MUSIC AND MELANCHOLY, 1400-1800
An Interdisciplinary Symposium at Princeton University
Saturday and Sunday, 26-27 October 2002
http://www.princeton.edu/~rwegman/saturn.htm
The Music Department at Princeton University will host the
interdisciplinary symposium Music and Melancholy, 1400-1800, on 26-27
October 2002. The aim of the Symposium will be to explore the rich and
multifarious connections between music and melancholy from the late
Middle Ages to the early Romantic period, roughly from 1400 to 1800.
The event will feature papers on such composers as Beethoven, Josquin,
Haydn, and Lasso, such genres as opera, ayre, motet, song, and madrigal,
as well as related topics such as medicine and physiognomy, eroticism
and sexuality, national stereotypes, artistic temperament, the concept
of genius, and many others.
Speakers include Susan Agrawal, Linda Austern, Amanda Eubanks Winkler,
Richard Freedman, Bonnie Gordon, Wendy Heller, Leofranc
Holford-Strevens, Clive McClelland, Timothy R. McKinney, William
Meredith, Nancy November, Joseph M. Ortiz, Martin Porter, Elaine Sisman,
Louise K. Stein, and Rob Wegman.
For the full program, abstracts, and registration information, please
consult the symposium website
http://www.princeton.edu/~rwegman/saturn.htm.
For further inquiries, please contact the sender of this posting:
Rob C. Wegman
Department of Music, Woolworth Center of Musical Studies,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
voice (609) 258 4248; dept (609) 258 4241;
fax (609) 258 6793; email < [log in to unmask]>
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