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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