable boiteux : The Picaresque Hero and rative and Inter-Self: Form and Expressive Wish For’: Re-Adapting to the Field” ‘Intermediate Tonic’ in the Eighteenth-Century Meaning in Takemitsu’s Rain Tree” Carolyn M. Ramzy (Florida State University), Symphony” Bruce Reiprich (Northern Arizona University), “Songs We Can Cry To: Taratîl and the Coptic Mary Macklem (University of Central Florida), “Voice Leading and Harmonic Background Christian Diaspora in Tallahassee, Florida” “Marriage and Love in the Tale of Griselda” in Toru Takemitsu’s A Bird Came Down the Roman Ivanovitch (Indiana University), “What’s Seth Coluzzi (University of North Carolina, Walk” in a Theme? On the Nature of Variation” Chapel Hill), “Luca Marenzio and the Pastor Alan Theisen (Florida State University), “With Shannon Groskreutz (Florida State University) fido Madrigal” Pipes, Drums, and French Horns: Pitch (Space) and Crystal Peebles (Florida State University), Thomas Garcia (Miami University, Ohio), amid Stylistic Conflict in György Ligeti’s Ham- “Spiral Form: Reconceptualizing Thematic Re- “Choro in Rio de Janeiro: Traditional vs. Pro- burg Concerto” turns in Developing Variation” gressive in the Revival Process” Camille Hill (Elizabethtown Community and Keynote Address: Lawrence Zbikowski (Uni- Technical College), “Capinera and the Color of versity of Chicago), “Categorization, Cultural Bird Song in Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise” Knowledge, and Cognitive Musicology”
–– Southeast Chapter Karen Wicke (University of North Carolina, James S. MacKay (Loyola University), “Formal Chapel Hill), “Take My Hand: A Guide to Se- Innovation in Haydn’s Mature Piano Trios 7 October 2006 duction in Late Eighteenth-Century Opera” (Hob. XV: –)” Wake Forest University Bryan Proksch (McNeese State University), “A Reevaluation of ‘Significant’ Thematic Rela- Andrew Flory (University of North Carolina, Southern Chapter Chapel Hill), “Motown and the Middle Class” tionships in the Classical Era” Paul Harris (University of North Carolina, Cha- 9–10 February 2007 Joanna Cobb Biermann (University of Ala- pel Hill), “Uy ’s ( Bo ): Naiveté and the Louisiana State University bama), “Beethoven Thinking About Cycles: Post-Punk Aesthetic” Some Consequences” Alice V. Clark (Loyola University), “Music for Keynote Address: Ross Duffin (Case Western Edward Hafer (University of Southern Missis- Louis d’Anjou” Reserve University), “Reconstructing Shake- sippi), “Franz Schubert, Caspar David Fried- speare’s Songbook” Howard Irving (University of Alabama, Bir- rich, and the Impossible Landscape” mingham), “Crotch’s Specimens and the Ideol- Amy Carr-Richardson (East Carolina Universi- ogy of the Canon” ty), “Beethoven’s Allegretto for String Quartet Southwest Chapter and String Quintet, Op. : Links with Bach’s John D. Spilker (Florida State University), Well-Tempered Clavier” “Henry Cowell’s Role in Developing and Dis- 7 October 2006 seminating ‘Dissonant Counterpoint’” Peter Lamothe (University of North Carolina, Southern Methodist University Chapel Hill), “‘Quite Far from That State of Stephen Thursby (Florida State University), Grace’: Debussy’s Score for Le Martyre de Saint “‘Lichtmusik’ and ‘Orgies of Darkness’: Bal- Alfredo Colman (University of Texas, Austin), Sébastien as Incidental Music” ancing the Aural and the Visual in the “Paraguayan Polca Traits in Twentieth-Century Mahler-Roller Tristan” Academic Works” Kathryn A. Waller (Winthrop University), “Rachmaninov’s Revelation: Tchaikovskian In- Tina Huettenrauch (Louisiana State Univer- Bernardo Illari (University of North Texas), fluences in Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. sity), “The Sound of the Present-Day Prepared “Turning Monteverdi to His Feet: Revueltas’s in C Minor, Allegro Scherzando” Piano” Sensemayá as Counterutopia” Ethel N. Haughton (Virginia State University), Amy Strickland (University of Alabama), “The Randy Kinnett (University of North Texas), “‘A “A Feast of Soul as Well as of Music: The Mu- Performance Tradition of Berio’s Circles” Completely Unnatural Method that Borders sical Conventions and Music Festivals of Vir- Charles E. Brewer (Florida State University), “A on Caricature’: The Apprentice’s Sermon in ginia and North Carolina” Reappraisal of Bertali’s Instrumental Composi- Berg’s Wozzeck” Marc Medwin (University of North Carolina, tions” José Bowen (Southern Methodist University), Chapel Hill), “Sequences and Resonances: Im- Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell (New College of Flor- “Who Plays the Tune in ‘Body and Soul’?” provisation and Composition in the Ensemble ida), “‘With All Pomposity and Solemnity’: Michael Meckna (Texas Christian University), Works of Bill Dixon” Music, Ritual, and the Reevaluation of Ba- “Ravel and Mahler? Don’t Forget Fats Waller: roque Aesthetics in Religious Culture of New Louis Armstrong in the Movies, –” 24 February 2007 Spain” Sarai Hughes Brinker (Texas Tech University), East Carolina University Margaret R. 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–– 50 years ago: 1957–58 American Musicological Society, Inc. • The Publications Committee attempted Statement of Activities for the Fiscal Year Ending to acquire Putnam Aldrich’s dissertation, June 30, 2007 “The Principal Agréments of the Seven- Endowment: teenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Study Fellowships, in Musical Ornamentation” (Harvard Current Awards, University, ), to accompany Joseph Revenue operations Publications Undesignated TOTALS Kerman’s The Elizabethan Madrigal in Dues & subscriptions $ 332,269 $ 332,269 the new AMS series Studies & Documents. Annual meeting $ 176,607 $ 176,607 “Putnam Aldrich reports that his disser- Sales/Royalties $ 35,148 $ 8,459 $ 43,607 tation manuscript is still in the hands of Government grants $ 48,333 $ 48,333 Coleman-Ross, to whom it was delivered Contributions $ 145,825 $ 143,077 $ 288,902 for publication in . Various methods Investment income $ 7,602 $ 35,846 $ 67,304 $ 110,752 of securing this copy were discussed but Unrealized gain in investment $ 22,417 $ 251,963 $ 274,380 none was finally designated as feasible.” [It Total revenue $ 551,626 $ 260,880 $ 462,344 $ 1,274,850 was never published.] • The AMS Council meeting at the Santa Expenses Monica Annual Meeting, December , was canceled due to lack of a quorum. Salaries & benefits $ 109,153 $ 109,153 Incoming AMS Council members in- Fellowships & awards $ 1,838 $ 38,860 $ 83,881 $ 124,579 Dues & subscriptions $ 3,129 $ 3,129 cluded William Austin, Sol Babitz, Armen Publications $ 122,154 $ 122,154 Carapetyan, Edward Downes, Ross Lee Professional fees $ 88,122 $ 74,548 $ 162,670 Finney, Noah Greenberg, Joseph Kerman, Annual meeting $ 123,395 $ 15,940 $ 139,335 Siegmund Levarie, Kenneth Levy, Alfred Chapters $ 4,918 $ 4,918 Mann, Nino Pirrotta, Leonard Ratner, and Office expense $ 53,162 $ 3,161 $ 56,323 Robert Stevenson. • Forty-eight members attended the Business Total expenses $ 505,871 $ 116,569 $ 99,821 $ 722,261 meeting December , at which Trea- surer Otto Albrecht reported gross assets of Change in Net Assets $ 45,755 $ 144,311 362,523 $ 552,589 $,. (including the estimated value of the new Addressograph machine owned by the Society, $.). Statement of Financial Position 25 years ago: 1982–83 June 30, 2007 Endowment: • The Board of Directors established the Fellowships, Committee on the Publication of Ameri- Current Awards, can Music (COPAM). Assets Operations Publications Undesignated TOTALS • H. Wiley Hitchcock’s The Works of Marc- Cash $ 173,416 $ 173,416 Antoine Charpentier: A Catalogue Raisonné Accounts receivable $ - (Picard) was published, with the assistance Investments $ 268,737 $ 3,020,606 $ 3,289,343 of a subvention from the AMS. Equipment $ 17,997 • AMS membership stood at , individu- Funds held in trust $ 13,863 $ 15,427 $ 29,290 als and , institutions. • Over , people, including students, Total assets $ 187,279 $ 286,734 $ 3,036,033 $ 3,510,046 attended the Ann Arbor annual meeting in November . Liabilities • The Louisville Annual Meeting Pro- Accounts payable $ 669 $ 669 gram Committee (Don O. Franklin, Accrued expenses $ - Chair) received proposals, of which Payroll taxes payable $ 2,106 $ 2,106 ninety-five were accepted for presentation. Deferred Income $ 14,695 $ 14,695 Funds held in trust $ 13,863 $ 15,427 $ 29,290
Total Liabilities $ 31,333 $ 15,427 $ 46,760 Correction Net assets $ 155,946 $ 286,734 $ 3,020,606 $ 3,463,286 In the August AMS Newsletter a no- tice that Jennifer L. DeLapp received the Total Liabilities & Net assets $ 187,279 $ 286,734 $ 3,036,033 $ 3,510,046 Society for American Music’s dissertation award was published erroneously. She re- Total Liabilities & Net Assets, June 30, 2006: $ 2,879,061 ceived this award in , not .
–– Obituaries thesis on north German baroque opera. He also studied at the Royal Academy of Music The Society regrets to inform its members of the deaths of the following members and in London and on a Churchill fellowship in other individuals who have contributed to the discipline of musicology: Stockholm and Copenhagen. At Adelaide he quickly established a strong musicology program, initiating the publica- Marvin Tartak Janet Hughes tion of the Adelaide-based journal Miscellanea July December Musicologica and organizing a series of inter- Herbert S. Livingston Leonard Meyer national conferences in musicology. November December In he won the Edward J. Dent medal of the International Musicological Society H. Wiley Hitchcock and the Royal Musical Association for his December publications on East European music, espe- cially North German baroque music-theatre Herbert S. Livingston (1916–2007) perb scholars to join the faculty there, helping and instrumental forms c. , Byzantine- to develop a strong Music/Dance Library, and Slavic chant, German composers from the November 2007 brought great sadness to guiding students toward productive careers in Renaissance and mannerist to contemporary, faculty and students in musicology at Ohio musicology. especially Hartmann, Frankenstein, Thiuke, State University and to many friends in the Herbert Livingston’s first AMS meeting Egk, Stephen and Klebe. He made contri- American Musicological Society. It was on was the International Congress of the Soci- butions to musicological theory via several that date that Herbert Livingston, the founder ety in , and he remained quite active for interdisciplinary channels, including com- of the musicology program at OSU and a dis- his whole career, attending both chapter and parative literature, style, topos, and reception tinguished, long-time member of the AMS, national meetings regularly until declining theory. He produced performing editions of passed away in Columbus. He had been health made travel difficult. His recollections Monteverdi’s shorter dramatic works and the brought to Ohio State in specifically of the activities and personalities of the AMS Vespers, and issued five of Hartmann’s post- to found a graduate program in musicology, in its early days were wonderfully vivid. For humous symphonic works, which he helped and served as Chair of the Division of Music a delightful glimpse into “the way we were,” to revive through his editions and writings on History there until his retirement in . An consult the interview and transcription that the composer. organist and a pianist with impressive résumé were made in for the AMS Oral His- In he was elected the first fellow of the of performances, he received his BM from tory project (housed at the AMS Archives). Australian Academy of the Humanities in the Syracuse University and his A.B., MA, and In his words the early years of the Society will discipline of musicology, and was honoured PhD degrees at the University of North Caro- remain in living memory for a long time to with the Order of Australia (AM) in . lina at Chapel Hill, where he studied with come. Twice he was elected president of the Musi- Glen Haydon. Before coming to Ohio State —Charles M. Atkinson cological Society of Australia (– and he taught at Syracuse University, UNC, and –). Michigan State University. During the War, Andrew D. McCredie (1930–2006) After his retirement in he collaborated he was an officer in the U.S. Navy. with me on the topic of the musical outcomes Livingston’s dissertation on the Italian opera Musicology in Australia was dealt a blow with of Jewish migrations along the northern and sinfonia in the eighteenth century (completed the death of one of the country’s most distin- southern routes to Asia and beyond (–c. in ) was one of the pioneering studies of guished musicologists, Andrew D. McCredie, ). the genre, but he devoted most of his career on June . He pioneered the study of Over the thirty-seven years that I knew An- to establishing OSU’s musicology program musicology in Australia as a professor at the drew, virtually his every waking moment was and promoting interdisciplinary scholarship University of Adelaide from the s to the devoted to musicology: publishing his own at OSU. He helped organize several distin- s. research, advising his postgraduate students, guished symposia on campus, and was one of After completing his undergraduate studies and working to assist his scholarly colleagues. the founders of OSU’s Center for Medieval in music at the University of Sydney with a and Renaissance Studies. Among his proudest BA and an MA, he took his PhD in Musi- —Margaret Kartomi professional achievements were attracting su- cology at the University of Hamburg with a
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