PROGRAM
Thursday, April 15
Session I. Music and Identity in England and Germany
Graydon Beeks (Pomona College), chair
Janet Pollack (University of Puget Sound), “Commendatory
Verse as Music Criticism in Early Modern English Music Books”
Stacey Jocoy Houck (University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign), “Tradition as Sedition: Christmas Carols in Puritan
England”
Alex Fisher (University of British Columbia), “Approaching
Music and Religious Identity in Early Modern Germany: Sacred Music in
Augsburg during the Thirty Years’ War"
Friday, April 16
Session II. Italian Music I: Analytical and Generic Studies
Robert Judd (University of Pennsylvania), chair
YouYoung Kang (Scripps College), “Early Seventeenth-Century
‘Harmonic Progressions’”
David Dolata (Eastern Washington University), “Bellerofonte
Castaldi’s Extraordinary Capricci a due stromenti”
Michael R. Dodds (Southern Methodist University), “Plainchant
at Florence Cathedral in the Late Seicento: Unwritten Sharps
and Shifting Concepts of Tonal Space”
Gregory Barnett (Rice University), “Church Music,
Musical Topoi, and the Ethos of the Sonata da chiesa”
Session III. French Studies
Catherine Gordon-Seifert (Providence College), chair
Don Fader (Indiana University), “Marin Mersenne
and the French View of Musical Rhetoric”
Stuart Cheney (Goucher College), ”Transcriptions
for Solo Viol of the Music of Jean-Baptiste Lully”
Antonia L. Banducci (University of Denver), “Staging
Music: The Dramatic Role of Preludes and Ritournelles in French
Baroque Opera”
Michele Cabrini (Princeton University), “From
the Visual to the Aural: Tempête and the Power of Instrumental
Sound in the French Cantata”
Saturday, April 17
Session IV. Italian Studies II:
Song Serenata, and Opera
Massimo Ossi (Indiana University), chair
Wendy Heller (Princeton University), “I pianti
d’Apollo: Desire, Melancholy, and the Power of Song”
Louise K. Stein (University of Michigan), “‘Una
música de noche, que llaman aquí serenata’: Spanish
Patrons and the Serenata in Rome and Naples”
Paul Schleuse (CUNY Graduate Center), “Monteverdi’s
Operatic Experiments: Finding Orfeo in the Continuo Madrigals
of 1605”
John Walter Hill (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),
“Ov’ è il decoro? Court Etiquette, Affective
Expression, and Aria Treatment in the Operas of Antonio Cesti and Beyond”
Session V. Lecture-Recital: Mexican Polyphony
Grey Brothers (Westmont College) and the Westmont Chamber
Singers, “The Polyphonic Passion in Mexico City: The Passio
secundum Mattheum of Antonio Rodríguez de Matta (d. 1643)”