Fifth Biennial Conference
13–15 April 2012

jointly with the Haydn Society of North America

at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina

Preliminary Program

Friday, 13 April

All sessions held in the Towell Library Building on the campus of the College of Charleston

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8:00 Registration & Coffee
9:00 Welcome
9:15–10:45 Session 1: Stringed instruments and their music
Bertil van Boer, “The Case of the Purloined Viola Concertos: A Detective’s Saga in Identifying the Authorship of Three Viola Concertos attributed to Pater Romanus Hoffstetter, OSB”
John Romey, “Symbols of Virtuosity: Portraits of Cellists and Gambists in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”
10:45–11:15 Break
11:15–12:45 Session 2: Musical communication
Kimary Fick, “The Aesthetics of Performance: C. P. E. Bach and the Philosophy of Empfindsamkeit”
W. Dean Sutcliffe, “The Simplifying Cadence: Concession and Deflation in Later Eighteenth-Century Musical Style”
12:45–2:00 Lunch (on your own)
2:00–3:30 Session 3: Songs, a songbook, and singing I
Bonny Hough Miller, “A Songbook and a Sea Voyage: The Legacy of Louisa Wells Aikman (Charleston songbook)”
Peter Hoyt, “Haydn’s Rowdy Fellows and the Music of English Religious Intolerance”
3:30–4:00 Break
4:00–4:30 Session 4: Dissertation-in-progress session
Alison DeSimone, “The Myth of the Diva: Female Opera Singers and Collaborative Performance in Early Eighteenth-Century London”
4:30–5:00 Session 5: Songs, a songbook, and singing II
Lecture recital 1: Mark Nabholz, “Viennese Propaganda Art during the Napoleonic Period: A Reconstruction of F. X. Süssmayr’s Popular Der Retter in Gefahr (1796)”
5:30–6:30 Reception
8:00 Concert: Haydn and his contemporaries
The Eisenstadt Trio
Rebecca Harris, violin
Stephanie Vial, cello
Andrew Willis, fortepiano


Saturday, 14 April
8:30 Coffee
9:00–10:30 Session 6: Sacred Music I
Erick Arenas, “Missae in angustiis: Liturgy and the Sound of Dynastic Continuity at the Court of Vienna, 1740–1748”
Janet K. Page, “New Light on 18th-Century Viennese Church Music From Behind the Convent Wall”
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–12:30 Session 7: Sacred music II
Dianne Goldman, “Adaptation as Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Responsories for Holy Trinity at Mexico City Cathedral”
Thierry Favier, “Retracing the Steps of the March: from the Hymns of the French Revolution to the Songs of the Church”
12:30–1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:30–2:00 Business meeting
2:00–3:30 Session 8: Haydn I
Chair: Melanie Lowe
Erin Jerome, “Haydn’s L'incontro improvviso: Deceitful Dervishes, Greedy Servants, and the Meta-Performance of Alla Turca Style”
Sterling Murray, “Haydn and Prince Kraft Ernst of Oettingen-Wallerstein: A Study in Admiration, Deception, and Reconciliation”
3:30–4:00 Break
2:00–3:30 Session 9: Haydn II
Chair: Melanie Lowe
Lecture recital 2: Mayron Tsong, “Humor in Haydn”


Sunday, 15 April
8:30 Coffee
9:00–10:30 Session 10: Music in Sweden
Alan Swanson, “Grétry and the Development of Opéra-comique in Eighteenth-Century Sweden”
Lecture recital 3: Amy Lynne Engelsdorfer, “‘The Handel of Sweden’: Arranging the Twelve Flute Sonatas of Johan Helmich Roman”
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–12:30 Session 11: Marches and minuets
Michael Baker, “Phrase Rhythm and Metrical Design in Werner’s Curious Musical Calendar”
R. Todd Rober, “Dancing into Battle? Duality of the March in a Gottlob Harrer Sinfonia”