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26 March 2010

 

2.00pm-3.45pm     Registration

 

3.45pm-4.00pm     Opening remarks

 

4.00pm-5.30pm     Session 1

          Chair: Anna Stirr (Oxford)

Hermann Danuser (Humboldt Universität): On Music’s Self-Representation

Christopher Doll (Rutgers): Representations of Early Rock’n’Roll in Post-Sixties Popular Music

Suzannah Clark (Harvard): Music as Geometry

 

5.30pm-5.45pm     Break

 

5.45pm-7.15pm     Keynote address

          Chair: Daniel Grimley (Oxford)

Richard Taruskin (University of California at Berkeley): What Else?

 

27 March 2010

 

9.30am -11.00am     Session 2

          Chair: Martin Stokes (Oxford)

Matthew Gelbart (Fordham): Layers of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Genres: The Case of One Brahms Ballade

Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway): Twisting the Representation of Western Music

W. Anthony Sheppard (Williams): The Persistence and Parody of Orientalism in Recent Opera and Operatic Production

 

11.00am-11.30am     Break

 

11.30am-1.00pm     Session 3

          Chair: John Deathridge (King's College London)

Karol Berger (Stanford): Der Dichter spricht: Self-Representation in Parsifal

Laurence Dreyfus (Oxford): Allusive Representations: Homoerotics in Wagner's Tristan

Lydia Goehr (Columbia): Ekphrastic Displacements: Saying and Showing in the Contest of the Arts

 

1.00pm-3.00pm     Lunch

 

3.00pm-4.30pm     Session 4

          Chair: Anthony Newcomb (Berkeley)

Eric Clarke (Oxford): Musical Meaning Without Representation

Michael Spitzer (Durham): Representing Musical Emotion

Alison Denham (Oxford): When the Feeling Has Gone: Amusia and the Experience of Musical Meaning

 

4.30pm-5.00pm     Break

 

5.00pm-6.30pm     Session 5

          Chair: Katerina Levidou (Oxford)

Marina Frolova-Walker (Cambridge): ‘Music is Something Obscure’: Textless Soviet Works and Their Phantom Programs

Giorgio Biancorosso (University of Hong Kong): The Transparency of Film Music or, ‘What is it Like to be a Shark’?

Walter Frisch (Columbia): Appreciating Arlen

 

7:30pm     Dinner

 

28 March 2010

 

9.30am-11.00am     Session 6

          Chair: Roger Allen (Oxford)

Davinia Caddy (University of Auckland): Nijinsky's Faune Revisited

Nicholas Cook (Cambridge): Performances Representing and Representing Performances

Roger Parker (King’s College London): Musical Meanings in 1830s London

 

11.00am-11.30am     Break

 

11.30am-1.00pm     Session 7

          Chair: Peter Franklin(Oxford)

Simon Shaw-Miller (Birkbeck): Art Representing Music

Daniel Grimley (Oxford): Funen Dreams: Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Landscape

Thomas Grey (Stanford): 'On Wings of Song': Representing Music as Agency in Nineteenth-Century Culture

 

1.00pm-1.15pm     Closing remarks

 

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