Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society

October 19, 2013

Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA

8:30 AM Registration and Coffee

9:00 AM Session 1

  • Daniel Rosen (University of Western Ontario), “Producing Contemporary Electronic Dance Music: Exploring the Musical Creativity of Digital Signal Processing Plug-ins in Mixing and Mastering”
  • Jürgen Thym (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester), “Between Stockhausen/Zimmermann and Eisler/Dessau: Luca Lombardi’s Balancing Act between the Two Germanies”

10:15 AM Break

10:45 AM Session 2

  • Kyle Masson (Pennsylvania State University), “A Lament for Homer’s Heroine: The Characterization of Penelope in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria”
  • Christopher Culp (University of Buffalo), “I am the Very Model of a Modernist Postmodernist: The Case of Musical Theatre”

12:00 noon Lunch and Business Meeting

2:00 PM Session 3

  • Erica Rumbley (University of Kentucky), “Ornamental Music and Southern Belles at the Nashville Female Academy, 1816-1861”
  • Nathan Miller (University of Kentucky), “Onward!: Christian Soldier Songs in Late Nineteenth-Century American Culture”

3:15 PM Break

3:45 PM Session 4

  • Carl Rahkonen (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), “Music in the Drawing Room: What We Learn from the Vernacular Tune Book Collection of Samuel Bayard”
  • Grant William Cook III (University of Mount Union), “Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Searching for Beethoven in Paris and London”