RMC-AMS/SEM-SW, Utah State University
Program Schedule, March 28–29, 2008

All sessions will take place in room 101 of the Merrill-Cazier Library on the USU campus.

FRIDAY, MARCH 28

REGISTRATION (10:30–12:30)

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION (12:30–12:45)
Nick Morrison, Interim Head of Music Department, Utah State University

Session 1: Early Music (12:45–2:15)

John Brobeck (University of Arizona), “Music and Musicians at the Court of Henri II
(r. 1547-1559): A Preliminary Report”

Joel Schwindt (Benson Public Schools, AZ), “Marc-Antoine Charpentier: A Stranger In
            His Own Land”

Deborah Kauffman (University of Northern Colorado), “A Tale of Two Girls’ Schools, or
            What Athalie can tell us about Dido”

BREAK (2:15–2:30)

Session 2: 18th and 19th Centuries (2:30–4:30)

Amy Holbrook (Arizona State University), “Some Negative Lessons in Mozart’s Musical
Joke”

Christie Steadman (University of Utah), “Idée fixe: Obsession or Musical Motif?”
Holly Focht (University of Denver), “‘A Mouth, a Consciousness, and a Voice’:
Manifestations of Wotan’s Psyche Through Wagner’s Orchestral Writing”

Kelly Dean Hansen (University of Colorado at Boulder), “The Brahms Vocal Ensembles
            and the Tradition of 'Hausmusik'”

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Jonathan Bellman (5:00, Performance Hall)
SATURDAY, MARCH 29

COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS (9:00–9:30)

Session 3: 20th Century I (9:30–11:00)

Susan Neimoyer (University of Utah), “After the Rhapsody: George Gershwin in the
Spring of 1924”

Carey Cheney (University of Utah), “Use of Cantoric Prayer Modes in Three Psalms for
Violoncello and Orchestra (1933) by Frederick Jacobi (1891-1952)”

Amy Puett (Texas State University), “On the Reception of East German Music in the
United States”

BREAK (11:00–11:15)

Session 4: 20th Century II (11:15–12:15)

Luke Howard (Brigham Young University), “Albinoni’s Adagio: So Pop It Can’t Be
Classical”

Joshua Harris (Brigham Young University), “Behind the Masks: Uncovering an
Allegorical Struggle in George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae”

LUNCH (12:15–1:30)

BUSINESS MEETING (1:30–2:00)

Session 5: Topics in Ethnomusicology (2:00–3:30)

Welson Tremura (University of Florida), “Sing and Dance… Jacaré has Arrived:
Participatory Experience the Growing Significance of World Music Ensembles”

Sarai Brinker (Texas Tech University), “Sing a Song of Praise: An Examination of Church
Music in the Urban Settings of Tigray, Ethiopia”

Lauren Joiner (Texas Tech University), “‘Rolling and Tumbling’: Musical Synthesis in
North Mississippi Hill Country Blues Fife and Drum”

BREAK (3:30–3:45)

Session 6: Music of India (3:45–4:45)

Deepti Navaratna (University of New Mexico), “Musical Notation in the South Indian
Music Oral Tradition: Boon or Bane?”

Jeffrey Grimes (University of Texas at Austin), “The Classical Music of Maharashtra: a
Case Study in the Influence of Regional Culture on Hindustani Music”