CFP: Spring 2013 Meeting

Call for Papers
Spring 2013 Meeting, American Musicological Society, Mid-Atlantic Chapter
April 27, 2013
9:00am-3:00pm
University of Delaware

The  Mid-Atlantic chapter of the AMS invites proposals for papers to be read at our spring meeting.  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 our 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 program chair Russell Murray at remurray@art-sci.udel.edu before March 8, 2013, and include your name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation.

Fall 2012 Meeting Program

AMS Mid-Atlantic Chapter
Fall Meeting
October 6, 2012

Fisher-Bennet Hall
Room 419
University of Pennsylvania

9:00–9:15 am             Coffee, Bagels, and Introductions

Refreshments courtesy of Penn’s Department of Music.

9:15–11:30 am           Panel I: Myth, Symbols, and Metaphors

1. Patrick Bonczyk (Michigan State), “Temple Music: Clarifying the Musical Metaphor in George Herbert’s The Temple”
2. Jacquelyn Sholes (Boston), “Tragic Antiquarianism in the Finale of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony”
3. Peter Graff (Penn State), “Hidden Symbols in the Sixteenth-Century Office of St. Zenobius”
4. Andrew Westerhaus (Chicago), “The Trickster and Stravinsky’s Baika pro lisu (Renard; 1915–16)”

11:30–11:45               Break

11:45–1:30                 Panel II: Composition and Narratography

1. Alessandra Jones (Hunter), “The Omniscient Narrator: A Structuralist Look at Massenet’s Cendrillon”
2. Jessica Chisholm (Rider),  “A Sixteenth-Century Cambridge Manuscript and Evidence for the Continuation of a Fifteenth-Century English Compositional Practice”
3. Ryan Bunch (Holy Family), “Ease on Down the Road: The Black Musical and the Routes of Soul in The Wiz”

1:30     No-Host Lunch and Business Meeting (Location TBA)

If you plan to attend lunch, please RSVP to Phil Gentry (pgentry@udel.edu) prior to Thursday.

Fall Meeting Logistics

Directions

Fisher-Bennett Hall is located on the University of Pennsylvania campus at the corner of Walnut and 34th in West Philadelphia.

Street parking for $2 an hour can often be found (especially on a Saturday morning) on Walnut Street, although you might need to refill your meter over the course the meeting. Parking can also be found in Penn Parking garages, some of which have a $10 weekend rate.

30th Street Station is a very easy 15 minute walk to Fisher-Bennett Hall. The train station is served by Amtrak and SEPTA, the latter of which connects fairly easily and inexpensively to NJ Transit trains from NYC via a transfer in Trenton.

Fall 2012 Call for Papers

Call for Papers
Fall Meeting, American Musicological Society, Mid-Atlantic Chapter
October 6, 2012
9:00am-1:00pm
University of Pennsylvania

The newly reorganized Mid-Atlantic chapter of the AMS invites proposals for papers to be read at our fall meeting.  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.

For all attendees, more details about logistics and registration will be made available on this web site closer to the date.

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 mpurciel@udel.edu before September 15, 2012, and include your name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation.  Those who submit proposals will be notified of the results by September 21.

 

After a very successful organizational meeting this spring, the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the American Musicological Society is back in business. With approximately fifteen attendees—including several former officers from the older incarnation— representing a number of different area schools, the chapter voted to reconstitute itself under its old bylaws, and elected the following officers:

President: Phil Gentry (University of Delaware)
Secretary-Treasurer: Elizabeth Morgan (St. Joseph’s University)
AMS Council Representative: Maria Purciello (University of Delaware)
AMS Student Council Representative: Suzanne Bratt (University of Pennsylvania)

We have also set up an email list; please visit here if you wish to be added to the mailing list, or email one of the officers. We will begin taking dues and keeping a formal membership list at our fall meeting.

Thanks to everyone for your hard work!

Organizational Meeting

Reviving the AMS Mid-Atlantic Chapter

After several years of chapter dormancy, musicologists in the mid-Atlantic area are organizing to revive the local chapter of the American Musicological Society. We will be holding a short business meeting to elect officers and plan for a full meeting later in the year. Prior to the business meeting there will be a symposium on “Research Opportunities in the Mid-Atlantic Area” with representatives from local archives and other collections of interest to musicologists.

All are welcome. The mid-Atlantic region for the AMS traditionally includes eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and South Jersey. All faculty members, graduate students, independent scholars, performers, and people with an interest in musicology are encouraged to attend.

For more information, please email Elizabeth Morgan [emorgan@sju.edu] or Phil Gentry [pgentry@udel.edu].

Where and When

Saturday, February 18, 9:00 am–12:15 pm
Nicoletti Music Building (directions below)
St. Joseph’s University
Philadelphia, PA

Schedule

9:00 AM – Coffee and Bagels (Courtesy of SJU)

10:00 AM – Symposium, “Research Opportunities in the Mid-Atlantic Area.” Featuring representatives from the University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Flint Collection of rare instruments.

11:15 AM – Business Meeting

The Nicoletti Music Building is located on the Lower Merion side of the campus of Saint Joseph’s University.  Free parking is available in the lot off of North Latches Lane next to Duppereault Hall.  A sign will indicate the entrance to the parking lot.  From the lot, it is a five minute walk to the Music Building (labeled “Music Studio” on the campus map.) The building is also a ten-minute walk from the Overbrook station, on the Paoli-Thorndale SEPTA regional rail line.