The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
Third Annual Conference
Centre College, Danville Kentucky and the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
27-30 April 1995

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, 27 APRIL
Opening dinner, Shaker Village
After dinner:
Shape-Note Singing led by Ronald Pen (University of Kentucky, School of Music)
and Reception, West Family Wash House, Shaker Village

FRIDAY, 28 APRIL
Session I. Early Baroque Dance in Italy and France
Bruce Gustafson, chair

David Buch, "The Sources of Dance Music for the Ballet de cour before Lully"
Barbara Sparti, "Urban VIII's Physician Reports 'On the Origin and Nobility of Dance'"


Session II. Education and Promotion of Women in Italy
Louise Stein, chair
Ellen Rosand, respondent


Claire A. Fontijn, "Cavalli's Musical Legacy: Works by Strozzi and Bembo"
Beth L. Glixon, "'La prima diva della lirica italiana': New Light on the Life and Career of Anna Renzi"


Session III. Public and Private Musics
Jeffrey Kurtzman, chair

Timothy D. Watkins, "'The Welfare of the Stage': Seventeenth-Century Jesuit School Drama in the Hapsburg Empire"
Jonathan E. Glixon, "Music at the Venetian Scuole piccole in the Seventeenth Century"
Colleen Reardon, "Cracks in the Convent Wall: Music as Dialogue between Convent and Community"


Focus Session: The Restoration of Dido
Linda Austern, chair

Andrew Walkling, "'No, faithless man, thy course pursue': Purcell's Dido and Aeneas as Political Allegory"


Concert, Weisiger Theater, Norton Center for the Arts
Drew Minter, countertenor
Commemorating the 300th anniversary of the death of Henry Purcell, with music by Purcell and his contemporaries


SATURDAY 29 April
Session IV.  Musical and Mystical Structures

Eva Linfield, chair

Robert L. Kendrick, "Refrain Structures in the Psalms of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani"
Steven E. Plank, "Music of the Ravish'd Soul: Some Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Settings of the Song of Songs"


Session V.  Devotional and Domestic Song in England
Robert Shay, chair
Sally Sanford, respondent

Susan Tara Brown, "Song-Text Themes within Henry Playford's Harmonia Sacra: A Mirror of Seventeenth-Century Anglicanism?"
Gordon J. Callon, "Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Broxbourne 84.9 and London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 1041:
English Sources of Songs with Theorbo (ca. 1605-1664) by Charles Colman and his Contemporaries"


Session VI.  Formal and Interpretive Innovation in Italy
Jennifer Williams Brown, chair

Susan Shimp, "Women, Magic, and Incantation in Counter-Reformation Rome: Mazzocchi's La catena d'Adone"
Roark Miller, "D'India, Vitali, and the Venetian Strophic Aria"
Jane Redd, "Beneath the Librettist's Skin: Cavalli's Interpretation of Busenello's Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne"


SUNDAY, 30 April
Session VII.  Seventeenth-Century Music and the New Musicology

Tim Carter, chair

Robert R. Holzer, "Criticism after 'The Age of Criticism': Genres of Poetry and Poesia per musica in the Early Seicento"
Anne MacNeil, "The Modern Centaur: Musical Representations of Genre in Early Seicento Theater"


1995 Program Committee
Barbara Coeyman, chair
Linda Austern
Charles Brewer
Tim Carter
Bruce Gustafson


1995 Local Arrangements Committee
David Schildkret, chair
Claudia K. Thomas
William Zaspel


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