Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Chatham University
Pittsburgh, PA

Program Spring Meeting

8:30 AM Registration and Refreshments

9:00 AM Opening Remarks by Chapter President, Christopher Wilkinson

Session 1: Contemporary Music – Notation and Quotations
Chair: Andrew Farina (Butler University)

  • Antonella Di Giulio (University at Buffalo, SUNY), “Deictic Spaces and Form-Meaning Pairings in 20th-Century Works”
  • Laura Dallman (Indiana University), “The Surface and Beyond: Quotation and Allusion in Daugherty’s Orchestral Works”

Session 2: Recording Technology and Dissemination – Music and Radio
Chair: William Hannam (Kent State University)

  • Julie VanGyzen (University of Pittsburgh), “Listening for Hope: Listening and Resistance During the Occupation of France”
  • Garreth Broesche (University of Houston), “Are Recordings Forgeries?”

12:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM Business Meeting

Session 3: Eighteenth-Century Opera in Germany
Chair: Christopher Wilkinson (West Virginia University)

  • Adam Shoaff (University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music), “Rousseauian Aesthetics and the Rebirth of German Opera”

Session 4: Music, Culture and Place
Chair: Michael Baumgartner (Cleveland State University)

  • Juan Fernando Velásquez (University of Pittsburgh), “(Re)Sounding Urban: Symphonic Bands, Modernity, and Public Space in Medellí­n, Colombia (1863–1910)”
  • Anne Briggs (Wichita State University), “Fado: Origin Narratives and Female Azorean Immigrants”
  • Matthew Baumer (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), “Who Benefits from a Benefit Concert? Music and Philanthropy in 1980s Pittsburgh”

4:45 PM Informal Get-Together