Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH
Program Spring Meeting
8:30 AM Registration and Refreshments
9:00 AM Opening Remarks by Chapter President, Christopher Wilkinson
Session 1: Sacred and Secular: French Baroque Organ Music and German Late Eighteenth-Century Opera
Chair: Christopher Wilkinson (West Virginia University)
- Alexis VanZalen (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester), “French Baroque Livres d’orgue: Products of the French Catholic Reformation”
- Paul Abdullah (Case Western Reserve University), “Shakespearean Storms in German Opera: The Tempest in 1798”
Session 2: Methods for Making Sense of the Cinematic Soundtrack
Chair: Daniel Goldmark (Case Western Reserve University)
- Plenary session with Mark Durrand (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Rebecca Fulop (Oberlin College), and Jeongwon Joe (University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music)
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:45 PM Business Meeting
Session 3: Meditation, Mystique, and Mignon: Tracing Practices of Interiority in Music
Chair: Deane Root (University of Pittsburgh)
- Plenary session with Woodrow Steinken, Codee Spinner, and Laura Schwartz (all panelists, University of Pittsburgh), “Environment, Technology, Music and Sound in the Late Twentieth Century”
Chair: Michael Baumgartner (Cleveland State University)
- Kate Rogers (Case Western Reserve University), Sonic Negotiations of the Technological, the Symphonic, and the Popular in TRON (1982) and Electric Dreams (1984)”
- Joseph Finkel (Arizona State University), “The End of the Faustian Man and the Limits of Progress: John Cage’s United States Bicentennial Compositions and his Environmentalist Thought”