FMCS 2008, Baylor University: Final Program
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All events take place in the Armstrong Browning Library (ABL) except where otherwise noted .
Friday, February 29, 2008
8:30-9:00 (Treasure Room – ABL)
WELCOME / OPENING REMARKS
William V. May, Dean of the Baylor School of Music
Laurel E. Zeiss, Baylor University
Timothy Steele, President of FMCS
SESSION 1 (9:00 to 10:30) (Treasure Room – ABL)
KEYNOTE LECTURE by ANNE WALTERS ROBERTSON
“The Seven Deadly Sins in Medieval Music”
SESSION 2 (10:45 to 12:00) (Lecture Hall – ABL)
MUSIC AND PIETY IN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT
Session chair: Benjamin Brand (University of North Texas)
10:45: Markus Rathey (Yale University): “Piety and Moral Values in Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Oratorios”
11:20: Joyce Irwin (independent scholar, Syracuse, NY): “Is Music in Heaven Real, and Why Did Johann Mattheson Care?”
LUNCH 12:00 to 1:00 (Cox Reception Hall – ABL)
SESSION 3 (1:00 to 2:45) (Lecture Hall – ABL)
THE SPIRIT, FORM, AND TEMPORALITY
Session chair: Philip Stoltzfus (University of St. Thomas)
1:00: Michelle Stearns (independent scholar, Seattle, WA): “‘I myself consider the totality of a piece as the idea’: Arnold Schoenberg’s concept of the Musical Idea in Trinitarian Perspective”
1:35: Scott Robinson (Eastern University): “The Present of Things to Come: What Makes Music ‘Spiritual’?”
2:10: Cheryl Pauls (Canadian Mennonite University): “Musicality and Theological Gesture: The Practice of Time through Carter and Messiaen”
SESSION 4a (3:00 to 4:45)–CONCURRENT (Seminar Room – ABL)
FAITH PERSPECTIVES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Session chair: Robin Wallace (Baylor University)
3:00: Siegwart Reichwald (Converse College): “Religious Kitsch or Meaningful Expression?: New Paths in Schumann’s Op. 63 and Mendelssohn’s Op. 66”
3:35: Mary Heiden (University of North Texas): “The Lyre and the Harp: Expressions of Pagan Sensuality and Christian Virtue in Saint-Saëns’s Ode (1879)”
4:10: R. Allen Lott (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary): “Reclaiming the Brahms Requiem: A Christian Close Reading”
SESSION 4b (3:00 to 4:45)–CONCURRENT (Lecture Hall – ABL)
FAITH PERSPECTIVES IN EARLY MUSIC
Session chair: Markus Rathey (Yale University)
3:00: William Peter Mahrt (Stanford University): “The Mass for Easter as an Integrated Cycle”
3:35: Benjamin Brand (University of North Texas): “Cantare in Pulpito: Polyphonic Improvisation and Public Ritual in Medieval Tuscany”
4:10: Timothy McKinney (Baylor University): “Music Theory, Christian Theology, and the Spiritual Madrigals of Vicentino and Zarlino”
SESSION 5a (5:00 – 6:00)–CONCURRENT (Room 113 in Waco Hall East)
A CHRISTIAN ETHIC FOR PERFORMANCE
Kevin Holm-Hudson (University of Kentucky): “Groanings of the Spirit: A Participatory Workshop on Christian Improvisation”
SESSION 5b (5:00 – 6:00)–CONCURRENT (Foyer of Meditation – ABL)
CHRISTIAN PROGRAMMING FOR CONCERTS
Kate Butler (University of Nebraska – Lincoln): “Thoughtful Programming and Presentation of Creative Classical Christian Concerts”
DINNER: 6:15 TO 7:45 (Harrington House)
SPECIAL EVENING SESSION (8:00-9:00): CONCERT / WORSHIP SERVICE (Foyer of Meditation – ABL)
Baylor Men’s Choir, conducted by Randall Bradley
This concert will incorporate hymn singing and several scripture readings. It will also include the premiere of a new hymn text that Robin Wallace and Laurel Zeiss commissioned in honor of the FMCS meeting from Terry York, a church music professor at Baylor University
SPECIAL EVENING SESSION, (9:30-10:30): LECTURE/PERFORMANCE (light refreshments provided) (Foyer of Meditation – ABL)
Scott Robinson (Eastern University): “To an Unknown God: The Tabla and the Prologue to the Gospel of John”
Saturday, March 1, 2008
BUSINESS MEETING (9:00 to 9:30) (Lecture Hall – ABL)
SESSION 6a (9:30 to 11:15)–CONCURRENT (Lecture Hall – ABL)
FAITH PERSPECTIVES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Session chair: Robert Judd (AMS)
9:30: Stephen Arthur Allen (Rider University): “‘God Save the Queen’: Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana as Peter Grimes ‘Anti-Masque’”
10:05: Lyn Burkett (SUNY Potsdam): “Faith and the twelve-tone series in Krenek’s Studies in Counterpoint”
10:40: Cindy Bylander (independent scholar, San Antonio, TX): “The Mystique of Spiritualism in Poland: Penderecki, Górecki, and Kilar”
SESSION 6b (9:30 to 11:15)–CONCURRENT (Seminar Room – ABL)
(NORTH AND SOUTH) AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSICIANSHIP
Session chair: Joyce Irwin (independent scholar, Syracuse, NY)
9:30: Kate Covington (University of Kentucky): “How Can I Keep from Singing – But not the Lord’s Prayer: a Cognitive Perspective on Congregational Singing and an Examination of Why the Lord’s Prayer Is Not Part of It”
10:05: Dorotea Kerr (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil): “Music in Presbyterian churches in Brazil: renovation, innovation and conflict”
10:40: Johann S. Buis (Wheaton College): “Clashing Aesthetics: Understanding African-derived Sensibilities in Contemporary Christian Music in America”
SESSION 7 (11:30 to 12:45) (Lecture Hall – ABL)
THEORY AND THEOLOGY
Session chair: Timothy Steele (Calvin College)
11:30: George Harne (Princeton University): “Musica Contemplativa and the Beatific Vision”
12:05: Philip Stoltzfus (University of St. Thomas): “Karl Barth, The Magic Flute, and God: The Implications of the Duet ‘Tamino Mein’ for Barth’s Theological Method”
LUNCH AND CLOSING REMARKS (1:00) (Conference Room — Cashion Academic Center 5th floor)