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Conference Schedule 2012

 

 Thursday 19 April

2:00 – 5:00 P.M.

Registration
Lobby, Courtyard Marriott Hotel

1:15 – 3:15 P.M. Joint meeting of the 2009–2012 and 2012–2015 Governing Boards
Hunter College, CUNY, North Building
695 Park Avenue, Room 417

  BREAK (3:15 – 3:30 P.M.)

3:30 – 4:45 P.M.

Meeting of the Web Library Editorial Board
Hunter College, CUNY, North Building
695 Park Avenue, Room 417

 

Friday 20 April

8:30 – 9:15 A.M. Registration
Metropolitan Museum, Uris Center, Sacerdote Lecture Hall

8:30 – 9:15 A.M. Continental Breakfast Reception
Metropolitan Museum, Sacerdote Lecture Hall

9:15 A.M. – 12:15 P.M. PAPER SESSION I
Metropolitan Museum, Sacerdote Lecture Hall

  SHORT SESSION A: THE VISUAL MUSE
Rose Pruiksma (University of New Hampshire, Durham), Chair

 

Michael Dodds (University of North Carolina School of the Arts)
The Canon in Pieter van Laer’s Self-Portrait with Magic Scene

 

Georgia Cowart (Case Western Reserve University)
Performing/Transforming French Identity: Watteau and the Satiric Musical Theater

  BREAK (10:35-10:55 A.M.)

  SHORT SESSION B: INSTRUMENTALISTS, PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR
Charles Brewer (The College of Music, The Florida State University), Chair
 

Michael Bane (Case Western Reserve University)
Francesco Corbetta’s La Guitarre royalle (1674) and the Aesthetic of Ease

 

Arne Spohr (College of Musical Arts, Bowling Green State University)
Networking, Patronage and Professionalism in the Early History of Violin Playing: The Case of William Brade

12:15 – 2:00 P.M.

Lunch and Formal Business Meeting
Metropolitan Museum, Sacerdote Lecture Hall

2:00 – 4:00 P.M. Museum Tours
J.Kenneth Moore (Curator in Charge, Metropolitan Museum)
Jayson Dobney (Associate Curator, Metropolitan Museum)
Barbara Hanning (SSCM and CUNY)
Wendy Heller (SSCM and Princeton)
Meeting point: Musical Instruments Wing, Second Floor, Balcony

  BREAK (4:00 – 4:15 P.M.)

4:15 – 5:15 P.M.

Lecture Recital: Pasqualini Singing
Roger Freitas (Eastman School of Music), Chair

 

Margaret Murata (University of California, Irvine)
Arthur Haas (Stony Brook University)
Katherine Kaiser (Stony Brook University)

6:30 P.M. Bus departs from the Marriott for Chinatown

7:30 – 8:00 P.M.

Cocktails
Golden Unicorn Restaurant
18 East Broadway

8:00 – 10:00 P.M. Banquet
Golden Unicorn Restaurant

 

 Saturday 21 April

 8:30 – 9:00 A.M.

Registration

 

Coffee
Metropolitan Museum, Sacerdote Lecture Hall

9:00 – 12:40 A.M. PAPER SESSION II
Metropolitan Museum, Sacerdote Lecture Hall
 

SHORT SESSION A: MUSIC AND THE PRINTED OBJECT
Bruce Gustafson (Franklin & Marshall College; Oxford Bibliographies Online), Chair

 

Graham Freeman (University of Toronto)
“Things Marvelously Altered”: Print, Manuscript, and Consumer Demand in Early Modern England

 

Alexander Silbiger (Duke University)
The Mystery of the Frescobaldi Portraits

 

Derek Stauff (Indiana University)
Polemical Broadsheets and Lutheran Music in Saxony during the Thirty Years’ War

  BREAK (11:00 – 11:20 A.M.)
 

SHORT SESSION B: VOICES OF SCULPTURE
Jeffrey Kurtzman (Washington University in St. Louis), Chair

 

Wendy Heller (Princeton University)
Arethusa and Daphne: Opera, Sculpture, and the Staging of Desire for Scipione Borghese

 

Alex Fisher (University of British Columbia)
A Musical Dialogue in Bronze: Gregor Aichinger’s Lacrumae (1604) and Hans Reichle’s Crucifixion Group for the Basilica of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg

12:40 – 2:00 P.M. Lunch
12:45 – 1:50 P.M

Lunch meeting of the Journal’s Editorial Board
Uris Seminar Room

2:00 – 5:00 P.M.

PAPER SESSION III
Metropolitan Museum, Sacerdote Lecture Hall

 

SHORT SESSION A: OPERA AND SACRED SONG IN ITALY
Robert Holzer (School of Music,Yale University), Chair

 

Andrew Eggert (Columbia University)
L’Eritrea 1652, 1654, 1661: Comparative Dramaturgy of Cavalli in Performance

 

Sara Pecknold (Catholic University of America)
“On Lightest Leaves Do I Fly”: Natality and the Renewal of Identity in Barbara Strozzi’s Sacri musicali affetti (1655)

  BREAK (3:20 – 3:40 P.M.)
 

SHORT SESSION B: OPERA AND MASQUE IN ENGLAND
Candace Bailey (North Carolina Central University), Chair

 

Murray K. Dahm (Sydney)
Henry Purcell’s Spaniards and the Dating of Dido and Aeneas

 

Amanda Eubanks-Winkler (Syracuse University)
Cupid in Early Modern Pedagogical Masques

5:15 – 7:30 P.M.

Concert preceded by Wine-and-Cheese Reception
Juilliard 415 with Robert Mealy playing the Museum’s 1693 Stradivari violin
Metropolitan Museum, Patrons Lounge

 

Sunday 22 April

7:00 – 8:20 A.M.

Breakfast meeting of the 2012–2015 Governing Board
Location TBA

8:30 – 9:00 A.M.

Coffee
Metropolitan Museum, Sacerdote Lecture Hall

9:00 – 12:00 noon

PAPER SESSION IV
Metropolitan Museum, Sacerdote Lecture Hall

 

SHORT SESSION A: THEORY AND PRACTICE
Michele Cabrini (Hunter College, CUNY), Chair

 

Gregory Barnett (Rice University)
Modal Polemics and the Intangible Modes

 

Don Fader (University of Alabama)
Les Modernes Face the Music: The Circle of the Future Regent as Locus for a Relativist Crisis in “Préramiste” Music Theory

  BREAK (10:20 – 10:40 A.M.)
 

SHORT SESSION B: DIALOGUES WITH TEXT
Christine Jeanneret (Université de Genève), Chair

 

Eric Bianchi (Fordham University)
Bad Latin and Bad Manners: Giovanni Battista Doni Reads Marin Mersenne

 

Tim Carter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Cerberus Barks In Vain: Poetic Asides in the Artusi–Monteverdi Controversy

 



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