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The Seventeenth Annual Conference
of the

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

Eastman School of Music
April 23–26, 2009

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, April 23

12:00–4:30 p.m. Registration (Pavilion of the Memorial Art Gallery [MAG], 500 University Avenue)
2:00–4:00 p.m. Meeting of the Governing Board (MAG, East Parlor)
4:45 p.m. Buses leave from Strathallan Hotel (550 East Avenue) for Christ Church
   
5:00–7:00 p.m. Reception with light dinner fare (Christ Church Guild Hall, 141 East Avenue [parking at East End Garage, 475 East Main Street])
  (6:30–7:30 p.m. — Rehearsal of the “Kantorei” for the 8 p.m. event, Sanctuary of Christ Church)
   
7:00–8:00 p.m. Free time around the Eastman School of Music and Sibley Music Library (with exhibition of seventeenth-century holdings)
   
8:00–9:30 p.m. “Congregational Singing in Seventeenth-Century Germany: With and Without the Organ” (Sanctuary of Christ Church, 141 East Avenue [parking at East End Garage])

Led by Kerala J. Snyder, Eastman School of Music

With:
Alexander Fisher, University of British Columbia (Augsburg)
Mary E. Frandsen, University of Notre Dame (Dresden)
Frederick Gable, University of California, Riverside (Hamburg)
Gregory Johnston, University of Toronto (Leipzig)
Kerala Snyder, Eastman School of Music (Lübeck)
Kathryn Welter, Boston Camerata (Nuremberg)
Leonora Wagner, University of Southern California (Wolfenbüttel)
William Porter, Eastman School of Music (organ)
9:45 p.m. First bus returns from Christ Church to Strathallan Hotel
ca. 10:00 p.m. Second bus returns from Christ Church to Strathallan Hotel

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FRIDAY, April 24

8:30–9:00 a.m. Breakfast bar (MAG, Bausch and Lomb Parlor)
   
9:00–11:50 a.m. Paper Session I: “Scores and Collections” (MAG Auditorium)
  Chair: Robert Shay, University of Missouri
  Anne Schnoebelen, Rice University, “Melpomene coronata da Felsina: A Bolognese Cantata Anthology from 1685”
  Moira Hill, Yale University, “Rethinking the Role of Continuo in the Accompaniment of Schütz’s Vocal Works”
  ~ Break, 10:10-10:40 ~
  Stephanie Tritton, University of Manchester, “The Sources of Henry Lawes’s About the Sweet Bag of a Bee: ‘Which of the two is likeliest to afford the true correct Copies?’”
  Sarah Williams, University of South Carolina, “Dysfunctional Musical Notation in the English Broadside Ballad of the Later Seventeenth Century”
   
12:30– 2:30 p.m. Lunch and formal business meeting (Bausch & Lomb Parlor)
   
2:30–3:40 p.m. Paper Session II, Short Session A: “Lamentation” (MAG Auditorium)
  Chair: Mauro Calcagno, SUNY Stony Brook
  Claire Fontijn, Wellesley College, “‘E torbidossi Senna’: The Telling of History in Strozzi’s Lamento (opp. 2–3)”
  John Higney, Carleton University, “‘He is Much Lamented’: Poems in Praise of Purcell Reconsidered”
   
3:40–4:10 p.m. Snack break (Bausch & Lomb Parlor)
   
4:10–5:20 p.m. Paper Session II, Short Session B: “It’s a Man’s World” (MAG Auditorium)
  Chair: William Porter, Northwestern University
  Candace Bailey, North Carolina Central University, “The Challenge of Domesticity in Men’s Manuscripts in Restoration England”
  Jeremy Mikush, University of California, Los Angeles, “Musical and Dramatic Depiction of Male Friendship and Love in Charpentier’s David et Jonathas
   
5:45-7:15 p.m. Meeting of the WLSCM board (MAG, East Parlor)
   
7:30 p.m. Buses leave from Strathallan Hotel for Kilbourn Hall, ESM
8:00–10:00 p.m. Concert: Ellen Hargis, soprano, and Paul O’Dette, lute: Music of Seventeenth-Century Italy (Kilbourn Hall, ESM, 26 Gibbs Street [parking at East End Garage])
ca. 10:15 p.m. Buses leave from Kilbourn Hall to Strathallan Hotel

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SATURDAY, April 25

8:30–9:00 a.m. Breakfast bar (MAG, Bausch and Lomb Parlor)
   
9:00–11:50 a.m. Paper Session III: “Controlling Bodies” (MAG Auditorium)
  Chair: Beverly Stein, California State University, Los Angeles
  Hendrik Schulze, Universität Heidelberg, “French Dance and Italian Politics: The Case of the Opera Silvio re degli Albani (Turin, 1689)”
  McDowell Kenley, Stanford University, “Mattaccini, Moresche, and the Commedia dell’Arte, with a Note on Gesture and Political Subtext”
  ~ Break, 10:10-10:40 ~
  George Torres, Lafayette College, “The Lute, the Body, and Civility: The Social Gesture of Musical Performance in Seventeenth-Century France”
  Margaret Murata, University of California, Irvine, “Toward a Rhetoric of Harmony: ‘Movimenti di anima’ (et di corpo) in the Italian Solo Cantata”
   
12:15–1:00 p.m. Recital on Italian baroque organ (MAG, Fountain Court)
   
1:00-2:30 p.m. Meeting of the JSCM board (MAG, East Parlor)
   
2:30–3:40 p.m. Paper Session IV, Short Session A: Other Spaces, Other Worlds” (MAG Auditorium)
  Chair: Bruce Gustafson, Franklin and Marshall College
  Geoffrey Burgess, Philadelphia, PA, “Envoicing the Divine: Oracles in Lyric and Spoken Drama in Late Seventeenth-Century France”
  Blake Stevens, Youngstown State University, “Theatrical Space and Narrative in Atys and Armide
   
3:40–4:10 p.m. Snack break (Bausch & Lomb Parlor)
   
4:10–5:20 p.m. Paper Session IV, Short Session B: Crossing Cultures” (MAG Auditorium)
  Chair: Jeffrey Kurtzman, Washington University
  Rebekah Ahrendt, University of California, Berkeley, “Jean-Jacques Quesnot de la Chenée, entrepreneur d’opéra
  Kenneth Stilwell, Catholic University of America, “Adopting Rituals: The Jesuits and the Huron Noël Jesous Ahatonia
   
7:30–8:00 p.m. Pre-Banquet Cocktails (MAG, M&T Bank Ballroom)
8:00–10:00 p.m. Banquet (MAG, M&T Bank Ballroom)

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SUNDAY, April 26

7:00-9:00 a.m. Meeting of the Incoming Governing Board (MAG, East Parlor)
8:30–9:00 a.m. Breakfast bar (MAG, Bausch and Lomb Parlor)
   
9:00–11:50 a.m. Paper Session V: “Morality and Spirituality” (MAG Auditorium)
  Chair: Frederick Gable, University of California, Riverside
  Mary E. Frandsen, University of Notre Dame, “The Anthologies of Ambrosius Profe (1589–1661) and Lutheran Spirituality”
  Anthony Alms, New York, NY, “Sound Theology: Musical Morality in the Opera Seelewig
  ~ Break, 10:10-10:40 ~
  Christine Getz, University of Iowa, “Mulier fortis, Virgo potens, Regina Sanctissimi Rosarii: Crushing the Serpent with Marian Music in Post-Tridentine Milan”
  Jonathan Glixon, University of Kentucky, “Sirens of the Lagoon: Singing Nuns at Murano in the Seventeenth Century”

Program Committee: Linda Austern (chair), Jonathan B. Gibson, Colleen Reardon, Andrew H. Weaver

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