From: Nicholas Reyland <[log in to unmask]>
The Society for Music Analysis's Autumn Study Day 2007, 'Music Programme
Notes', takes place on Saturday 25 November at the University of Sussex.
The programme is appended below, and fuller details (including
registration details) can be found at
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/music/1-4-3.html
PROGRAMME
10.00am Arrival and Registration
10.30 Opening Remarks: Nicholas Till
10.45 Keynote Address: Ian Pace (University of Cardiff). The Marxist
Programme Note: the logic of the supplement in the textual accompaniment
(Nono, Henze, Huber, Cardew, Wolff, Rzewski and Barrett).
11.30 Coffee
12.00pm Session I: Programme Notes for Contemporary Music
Peter Laki (Cleveland Orchestra, USA). "Oh No! Not Birtwistle Again!" How
programme notes can help get the message across.
Gordon Downie (University of the West of England). Cultural Production as
Self-surveillance: making the right impression.
Sam Hayden (University of Sussex). How a Composition "was not helped by a
programme note": a composer's view.
1.30 Lunch
2.30 Session II: Programme Notes for Concerts and Recordings
Bethany Lowe (University of Newcastle). Opposition, Correlation, and
Collaboration: rhetorical strategies and the web of relationships in the
programme notes from recordings of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony.
Elina Prepula (Jyvaskyla University, Finland). Programme Notes as a
Discourse Practice: audience responses to concert programme notes in
Finland.
Georgina Boyes (University of Sheffield). Audience Expectations: programme
and album notes and the English Folk Revival.
4.00 Tea
4.15 Round Table: Commissioners, Writers and Audiences
Chair: tbc
Andrew Burn (Head of Education and Ensembles, Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra).
Mark Pappenheim (Editor, Proms programme book).
Arnold Whittall (Emeritus Professor of Music, Kings College London).
5.45 Closing Remarks
6.00 Close
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