American Musicological Society, New York State – St. Lawrence Chapter
Meeting
April 26-27, 2003

McMaster University

Saturday, April 26

9-9:30: Arrival, Registration

9:30-10:30: Session I: The Waltz in the 20th Century

Alexander Carpenter, University of Toronto: “(Second) Viennese Waltz:
Crisis, Change and the Waltz in Arnold Schoenberg's Oeuvre”

Teresa Magdanz, University of Toronto: “The Celluloid Waltz: Reveries of the American Carousel”

10:30-11: Coffee Break

11:00-12: Session II: “Spiritual” Music in the 16th and 17th
Centuries

Marjorie Roth, Nazareth College of Rochester: “Chromaticism in Context: A New View of Orlando di Lasso's Prophetiae Sibyllarum”

Janette Tilley, University of Toronto: “From Personification to
Meditation: Representations of the 'Faithful Soul' in Lutheran
Devotional Music of the Seventeenth Century”

12-1:30: Lunch

1:30-2:30: Plenary/Keynote Address

2:30-3:30: Session III: The Agenda of Modernism in 20th-Century
Compositions

Brian Locke, SUNY Stony Brook: “'Of Base and Contemptible Passions':
Madness and Modernism in Jeremias' Opera 'Bratri Karamazovi'”

Alexander Colpa, Kingston, Ont.: “The Role of Existentialist Theory in
the Early Dramstadt Schoenberg Reception: A Study in Lateral Stylistic
Transmission”

3:30-4: Coffee Break

4-5: Session IV: Reassessing Received Knowledge about the 20th
Century

Rob Haskins, Eastman: “'Beating My Head Against that Wall': Cage,
Harmony and an Argument for Analysis”

Murray Dineen, University of Ottawa: “Adorno, Jazz and Schoenberg: For
the Defence”

5-6: Business Meeting

6-6:30: Concert

Richard Semmens, University of Western Ontario: recorder

Mary Cyr, University of Guelph: viola da gamba

Sandra Mangsen, University of Western Ontario: harpsichord

(Pieces by Jacques Hotteterre, Marin Marais, and Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre)

6:30: Dinner: details to be announced

Sunday, April 27

9:30-10:30: Session V Performing Sensuality in the late 18th and 19th Centuries

Emily Dolan, Cornell University: “Taming Sonority with Reason: Kant,
Rousseau, and the Glass Armonica”

Tom Denny, Skidmore College: “'Che sono i fini di chi fa mal'? – Variant Endings during Don Giovanni's First Century”

10:30-11: Coffee Break

11-12: Session VI Wagner and Verdi

Lindsay Moore, University of Toronto: “Rich Man, Poor Man: Verdi's and
Wagner's Operas and the Changing Copyright and Performance Rights Laws
of the Nineteenth Century”

Drew Stephen, University of Toronto: “The Hunt as Couleur Locale in
Verdi's Don Carlos and Wagner's Tannhaeuser”

12-12:30: Session VII Chant

Andrew Hughes, University of Toronto: “Early Printed Sarum Breviaries:
Manuscript and Continental Origins”