American Musicological Society Southwest Chapter Conference Proceedings

Contents

Papers Read

Fortepiano Music Around the Congress of Vienna
Mario Aschauer, Sam Houston State University

Encultured Musical Codes in Bear McCreary’s Video Game and TV Soundtracks
(Joseph E. Jones, Texas A&M University-Kingsville)

Rethinking Sonata Form in Beethoven’s Lyricism
(Peng Liu, The University of Texas at Austin)

100% Chamula!!: Transgressive identities and musical transculturalism in the Mexican south border
(Marusia Pola Mayorga, Texas Tech University and Anny Zuñiga Santiago, Independent Artist

Chiquinha Gonzaga: Musician and Activist in the Brazilian Society at the 20th-Century Turn
(Miranda Bartira Sousa, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley– Edinburg Campus)

Poster Session Abstracts

Hans Gál (1890-1987) and Egon Wellesz (1885-1974): Composers, Scholars, and Exiles
Layla Butler, University of Central Arkansas

Music as Speech: How Video Game Musical Motifs Drive the Story | Abstract
(Carrie Evans, Texas Tech University)

Instrument of Evil: Pipe Organ in Musical Themes of Video Game Antagonists
(Brent Alan Ferguson, Independent Scholar)

Unraveling the Threads of Madness: Henry Russell’s “The Maniac”
(TJ Laws-Nicola, Texas State University)

Rediscovering the Minstrel Music of African-American Composer Jacob J. Sawyer (1856-1885)
(Nico Schüler, Texas State University)