Fifteenth Annual Conference

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

University of Notre Dame
19-22 April 2007

P R O G R A M


THURSDAY, 19 APRIL

12 noon - 2 p.m.
SSCM Governing Board Meeting



2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Character and Context in Italian Music
(Abstracts)
Kimberlyn Montford (Trinity University), chair

“'But I Don’t Have My Head in the Clouds': The Education of a Sienese Castrato"
Colleen Reardon (University of California, Irvine)

“‘Il suon, lo sguardo, il canto’: The Function of Portraits of Mid-Seventeenth Century Singers in Rome”
Amy Brosius (New York University)

“Biagio Marini’s Sonate (1626/9) in Pursuit of the Stile rappresentativo
Rebecca Cypess (Yale University)

“Trespolo là, Trespolo quà: A Comic Playwright’s Influence on the Development of Comic Opera”
James Leve (Northern Arizona University)

5:30 - 7 p.m.
Reception,
McKenna Hall Atrium

7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Organ Recital
, Craig Cramer (University of Notre Dame)
              Music of Dieterich Buxtehude on the Paul Fritts organ (2004)
              Reyes Organ Hall, DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts


FRIDAY, 20 APRIL

8:45    Welcome

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Dance and Meaning
(Abstracts)
Rose Pruiksma (Lewiston, Maine), chair

“Of Dancing Stars and Dukes – French Influences on Dance and Instrumental Music at the Court of Modena in the late Seventeenth Century”
Hendrik Schulze (University of Heidelberg, Germany)

“Reading Roland
Rebecca Harris-Warrick (Cornell University)


10:30 a.m. - 12 noon
Myth in Lully’s Phaëton
(Abstracts)
Don Fader (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), chair

“Echoes of Allegories Past in Lully’s Phaëton
Lois Rosow (The Ohio State University)

“‘Quelle estrange Chaleur nous vient icy brûler?’: Issues of Time and Power in Phaëton
Kathryn A.M. Baillargeon (University of California, Santa Barbara)


12:15 - 1:45 p.m.
WLSCM Editorial Board meeting


2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Circles and Figures
(Abstracts)
Candace Bailey (North Carolina Central University), chair

“Seventeenth-Century Music and the Culture of Rhetoric: Erasmus, Burmeister and Schütz”
Bettina Varwig (Magdalen College, Oxford, UK)

Volvelles in Baroque Music Theory Books”
Michael Dodds (North Carolina School of the Arts)


3:45 - 5:30 p.m.
Snite Museum, Annenberg Auditorium
Lecture-Recital/Paper Session
“From Beds of Raging Fire": Performing Baroque Madness

Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Syracuse University), chair

“Inflamed Passions and Performative Extremes”
Sean M. Parr (Columbia University)

“Ann Bracegirdle on Fire”
Amber Youell Fingleton (Columbia University)

“Transcending the Fourth Wall: Gesture and the Mad Song”
Brooke Bryant (City University of New York)

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
JSCM Editorial Board Meeting

8 p.m.
Magnificat Ensemble,
dir. Warren Stewart
Leighton Concert Hall, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center


SATURDAY, 21 APRIL

9:00 a.m. - 12 noon
Sources and Society
(Abstracts)
Claire Fontijn (Wellesley College), chair

“Pasqualini, Composer”
Margaret Murata (University of California, Irvine)

Performing the Virgin(al): Women and Domestic Keyboard Music in Early Modern England
Yael Sela (St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK)

“The Southern Roots of Printed Alfabeto Song”
Cory M. Gavito (Oklahoma City University)

“'This Charming Invention Created by the King': Christian IV’s Court Orchestra as a Musical Wunderkammer
Arne Spohr (Hochschule für Musik, Cologne, Germany)

12:15 - 1:45 p.m.
SSCM Informal Business Luncheon


2:00 - 4:15 p.m.
Buxtehude and Rhetoric
(Abstracts)
Paul Walker (University of Virginia), Chair

“Buxtehude's Pedaliter Praeludia and the Stylus phantasticus
Paul Collins (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland)

“Rhetoric in Buxtehude’s Cantata Cycle Membra Jesu nostri
Eva Linfield (Colby College)

“Beyond Sources and Works: A Fresh Look at Buxtehude's Legacy”
Kerala Snyder (Eastman School of Music)

4:30 - 5:15 p.m.
Les Goûts réunis
(Abstract)
Paul Walker (University of Virginia), Chair

“From Italy to Germany and Beyond via France - Les Goûts réunis in the Music of Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726)”
Lionel Sawkins (Beckenham, UK)

7 p.m. Cocktails
7:30 - 9 p.m. SSCM Annual Banquet


SUNDAY, 22 APRIL

9:00 - 11:15 a.m.
Rhetoric and Representation in Italian Music
(Abstracts)
Tim Carter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), chair

“A ‘Rossian’ Dialect? Two Musical Topoi in the Roman Mid-Seicento”
Roger Freitas (Eastman School of Music)


“Alessandro Guidi’s L’Endimione and Gianvincenzo Gravina’s Discorso: Verisimilitude, Gender, and Neoplatonism in Arcadia”
Ayana Smith (Indiana University)


“'In grembo a Citherea': The Representation of Ingenium and Ars in Claudio Monteverdi’s 'Tempro la cetra'”
Gordon Haramaki (San Jose State University)



Program Committee 2007          

Stewart Carter, chair
Kimberlyn Montford
Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Donald Fader

 


Local Arrangements

Mary Frandsen, organizer


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