Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society
Saturday, October 17, 2015
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Program Fall Meeting:
8:30 AM Registration and Refreshments
9:00 AM Opening Remarks by Paul Kreider, Dean of the College of Creative Arts, and Chapter President, Christopher Wilkinson Innovative
Session 1: Trends in Jazz and Film Music of the 1950s and 1960s
Chair: Michael Baumgartner (Cleveland State University)
- Brian F. Wright (Fairmont State University), “Stigmatizing the Electric Bass in Jazz in the 1950s”
- Mark Durrand (University of Buffalo), “The Menace of Music in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968): Exploring Implications of Embodied Music and a Musical Embodiment”
Session 2: Folk and Pre-Classic Influences in Nineteenth-Century Music
Chair: Andrew Farina (Butler University)
- Hyun Joo Kim (Indiana University), “Liszt’s Conscientious and Creative Renderings of Cimbalom Playing in his Hungarian Rhapsodies”
- Jane Hines (Princeton University), “Brahms the Modernist: Historical Influence in the First Sextet”
12:00 PM Lunch Break
2:00 PM Business Meeting
Plenary Session: Current Issues of Music History Pedagogy: a Regional Perspective
Moderator: Christopher Wilkinson (West Virginia University)
- Matt Baumer (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), “‘Same as it ever was?’: The Content of Undergraduate Music History Curricula in 2011–2012”
- Ewelina Boczkowska and Randy Goldberg (Youngstown State University), “Reinventing the Music History Core Sequence: Goals and Strategies”
- Travis Stimeling (West Virginia University), “Literacy, Critical Thinking, and the Graduate Music History Classroom”
Session 3: Crossing Borders: Genre Transformation and Socio-Historical Conditions
Chair: Michael Baumgartner
- Jonathan Shold (University of Pittsburgh), “Is Nothing Sacred? Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto (1818) as a Secular Requiem”
- Jon Churchill (Pennsylvania State University), Vaughan Williams and Musical Safety: The Locus Amoenus in Symphony No. 3″