CFP: Fall 2015 Meeting

Call for Papers
Fall 2015 Meeting, American Musicological Society, Mid-Atlantic Chapter
October 17, 2015

Curtis Institute of Music
CFP Deadline:  Monday September 14, 2015

The Mid-Atlantic chapter of the AMS invites proposals for papers to be read at our Fall meeting, to be held at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA.  We welcome both polished scholarship and works in progress, including papers being delivered at the national meeting of the AMS or at other national conferences later in the year.  All genres of musical scholarship are welcomed, and scholars at all stages of careers encouraged.

Closer to the event, directions and logistical details will be found on this website.

Guidelines:
We will follow the standard AMS format of 30 minute papers, with additional time for questions and comments. Please email an abstract of no more than 250 words to amsmidatlantic@gmail.com by Monday September 14, 2015 and include your name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation, if applicable.

Spring 2015 Meeting Program

AMS Mid-Atlantic Spring 2015 Meeting

April 18, 2015

Baker Center for the Arts, Room 155

Muhlenberg College

2400 W Chew St, Allentown, PA 18104

See below for logistical information

9:30 am Coffee and Pastries
10:00 am Panel IMichael Schnack (Muhlenberg), “The Amateur Choir in Motion: The Innovative Choral Work of Jean Berger (1909-2002)”

Ryan Bunch (Rutgers-Camden), “Beginning with Do Re Mi: Musicals, Childhood, and The Sound of Music”

Julian Onderdonck (West Chester), “Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Original Hymn Tunes: Two Newly Discovered Tunes and a Revised Works List”

12:30pm Lunch

1:30pm Business Meeting

2:00pm Panel II

Samuel Nemeth (College of New Jersey), “The Restoration, Reaction, and Revolution: Berlioz’s Requiem as a Product of the French Outlook on Religion and Romantic Ideals”

Sabrina Clarke (Temple), “Simultaneity and Intertextuality: Nonlinear Time in Dallapiccola’s Canti di Liberazione”

Parking

There is a major recruiting event on campus that day so parking may be limited. Attendees can park along the street or in any of the lots except for Front Drive (the horseshoe on the north side of Chew St that begins in front of Egner Chapel). If street parking is unavailable, I would recommend the lots on the south side of Chew St (if you’re heading east on Chew St, the entrance is just past the Center for the Arts and Trexler Library).

Call for Papers: Spring 2015

Call for Papers
Spring 2015 Meeting, American Musicological Society, Mid-Atlantic Chapter
April 18, 205
Muhlenberg College

The Mid-Atlantic chapter of the AMS invites proposals for papers to be read at our spring meeting, to be held at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. We welcome both polished scholarship and works in progress, including papers being delivered at the national meeting of the AMS or at other national conferences later in the year.  All genres of musical scholarship are welcomed, and scholars at all stages of careers encouraged.

Closer to the event, directions and logistical details will be found on this website.

Guidelines
We will follow the standard AMS format of 30 minute papers, with additional time for questions and comments. Please email an abstract of no more than 250 words to amsmidatlantic@gmail.com before March 27, 2015, and include your name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation.

Fall 2014 Program

American Musicological Society, Mid-Atlantic Chapter

Fall 2014 Meeting

Rowan University, Wilson Hall. October 4, 2014

Registration and Logistics

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9:30—10:00 am Refreshments

10:00 Welcome speech Dr. Rick Dammers, Chairperson of the Music Department.

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10:00—11:30 Session 1

First Paper

Elizabeth Weinfield: “Isabella d’Este: Patronage, Performance, and the Viola da Gamba.”

Second Paper

Travis Salley: “Gender Semiotics in The Marriage of Figaro.”

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11:30—1:00 Lunch Break.

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1:00—3:15. Session 2

First Paper

Megan Sarno: “Symbolist Aesthetics in Fauré’s Requiem.”

Second Paper

Anoosua Mukherjee: “The Last of the Symphonists: How American Composers Shaped the Final Chapter of the Modern Symphony.”

Third Paper

Mark Durrand: “Indiana Jones and the Escape from Narrativity: Toward a Performative Model of the Cinematic Leitmotif.”

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3:15—3:45. Business meeting.

Fall 2014 Meeting at Rowan University

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the American Musicological Society
Fall 2014 Meeting
Wilson Hall
Rowan University
Glassboro, New Jersey

Registration

Registration is free but helps us with planning.

Directions

Directions to Campus

Rowan_Campus_Map

Please note: parking is available only in Parking Lot D.

If you need a ride from Philadelphia, please get in touch with Phil.

CFP: Fall 2014 Meeting at Rowan University

The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the American Musicological Society invites proposals for papers to be read at our Fall meeting, which will be held on October 4th at the Glassboro campus of Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.  All genres of musical scholarship are welcomed, and scholars at all stages of careers encouraged. 

We will follow the standard AMS format of 30 minute papers, with additional time for questions and comments. Please email an abstract of no more than 250 words to program chair Solomon Guhl-Miller—amsmidatlantic@gmail.com—before September 15th, and include your name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation.  

Spring 2014 Meeting Program

Spring 2014 Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the American Musicological Society

Saturday, April 5

Presser Hall, Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

 

Program

Coffee and Refreshments 9:30–10:00 am (Presser 300)

Panel I 10:00–11:30 am (Presser 300)

Toru Momii (McGill University), “The Birth of a New Anthem: An Exploration of Finnish National Identity in Finlandia.”
Jennifer Campbell (Central Michigan University), “I Shall Stay a Nomad”: Isabelle Eberhardt, Missy Mazzoli, and the Female Wanderer”

Business Meeting 11:30am–12:00pm (Presser 300)

Lunch 12:00pm–1:30pm

Panel II 1:30pm–3:00pm (Presser 140)

Suzanne Bratt (University of Pennsylvania), “The Obbligato Hinge”
Solomon Guhl-Miller (Temple University), “Rhythm in Aquitanian Polyphony: A New Interpretation.”

Panel II 3:00pm–4:30pm (Presser 140)

Andrew Unger (College of New Jersey), “Recollection, Inner Feelings, and Actuality: Exploring Text and Music in A Child of Our Time
Karen Uslin (Catholic University of America), “Documenting the Dry Eyes of Babylon: Examining the Musical Life of Terezin through Original Manuscripts”

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Thanks to the generosity of Temple’s Boyer College of Music and Dance, our Spring meeting will be held at Temple’s Presser Hall, located at 2001 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA.

Temple’s official Maps and Directions. Presser is a short three-block walk from the Cecil B. Moore station on the Broad Street subway line, and about four blocks from the SEPTA Regional Rail station at 10th and Berks.

Call for Papers: Spring 2014 Meeting

The Mid-Atlantic chapter of the AMS invites proposals for papers to be read at our spring meeting, which will be held on April 5 at Temple University in Philadelphia.  All genres of musical scholarship are welcomed, and scholars at all stages of careers encouraged. 

We will follow the standard AMS format of 30 minute papers, with additional time for questions and comments. Please email an abstract of no more than 250 words to program chair Tim Cochran—amsmidatlantic@gmail.com—before March 2, and include your name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation.  

Closer to the event, directions and logistical details will be found on this website.

Spring 2013 Meeting at the University of Delaware

The Spring 2013 meeting of the Mid-Atlantic chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on April 27 in the Amy E. DuPont Music Building at the University of Delaware, from 9:30 am – 3:30 pm.

The program is available here.

Logistics

This conference is free and open to the public. Members of the chapter will have the opportunity to update their membership on site; please note that AMS bylaws require paper presenters to at least be current members of the national American Musicological Society.

As SEPTA does not provide rail service to Newark on the weekends, travel to the University of Delaware is easiest by car.  Parking is available next to the meeting location in the Center for the Arts garage: 79 Amstel Rd., Newark, DE 19716. For directions, see here; note that the garage charges $1 per half hour, or for a daily rate of $12. We are happy to assist in arranging carpools, especially from the Philadelphia area; please email Phil if you are interested.

The Music Building is wheelchair accessible via the entrance at the corner of Amstel and Orchard.

Spring 2013 Meeting Program

AMS Mid-Atlantic Chapter

April 27, 2013

University of Delaware

9:30-10am      Registration & Coffee

10:00am – Noon:  Panel 1 (AED 207)

Benjamin Dobbs (University of North Texas)
“A Treatise Without Text:  Giovanni Battista Vitali’s Enigmatic Artifici Musicali, Op. 13″

Daniel O’Meara (Princeton)
“The World in Which the Twelve Notes Hold Sway”: Uses of the Chromatic Aggregate in the B Minor Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I”

Sterling Murray (West Chester University)
“Haydn and Prince Kraft Ernst of Oettingen-Wallerstein: A Study in Admiration, Deception, and Reconciliation”

 Noon to 1:30pm:  Mid-Atlantic Chapter Business Meeting/ No-Host Lunch

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Panel 2 (AED 207)

Sarah Bushey (University of Florida)
“Revisiting Revisionism: Horrifying Elements in Jommelli and Verazi’s Fetonte (Luwigsburg, 1768)”

 Solomon Guhl-Miller (Rutgers/Temple/Rider)
“The Impact of Byron and Goethe on the Character of Wotan in the Drafts and Sketches of Das Rheingold and Die Walküre”

Tim Cochran (Westminster Choir College)
“Searching for Lost Time in Clair de lune: Debussy, Memory, and Film”