Spring 2017 Meeting Schedule

The Spring 2017 Meeting of the AMS-GNY will take place at the AMS Office at NYU (194 Mercer Street.) The schedule is as follows:

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Session 1: (11:00AM-12:30PM)

Katherine Walker: "The 'Grand Architect': Gerard's Theory of Genius and Haydn's Aesthetics of Process"

William Hettrick: "Johann Herbeck’s Entrance into the Viennese Hofkapelle and His Mass in E Minor

Barry Wiener: "Brahms and Ossian: Compositional Sources and Political Symbolism in the First Symphony"

Business Meeting w/ Lunch (12:30-1:15)

Keynote: (1:30-2:00)

Lawrence Ferrara: "Phenomenology and the Analysis of Music"

Break (2:00-2:15)

Session 2: (2:15-3:45)

Solomon Guhl-Miller: "The Sublime and the Beautiful as Tools for Interpreting Form in a 19th-Century Context"

David Hurwitz: "Auber’s Critique de la raison pure and the decline of the Ballet Philosophique"

David Cohen: “In which it is evident that perception is always deceived”: Pythagorean Rationality and Descartes’ “Clear and Distinct Ideas”