Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Fairmont State University
Fairmont, WV

Program:

8:30 AM Registration and Refreshments

9:00 AM Opening Remarks by Chapter President, Michael Baumgartner

Session 1: Modern Times
Chair: Mark Durrand (The University of Akron)

  • Gui Lee (Stony Brook University), “Commenting on the Belle Ãpoque and Our Time Through Historical Styles: Joe Hisaishi’s Original Score for Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)”
  • Phoebe Hughes (West Virginia University), “Morton Feldman’s The King of Denmark (1964): Existentialism through Large-Scale Analysis”

Session 2: Musical Times in Musical Places
Chair: Brian F. Wright (Fairmont State University)

  • Peter Graff (Case Western Reserve University), “Staging Dual Patriotism: Cleveland’s German-Language Theater and the Great War”
  • Christopher Wilkinson (West Virginia University), “A ‘Moment’ in the History of Big Band Dance Music in West Virginia during the 1930s: the Pittsburgh Courier and George Morton”

12:00 PM Lunch Break

1:45 PM Business Meeting

Session 3: What Lies Beneath
Chair: Anna Stephan-Robinson (West Liberty University)

  • Codee Spinner (The University of Pittsburgh), “Uncovering the Monstrous in Rameau’s Platée, 1745
  • Ashley Sherman (The University of Pittsburgh), “Creation of Interiority in Franz Schubert’s Einsamkeit, D. 620″

Session 4: “That is the Sound of Inevitability”
Chair: Mark Durrand (The University of Akron)

  • Claire Zavolta (Cargenie Mellon University), “Summus Finis: The Prevalence of Fate in the Chosen Texts of Carl Orff”
  • Megan Woller (Gannon University), “Adaptation and the Musical Retelling of Arthurian Legend”