2017 Conference Schedule (pdf)
(individual abstracts available by clicking on paper titles)
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
8:30 AM
Welcome
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Session 1a: Agency and the Performing Body (Moderator: Kunio Hara, University of South Carolina)
Kristen Strandberg (University of Evansville): The Female Violinist as Mechanical Object in Nineteenth-Century France
Jane Sylvester (Eastman School of Music): “A Flick of the Eye”: A Study of Hariclea Darclée’s Bodily Agency in Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca
Session 1b: Music and Literary Romanticism (Moderator: Styra Avins, Independent Scholar)
Reuben Phillips (Princeton University): Brahms and Eichendorff
Robert Eshbach (University of New Hampshire): “For all are Born to the Ideal”: Joseph Joachim and Bettina von Arnim
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session 2a: Liberalism, Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism in the Hapsburg Empire and After (Moderator: Nicole Grimes, University of California, Irvine)
David Brodbeck (University of California, Irvine): Brahms’s Triumplied in Context
Chris Campo-Bowen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “The Time of Miracles”: Cosmopolitan Dreams and the Czech National Theater at the 1892 Exhibition of Music and Theater in Vienna
Session 2b: Cyclic Forms (Moderator: Alexandra Kieffer, Rice University)
Andrew Deruchie (University of Otago): Saint-Saëns’s First String Quartet and the Cultural Politics of Cyclical Form
Michael Oravitz (University of Northern Colorado): A Triptych Within: Cyclic Facets in the Opening Three “Ariettes oubliées” Poems Within Debussy’s Larger, Eponymous Song Set
2:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Session 3a: American Sheet Music and Digital Methods (Moderator: Douglas Shadle, Vanderbilt University)
Katie Callam (Harvard University): Music Speaking Volumes: Houghton Library’s Bound Sheet Music Collection
Karen Stafford (Art Institute of Chicago/Indiana University): Digitally Mapping the Transmission of Music in Nineteenth-Century Binders' Volumes
Heather Platt (Ball State University): Small Songs, Big Data: A Preliminary Study of Lieder in American Concert Life
Session 3b: Bringing the Nineteenth Century Alive in the Twenty-First Century Classroom (Moderator: Laurie McManus, Shenandoah University)
Kay Norton (Arizona State University): Using Aesthetics to Help Students Recognize the Long Reach of Romanticism in Music
Petra Meyer-Frazier (University of Denver): Awakening the Undergraduate Mind in Romantic Survey Courses
Katherine K. Preston (College of William & Mary): Two Birds/One Stone: Methodological Pedagogy and a Deepening of Student Understanding of 19th-Century Musical Life
4:30 PM-5:30 PM
Keynote, Suzannah Clark (Harvard University): Music Theory and the Hermeneutics of Song
Moderator: Melanie Lowe (Vanderbilt University)
(Professor Clark's address is sponsored by the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Vanderbilt University)
7:30 PM
Recital, Atlantic Ensemble
A wine reception will follow the recital.
(Recital and reception sponsored by American Brahms Society)
8:30 AM
Welcome
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Session 1a: Agency and the Performing Body (Moderator: Kunio Hara, University of South Carolina)
Kristen Strandberg (University of Evansville): The Female Violinist as Mechanical Object in Nineteenth-Century France
Jane Sylvester (Eastman School of Music): “A Flick of the Eye”: A Study of Hariclea Darclée’s Bodily Agency in Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca
Session 1b: Music and Literary Romanticism (Moderator: Styra Avins, Independent Scholar)
Reuben Phillips (Princeton University): Brahms and Eichendorff
Robert Eshbach (University of New Hampshire): “For all are Born to the Ideal”: Joseph Joachim and Bettina von Arnim
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session 2a: Liberalism, Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism in the Hapsburg Empire and After (Moderator: Nicole Grimes, University of California, Irvine)
David Brodbeck (University of California, Irvine): Brahms’s Triumplied in Context
Chris Campo-Bowen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “The Time of Miracles”: Cosmopolitan Dreams and the Czech National Theater at the 1892 Exhibition of Music and Theater in Vienna
Session 2b: Cyclic Forms (Moderator: Alexandra Kieffer, Rice University)
Andrew Deruchie (University of Otago): Saint-Saëns’s First String Quartet and the Cultural Politics of Cyclical Form
Michael Oravitz (University of Northern Colorado): A Triptych Within: Cyclic Facets in the Opening Three “Ariettes oubliées” Poems Within Debussy’s Larger, Eponymous Song Set
2:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Session 3a: American Sheet Music and Digital Methods (Moderator: Douglas Shadle, Vanderbilt University)
Katie Callam (Harvard University): Music Speaking Volumes: Houghton Library’s Bound Sheet Music Collection
Karen Stafford (Art Institute of Chicago/Indiana University): Digitally Mapping the Transmission of Music in Nineteenth-Century Binders' Volumes
Heather Platt (Ball State University): Small Songs, Big Data: A Preliminary Study of Lieder in American Concert Life
Session 3b: Bringing the Nineteenth Century Alive in the Twenty-First Century Classroom (Moderator: Laurie McManus, Shenandoah University)
Kay Norton (Arizona State University): Using Aesthetics to Help Students Recognize the Long Reach of Romanticism in Music
Petra Meyer-Frazier (University of Denver): Awakening the Undergraduate Mind in Romantic Survey Courses
Katherine K. Preston (College of William & Mary): Two Birds/One Stone: Methodological Pedagogy and a Deepening of Student Understanding of 19th-Century Musical Life
4:30 PM-5:30 PM
Keynote, Suzannah Clark (Harvard University): Music Theory and the Hermeneutics of Song
Moderator: Melanie Lowe (Vanderbilt University)
(Professor Clark's address is sponsored by the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Vanderbilt University)
7:30 PM
Recital, Atlantic Ensemble
A wine reception will follow the recital.
(Recital and reception sponsored by American Brahms Society)
Thursday, June 8, 2017
8:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Session 4a: Opera in New York (Moderator: Katherine K. Preston, College of William & Mary)
Jennifer Wilson (Brooklyn College): Establishing an American Dramatic Style, or La Querelle de New-York, 1832-35
Gwen L. D’Amico (Brooklyn College): I Maestri Cantori: Is German Art Still Holy When Presented in Italian?
John Graziano (Music in Gotham): Aida in New York: Culture, Criticism, and Crashing Financial Markets
Session 4b: Schubert Lieder (Moderator: Suzannah Clark, Harvard University)
Marjorie Hirsch (Williams College): Reframing the Question: The Interrogative in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
Timothy Gonzalez (Temple University): Schubert, Barthes, and Kristeva: Interdisciplinery Intersections in “Der Leiermann”
Chelsea Wright (University of Oregon): Music in Motion, Motion in Music: Musical Forces in Die schöne Müllerin
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Session 5a: Virtuosity and Its Discontents (Moderator: Shaena Weitz, Independent Scholar)
Brent Yorgason (Brigham Young University): Evolution of Liszt’s Mandatory Mannerisms
Laurie McManus (Shenandoah University/Conservatory): Where Present and Past Meet: Teaching Romantic Performativity and Reception
Session 5b: Progressivism and Modernity in the United States (Moderator: Petra Meyer-Frazier, University of Denver)
Lars Helgert (Independent Scholar): The Progressive Politics of German-American Forty-Eighters as Reflected in the Music of Herman Saroni (c. 1823-1900)
E. Douglas Bomberger (Elizabethtown College): November 1917: The End of the Long Nineteenth Century in American Music
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Session 6a: Wagner (Moderator: Anthony Barone, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Julie Anne Nord (University of Western Ontario): “Pointing out the Path to Salvation”: Wagner’s Continuum of Love in Tristan und Isolde
Feng-Shu Lee (Tunghai University): Coloring with Tones: Wagner’s Preliminary Orchestration for Das Rheingold
Session 6b: Brahms I (Moderator: Marie Sumner-Lott, Georgia State University)
Drew Stephen (University of Texas, San Antonio): The Hunt, the Requiem Idea, and the Brahms Horn Trio Op. 40
Loretta Terrigno (CUNY Graduate Center/Juilliard School): The Art of Lamenting: Resurrection of the Past in Brahms’s “Es steht ein Lind,” WoO 33, no. 41
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Session 7a: Digital Tools for Performance Analysis (Moderator: Benjamin Korstvedt, Clark University)
Joshua Neumann (University of Florida): Modeling Tradition: A Digital Musicology Approach to Nello Santi and Turandot’s Riddles
David Kopp (Boston University): Does Analysis Matter?
Session 7b: Brahms II (Moderator: David Brodbeck, University of California, Irvine)
Nicole Grimes (University of California, Irvine): A Disembodied Head for Mythic Justice: Brahms, Tantalus, and Gesang der Parzen
Daniel Beller-McKenna (University of New Hampshire): Rückblick: Inter-movement Thematic Recall in Brahms
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Session 8a: The Question of Influence (Moderator: TBD)
Rhianna Nissen (University of Michigan): Crossroads of Cultural Conflict: Assessing the Influence of the Caecilian Movement in the Music of Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
Anthony Barone (University of Nevada, Las Vegas): Wagner, Faust, and Paris: A Reassessment
Session 8b: Lecture-Recitals (Moderator: Daniel Beller-McKenna, University of New Hampshire)
Chad Fothergill (Temple University): Late Style and Last Things in Brahms’s Op. 122 Chorale Preludes
Katharine Uhde (Valparaiso University)/R. Larry Todd (Duke University): Rediscovering Two Lost Works: Joseph Joachim’s Hungarian and Irish Fantasies
Friday, June 9, 2017
8:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Session 9a: Mutual Attractions: Interactions Between Music and Written Texts (Moderator: Loretta Terrigno, The Juilliard School)
Robert Michael Anderson (University of North Texas): The unerhörte Begebenheit as a Formal-Aesthetic Paradigm: Reading Brahms's Vocal Quartets as Musical Novellas
Leah K. Batstone (McGill University): Overcoming and the Übermensch: Contexts for Mahler’s Benevolent Ambition
Clare Carrasco (Butler University): Listening between the Lines: Beethoven’s Große Fuge, Schoenberg’s Kammersymphonie, and the Critical Debate over Bekker’s Neue Musik
Session 9b: Fin-de-siècle Paris I (Moderator: Andrew Deruchie, University of Otago)
Jennifer Walker (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): Reaching the Promised Land: Massenet’s La Terre promise and the Religious Republic
Megan Varvir Coe (University of Texas, Arlington): Caught Between Aesthetics and Politics: French Nationalism in the reception of two Salome Operas in Pre-War Paris
Helena Kopchick Spencer (University of North Carolina, Wilmington): Henri Justamant’s Choreographies for Les Huguenots and La Favorite at the Paris Opéra, 1868/69
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Session 10a: Life in Düsseldorf in the 1850s (Moderator: Katharina Uhde, Valparaiso University)
David Ferris (Rice University): “While the Daylight Lasts”: Schumann and Myth of Madness
Toni Casamassina (Independent Scholar): “Wein, Weib, Gesang” Art and Music in the Paintbox
Session 10b: Fin-de-siècle Paris II (Moderator: Helena Kopchick Spencer, University of North Carolina, Wilmington)
Peter Lamothe (Belmont University): From Marionettes to Mélisande: The Importance of Incidental Music in Symbolist Marionette Plays
Alexandra Kieffer (Rice University): Rewriting Modernism: Bergson, Debussy and Early Twentieth-Century Psychologie
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Session 11a: History and Memory (Moderator: David Ferris, Rice University)
Abigail Fine (University of Chicago/University of Hawaii): Mozart on the Mountaintop: Masonic Pilgrimage to the Magic Flute Cottage in Salzburg
Marie Sumner Lott (Georgia State University): Restore the Golden Days: An Anti-Utopian Approach to Honor and Duty in Brahms’s Cantata Rinaldo (op. 50, 1869)
Session 11b: German Music Criticism (Moderator: Heather Platt, Ball State University)
Tekla Babyak (Cornell University): Exploring the Waters of Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Craig Comen (University of Virginia): Hoffmann's Musical Modernity and the Pursuit of Sentimental Unity
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Session 12a: The American South (Moderator: Laura Moore Pruett, Merrimack College)
Horace Maxile (Baylor University): Reading and Interpreting Harry T. Burleigh’s From the Southland
Warren Kimball (Louisiana State University): National Identity and the Oratorio in New Orleans, 1836-1861
Session 12b: Popular Virtuoso Genres (Moderator: Kristen Strandberg, University of Evansville)
Samuel Zerin (New York University): Violin Virtuosity and the Art of Transcription
Shaena Weitz (Independent Scholar): Plagiarism and the Napoleonic Potpourri