The Society for Seventeenth-Century
Music
Second Annual Conference
Eastman School of Music, Department of Musicology
The University of Rochester, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in Music
29 April-1 May 1994
PROGRAM
FRIDAY 29 APRIL — MEMORIAL ART
GALLERY
Session I. French Opera
Kathleen Grant, chair
Lois Rosow, "Scene Structure in Lully’s Operas"
Andrew WaIkling, "English and French Court Opera in the 1680s: Some
Conjectural Affinities
Jeffrey Ravel, "From Royal Gardens to Commercial Theaters: The
Parterre in Seventeenth-Century France"
Session II. Lecture-Recital
Sally Sanford, "A Comparison of Italian and French Vocal Style
and Technique in the Seventeenth Century"
with Raymond Erickson, harpsichord
Session III. Italian Opera
Susan Parisi, chair
Wendy Heller, "Women Who Lament and Women Who Don't: Singing In and
Outside the Convention of Seicento Opera"
Jennifer Williams Brown, "On the Road with the 'Suitcase Aria': The
Transmission of Borrowed Arias in Late Seventeenth-Century Italian Opera Revivals"
Candace Marles, The Hanoverian Style of Opera in the Seventeenth
Century"
SESSION IV. Iconography
Alexander Silbiger, chair
Cristelle Baskins, respondent
Barbara Hanning, "Some Images of Monody in the Early Baroque"
5:00-5:30 Gallery Tour
Concert: Eastman Collegium Musicum, Paul O’Dette, director
Dinner: Gallery Café
SATURDAY 30 APRIL — EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Session IV. Lecture-Recital
Sandra Mangsen, "Ad libitum Procedures in Seventeenth-Century Instrumental
Music"
with Sophie Rivard, violin
SESSION V. Selection, Repertoire
Robert Holzer, chair
Kenneth Nott, “'Italian Primitives' and the Formation of Samuel Barber’s
Early Style"
Mary Paquette-Abt, "Some Seventeenth-Century Italian Anthologies:
Music Seen and Heard in the Provinces"
Margaret Murata, Return to Rome: The Seicento Repertory in
Parisotti’s Arie antiche"
Session VI. Dance
David Buch, chair
Dianne McMullen, "The Debut of the Texted Galliard in Germany: The
Roles of Nicholas Rost and Christoph Demantius"
Peter Allsop, "Functional and National Distinctions in the Sonate da
Camera a 3 of Corelli"
Richard Semmens, "Dancing and Dance Music in Purcell’s Stage Works"
Dance workshop with Yvonne Kendall
Introduction by Irene Alm
Session VII. New Perspectives on Monteverdi
Panel Discussion with Geoffrey Chew, moderator
Mark Spicer, "The Limitations of Genre: Monteverdi’s Harmonic Dilemma
in Setting his Two Versions of 'Ariadne’s Lament'”
Linda Ciacchi, "New Perspectives on Rhythmic Organization: The Case
of Monteverdi’s Ciaccona 'Zefiro torna'”
Steven Saunders, "A New Document Concerning Monteverdi’s Eighth Book
of Madrigals"
SUNDAY, 1 MAY
Session VIII. German Music
David Schildkret, chair
Charles Brewer, "A Mistuned Response: A Context for the Scordatura
Partitas of Biber and Pachelbel"
Michael Lutz, "Renaissance Dance in the Instrumental Music of the
Seventeenth Century"
Session IX. Sacred Music
Frederick Gable, chair
Marc Vanscheeuwijck, "Music and Liturgy in San Petronio: The High
Baroque"
Mary Frandsen, "Motet, Concerto, or Cantata? Problems of Genre Designation
in the Later Seventeenth Century"
1994
Program Committee
Barbara Coeyman, chair
Irene Alm
Kerala J. Snyder
John G. Suess
Go to 1994 Abstracts