Call for Papers
The Mozart Society will sponsor the following two sessions at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. The conference will take place San Antonio, Texas March 22-25, 2012:
Mozart's Chamber Music and its Contexts
This session will explore Mozart's chamber music and its eighteenth-century contexts. Possible topics might include Mozart's music vis-à-vis that of other composers of the time and the dissemination and reception of Mozart's chamber works. When, where, and how was this music performed? What role did publications and arrangements play in its reception? In what contexts do we hear this music today? How do these differ from the eighteenth century? Papers that address the role of chamber music in eighteenth-century novels, plays, diaries, paintings and prints would also be welcome.
To submit a proposal, please send an abstract by Sept, 15, 2011 to Laurel E. Zeiss (Laurel_Zeiss@baylor.edu). Please include your name, email, and phone number and indicate what audio-visual equipment you will need.
Mozart and the Allegorical Stage
The conception of allegory as a superannuated form of theater predominated in Vienna’s Enlightened circles; it also carries (under a different aspect) some authority in present-day Mozart scholarship.
Especially when it comes to the Da Ponte operas, Mozart’s operatic achievement is often cast in implicitly anti-allegorical language—for example, as a triumph over the fixed character, the predictable situation, or the old convention in favor of a more dynamic, interior sense of theater.
Some recent scholarship, however, has argued for a more robust presence of allegory in the latter half of the eighteenth century, a line of thought that will be the point of departure for this proposed panel. Although the focus is on Mozart, papers that explore allegory more broadly are encouraged. Topics might involve, for example, allegorical interpretations of specific dramatic works, allegory in relation to particular genres or to the visual arts, theories of allegory, political and religious contexts for allegory, or allegory in eighteenth-century reception (as critics wrestled with the works of Shakespeare, for example).
To submit a proposal, please send an abstract by Sept, 15, 2011, to Edmund Goehring (egoehrin@uwo.ca). Please include your name, email, and phone number and indicate what audio-visual equipment you will need.
For more information about the meeting, please see the ASECS website.
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