American Musicological Society Southwest Chapter Conference Proceedings

Contents

Papers Read

Atonal Canvas: When Kandinsky met Schoenberg
Kunyuan Guo, Texas Tech University

Exploring the Singing Style in Five Lyrical First Movements from Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
Peng Liu, The University of Texas at Austin

Louis Armstrong’s Melrose Publications and the Mythos of Print Culture
(Scott Strovas, Wayland Baptist University)

Paper Abstracts

Performance Practices for Photoplaying at Three Texas Motion Picture Palaces
(Kendra Preston Leonard, Silent Film Sound and Music Archive)

Toward a Sound Ecology
(Jeff Todd Titon, Brown University)

Poster Session Abstracts

Examination of First-Semester Music Majors’ Knowledge of Music History in Relationship to Instruction Received in High School Ensemble Classes: A Research Study Design
(Kelley Poché-Rodriguez and Vicki Baker, Texas Woman’s University)

The Music of Jacob J. Sawyer (1856-1885) and Sawyer’s Collaborations with the Hyers Sisters, the Haverly’s Colored Minstrels, the Slayton Ideal Company as well as Sam Lucas
(Nico Schüler, Texas State University)