FMCS Princeton University 2005
Forum on Music & Christian Scholarship
2005 Annual Meeting
Friday and Saturday, February 18 and 19, 2005
Princeton University
PROGRAM
Friday, February 18
Morning
Session 1
Jeannette D. Jones (Louisiana State University), "Viriditas in Hildegard of Bingen and Gregory the Great"
Emily Snow (Princeton University), "Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 215-216 and Devotion to the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin in the Low Countries" (no abstract available)
Session 2
David Black (Harvard University), "Lieder der neuen Religion: Mozart and Reform Catholicism"
Eric McKee (The Pennsylvania State University), "The Topic of the Sacred in Beethoven's Instrumental Music"
Afternoon
Session 3
Stephen Arthur Allen (Rider University), "'Salvation at Sea': Billy Budd and the Catastrophe of Doubt"
Vincent Benitez (Eastern Michigan University), "Timbre as Religious Symbol in Olivier Messiaen's Opera St. François d'Assise"
Robert Sholl (King's College London/Thames Valley University), "Messiaen, St. Francis, and Redemption through Modernity"
Keynote Address
Robert Wuthnow, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Saturday, February 19
Morning
Session 4
Anthony Alms (Baruch College of CUNY), "Dafne, Theology, the the Beginnings of German Opera"
Markus Rathey (Yale Institute of Sacred Music), "Sweetening Heinrich Schütz: Kittel's Arrangement of O süsser Jesu Christ"
Stephen A. Crist (Emory University), "The Kessler Reformation Collection at Emory University: An Untapped Resource for Musical Scholarship"
Concurrent late morning sessions
Session 5
Rafael Lamas (Fordham University), "Ignatius of Loyola's 'Music of the Heart' and his Impact on Early-Modern Spanish Musical Theatre"
Greta Olson (Chinese University of Hong Kong), "Politics, Music and the Adaptation of a Chant"
Session 6
Steven Nuss (Colby College), "Speaking and Hearing 'the Word': Moving Toward a Theology of Music Analysis"
James K. Wright (Carleton University), "'In the Beginning was the Deed': Schoenberg and Wittgenstein on the Limits of Language in Religion, Ethics, and Music Aesthetics"
Early afternoon
Session 7
Beate Kutschke (Berlin), "Avant-Gardist Voices as Protest Against a Conservative Christian Institution: Contemporary Sacred Music in West German of the 1950s"
David Horace Perkins (Vanderbilt University), "Selling the Sacred: Contemporary Christian Worship Music as General Market Commodity"