Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society

April 5, 2014

Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH

8:30 AM – Registration and Coffee

9:00 AM – Session 1: Romantic Tributes

  • Terry Dean (Indiana State University), “The Rachmaninoff Memorial Fund (1943-1949): Some Preliminary Observations on the Downfall of the Organization”
  • Taryn Kunisaki (University of Kentucky), “Franz Liszt’s Die Drei Zigeuner: A Tribute to his Hungarian Nation and Ancestry”

10:30 AM – Session 2: Critics

  • Anna Stephan Robinson (West Liberty University), “Correspondence between Marion Bauer and the A.P. Schmidt Company (1915-1951): Some Findings”
  • Sarah Dietsche (University of Memphis), “F the President: Reactions to George W. Bush in Popular Music”

12:00 PM – Lunch

2:00 PM – Business Meeting

Session 3: Classical Vienna – Common Tones and Uncommon Colds

  • Susan K. de Ghiz (University of Texas, Brownsville), “Mozart’s Common (yet Uncommon) Common-Tone Modulations”
  • Theodore Albrecht (Kent State University), “Mortality and Musicians: An Epidemiology of Vienna’s Theater Orchestra Members in Beethoven’s Time”

Session 4: Influence and Inspiration

  • Antonella Di Giulio (University at Buffalo), “From a ‘noyau’ to an Invention: Following the Needs of the Imagination in Petrassi’s Invenzione #1”
  • Charles Perryman (Independent Scholar), “Bill Monroe, Arnold Shultz, and Travis Picking: The African-American Influence on Bluegrass Music”

5:00 PM – Adjournment