[AMS-announce] CONF: AMS Allegheny Chapter, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 18 Apr 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

The Allegheny Chapter of AMS will hold its spring meeting at the University of Pittsburgh on Saturday, April 18, 2009, with registration and coffee available at 8:15 a.m.  The program and directions to the campus are below.  Those wishing information on travel or lodging in the university area may contact Mariana Whitmer at <samed at pitt.edu>.

8:15 a.m.   Registration and Coffee
9:00 a.m.   FIRST SESSION: Analytical Questions

   “A Defense of Nicolas Gombert’s Qui colis Ausoniam: Conscientious Editing or Just Really Bad Latin?”
   Brandi Neal, University of Pittsburgh

   “The Orphic Lyre Englished: Music and the Discourse of Queenship in Elizabethan England”
   Brenton Grom, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music

   “The Treatment of Dialogue in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto: Mozart’s Models and Beethoven’s Departures”
   Junko Kaneko, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana

   “Weber, Janus and Thematic Reference”
   Joseph E. Morgan, Brandeis University

2:00 p.m.   SECOND SESSION: Biographical Studies and Musical Dust-ups

   “The Life and Career of Mademoiselle Eug*nie Monrose”
   Matthew Henderson, Woodbridge, Virginia

   “The Baptism of Hornist Elias Lewy and Musical Politics in Vienna’s Hofkapelle, 1835-1846”
   Theodore Albrecht, Kent State University

   “Some Disagreeable Words from Frederick Corder (1918)”
   William B. Hannam, University of Akron/Kent State University

   “From Konfusion, the Comica?  E minor–G major or C major–B minor?  Fliegenkrieg versus Wiegenlied?  Draeseke contra Strau*?  A Tale of Aesthetic Closure”
   Alan H. Krueck, International Draeseke Society / North America