Society for Seventeenth-Century
Music
Eleventh Annual Conference
Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
3-6 April 2003
PROGRAM of Presentations with Abstracts
SESSION I
OVERTURE: SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
Chair: Andrew Walkling (State University of New York at Binghamton)
Barbara R. Hanning (The City College and Graduate Center,
City University of New York), “From Saint to Muse: Saint Cecilia in
Florence”
Gregory S. Johnston (University of Toronto), “Public
Mourning and Prohibitions against Music in Seventeenth-Century Germany”
Tushaar Power (Durham, North Carolina), “'Subordination
to a Higher Order': Johannes Kepler, Andreas Werckmeister and the Divine Proportion”
Joyce Lindorff (Temple University), “Tomás Pereira
and the Lü-lü Zhengyi: Trans-Cultural Exchange in the Chinese
Court”
SESSION II
MUSICAL RHETORIC AND AESTHETICS
Chair: David Fuller (Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo)
Jette Barnholdt Hansen (University of Copenhagen), “Stile
recitativo as Adequate Interpretation and Fixed Orality: A Rhetorical
Approach to a Musical Style”
Jamie G. Weaver (University of Oregon), “'The Persuasive
Difference': Acknowledging Diversity in
Rhetorical Approaches”
Jonathan Gibson (Duke University), “'The Cries of Nature
in Mourning': Temporality and Aesthetics in Marais's Elegy for Lully”
Vivian Montgomery , harpsichordist (Case Western Reserve
University); “Time Suspended: The Unmeasured Preludes as a Dissolving
Emblem” (Lecture-Recital)
SESSION III
MUSIC IN THE THEATRE
Chair: Lois Rosow (Ohio State University)
James Leve (Northern Arizona University), "Gl'inganni
amorosi scoperti in villa (1696): A Comic Opera in Bolognese Dialect
during the Early Period of Arcadian Reform"
Hendrik Schulze (Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Salzburg),
"The Figure of Ulysses in Giacomo Badoaro and Claudio Monteverdi's Il
ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640)
Geoffrey Burgess (Duke University), “Un Vestibule
éclatant: The Prologue to Lully and Quinault's Atys”
John S. Powell (University of Tulsa), “Musical Practices
at the Théatre de Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française,
after Evidence in the Autograph Manuscripts of Charpentier”
Kathryn Lowerre (Michigan State University), “Making
Opera English: John Dennis's Rinaldo and Armida (1698)”
GUEST LECTURE
Nola Reed Knouse (Moravian Music Foundation), “An Introduction
to the Moravian Music Foundation and Its Holdings”
SESSION IV
HEINRICH SCHÜTZ AND HIS CIRCLE
Chair: Jeffery Kite-Powell (Florida State University)
Keith Chapin (Fordham University), “Human Work with
Divine Material: A Work Concept in the Theory of Christoph Bernhard”
Eva Linfield (Colby College), “Alchemy, Androgyny,
and Music: A Rare Fusion in the Seventeenth Century”
Invited lecture by Wolfram Steude, Professor emeritus
(Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber," Dresden), "Heinrich
Schütz as a Representative of Music in the Art of the 'German Renaissance'”
(read by Mary E. Frandsen)
SESSION V
MUSIC AND THE BODY: DANCE, MADNESS, AND THE GROTESQUE
Chair: Carol Marsh (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Jennifer Nevile (University of New South Wales), "Early
Seventeenth-Century Dance Figures: 'Moving Script' in English and French Court
Festivals”
Maria Anne Purciello (Princeton University), “Dancing
Madmen: Comedy and Madness in Venetian Balli”
Rose A. Pruiksma (Bates College), “'Musique grotesque,'
Ballet de cour, and Italians in Paris”
Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Syracuse University), “Rustic
Unruliness: The Musical Witch on the Early Modern English Stage”
Concerts and Other Events
3 April 2003
Winston-Salem Organ Tour, led
by Jack Mitchener (N. Carolina
School of the Arts/Salem College)
Ardmore United Methodist Church, Noack organ
Salem College, Flentrop organ
Old Salem, Saal of Single Brothers House, Tannenberg organ
(1798)
North Carolina School of the Arts, Fisk organ
Concert: “A Baroque Fantasy” by Red Priest
Pre-concert lecture by Eleanor
McCrickard (University of N. Carolina, Greensboro)
4 April 2003
Concert: Daniel Bollius, Repraesentatio
harmoniaca conceptionis et nativitatis S. Ioannis Baptistae (ca. 1620)
Wake Forest University Concert Choir, directed by
Brian Gorelick, with guest soloists and instrumentalists
Ricardo Gómez (Isaias); Richard Heard (Lucas
evangelista); Lorraine DiSimone (Gabriel); William Munster (Zacharias);
Daryn Bunce (Elizabeth); Susan Shimp (Maria Virgo); Allison Jones (Joannes)
Score and performance material prepared by Stewart
Carter
5 April 2003
Dresden Vespers at the Home Moravian
Church, Old Salem
Vespers during the Thirty Years' War as celebrated
at the Court of Dresden at the time of Heinrich Schütz,
Reconstructed by Mary
E. Frandsen; SSCM Kantorei led by Paul
Walker, organ
Pre- and post-service music by the Posaunenchor
Brian French, Matthew Hafar, Stewart Carter, Erick Salzwedel
2003 Program Committee
Beth L. Glixon, chair
Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Alexander Silbiger
Andrew Walkling
Mary E. Frandsen, chair of the American Heinrich Schütz Society, ex
officio
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