American Musicological Society Southwest Chapter Conference Proceedings

Special Issue dedicated to Dr. Sheryl Murphy-Manley

Contents

Paper Abstracts

The Early Baroque Singer as Actor: Portraying Emotion on the Venetian Opera Stage
(Emily Hagen, University of North Texas)

Contrasting Fortepiano Colors and Developing Variations in Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Opus 111
(Stephen Husarik, University of Arkansas–Fort Smith)

The Blues: Going Medieval on your Assumptions
(Kim Pineda, Sam Houston State University)

To Wipe All Tears from Our Eyes: Devised Pedagogy and Practice-Based Research in the Teaching of History
(Nicole Wesley, Texas State University and Christopher J. Smith, Texas Tech University)

The Absence of Female Composers in the Development of Modern Dance
(Anne Wharton, Texas Tech University)

The Singing Charro, the Silver Screen Cowboy, and Valorization of Rural Life in an Age of Social and Technological Transition
(Joanna Zattiero, University of Texas at Austin)

Poster Session Abstracts

Bad, Bad Woman: An Analysis of Carmen and Her Role Within Society
(Heather Beltz, Texas Tech University)

Thinking by Ear
(Vern Falby, Peabody Conservatory and James Dennis, Texas State University)

Singing Defiance: El Corrido de Gregrorio Cortez
(Brian Galica, Texas Tech University)

An Unattributed Renaissance Gradual in the Trinity University Special Collections
(Kimberlyn Montford and Kristina Kummerer, Trinity University, San Antonio)

Microtiming at the Beginning of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata op. 2 No. 1, I
(Nico Schüler, Texas State University)

The American Music Wiki Cohort: Purging Textbooks from the Academy One Entry at a Time
(Scott M. Strovas, Wayland Baptist University)