Allegheny & Capital Chapters of the American Musicological Society
– Spring 2026 Joint Meeting –
Saturday, February 28th & Sunday, March 1st
Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA)
Majestic Theatre
25 Carlisle St, Gettysburg, PA 17325
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28:
11:00–12:30 PAPER PANEL 1: Screen, Stage, & Sound
- Michael Baumgartner, “Motion and Rhythm: René Clair’s Entr’acte (1924) and ‘the Melodious Clowning of Satie’ as a Blueprint for a Modernist Audio-Visual Aesthetic
- Lauren Adamow, “Ave Maria” is Aqua: A Synesthete’s Handbook for Music (Color) Theory”
- Avery Faust, “‘A song to fix what’s wrong’: Diegesis and Hope in Hadestown”
12:30–1:30 Lunch Break
1:30–2:30 MUSICOLOGY & PRACTICE COLLOQUY*
Moderated by Gretchen Carlson
2:30–3:30 PAPER PANEL 2: Text & Act
- Miranda Bartira Tagliari Sousa, “Nineteenth-Century Influencers: Music and the Press in 1880s Rio de Janeiro”
- Davis Badaszewski, “This is the Record of John by Orlando Gibbons: A Guide to Performance and Registration Practices”
3:30–3:40 Short Break
3:40–5:10 PAPER PANEL 3: Visions of Musical America
- Douglas Bomberger, “‘Winter Wraps his Grimmest Spell’: Edward MacDowell’s Seasonal Compositions”
- Codee Spinner, “Pedagogy, Healing, and Eroticism in the Spiritualist Piano Lessons of May Wright Sewall”
- Gretchen Carlson, “Jon Batiste’s American Symphony: Pursuing a More Perfect Union”
5:10–5:20 Short Break
5:20-6:50 KEYNOTE: Dr. Rodrigo Sigal
“The Art of Sound and Technology at the Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts”
7:00– DINNER
SUNDAY, MARCH 1:
9:00-10:00 LECTURE RECITAL
- Icy Nguyen, “‘What about the space in between?’–– A lecture recital on Liminal Space in Schumann’s Kreisleriana”
10:00-10:10 Short Break
10:10-11:10 PAPER PANEL 4: Musicology, Methodology, & Pedagogy
- Jessica Grimmer, “From Product to Process: Rethinking Credit in Music DH”
- Matthew Franke, “Decentering Genre and Promoting Critical Thinking in Pop Music Pedagogy”
11:10-11:20 Short Break
11:20-12:20 CHAPTER BUSINESS MEETINGS
* all conference attendees are invited to participate in the Musicology & Practice Colloquy. This session will primarily focus on the following questions:
1. What are the primary goals of musicology programs, and how can we design our programs to align with our primary goals?
2. How do we engage and contend with the current AI/tech revolution?
3. What unique challenges/crises are musicology programs currently facing, and what solutions can we offer?
4. How do we continue to effectively communicate the value/importance of musicology to current and future generations of students (and their parents)?
Jorge Rodrigo Sigal Sefchovich ?(Mexico City – 1971)
Composer, cultural manager and full time professor since 2017 at ENES, UNAM, Morelia, where he co-founded the Music and Artistic Technology undergraduate program (www.enesmorelia.org). Interested in new technologies especially in the electroacoustic music field. Since 2006, Sigal has been the director of the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts (www.cmmas.org) where he coordinates numerous initiatives of creation, education, research and cultural management in relation to sound and music. In 2024 he received the Bellas Artes Medal in Music from INBAL. He studied at CIEM in Mexico and then earned a doctorate degree from the London City University and completed his postdoctoral studies at UNAM. He has a diploma in cultural management from the UAM-BID and has continued his studies and creative projects with the help from various scholarships and support from institutions like Fulbright, FONCA (SNCA member 2011-18), Pride C (UNAM) and the DeVos Foundation for cultural management, among others. He is a member of the National Researchers System Level 1 from SECIHTI and for 20 years he has taken part in the Luminico project (www.luminico.org), he is the director of the “Visiones Sonoras” festival (www.visionessonoras.org) and editor of “Sonic Ideas” journal (www.sonicideas.org).