The Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society is excited to announce our Spring 2024 Meeting, hosted by the Catholic University of America on Saturday, April 13, 2024. The program will include three sessions of papers—one being the annual Lowens Award Competition. Please write to chapter chair Aaron Ziegel, aziegel@towson.edu, with any questions.
The meeting will take place in Ward Hall on the campus of The Catholic University of America. The university’s address is 620 Michigan Avenue NE in Washington, DC, but don’t use that address for directions, since it’s a general address for the entire campus. Ward Hall sits on Harewood Road NE, between Michigan Avenue NE and Taylor Street NE. In a maps app or website, you can enter “Ward Recital Hall” and it should take you right to the building; if your directions app can’t find Ward Recital Hall, you can also try Hartke Theatre, which is a short way up Harewood Road. On a Saturday there should be plenty of free street parking available on Harewood.
If you prefer public transportation, the campus is on the Brookland/CUA stop on the Metro red line; turn left after going through the turnstiles to exit the station, and then it’s about a ten-minute walk across campus to Ward Hall. The university provides general directions to campus at this website: https://www.catholic.edu/resources/Maps%20and%20Directions/index.html
The conference sessions will be held in Room 220 of Ward Hall, known as John Paul Hall (named after our first dean, not the pope!). From the main entrance of the building, go down the stairs immediately to your left upon entering the lobby, and then make the first left. Go through the last door on the left into a stairwell, and go up one floor. Turn right after going through the door at the top of the stairs, and John Paul Hall is on the left at the end of the hallway. Going through the main entrance requires using stairs; if you want to use an elevator, you will need to enter from the back of the building, accessible from Harewood Road. Upon entering through that door, the elevator will be on your right, across from the vending machines. Go up one floor to the second floor. John Paul Hall will be in front of you and slightly to the right as you exit the elevator.
Click here to download a PDF of the meeting’s program.
8:45-9:15 GATHER AND REFRESHMENTS
SESSION 1
- 9:15 – Emily Baumgart: “The Orchestra Conductor as Visible Acousmêtre in Unfaithfully Yours (1948)”
- 9:45 – Anna Rose Nelson: “Aphoristic Tendencies in Anti-Hegemonic Music”
SESSION 2 / Lowens Award
- 10:30 – Debra Nakos: “An Interpretation of crocq de ache and Its Implications for the Chanson ‘Il sera pour vous / L’homme armé‘ and the l’homme armé Tradition”
- 11:00 – Siqi Tong: “Traditional Musicians Under the Storm of May Fourth Movement: The Duplicity of Zheng Jinwen and Shanghai Datong Music Society (1919-1935)”
- 11:30 – Matthew Gabay: “Pachelbel Comes Home; Or, Who Published Pachelbel’s Hexachordum Apollinis?”
12:00-1:30 LOWENS VOTING & LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 3
- 1:30 – Andrew Weaver: “Political Power and Resistance in an Early Modern Motet Print: Defining the Holy Roman Empire in the Novus thesaurus musicus (1568)”
- 2:00 – Karen Uslin: “Navigating Musical and Religious Representation in the Commemoration of Sister Stella and Her Ten Companions”
2:30 LOWENS RESULTS & BUSINESS MEETING