Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society

Saturday, October 3, 2020
Zoom Meeting

Program:

10:00AM 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 Lunch Break

1:00 PM Presentation on the digitized archival collections of the University of Pittsburgh Library System.

  • Kathryn Miller Haines, Head, Center for American Music; Christopher Lynch, Project Coordinator, Center for American Music; James P. Cassaro, Head, Theodore M. Finney Music Library

2:00 PM 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”