[Historyoftheory] Instruments of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music, Nov 8-9, 2017

[Andrew Hicks]

Dear colleagues,

The SMT/AMS History of Theory Interest/Study Group (or SMTAMSHOTISG, for
short) is delighted to announce that registration is now open for our
pre-AMS conference. Please see below for the announcement and program. We
look forward to seeing you in Rochester!

INSTRUMENTS OF MUSIC THEORY
Conference dates: November 8-9, 2017
Location: Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY
Program, abstracts, and registration: https://instrume
ntsofmusictheoryconference.wordpress.com/

The AMS History of Theory Study Group and SMT History of Theory Interest
Group are delighted to announce that registration is now open for our
pre-AMS conference (Nov. 8-9) at the Eastman School of Music. "Instruments
of Music Theory" will feature eleven papers, three keynote speakers (David
Catalunya, University of Würzburg; Gabriela Currie, University of
Minnesota; and Alexander Rehding, Harvard University), and a Wednesday
evening concert by David Catalunya on a newly reconstructed clavisimbalum
(with music from the Faenza Codex and other sources of the 15th century,
including two fragmentary manuscripts recently discovered in Perugia and
Colmar). The program, abstracts, and registration are available on the
conference website: https://instrumentsofmusictheoryconference.
wordpress.com/

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Central New York Humanities
Corridor (from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), the Westfield
Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, the Journal of Music Theory, the
Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Society of Fellows in the
Humanities at Columbia University, the Eastman School of Music, and Cornell
University.


PROGRAM
*Wednesday, November 8*

10:00am–12:10pm Instruments in Theory/Theories as Instruments, *Stefano
Mengozzi *(University of Michigan), Chair

*Etha Williams *(Harvard University), “*La femme clavecin?*:
Marie-Angélique Diderot, the *Leçons de Clavecin*, and the Engendering of
Music Theory”
*Zhuqing (Lester) Hu* (University of Chicago), “Loss in Conversion:
Zithers, Organs, and Fourteen-Tone Temperament in the Global Music Exchange
in Eighteenth-Century China”
*Karl Braunschweig *(Wayne State University), “From Language to Literature:
Changing Roles of Reduction in Historical Music Theory”
*Scott Gleason* (Oxford University Press), “Historical Music Theories as
Instruments in David Lewin’s Music Theories”

12:10pm–1:20pm lunch on own
1:20pm–2:40pm *David Catalunya*, Keynote Lecture-Demonstration,
“Instruments of Theory and Theory of Instruments in the Late Middle Ages”
2:40pm–3:00pm break
3:00pm–4:30pm Theories of Instruments, *Emily Dolan* (Harvard University),
Chair

*Leon Chisholm* (Deutsches Museum, Munich) “From Voice to Keyboard: A Tale
of Two Ecologies”
*Rebecca Cypess* (Rutgers University), “*Basso continuo* at the Harpsichord
in Early 17th-Century Italy: Recovering Traces of Embodied Knowledge”
*Bryan Parkhurst* (Oberlin College) and *Stephan Hammel* (University of
California-Irvine), “On the Timeliness of a Marxist Organology”

4:30pm–5:00pm break
5:00pm–6:30pm *Alexander Rehding*, Keynote Lecture, “Global Thoughts on
Music-Theoretical Instruments”
6:30pm–8:30pm reception (and dinner on own)
8:30–10:00pm *David Catalunya*, Clavisimbalum Concert, “Faenza 117:
Virtuoso Keyboard Music in Fourteenth-Century Italy”

*Thursday, November 9*

9:00am–11:00am Instruments of Theory, *Thomas Christensen* (University of
Chicago), Chair

*Elizabeth Lyon* (Cornell University), “Instruments of the Affections in
Jean Gerson’s *Tractatus de Canticis*”
*David E. Cohen* (Columbia University), “The Tensed String, the Intent Ear:
Combative Instrumentalities in a Founding Myth of Western Music Theory"
*Joon Park* (University of Arkansas), “Calligraphy as a Conceptualizing
System of Traditional Chinese and Korean Musical Pitches”
*Abigail Shupe* (Colorado State University), “The (Scientific) Instruments
of Rameau’s Music Theory”

11:00am–11:15am break
11:15am–12:45pm Gabriela Currie, Keynote Lecture, “Instrumental
Globalities: Object, Thought, Practice in Pre-modern Eurasia”

*Friday, November 10*

AMS Evening Session, 8:00pm–11:00pm: Instruments, Diagrams, and Notation in
the History of Music Theory, *Andrew Hicks* (Cornell University), Chair

*Lars Christensen* (University of Minnesota), “Musical Diagrams as
Instruments of Strategic Simplification in the Northern Song Dynasty”
*Stephanie Probst* (Harvard University), “Following the Lines on Percy A.
Scholes’s ‘AudioGraphic’ Piano Rolls”
*Jennifer Iverson* (University of Chicago), “At the Intersection of
Acoustics, Phonetics, and Music: The Mixtur-Trautonium as Boundary Object”
*Siavash Sabetrohani* (University of Chicago), “The *Oud* as the
transmitter of Ancient Greek Music Theory in the Middle East”
*Alexander Bonus* (Bard College), “Refashioning Rhythm: Hearing, Acting,
and Reacting to Metronomic Sound in Nineteenth-Century Observatories,
Laboratories, and Beyond”
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