Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society

Saturday, October 3, 2020
Zoom Meeting

Program:

10:00AM EST – Individual Paper Session 1
Chair: Megan Woller (Gannon University)

  • Jennifer Walker (West Virginia University)
    Berlioz the Aural Architect at the Church of Saint-Eustache
  • Chelsea Komschlies (McGill University)
    Wandering in Mind and Snow: A Cognitive Hearing of Debussy’s “Des pas sur la neige”
  • Geoffrey Wilson (University of Calgary)
    Revising Scale Networks in Debussy: The Case for the Neapolitan Major

12:00 PM EST Lunch Break

1:00 PM EST – Presentation on the digitized archival collections of the University of Pittsburgh Library System. 
Kathryn Miller Haines, Head, Center for American MusicChristopher Lynch, Project Coordinator, Center for American MusicJames P. Cassaro, Head, Theodore M. Finney Music Library

2:00 PM EST – Individual Paper Session 2
Chair: Megan Woller (Gannon University)

  • George A. Harne (University of St. Thomas)
    Aristotelian Causality and the Irreducibility of Musical Phenomena
  • Keith Clifton (Central Michigan University)
    “Fantôme dans la vie”: Chaliapin, Ibert, and Pabst’s Adventures of Don Quixote
  • Drake Andersen (Vassar College)
    “The Work as a Problem”: Virtue and Virtuosity in Experimental Music around 1973