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American Musicological Society |
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Fall Meeting,
September 29, 2007 |
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Saturday, September 29 |
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| 8:30 | Registration (Person Recital Hall) |
| 9:00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 9:15 | Paper Session 1: Nineteenth-Century Music (chair: James A. Grymes, UNC Charlotte) |
| Alicia C. Levin (UNC Chapel Hill): “Pianists, Poets, and Robots: The Practice of Improvisation in 1820s Paris” | |
| Siegwart Reichwald (Converse College): “Mendelssohn’s Tempo Indications” | |
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Allison Portnow ( UNC Chapel Hill): “Hanslick in a Vacuum Jar: Scientific Indications and Political Implications in On the Musically Beautiful” |
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| 10:45 | Break |
| 11:00 | Keynote Speaker |
| Anna Maria Busse Berger (University of California, Davis) “Compositional Process and Work Status in Trecento Music” | |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Business meeting |
| 2:00 | Paper Session 2: Extra-Musical Thought (chair: Jacqueline Waeber, Duke University) |
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Franz Michael Maier (Freie Universität Berlin): “Musical Communication in Proust and Beckett—And Why It Interests Musicologists” |
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| Douglas Shadle ( UNC Chapel Hill): “A Freely Overflowing Heart: Olivier Messiaen’s Rejection of Neo-Thomism” | |
| 3:00 | Break |
| 3:15 | Paper Session 3: Music and Place (chair: Tim Carter, UNC Chapel Hill) |
| Katherine L. Turner (University of Texas): “Abiding by Trent: Music in a Medician Convent” | |
| Marcelo Campos Hazan (Columbia, SC): “Race, Nation, and José Maurício Nunes Garcia” | |
| 4:15 | Break |
| 4:30 | Paper Session 3: Popular Music (chair: Mark Katz, UNC Chapel Hill) |
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Sarah F. Williams (University of South Carolina): “From Penny Merriments to Pompous Ayres: Creating Cultural Links with Early Modern English Popular Tunes and Broadside Balladry” |
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Caroline Polk O’Meara (Chapel Hill, NC): “Highways and History: Rethinking the Early Days of Hip-Hop Music” |
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| 5:30 | Adjournment |