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Princeton University
April 4-7, 2002
Society for Seventeenth-Century
Music
TENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Dedicated to Irene Alm and Thomas Walker
PROGRAM
Thursday evening, April 4
Welcome Reception (light supper buffet)
Concert - A Venetian Extravaganza,
directed by Nancy Wilson, violin.
Music of Monteverdi, Cavalli, and Strozzi with Julianne Baird and Laura Heimes,
sopranos; Curtis Streetman, baritone; Julie Andrijeski, violin; Loretta O’
Sullivan, violoncello; Richard Stone, lute/theorbo; Michael Collver, cornetto;
Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord/organ.
Friday, April 5
Welcome and Greetings from Scott Burnham, chair, Music Department; Katherine
Rohrer,Vice Provost, Princeton University
Session I VIEWING VENETIAN OPERA
Chair: Ellen Rosand (Yale University)
Giulio Ongaro (University of Southern California), “’E
pur io torno qui’: Sixteenth-Century Literary Debates, the Audience’s
View, and the Interpretation of Poppea”
Jennifer Williams Brown (University of Rochester),
“Out of the Dark Ages: Editing Cavalli’s Operas in the Post-Modern
World”
Louise Stein (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), “Opera
in the Atascadero: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Views on Opera, Politics,
and the Pleasures of Venice”
Mauro Calcagno (Harvard University), “Word and Image
in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Librettos: The Frontispiece as Operatic
Emblem”
Catered Lunch and Special Meeting – 1956 Club
Session II CITY MUSIC
Chair: Jonathan Glixon (University of Kentucky)
Jeffrey Kurtzman (Washington University, St. Louis),
“Civic Identity and Civic Glue: Venetian Processions and Ceremonies
of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”
Gregory Barnett, “In Search of a Stile accademico:
The Earliest Esperimenti d’esame of the Bolognese Accademia
Filarmonica”
Marc Vanscheeuwijck (University of Oregon), “Giovanni
Paolo Colonna and Petronio Franceschini: Building Acoustics and Compositional
Style in Late Seventeenth-Century Bologna”
Barbara Sparti (Rome, Italy), “Hercules Dancing in
Thebes, in Pictures and Music”
Evening Concert – Capricious Idolatries:
Exoticism in Seventeenth-Century Music and Dance
D’India’s “Balletto dei re della
China,” choreographed by Barbara Sparti; “Lazzi
d’amore, or The Dalliances of
Harlequino and Columbina,” choreographed
and danced by Dorothy Olsson and Mark Mindek
Saturday, April 6
Session III NORTHERN EUROPE
Chair: Kerala Snyder (Professor emerita, Eastman School of Music)
Stewart Carter (Wake Forest University), “An Italianate
Oratorio latino for the Electoral Court of Mainz: Daniel Bollius’s
Repraesentatio on the Nativity of John the Baptist”
Michael Burden (New College, Oxford University), “‘Sharpers,
beaus, the very Cits’: The Wits’ Expectations of the Players in
Purcell’s Fairy Queen”
Arne Spohr (Musikhochschule Köln), “The Hamburg
Ratsmusik and its Repertoire: Johann Schop’s Erster Theil
Newer Paduanen (1633/1640)”
Session IV DRAMATIC MUSIC IN FLORENCE, ROME AND VENICE
Chair: Massimo Ossi (Indiana University)
Nina Treadwell (Grinnell College) “She Descended
on a Cloud ‘From the Highest Spheres’: Florentine Proto-monody
alla Romanina
Susan Shrimp (Yale University), Andromache, Dido, and the
Mother of Euryalis: Seneca’s Legacy in Domenico Mazzocchi’s
Virgilian Laments
Tim Carter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Constructing
a Stemma of Monteverdi’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda”
Panel Discussion: A Feast for Eye and
Ear: Sound, Space, and Image in Seventeenth-Century Europe.
Patricia Fortini Brown, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, John Pinto (Princeton University,
Department of Art and Archaeology);Wendy Heller (Princeton University), moderator
Princeton Art Museum, Wine Reception and Exhibit: “Anthony van
Dyck's Ecce Homo and the Mocking of Christ”; Todor Petev,
docent (Princeton University)
Anniversary Banquet at Prospect House, Garden Room