The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
2016 Annual Conference Program
Thursday, April 14
| 1:00–6:00 pm | Registration: St. Stephen’s Sanctuary |
| 1:30–4:00 pm | Meeting of the SSCM Governing Board: St. Stephen’s Sun Porch |
| 4:00–5:30 pm | Meeting of the WLSCM Editorial Board: St. Stephen’s Sun Porch |
| 6:00–7:30 pm | Opening Reception with Wine and Hors d’oeuvres: Mutiny Hotel |
| 7:30-8:45 pm | John Griffiths vihuela concert: St. Stephen’s Sanctuary |
Friday, April 15
| 8:00–12:00 noon | Registration: St. Stephen’s Sanctuary |
| 8:30–9:00 am | Coffee and pastries: St. Stephen’s Breezeway |
| 8:30 am–5:30 pm | Book Exhibit hosted by FIU Library: St. Stephen’s Sanctuary |
| 9:00 –10:20 am | Others, Real and Imagined: St. Stephen’s Sanctuary Wendy Heller (Princeton University), Chair |
| Arne Spohr (Bowling Green State University) Privileged Dependency: The Legal and Social Position of Black Court Trumpeters in Seventeenth-Century Germany |
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| Robert C. Ketterer (University of Iowa) Minato’s Greeks: Variations on Eastern Themes in Mid-Century Venice |
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| 10:20–10:40 am | Break |
| 10:40 am–12:00 noon | Emily Wilbourne (Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY) Ahi ghidy, Ahi Chavo: Sounding Turkish on the Italian Stage |
| Alexis VanZalen (Eastman School of Music) “Afriquains” and the Staging of Colonial Power in Quinault and Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione (1673) |
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| 12:00–2:00 pm | Lunch and SSCM Business Meeting: Box Lunches: St. Stephen’s Sanctuary |
| 2:00–3:20 pm | Performance and Parody on the French Stage: St. Stephen’s Sanctuary Lois Rosow (The Ohio State University), Chair |
| John Romey (Case Western Reserve University) Seventeenth-Century Opera Parody at the Comédie-Française: Evidence for the Appropriation of a Street Practice |
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| Anita Hardeman (Western Illinois University) Cross-Casting Cupid: Female Singers and the God of Love in French Opera |
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| 3:20–3:40 pm | Break |
| 3:40–5:00 pm | Cultural Transfer Between France and Italy: St. Stephen’s Sanctuary Christine Jeanneret (The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University), Chair |
| Michael Klaper (Institut für Musikwissenschaft Weimar-Jena) New Insights into the History of Francesco Cavalli’s Xerse in France |
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| Don Fader (University of Alabama) French Music in Milan via the Collected Papers of the Prince de Vaudémont |
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| 5:00–7:30 pm | Dinner on your own in Coconut Grove |
| 7:30–9:00 pm | FIU presents John Blow’s Venus & Adonis: St. Stephen’s Sanctuary |
Saturday, April 16
| 8:30–9:00 am | Coffee and pastries: St. Stephen’s Breezeway |
| 8:30 am–5:30 pm | Book Exhibit hosted by FIU Library: St. Stephen’s Sanctuary |
| 9:00 –10:20 am | Instruments in Theory and Practice: St. Stephen’s Sanctuary Gregory Barnett (Rice University), Chair |
| Stewart Carter (Wake Forest University) “…drawn from the bosom of nature herself”: Marin Mersenne, His Followers, and the Discovery of the Harmonic Series |
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| Lynette Bowring (Rutgers University) Towards a New Theory of Instrumental Pedagogy in the Early Seicento |
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| 10:20–10:40 am | Break |
| 10:40 am–12:00 noon | Texts and Contexts in Restoration England: St. Stephen’s Sanctuary Robert Shay (University of Colorado Boulder), Chair |
| Stacey Jocoy (Texas Tech University) Tom of Bedlam, John Playford, and the Rhetoric of Mid-Century Madness |
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| Bryan White (University of Leeds) Compiling Occasional Texts for Purcell’s Anthems |
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| 12:15–1:45 pm | Meeting of the JSCM Editorial Board: St. Stephen’s Sun Porch |
| 2:00–3:20 pm | Devotion, Vocal and Instrumental: St. Stephen’s Sanctuary Frederick Gable (University of California, Riverside), Chair |
| Kimberly Beck Hieb (University of British Columbia) Emblematic Scordatura: Heinrich Biber’s Hic est panis and Eucharistic Devotion |
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| Ilaria Grippaudo (University of Palermo) Musical Activities, Social Status and Convent Spaces in Seventeenth-Century Palermo: Santa Maria di Tutte le Grazie and Other Case Studies |
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| 3:20–3:40 pm | Break |
| 3:40–5:00 pm | Tom Marks (Graduate Center, CUNY) Feeling the Thirty Years’ War: A History of Emotions in Melchior Franck’s Paradisus musicus (1636) |
| Christina Hutten (University of British Columbia) Prayer, Meditation, and Temptation: A Creative Framework for Matthias Weckmann’s Sacred Concertos |
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| 6:30–7:30 pm | Reception: Peacock Garden Café |
| 7:30–9:30 pm | Banquet: Peacock Garden Café |
Sunday, April 17
(note that all events take place at the Mutiny)
| 8:30–9:00 am | Coffee and pastries: Mutiny |
| 9:00 –10:20 am | Feasts and Saints in Rome: Mutiny Conference Room Margaret Murata (University of California, Irvine), Chair |
| Michela Berti (Université de Liège) Defining a festa: Celebration Music in Rome’s National Churches |
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| Virginia Lamothe (Belmont University) Towards a Better Understanding of Martyr Tragedies in Seventeenth-Century Rome |
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| 10:20–10:40 am | Break |
| 10:40 am–12:00 noon | Word and Sound in the New World: Mutiny Conference Room Drew Davies (Northwestern University), Chair |
| Dianne L. Goldman (University of Maryland) Intertextuality in Late-Seventeenth Century Latin Villancicos for Mexico City Cathedral |
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| Jutta Toelle (Max Planck Institute of Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt) Negotiating with the Demon: Mission Soundscapes in Seventeenth-Century Paracuaria |
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