Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society

April 18, 2015

Grove City College
Grove City, PA

8:30 AM Registration and Coffee

9:00 AM – Session 1: Music, Patriotism, Politics, and War

  • Derek Stauff, Indiana University), “The Political Context of Schütz’s Saul, was verfolgst du mich“
  • James A. Davis (School of Music, SUNY Fredonia), “Locating Patriotism in Civil War Songs”

10:15 AM – Coffee

10: 45 AM – Session 2: The Influence of Art on Music: Collage and Site-Specificity in Music of the Second Half of the Twentieth-Century

  • Michael Boyd (Chatham University), “Score-Based Site-Specificity in the Music of John Cage”
  • Christopher M Culp (University at Buffalo, SUNY), “Surrealist Music: The Ontology of Collage within Temporal Arts”

12:00 NOON – Lunch and Business Meeting

2:00 PM – Session 3: Technical Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music

  • Jonathan C. Ligrani (The Pennsylvania State University), “Harmony through Dissonance: Oppositional Discourse in Twelfth-Century Polyphony”
  • Andrew Farina (The Ohio State University), “On the Temporal Organization of Mensural Music”

3:15 PM – Break

3:45 PM – Session 4: Music and Space: Vienna, Russia and the Appalachian Mountains

  • Robert Fallon (Carnegie Mellon University), “Topography and Manifest Destiny in Appalachian Spring“
  • Mark Ferraguto (The Pennsylvania State University), “Music and Diplomacy at the Palais Rasumofsky”