Forum on Music & Christian Scholarship
2004 Annual Meeting
Friday and Saturday, March 26 and 27, 2004
Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia
Friday, March 26
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8:00 - 8:30
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Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 8:45 |
Welcome |
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8:45 - 10:45 |
Session One |
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Tamara A. Raatz (Eastern New Mexico University): "The Musical Mechanics of
Mysticism: Uncovering the Influence of the Book of Revelation Within 'Abyss of
the Birds' from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time" |
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Steven W. Gehring (State University of New York at Stony Brook): "Religion and
Spirituality in Messiaen Scholarship" |
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Live Performance and Discussion of Music by John L. Lane
(Wheaton College) |
| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00 |
Chapel |
| 11:45 - 1:00 |
Luncheon and Business Meeting |
| 1:00 - 2:15 |
Session Two |
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Ken Stephenson (University of Oklahoma): "A Christian Critique
of Semiological Analysis of Music" |
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David Fuentes (Calvin College): "The Musical Impulse and its
Implications and Applications for Christian Scholarship" |
| 2:15 - 2:30 |
Break |
| 2:30 - 3:45 |
Session Three |
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Nikola D. Strader (Columbus, Ohio): "Abraham, Isaac, and Owen:
Britten's Reinterpretation of the Requiem Mass as Exemplified in the
'Offertorium' of the War Requiem" |
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Stephen Rumph (University of Washington): "Mozart's Credo:
Language, Enlightenment, and the Problem of Belief" |
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3:45 - 4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00 - 5:15 |
Session Four |
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Elizabeth Crownfield (New York University): "Byrd's Tongues of
Fire: Faith, Meaning, and the Compositional Process" |
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Jennifer L. Roth-Burnette (New York University): "Organum,
Trope, and Commentary in the Nativity Liturgy" |
| 5:30 |
Dinner (on your own) |
Saturday, March 27
| 8:00 - 8:30 |
Continental Breakfast
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| 8:30 - 9:45 |
Session Five |
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Jacomien Prins (University of Utrecht): "Marsilio Ficino,
Francesco Patrizi, and the Harmony of the Spheres" |
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Donna M. Altimari-Adler (Saint Xavier University): "Augustine's
De Musica and the Rhythm of Creation" |
| 9:45 - 10:00
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Break |
| 10:00 - 11:15 |
Session Six
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Kevin Holm-Hudson (University of Kentucky): "Et Tu, U2?: 'Wake
Up Dead Man' and Bono's Perceived Betrayal of the Faith" |
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Francine Fledderus (Toronto, Ontario): "Now Hear This Mixture /
Where Hip Hop Meets Scripture, or Can Aesthetically-Pleasing Music Be
Christian?"
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| 11:15 - 11:30 |
Break |
| 11:30 - 12:45 |
Session Seven
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Andrew Granade (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
"The Good Old Songs: Faith and Shape-Note Singing Revivals" |
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Joanna Hastings (University of Pittsburgh): "Canaan's Land: The
Transference of a Metaphor Between Written and Oral Traditions in American
Shape-Note Hymnody" |
| 12:45 |
Closing Remarks |
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