[AMS-announce] CONF: AMS Midwest Chapter, Miami U., Miami OH, March 24-25, 2007

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The Midwest Chapter of AMS will be holding its spring meeting, March 24-25
at Miami University, Oxford Ohio. Please note that our keynote speaker will
be Prof. Charles Atkinson speaking on "Musicology Today and Tomorrow."  We
hope to see many of you there.

Mary Natvig,
President
Midwest Chapter, AMS
www-personal.umich.edu/~claguem/amsmidwest/

Meeting location: Bystrom-Reid Room, on the Third floor of the Shriver
Center, 701 East Spring Street, Oxford, Ohio, 45240

(on the MU campus map, it is building # 123, section 3D)

Sat. 9:45-11:45
Operatic Subjects: Effie Papanikolauo, Miami University, Chair
Heather Foote, University of Iowa
"A Bombastic Baritone and Scheming Soprano: Unconventional Characters in
Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff"

Shinobu Yoshida, University of Michigan
"Puccini's Exotic Women?: Subverting Conventions of the Tragic Heroine"

Maria Cristina Fava, Eastman School of Music
"Transforming Text: Weill's Use of Circularity as a Framing Device"


Melinda Boyd,  College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
"Unmasking the Ballroom Scene in Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots"

Sat. 12:00-2:00 Group Lunch

Sat. 2:15-4:15
Keynote Address and Panel
Dr. Charles Atkinson, The Ohio State University
President of the American Musicological Society
"Musicology  Today and Tomorrow"

Panel TBA

Sat. 4:30   Business Meeting

Sun. 9:00-11:00
Reassessing Analysis

Lynn Kane, Wheaton College
"The Influence of Basso Continuo Practice on the Late Eighteenth-Century
Lied"

Julie Hedges Brown, Oberlin Conservatory
"The style hongrois and Schumann's Formal Experiments of 1842"

       Ryan Ross University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"'Night and Day': New Thoughts on the Conclusion to Mahler's Seventh
Symphony"

Sun. 11:15-12:45
Religious Topoi

       Jessica A. Shelvik, University of IL, Urbana-Champaign
" 'Pagan-Religious Merry-Making:' The Program(s) of Rimsky-Korsakov's
Svetlyi Prazdnik"

Christopher Urbiel
"A House Divided May Indeed Stand:  Edward Elgar's Roman Catholic Motets and
     Anglican Anthems"

American Institutions

Jane Riegel Ferencz, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
"Music for Wisconsin: The WPA Federal Music Project in Madison"

Mark D. Porcaro,  Muskegon, MI
"Beatlemania Magically Recreated: Hyperreality and Tribute Bands in the
      United States"

Downloadable campus map

www.miami.muohio.edu/about_miami/virtual_tour/campusmap/index.cfm

Getting to Oxford and other info about Oxford
www.miami.muohio.edu/parents/directions.cfm

Hotel information in Oxford
www.miami.muohio.edu/parents/accommodations.cfm

Parking
You will need a valid parking permit in order to park on the street near
Shriver or in the parking lots. I have requested a number of permits valid
for the duration of the conference. Please ask for one upon registration.
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