Writing the History of the Eighteenth-Century Symphony
A Scholarly Meeting Held in Memory of
A. Peter Brown

Sponsored by the Department of Musicology, School of Music, Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
4-6 November 2005

On 4-6 November 2005, the Department of Musicology will host a special scholarly meeting on the eighteenth-century symphony dedicated to the memory of the late A. Peter Brown. Professor Brown's last scholarly project, the five-volume series entitled The Symphonic Repertoire, remained incomplete at his death. This meeting will feature presentations by seventeen of the scholars collaborating on the writing of the first volume of that series. There will be no charge for attending the meeting, but if you wish to attend, please notify the department's Administrative Assistant, Yvonne Gray, by 24 October 2005 (click here to send e-mail to her).

Program

Friday, November 4 (Faculty Club, Indiana Memorial Union)

9:00-10:15Welcome and Opening Remarks
    Massimo Ossi
    Carol V. Brown
    Mary Sue Morrow: Evolving--Developing--Congealing--Coalescing, or the Importance of Verbs in Constructing a History of the Eighteenth-Century Symphonic Repertoire.
10:30-12:00 The Earliest Symphonies
    Chair: Bathia Churgin
    Jean Wolf: Thoughts on the Origin of the Symphony
    Marita McClymonds: The Early Italian Opera Overtura or Sinfonia:
    Changing Concepts and Meanings
12:30-2:00 Buffet Lunch
2:00-5:00 Topical Approaches
    Chair: Marita McClymonds
    Adena Portowitz: J. C. Bach and the Classic Symphony in Minor
    Paul Bryan: The Minor Mode in Johann Wanhal's Symphonies
    Judith Schwartz: Italian Partimento Elements in Gossec's Symphonies
    R. Todd Rober: Context and Commerce: Gottlob Harrer's Sinfonias and the Breitkopf Catalogues

Saturday, November 5 (Sweeney Hall, Simon Music Center)

9:00-12:00 Free Papers
    Chair: Sterling Murray
    Suzanne Forsberg: Authenticity and Authorship in the Eighteenth-Century Symphony:
    The Case of Joseph Camerloher and Placidus von Camerloher
    Michael Ruhling: The Short and Shorter of It: Michael Haydn's Symphonies of 1788
    Bertil van Boer: The Eighteenth-Century Symphony on the Periphery
12:30-2:00 Buffet Lunch (Simon Music Center, M340)
2:00-5:00 Defining Convention in the Eighteenth-Century Symphony
    Chair: Bertil van Boer
    Timothy Noonan: Aspects of Sonata Form in the Symphonies of Boccherini
    Peter Alexander: Karl von Ordonez and the Diversity of Convention
    Sterling Murray: Synergy and Cohesion as a Measure of Stylistic Development in the Symphonies of Antonio Rosetti
    René M. Ramos: Gaetano Brunetti and His Contribution to the Symphonic Repertoire
6:00Concert (Auer Hall, Simon Music Center)

Sunday, November 6 (Sweeney Hall, Simon Music Center)

9:00-12:00 Panel Discussion: Geography and the Creation and Transmission of Style
    Chair: Mary Sue Morrow
    Joanna Cobb Biermann, Bertil van Boer, Bathia Churgin, Sterling Murray, and Judith Schwartz

The events are supported in part by a generous grant from
the Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund of the Department of French and Italian,
Indiana University.