Joint Meeting of the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory, The Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands, and the Royal Society for Music History of Belgium The Royal Conservatory of the Hague February 28 - March 1, 2014 Preliminary Program Friday, February 28 9.00 - 9.30: Registration and coffee/tea 9.30 - 10.00: Welcome and introduction (Presidents of the three societies) 10.00 - 11.00: Keynote address “Rethinking Disciplinary Boundaries in Musical Scholarship: Pluralism, Relativism and the Question of Truth” Kevin Korsyn (University of Michigan) 11.00 - 11.30: Coffee/Tea Break 11.30 - 13.00: Plenary Session 1 Contextualing Musical Thought 11.30 - 12.00 Jen-yen Chen (National Taiwan University), “The Legacy of Johann Joseph Fux’s Gradus ad Parnassum (1725) and the Historicized Practice of Theory” 12.00 - 12.30 Jed Wentz (Conservatorium van Amsterdam), “Lallemant, Rameau and the Harmony of the Passions” 12.30 - 13.00 August Sheehy (University of Chicago; Universität der Künste, Berlin), “Judging Weber” 13.00 - 15.00: Lunch 15.00 - 16.00: Parallel session 1 Canonizing the 20th and 21st centuries Cadence and Partimento in the 19th century 15.00 - 15.30 Petros Vouvaris (University of Macedonia), “Canonizing Skalkottas: Analytical and biographical discourse revisited” David Lodewyckx (University of Leuven; Schola Cantorum Basiliensis), “Playing with a Galant Cliché: The 'Marpurg cadence' in Schubert's D. 537, iii” 15.30 - 16.00 Klaas Coulembier (University of Leuven), “Creating music history. The self-analyses of Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf” Birger Petersen (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), “Long Shadows: Traditions of Partimento in 19th-century German Music Theory” 16.00 - 16.30: Coffee/Tea Break 16.30 - 17.30: Parallel Session 2 Russian Traditions Jazz and Blues 16.30 - 17.00 Zsolt Gárdonyi (Hochschule für Musik Würzburg), “Alexander Skrjabins Harmonik im Spannungsfeld zwischen Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie” Benjamin Bierman (John Jay College, CUNY), “John Benson Brooks’s Alabama Concerto and Harold Courlander’s Negro Songs From Alabama” 17.00 - 17.30 Nikola Komatovic (University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna), “The survival of Igor Sposobin – when a theory outlives its time and purpose” Patrick Schenkius (Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag; Conservatorium van Amsterdam), “Variations and experiments with the standard blues form in instrumental jazz music” 18.30 - 21.00: Dinner (La Viña, Theresiastraat 39, 2593 AA Den Haag) Saturday, March 1 9.30 - 10.00: Coffee/Tea 10.00 - 11.00: Parallel Session 3 Renegotiating 19th-century Form Authenticating Sources 10.00 - 10.30 Aleksandra Gryćko (Conservatorium van Amsterdam), “Reconsidering Chopin and Sonata Form” John Latartara (University of Mississippi), “Classical Recordings, Music Analysis, and the Manufacturing of Performance” 10.30 - 11.00 Adriana Ponce (Illinois Wesleyan University), “A History of (Dis)encounters: Musicology and Early Nineteenth-Century Form” Mike Lee (Cornell University), “Analyzing Transient Moments: Autograph as Context for Two Chopin Preludes” 11.00 - 11.30: Coffee/Tea Break 11.30 - 12.30: Parallel Session 4 20th-century idioms Teaching History and Theory 11.30 - 12.00 Christophe Levaux (Université de Liège), “Minimalism / Punk: when musicological discourse shapes genre” Philomeen Lelieveldt (Utrecht University), “‘Minder musicologie!’, Muziekwetenschap ten dienste van publieksbemiddeling” 12.00 - 12.30 Brent Wetters (Tufts University; Providence College), “Excavating Luigi Nono’s Il canto sospeso” Alon Schab (University of Haifa), “Problems in Appropriating Seventeenth Century Repertoire into Present- Day Theory Class (Henry Purcell as a Case Study)” 12.30 - 14.30: Lunch 14.30 - 16.00: Plenary session 2 Identity and Disciplinarity 14.30 - 15.00 Ryan Weber (Misericordia University), “In Search of Identity: Hybrid Spaces and Symbiotic Recurrence in Edvard Grieg’s Last Choral Works” 15.00 - 15.30 Emmanuel Ndubuisi Nnamani (University of Cambridge), “‘Missing the Link’ - Beyond the theory of African Pianism” 15.30 - 16.00 Kristof Boucquet (University of Leuven), “Postmodernism Defended Against Its Devotees – Musical Analysis and Postmodernist Music Historiography” 16.00 - 16.30: Coffe/Tea Break 16.30 - 17.30: Closing panel discussion, led by Kevin Korsyn 17.30 - 18.30: Reception