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Nota Bene Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology Summer 2019 EVELYN VANDERHOOF AND KAITLYN KASHA Editors Published by the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University Canada Western University Canada London, Ontario Nota Bene Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology Edited by Evelyn Vanderhoof and Kaitlyn Kasha Copyright © 2019 Front and back cover by Ludwig Design: www.ludwigdesign.ca All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recorded or otherwise, without prior written permission from the editors in consultation with the author(s). The views expressed herein are not necessarily those of the editors. PRINTED IN CANADA Contents Foreword from the Editors v Review Panel vi Szymanowski’s Third Symphony: Tradition and the Orient 1 JOHN PIERCE O’REILLY Not Quite Romeo: Berlioz, Smithson and the Unspoken Truth 14 HOPE SALMONSON Magic and Enlightenment auf der Wieden: Der Stein der Weisen and Die Zauberflöte 30 MERCER GREENWALD Nipplegate and the Effects of Implied vs. Explicit Sexuality in Pop Music Performance 46 JESSICA MACISAAC NB Foreword On behalf of the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University Canada, it is our pleasure to present the twelfth volume of Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology. This issue highlights the breadth of interdisciplinary research being conducted by the international undergraduate community, with papers from the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Canada. The essays that follow address topics such as the influence of the Orient on Szymanowski’s Third Symphony; the exclusion of Harriet Smithson in the principal scholarship on Hector Berlioz and his Symphonie Fantastique; a comparison of two operas, Der Stein der Weisen and Die Zauberflöte; and finally, an analysis of Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime performance. These essays reflect the high standard of undergraduate musicological thought and discourse at institutions worldwide. We would like to extend our gratitude to Dr. Betty-Anne Younker, Dean of the Don Wright Faculty of Music, for her continued support and commitment to this project. Many thanks as well to our faculty advisors at Western University, Dr. Emily Abrams Ansari and Dr. Edmund Goehring, who offered advice and guidance throughout the year. In addition, it is our pleasure to acknowledge the support of the other members of the 2019 Nota Bene Review Panel: Dr. Andrew P. MacDonald from Bishop’s University; Dr. James Deaville from Carleton University; Dr. Jane Gosine from Memorial University; Dr. Walter Kreyszig from the University of Saskatchewan; Dr. James V. Maiello, Dr. Colette Simonot-Maiello from the University of Manitoba; and Dr. Norma Coates, Dr. Jonathan De Souza, Dr. Peter Franck, Dr. Kate Helsen, and Dr. Catherine Nolan from Western University. Finally, we would like to thank the authors for their hard work and dedication to this journal. We hope that this experience was as rewarding for you as it was for us. Evelyn Vanderhoof and Kaitlyn Kasha Editors-in-Chief v Review Panel Dr. Emily Abrams Ansari, Western University Canada Emily Abrams Ansari is an Associate Professor of Music History whose research examines music's political usages and engagements across the Americas during the Cold War period. In 2018 she published her first book, The Sound of a Superpower: Musical Americanism and the Cold War (OUP), which examines the effects of this ideological conflict on musical nationalism in the United States. She is now launching several new individual and collaborative projects, including a multidisciplinary collective history project documenting the musical experiences of refugees from El Salvador's Civil War during the 1980s. Her published articles have won her a number of prestigious accolades, including the Kurt Weill Prize and the ASCAP Deems Taylor- Virgil Thomson Award. Dr. Katharina Clausius, University of Victoria Katharina Clausius is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Victoria, BC. Her research focuses on intermedial exchanges between music, literature, and the visual arts. She is currently finishing a book, Mania in the Age of Reason: Tragic Adventures in Poetry, Painting, and Opera, which challenges the longstanding segregation of Enlightenment tragic opera from its broader cultural contexts and proposes a new comparative approach that thrusts opera into the furious debates surrounding VI literature, spoken theatre, and painting throughout the eighteenth century. Her research has appeared in Philosophy Today, The Opera Quarterly, The Journal of Musicology, and Tempo. In September 2019, she will be joining the Département de langues et littératures du monde at the Université de Montréal. Dr. Norma Coates, Western University Canada Norma Coates, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario who focuses on popular music. An interdisciplinary scholar, she was among the first to theorize the role and relationship of women to popular music. Coates is a cultural historian whose work challenges and revises commonly held beliefs about popular music history. Her most recent work focuses on popular music on American television before the 1980s. Coates serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Popular Music Studies and Music, Sound, and the Moving Image and the executive boards of Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch. Dr. Jonathan De Souza, Western University Canada Jonathan De Souza is an assistant professor of music theory at Western University. De Souza’s research combines music theory, cognitive science, and philosophy. His book, Music at Hand: Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition (Oxford University Press, VII 2017), examines how instrumental techniques and technologies shape music’s sounding organization and players’ experience. At Western, De Souza currently serves as Director for Music, Cognition, and the Brain, an initiative that brings together faculty members, postdoctoral scholars, and students from music theory and music education, cognitive neuroscience, audiology, and related fields. Dr. James Deaville, Carleton University James Deaville teaches music in the School for Studies in Art and Culture of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has edited Music in Television (Routledge, 2010) and with Christina Baade has co-edited Music and the Broadcast Experience. (Oxford, 2016). He is currently working on a study of music and sound in cinematic (and video game) trailers, a result of the Trailaurality research group that has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He has contributed a variety of articles and book chapters on music and its intersections with media, most recently an article for American Music on music at the political party conventions of 2016. With Ron Rodman and Siu-Lan Tan he is co-editing an anthology on music and advertising as one of the Oxford Handbooks. He is currently guest editing an issue of American Music on television music, and has just received four years of funding from SSHRC to study muteness/disability and music in screen representation. VIII Dr. Peter Franck, Western University Canada Peter Franck is Associate Professor of Music Theory at Western University, where he was appointed in 2007. His research focuses on invertible counterpoint and how it intersects with aspects of Schenkerian theory and musical form. His publications appear in Music Theory Spectrum, Indiana Theory Review, Theory and Practice, Intégral, Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music, and Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid- Atlantic. Dr. Edmund J. Goehring, Western University Canada Edmund J. Goehring is Professor of Music History at The University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past: An Essay on Modernist Mozart Poetics (Rochester, 2018) and, along with a book and essays on the Mozart-Da Ponte operas, essays on Verdi’s Otello, Don Juan theater, and Martin McDonagh’s film In Bruges (for Film International). Dr. Jane Gosine, Memorial University Dr Jane Gosine is a professor in the School of Music at Memorial University where she teaches courses in musicology. She is engaged in research exploring the relationship between singing and wellbeing, as well as research into 17th-century French music, particularly the music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier. She IX has served as a music consultant to ensembles in North America and Europe, and has prepared new editions of Charpentier’s music, as well as articles and chapters on French music. Jane has collaborated with music therapists on projects at Easter Seals Newfoundland and Labrador and at the East Anglia Children’s Hospice. With Kalen Thomson, she co-founded and directs the Better Breathing Choir, and is a team member with Lauda – a neuro-diverse children’s choir which is part of Shallaway Youth Choir. Dr. Kate Helsen, Western University Canada Before teaching Music History at Western University, Kate held a two-year post-doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) at the University of Toronto, researching musical notation in the 12th and 13th centuries. Her doctoral research focused on Gregorian chant transmission, orally and through the earliest notated books. She has published