1993StLProg

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
1993 First Annual Conference
Washington University in St. Louis
April 22-25

Program of Papers

Theater Music
James P. CASSARO, "Reflections in a Pool: Lully's Ballet des saisons and the Court of Louis XIV"
Irene ALM, "Dances from the 'Four Corners of the Earth': Exoticism in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Opera"
Rebecca HARRIS-WARRICK, "Staging Practices in French Musical Theater: New Information from Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos"

Plenary Session
Richard WATSON, "Descartes's Ballet?"

Women's Studies
Beth L. GLIXON, "The Seduction of Silvia Gailarti Manni: A Young Singer's Education in Mid-Seicento Venice"
Wendy B. HELLER, "Arcangela Tarabotti and Busenello's Ottavia: Defending Women in the Opera of Venice"

Monteverdi
Tim CARTER, "Monteverdi's Via naturale all'immitatione: New Light on Opera and Song in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy"
Massimo OSSI, "Claudio Monteverdi's "Miglior Filosofo"

Performers and Performance
Christopher J. MOSSEY, "Character Portrayal in Cavalli's Giasone (1649) "
Giulio M. ONGARO, "Performing Forces at St. Mark's, Venice, before the Arrival of Monteverdi

Sacred Music
Robert L. KENDRICK, "Sonet vox tua in auribus meis: Song of Songs Exegesis and the Seventeenth-Century Motet"
Cleveland JOHNSON, "In the Trenches with Johann and Caspar Plotz: A Rediscovered Gebrauchstabulatur from the Scheidt Circle"

Philosophy
Robert HOLZER, "Monteverdi the Modernist: The Composer in Conversation with Secondo Lancellotti"
Geoffrey BURGESS, "The Chaconne as Celebration and the Representation of Liminal Time in Lully's Tragédies en musique"

German Biography
Stephen A. CRIST, "Johann Sebastian Bach and Seventeenth-Century Music: Historiographic Perspectives"
Charles BREWER, "The Context and Style of Johann Heinrich Schmeltzer's Late Instrumental Music"

Crossover
Kerala J. SNYDER, "Monteverdi or Rosenmüller? A Disputed Confitebor as a Key to Stylistic Differentiation"
Claudia JENSEN, "Schütz in Muscovy? Orfeo at the Muscovite Court Theater (1672-76)"
Olga ACKERLY, "Music and Architecture in the 'Moscow' Baroque"

Instrumental Performance/Solo Song
Stephen BONTA, "The Use of Instruments in Italian Performances of the Canzona"
Roark MILLER, "Remigio Romano's Raccolte: New Information on the Chronology of Venetian Monody"
Silvia HERZOG, "Strophic Discourse: Stefano Landi's Arie a una voce"

Mantua
Gary D. ZINK, "Of Politics, Geography and Three Violinists: The Ensemble Sonata and Related Forms in Early Seventeenth-Century Mantua"
Susan PARISI, "Harmony or Discord? An Assessment of Monteverdi's Relation with the Gonzagas"

Theory and Composition
Robert SHAY, "Purcell's Revisions to the Funeral Sentences Revisited"
Beverly STEIN, "Carissimi's Tonal System: The Expansion of Tonality through Transposition of Mode"

French Biography
John S. POWELL, "Pierre Beauchamps, Choreographer to Molière's Troupe du Roy"
Barbara COEYMAN, "What Else Could Lully Have Written? Politics and PR in the French Court"

Go to 1993 Abstracts

Concerts