[AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: Lyrica Society at AMS Quebec City, 2 Nov 2007

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Dear Colleagues and Friends:

I have the honor to announce the Lyrica Society's meeting and paper session on Friday, November 2, 2007, at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in Québec City, from 12:15 to 1:45 p.m. The following papers will be offered:

Marie-Louise Catsalis (Santa Clara University): "Beneath the Shady Beech: Virgilian References in Alessandro Scarlatti's Serenatas"

Vanessa Rogers (University of Southern California): "The Audience as Poet: Traditional Tunes and Contemporary Satire in Early
Eighteenth-Century Ballad Opera"

Bruce Alan Brown (University of Southern California): "'
so würde sie noch besser auf den Text gemacht seyn' [...that way, it would
have fit the text even better]: Zonca, Raaff, and Mozart’s first aria for /Idomeneo/"

Yours respectfully,

Mark DeVoto
Liaison Officer, Lyrica Society, to the AMS
Professor of Music, emeritus, Tufts University
mdevoto at granite.tufts.edu