Allegheny Chapter

AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY

A Constituent Member of the American Council of Learned Societies

Program

Marshall University, October 6, 2007

8:30 Coffee and Registration

9:00 Paper Session I:

“Harmony in two of Machaut’s Motets: The phenomenon of intermittence and its role in the unconscious aesthetic validation of Machaut’s style”

Ivan Jimenez (University of Pittsburgh)

“Ritual and Cermony: Music in the Life of a Renaissance Emperor”

Mary T. Ferer (West Virginia University)

“Adhering to His Artistic Morality: the Form of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony”

John E. Crotty (West Virginia University)

“Dwight’s ‘Diarist’ and ‘‘John,’ a Portland Boy:’ The 1858 Trans-Atlantic Voyage of Alexander Wheelock Thayer and John Knowles Paine”

Grant W. Cook III (Heidelberg College)

12:00 LUNCH

Chapter Business meeting

2:00 Paper Session II:

“Etre ‘Musicien français’: Georges Auric and French Musical Identity During the Occupation”

Colin Roust (Oberlin College Conservatory of Music)

“Revising the Synagogue Ritual: the Commissions of Cantor David Putterman at New York’s Park Avenue Synagogue”

Emily A. Bell (University of Florida)

“Feminine Intuition: Musical Empowerment of the Oppressed Heroine in Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ and ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’”

Erica K. Argyropoulos (University of Kansas)

“The History, Stakes, and Blindness of the Musicological Discourse Regarding Sexuality: Some Considerations and Proposals”

Erin Mulligan (University of Pittsburgh)

5:00 Adjournment