The Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Musicological Society
The Southwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology
The Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Society for Music Theory
 
Lamont School of Music, University of Denver
March 31 - April 1, 2006
 
 
Program
 
Friday, March 31 2006
 
8:30 - 5:00
Registration                                Music Library (room 440)
 
9:30 - 11:30    
Images of the Female (AMS)                    Recital Salon (room 121)
Richard Agee, Colorado College, chair
 
    Stond wel, moder, under roode:  A New Perspective on Marian Worship
        and the Feminine
        Kristen LaRue, Arizona State University
    A Missing Portrait and Mathieu Gascongne’s Canonic Motet Ista est speciosa:
        New Evidence for a Reinterpretation of the Origins of MS Pepys 1760
        John T. Brobeck, University of Arizona
    Lauda filia Sion:  Investiture Ceremonies during the Ancien régime
        Deborah Kauffman, University of Northern Colorado
    Twenty-one Years Later:  Paradis’s Sicilienne -- Is It Still Spurious or Authentic?
        Hidemi Matsushita, Arapahoe Community College
 
20th-Century Analysis (SMT)                    Room 209
Lisa Derry, Albertson College of Idaho, chair
 
    Schoenberg’s “Idea” in Op. 20 Herzgewachse
        Bruce Quaglia, University of Utah
    Copland’s Fifths
        Stan Kleppinger, Butler University
    Becoming Berio:  Evidence from His First Three String Quartets
        Richard Hermann, University of New Mexico
    Musical Equivalency of Alphabetical Order in Torke’s Telephone Book
        Stuart Deaver, University of Kansas
 
11:30 - 1:30    
Lunch on your own
 
1:30 - 3:00    
Mozart (AMS)                            Recital Salon (room 121)
Janice Dickensheets, University of Northern Colorado, chair
 
    Die Zauberflöte:  Mozart’s Magical Musical Instruments
        Harrison Powley, Brigham Young University
    Antonio the Alcoholic?  Musical Depictions of Intoxication in Mozart’s Operas
        Sarah Kleinsteiber, University of Denver
    Off-Tonic Returns in the Music of Mozart
        Amy Holbrook, Arizona State University
        
New Concepts of Form, Organization,                Room 209
    and Transformation (SMT)
Richard Hermann, University of New Mexico, chair
 
    Sonata Rhetoric and Transformational Processes in the First Movement of
        Rochberg’s String Quartet No. 6
        Mustafa Bor, University of British Columbia
    DSCH as the Composer’s Voice:  Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8
        Richard vonFoerster, University of Denver
    Three Cadences and a Linear Diatonic Trichord:  A Story of Ravel’s
        Pavane pour une infante défunte
        Clare Sher Ling Eng, Yale University
 
3:00 - 3:30    
Refreshment break                        Music Library (room 440)
 
3:30 - 4:30    
Song Texts and Melodies (AMS/SEM)                Recital Salon (room 121)
Jeremy Smith, University of Colorado, Boulder, chair
 
    O’odham Song Language:  Song Texts and Ritual Spoken Texts
        J. Richard Haefer, Arizona State University
    The Composer John Parry and His Collection of Welsh, English, and Scotch Airs
        Cathryn Clayton, University of Arizona
 
Meaning in Vocal Music (SMT)                    Room 209
    Richard vonFoerster, University of Denver, chair
 
    Irony and the “Composer’s Voice” in Wolf’s Mignon II
        Joelle Welling, University of Calgary
    Behind and Beyond:  Threads of Meaning in Poulenc’s Tel jour telle nuit
        Carla Colletti, University of Iowa
 
5:00        
Dinner on your own
 
 
Saturday, April 1 2006
 
9:30 - 12:00    
Highbrow / Lowbrow Boundaries (AMS/SEM/SMT)        Recital Salon (room 121)
Nilanjana Bhattacharjya, Colorado College, chair
 
    Beethoven’s Folksong Settings and the Bildungsmusik Tradition
        Hee Seung Lee, University of Denver
    Magick and Mysticism in John Zorn’s Recent Music
        John Brackett, University of Utah
    Orchestra as Cultural Embassy:  An Integrative Central American
        Response to Globalism
        Janet Sturman, University of Arizona
    The Bolero Cliché:  A Reinterpretation
        Luke Howard, Brigham Young University
 
12:00 - 1:00    
Buffet lunch (for those who signed up)                Choral Room (room 100)
 
1:00 - 2:00    
AMS Business Meeting                        Recital Salon (room 121)
 
Early Music (SMT)                            Room 209
Frank Riddick, Northern Arizona University, chair
 
    Rehearing Machaut’s Motets:  Taking the Next Step in Understanding Sonority
        Jared Hartt, Washington University
    Half Revealed and Half Concealed:  Contrapuntal Structure in the Music of
        Heinrich Schütz
        Katherine Schroeder, University of California at Santa Barbara
 
 
2:00 - 4:00    
Transformed Aesthetics in Performance            Recital Salon (room 121)
    and Composition (AMS/SEM)
Jonathan Bellman, University of Northern Colorado, chair
 
    Javanese and Balinese Gamelans:  Relative Popularity and Mutual Perceptions
        Ted Solis, Arizona State University
    The Music and Aesthetic Theory of Friedrich Nietzsche
        Jessica Gneiting, Albertson College of Idaho
    Reception to Reminiscence: The Transition to the Valved Horn in the Works of
        Wagner and Strauss
        Jill Rogers, University of Denver
    Dancing with American Sufis
        John K. Galm, University of Colorado, Boulder
 
20th-Century Theoretical Perspectives (SMT)        Room 209
Bruce Quaglia, University of Utah, chair
 
    Timbre as a Psychoacoustic Parameter for Harmonic Analysis
        Aaron Einbond, University of California at Berkeley
    Introduction to Operand Set Analysis
        Russell Knight, University of California at Santa Barbara
    A Four-Dimensional Cube in Boulez’s Structures 1a
        Paul Lombardi, University of New Mexico