Thursday, 14 April 2005
Concert of Seventeenth-Century Virtuoso Instrumental Music (Lutkin Hall)
Marion
Verbruggen, recorder; Mary Springfels, viola da gamba; David Schrader,
harpsichord
Friday, 15 April 2005
Rome
and its music
KELLEY
HARNESS (University of Minnesota), chair
Mary Paquette-Abt (Wayne State University), “Subtexts:
The Dedication as Source in Early Seventeenth-Century Roman Music Prints”
Christian Speck (Universität Koblenz-Landau),
“'Fu cantato un poemetto graziosissimo': New Light on the Rise
of the oratorio volgare in Rome”
Beverly Stein (California State University), “The
Triumph of Jephte’s Daughter: Religious Symbolism, Gender and
Role Exchange in Carissimi’s Jephthe”
Marie-Louise Catsalis (North Carolina Central University),
“In the Calm Evening Air: Music and Text of the Solo Serenata”
Lecture-Recital
Andrew Schultze (Ars Musica Chicago),
“Il pianto di Rodomonte: Creating a Performance of Abbatini’s
cantata drammatica”
Music
and theater
MASSIMO
OSSI (Indiana University), chair
Stefanie Tcharos (University of California at Santa
Barbara), “Revisiting Arcadia: The Ideology of Nostalgia and the
Problem of Musical Drama”
Tim O’Brien (University of Minnesota), “’When
Conquering Beauty Fills that Heavenly Sphear’: A Reappraisal of
Allegory in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen”
Douglas L. Ipson (The University of Chicago), “Opera
on Canvas: The Paintings of Il Padovanino and Venetian Opera of the
1640s”
Colleen Reardon (Binghamton University), “Scrambled
Eggs and Hams: Theatrical Music in Siena at the End of the Seventeenth
Century”
Saturday, 16 April 2005
Rhetoric,
affect and style
JONATHAN GIBSON (James
Madison University), chair
Candace Bailey (North Carolina Central University),
“English ‘Baroque’ Style and the Politics of Change”
Stefan Eckert (Northwestern University), “Musicalische
Vorstellung einiger Biblischer Historien (1700) - Johann Kuhnau’s
Conception of Affect as Form and Expression”
Jessica Wiskus (Duquesne University), “Chromatic
Dialectic: A Phenomenological Approach to Louis Couperin”
Robert A. Green (Indiana University), “Reflections
of Changing Public Tastes: Lambert’s Revisions to His 1689 Airs”
Lecture-Recital
Catherine Gordon-Seifert (Providence University), “Rhetoric
and Expression in the Mid Seventeenth-Century French Air”
Italian
opera at mid-century
ANNE MACNEIL (University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill), chair
Naomi Matsumoto (Goldsmiths’ College, University
of London), “Monteverdi and the Madness of Iro: Asylum Seeking
and a Return to Homeland?”
Beth Szczepanski (Ohio State University), “Il
Nerone Impasticciato: The Lover and the Tyrant in the Characterization
of Nero in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea”
Patricia Firca (The University of Chicago), “Felice
Ottavia: Taming the Vindictive Queen of L’incoronazione di
Poppea”
Hendrik Schulze (Institut für Musikwissenschaft,
Salzburg), “Giovanni Faustini’s & Francesco Cavalli’s
La virtu de’ strali d’Amore (1642) as a Contribution
to Contemporary Operatic Debate”
Concert of sacred vocal and instrumental music; ensemble dir. by Stephen
Alltop and Mary Springfels
Alice Millar Chapel
Sunday 17 April 2005
Music
and devotion
MARY E. FRANDSEN (University
of Notre Dame), chair
Sarah F. Williams (Northwestern University), “’What
devil’s Pater noster mumbles she?’: The Sounds & Music
of Witchcraft in Early-Modern English Broadside Balladry”
Andrew H. Weaver (Northwestern University), “The
Emperor’s Voice: Style, Structure and Meaning in a Motet from
the Habsburg Court of Ferdinand III (1637-57)”
Esther Criscuola de Laix (University of California
at Berkeley), “Culture and Ceremony in the Wedding Motets of Jacob
Praetorius”