Hotel Reservations
The School of Music has reserved a limited number of rooms at a special rate. Guests must make their own reservations and identify themselves as members of either AMS-SC or SCSMT. They may cancel their reservations without penalty no later than seventy-two hours prior to scheduled arrival. The discounted guest room block will be held until Thursday, 18 January 2007 but may be reduced before the cut-off date if it does not show signs of filling up two months before the conference.

The hotel offers the following special rates (all hotel guest rooms are subject to transient occupancy tax as well as any applicable state and local taxes):

Standard room single/double occupancy   $93.00
Standard room triple occupancy         $103.00
Standard room quadruple occupancy      $113.00

Deluxe suite single/double occupancy   $113.00
Deluxe suite triple occupancy          $123.00
Deluxe suite quadruple occupancy       $133.00

A complimentary full buffet breakfast is served each morning in the Shaquille O'Neal Lodge from 6:00 am until 9:30 am on weekdays and 6:00 am until 10:00 am on weekends.

The Lod Cook Conference Center & Hotel is the only hotel on campus. Check Hotels.com for off-campus alternatives.

Directions
Louisiana State University is located between Interstate I-10 and the Mississippi river. For directions to the either the Lod Cook Conference Center & Hotel or the School of Music, use the interactive map of the LSU campus. It includes a link to "Directions to Campus" and a pull-down list of buildings (you will need the "School of Music Building" and "Lod Cook Alumni Center")

Arriving and Parking on the LSU Campus
Those who arrive by plane at Baton Rouge Metropolitan airport and would like to be picked up should contact the respective local arrangements chair and provide time of arrival and flight number. Several LSU students and faculty members have offered to provide rides. Those who arrive by car will be able to park at the conference hotel. The School of Music can be reached from the hotel either by foot (ca. 15 minutes) or by car. Visitor parking is available in a lot adjacent to the lot for School of Music faculty. Information on how to obtain a visitor parking permit is available on the Web site of the Visitor Center. The Visitor Center is located on Dalrymple Drive, very close to the School of Music. Please use the interactive map of the LSU campus for exact location. In addition, LSU students and faculty will be glad to provide transportation. The Local Arrangements Chairs for the meeting are:

Andreas Giger, telephone: 225/344-0427, email: agiger1@lsu.edu
Jeffrey Perry, telephone: 225/578-3556, email: jperry@lsu.edu

Follow the links below for further information about this meeting

American Musicological Society-Southern Chapter home page

South Central Society for Music Theory home page

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Program for AMS-SC:
Friday, February 9, 2007

8:30-10:00 AM Session I: Raisons d'être: How Things Come to Be

Music for Louis d'Anjou
Alice Clark--Loyola University

Crotch's Specimens and the Ideology of the Canon
Howard Irving--University of Alabama at Birmingham

Henry Cowell's Role in Developing and Disseminating "Dissonant Counterpoint"
John Spilker--Florida State University

BREAK--10:00-10:15

10:15-11:45
Session II: Problems in Performance Practice: The Score and Beyond

"Lichtmusik" and "Orgies of Darkness": Balancing the Aural and the Visual in the 1903 Mahler-Roller Tristan
Stephen Thursby--Florida State University

The Sound of the Present-Day Prepared Piano
Tina Huettenrauch--Louisiana State University

The Performance Tradition of Berio's Circles
Amy Strickland--University of Alabama


LUNCH: 11:45-1:30

1:30-2:30
Session III: Taking a Second Look

A Reappraisal of Bertali's Instrumental Compositions
Charles Brewer--Florida State University

"With All Pomposity and Solemnity": Music, Ritual and the Re-Evaluation of Baroque Aesthetics in Religious Culture of New Spain
Jesus A. Ramos-Kittrel--New College of Florida

S-T-R-E-T-C-H

2:35-3:35

Session IV: Italian Opera: Behind the Scenes

Vincente Martin y Soler's Opera for Turin: Elements of Production and Ensemble Writing in Andromaca (1780) & Vologeso (1783)
Margaret Butler--University of Alabama

New Letters from Scribe to Verdi and the "Problem" of the Fifth Act of Les Vêpres Siciliennes
Andreas Giger--Louisiana State University


BREAK: 3:35-3:55

3:55-:4:55 PM

Session V: Musical Manifestations of Britain's Heros

Dryden's King Arthur on the Opera Stage
Lisi Oliver--Louisiana State University

Vaughan Williams's Scott of the Antarctic and Sinfonia Antartica: A Problem of Ambiguity
Aaron Keebaugh--University of Florida

S-T-R-E-T-C-H

5:00--6:00
Session VI: Local colors: Two Views from California

Ernest Bloch in San Francisco
David Kushner--University of Florida

Perspectives on Jim Morrison from the Underground: Jim Morrison and the Los Angeles Free Press
Melissa Goldsmith--Nicholls State University

Saturday, February 10, 2007

8:30-9:30 BUSINESS MEETING

9:30-11:00
Session VII: More Local Colors: Putting Music in Its Place

Pilgrim's Pride? Edgar Stillman Kelley's New England Symphony (1913)
Charles Freeman--Palm Beach Atlantic University

After the Show: The Intimate Review in London's West End from 1945 to 1955
Rebecca Burkart--North Florida Community College

Music in the New Orleans Disapora
Stella Baty Landis--Tulane University


SHORT BREAK: 11:00-11:15

11:15-1:15

VIII: Thinking Classically: Structure and Kinship

Formal Innovation in Haydn's Mature Piano Trios (Hob. XV: 5-32)
James MacKay--Loyola University

A Reevaluation of "Significant" Thematic Relationships in the Classical Era
Bryan Proksch--McNeese State University

Beethoven Thinking about Cycles: Some Consequences
Joanna Biermann--University of Alabama

Franz Schubert, Caspar David Friedrich, and the Impossible Landscape
Edward Hafer--University of Southern Mississippi

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Updated: 20 January 2007