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The Face Of Bach

"Bach, c'est Bach, comme Dieu, c'est Dieu!" - Hector Berlioz

SSCM-L members in the Boston area may be interested in the lecture by Ellen
Harris on The Music Lover in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century England.

Cheers,

Darwin Scott
SSCM-L moderator

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Greetings, Colleagues! Apologies for cross-posting.

Below is the announcement for the second in a series of colloquia at Tufts
University being given by noted musicologists using the resources of the
Frederic Louis Ritter Special Collections in Music. Please share this
announcement with any interested parties!

As with last week's colloquium by Thomas Christensen (University of
Chicago), there will be a luncheon with the speaker following the talk, to
which faculty, staff, and graduate students from other institutions are
welcome -- please have anyone interested contact me by Friday Sept. 26th.
(I need to make sure catering provides enough sandwiches!)

Thanks,
Michael

Ritter Collection Colloquia Series
funded by the Berger Family Technology Transfer Endowment Award

Where: Tisch Library Media Center, Room 304
Tufts University, Medford Campus

When: Wednesday, October 1, 2003
12 noon - 1 pm

Topic: The Music Lover in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century
England

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed revolutionary changes in
music repertoire, not just in terms of genre but also in the growth of an
historical perspective. This period also saw a significant and related
expansion in the audience for music. All three of these factors: formal and
generic musical innovation, the establishment of an historical canon in
performance, and the impact of sociological changes on the growth of
audiences for music, led to an important shift in the kind of book written
for music lovers. Using selected texts published in England during these
two centuries preserved in the Frederic Louis Ritter Collection at Tufts
University, I will look at how writing about music for amateurs during these
200 years shifted from practical manuals to historical and critical
commentary and discuss some of what I see as the underlying causes for this
change.

Ellen T. Harris (Ph.D., Chicago, 1976), Class of 1949 Professor of Music at
MIT, is a musicologist whose work focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, especially the music of Handel and Purcell, opera and vocal
performance practice. The author of numerous books and articles, she most
recently published Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber
Cantatas (Harvard, 2001), winner of the 2002 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the
American Musicological Society and the 2002-03 Louis Gottschalk Prize from
the Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Professor Harris is a member of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and this spring will be in
residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey,
where she will be working on a study of Handel's London.

Please contact Michael Rogan, Music Librarian, for further information:

Michael Rogan, Music Library
Music Librarian 026 Aidekman Arts Center
Tufts University
(617) 627-2846 Office Medford, MA 02155
michael.rogan@... (617) 627-3594
(617) 627-3684 Fax




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