Seventh Biennial Conference
25–28 February2016

at the University of Texas, Austin

Paper sessions and other presentations will be held in the School’s lecture and recital halls from Friday, February 26 through Sunday morning, February 28. A reception sponsored by the Butler School of Music will take place on Friday evening. On Saturday evening, the Austin-based ensemble La Follia will present a concert of music from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.

Program

Thursday, 25 February
On Thursday, February 25, there will be an optional excursion to visit the Alamo and the eighteenth-century missions near San Antonio, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The mission communities were a unique interweaving of Spanish and indigenous cultures, including farms, churches, protective walls, dwellings, workshops, mills, and irrigation systems. The oldest of these, the Mission San Juan, was founded in 1716. The largest mission in the region, the Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, was founded in 1720, and building there continued into the 1780s; it fell into disrepair in the nineteenth century and was restored to something like its early state in the 1930s as a WPA project. The church of the Mission Concéption, dedicated in 1755, is the oldest unrestored stone church in America, and some of its original frescoes survive. Further details of the excursion are available here.

Friday, 26 February
8:00 Registration
8:45 Welcome
9:00–10:10 Archival Studies    Chair: Sterling Murray
Kathryn Libin: “Adventures in Room X: Cataloguing the Lobkowicz Library Music Collection”
Marie Caruso: “A Gift of Twenty Minuets: Exploring a Recently Discovered Manuscript by Maria Rosa Coccia”
10:10–10:30 Break
10:30–12:15 Women’s Roles    Chair: Glenda Goodman
Janet Page: “Time, Space, and Community: Performing Plainchant in the Viennese Convent of St. Laurenz in the Early Eighteenth Century”
Stewart Carter: “Function and Style in the Early Settecento Motet: The Case of Isabella Leonarda and her Motetti à voce sola (opus 20, 1700)”
Eric Lubarsky: “The Eighteenth-Century Woman, Harpsichords, and Art Nouveau, or Becoming Fashionably Old-Fashioned with Frances Pelton-Jones and Wanda Landowska”
12:15–2:00 Lunch
2:00–3:00 Lecture-Recital    Chair: Dianne Goldman
Maria Rose: “Two “Most Celebrated” and Most Forgotten Piano Composers in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna: Leopold Kozeluch and Johann Nepomuk Hummel”
3:00–3:20 Break
3:20–4:30 Theoretical Approaches    Chair: Melanie Lowe
Dean Sutcliffe: “Laboring a Point: What Are Developments Doing?”
Olga Sanchez-Kisielewska: “Interactions between Topics and Schemata: The Sacred Romanesca Case”
4:30 Reception


Saturday, 27 February
8:00 Registration
9:00–10:10 Creating Contrafacta    Chair: Olivia Bloechl
Kim Pineda: “Baroque Sister Act: Sacred Parodies in the Educational Outreach of the Ursuline Nuns in Eighteenth-century New Orleans”
Drew Edward Davies: “Contrafacts and Speech Genres in Viceregal Period Latin American Music”
10:10–10:30 Break
10:30–12:15 Patronage and Patriotism    Chair: Andrew Dell’Antonio
Lily Kass: “British Patriotism Sung in the Italian Style”
Bethany Cencer: “Gender and Patronage and Eighteenth-Century Partsong Performance in London”
Maria Josepha Velasco: “Hymnes patriotiques and the “Marzeillesa”: The Impact of French Revolutionary Festivals in the Basses-Pyrénées, 1789–1800”
12:15–2:00 Lunch

2:00–3:45 Issues of Aesthetics    Chair: John Rice
Matteo Magarotto: “Leopold Mozart’s Principles of Compositional Mastery: Die Ordnung, il filo, and Enlightenment Aesthetics”
Kimary Fick: “Music for Social Pleasure: The Aesthetics of Hausmusik in the North German Enlightenment”
Adam Shoaff: “Rousseauian Aesthetics and the Rebirth of German Opera”
3:45–4:00 Break
4:00–5:10 Vivaldi    Chair: Alison DeSimone
Nicholas Lockey: “Texture, Sonority, and the Aesthetics of Sublime Nature in Antonio Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’”
Ireri Chavez-Barcenas: “Vivaldi’s Motezuma: The Conquest of Mexico in the Venetian Operatic Scene”
5:10–7:30 Dinner

7:30 La Follia Concert


Sunday, 28 February
8:00 Registration
9:00–10:45 Topics in Opera    Chair: Bertil van Boer
Sarah Bushey: “Creating Horror: Supernatural Exoticism in the Operas of Rameau and Mozart”
Erica Levenson: “Vive la comédie!”: Adapting French Theater and Music for the London Stage, 1718–1735”
Anna Parkitna: “Polish Adaptations of German Operas in the Enlightenment Project of Building National Operatic Traditions”