Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society

October 24, 2014

West Liberty University
West Liberty, WV

Fall Meeting Program:

8:30 AM – Registration and Coffee

9:00 AM – Session 1: Music, Metaphysics, and Mystery: Of Waldhorns and Bells

  • Amanda Lalonde (University of Guelph), “The Waldhorn and Metaphysical Distance.”
  • Stephen Armstrong (Michigan State University), “Dorothy L. Sayers on Murder, Music, and Noise: Interpreting Death and Depersonalization in The Nine Tailors.”

10:15 AM – Coffee

10: 45 AM – Session 2: Music, Ivy League Schools, the Search for a National Style, and the United States in the Nineteenth Century

  • Evan A. MacCarthy (West Virginia University), “Oedipus Modernized: John Knowles Paine and America’s First Greek Tragedy”
  • Kelly Fallon (Marshall University and Indiana State University), “Antoni­n Dvorak and the Politicization of the American National Sound”

12:00 NOON – Lunch and Business Meeting

2:00 AM – Session 3: Music, Displacement, Immigration and the United States in the Twentieth Century

  • Vicki P. Stroeher (Marshall University), “Britten’s ‘American’ Problem”
  • Randall Goldberg (Youngstown State University), “‘I’m Going Home’: Ethnic Records and the Jewish Immigrant Experience”

3:15 PM –Break

3:45 PM – Session 4: Music, Pedagogy, Advertisement, Hollywood, and the United States in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century

  • Mariana Whitmer (University of Pittsburgh), “Elmer Bernstein’s The Magnificent Seven: Defining an American Soundscape for the Sixties”
  • Matthew Baumer (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), “A Snapshot of Music History Teaching to Undergraduate Music Majors, 2011-2012: Curricular Design, Teaching Methods, and Assessment”