THURSDAY,
17 APRIL
Courtyard
Marriott, Pasadena
11:30
a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Meeting of the SSCM Governing Board
2 p.m. Welcome
Address
Robert
A. Cutietta, Dean, Thornton School of Music
(University of Southern California)
Giulio Ongaro, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs,
Thornton
School of Music
2:15-4:15 p.m.
MUSICAL ELOQUENCE, RHETORIC, and EXPRESSION in
FRANCE
Panel chair: Stephen Fleck, Professor
of French, California State University, Long Beach
Jonathan Gibson (James Madison University),
“‘Une espèce d’éloquence dans la musique’:
Embracing a Dis-Figured Rhetoric in France”
Margot Martin (Mt. San Antonio and El Camino Colleges),
“The Rhetoric of Mouvement and Passionate Expression
in Seventeenth-Century French Harpsichord Music”
Catherine Gordon-Seifert (Providence College),
“Pious Persuasion: Bénigne de Bacilly’s Spiritual
Airs for Repentant Souls”
Don Fader (University of Alabama),
“Rules Versus Agréments: Ciceronian Propriety
in Seventeenth-Century French Contrapuntal Theory”
4:15-4.30 Break
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Thursday
ARCHETYPES AND ACTORS ONSTAGE
Lois Rosow (The Ohio State University),
chair
Michael Klaper
(Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), “‘La
prova tirava troppo in lungo per la lunga serie di versi’—Reconstructing
the History of Ercole amante (1662)”
Antonia L. Banducci (University of Denver),
“Acteurs as Lully’s Muses? The Case for Marie Le
Rochois”
6 p.m. Reception at
the Courtyard Marriott
Dinner on your own (in Pasadena)
8 p.m. Evening
Concert by the USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, Adam Gilbert,
director (music by Monteverdi, Marini, Castello,
Schein, Schütz, and Vierdanck).
The Neighborhood Church, 301 N. Orange Grove
Blvd., Pasadena, CA
Admission free to conference participants
and affiliates.
FRIDAY,
18 APRIL
Huntington Library, San Marino
8:15
a.m.
1st Shuttle leaves from the Courtyard Marriott to the Huntington Library,
San Marino
8:30 a.m. 2nd Shuttle leaves from
the Courtyard Marriott to the Huntington
Breakfast bar
(beverages, buns, fruit) at the Huntington
9:00-10:30 a.m.
NEW SOURCES
Tim Carter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill),
chair
Alan Howard
(University of Manchester), “Manuscript
Publishing in Seventeenth-Century England: An Unknown Source of Commonwealth
Instrumental Music in the Henry Watson Music Library, Manchester”
Janet K. Page (University of Memphis),
“‘A lovely and perfect music’: Maria Anna von Raschenau
and Music at the Viennese Convent of St. Jacob”
Charles Brewer (The Florida State University),
“A Reappraisal of Bertali’s Instrumental Compositions”
10:30-11 a.m. Break
11:00-12 noon Friday
SPAIN
Todd Borgerding
(University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh), chair
Louise K. Stein (University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor), “‘Venus amid the Thorns’:
Zarzuela and the Erotic Politics of Monarchy”
Drew Davies (Northwestern University),
“Dramatizing the Magi and Adoring the Child: The Epiphany Theme
in the Seventeenth-Century Villancico”
Noon-2 pm Friday
Lunch and Formal SSCM Business Meeting
2:00-3:30 p.m. Friday
VOCAL MUSIC
Kimberlyn Montford (Trinity University), chair
Michele Cabrini (Hunter College,
CUNY), “‘And a Thousand Violins Begin to Play’:
Instrumental Interventions in the French Baroque Cantata”
Christine Jeanneret (Université de Genève),
"Transmission of the Roman Cantatas: The Evidence from Philology”
Virginia Christy Lamothe (University of Minnesota,
Morris), “Oh Welcome Death? Depictions of Martyrdom in the Sacred
Operas of Stefano Landi and Virgilio Mazzocchi”
Jamie G. Weaver (Eugene, Oregon), “‘Del
vario stile in cui piango e ragiono’: The Ethical Divide between
the Florentine and Seconda pratica Composers”
4-4:30
p.m. Coffee and Tea
4:30-5:30 p.m. Friday
OTHERING
Roger Freitas (Eastman School of Music), chair
Olivia Bloechl
(University of California, Los Angeles), “Colonial
Difference in Armide”
Jed Wentz
(Universiteit Leiden), “Roxana’s Dance:
The Persuasive Footwork of Defoe’s The Fortunate Mistress”
5:45-6:15 p.m.
Shuttles return from the Huntington Library to the Courtyard
Marriott.
Dinner on your own
SATURDAY,
19 APRIL
Huntington
Library, San Marino
7:30-8:30
a.m.
Meeting,
WLSCM Editorial Board at the Courtyard Marriott
8:15 and
8:30 a.m. Shuttles from the Courtyard Marriott to the Huntington
Library
Breakfast Bar at the Huntington
9:30-10:30
a.m.
CREATIVITY
Adam Gilbert
(University of Southern California), chair
Rebecca Herissone
(University of Manchester), “‘To
entitle himself to ye Composition’: Investigating Concepts of
Authorship and Originality in Seventeenth-Century English Ceremonial
Music”
Paul Schleuse (Binghamton University - SUNY), “A
Point without a Ditty: Sung Fantasias by Thomas Morley and Orazio Vecchi”
10:30-11
a.m. Break
11 a.m.-noon
Saturday
ITALIAN THEATER
Massimo Ossi (Indiana University), chair
Eleanor Selfridge-Field (Stanford University), “San
Salvatore, Venice’s Surrogate French Theater”
Valeria De Lucca (Princeton University), “On
the Emergence of Semi-Private Theaters in Rome after 1675: Lorenzo Onofrio
Colonna’s Theater”
noon-2 p.m.
Saturday
Lunch on your own
12:15-1:45 p.m. Meeting,
JSCM Editorial Board, Overseers
Room, Huntington Library
2:00-4:00 p.m. Saturday
GENDER, POLITICS, and ALLEGORY in the STUART-ERA
MASQUE
Panel Chair and Respondent: Linda
Phyllis Austern (Northwestern
University)
Megan Guenther McFadden (Northwestern University),
“‘Songs and deuises of baser alay’: Politics, Patronage,
and Popular Balladry in The Gypsies Metamorphosed”
Stacey Jocoy Houck (Texas Tech University), “Chloris
and the Potent Memory of Caroline Masquing”
Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Syracuse University), “‘When
Beauty arm’d with smiling eyes’: Didactic Musical Entertainments
and the Judgment of Paris Story”
Andrew Walkling (Binghamton University - SUNY), “Allegorical
Discourse in the English Court Masque”
4-4:30 p.m. Coffee and Tea
4:30-5:45 p.m. Saturday
DEVOTIONAL MUSIC
Fred Gable (University
of California, Riverside), chair
Janet Youngdahl (University of Calgary), “Henry
Purcell and John Norris: A Platonic Song and a Poem on Musical Ecstasy”
Anne E. Lyman (University of Iowa), “Public
Piety and Musical Bounty: Peter Philips at Isabella’s Confraternity
of Our Lady in Early Seventeenth-Century Brussels”
5:45-6:15 Shuttles return from the Huntington
Library to the Courtyard Marriott.
No-host cash
bar
SSCM Banquet
Award Ceremony for Alm Prize
Program
as of 15 April 2008
Click for Program Abstracts.