American Musicological Society Southwest Chapter Conference Proceedings

Contents

Papers Read

The Piano Concerto Transcription: Liszt’s Back Door Entrance to the Genre | Handout
(Michael Clark, The University of Houston)

Prima la musica e poi le parole? Strauss’s Symphonic Sketching for Der Rosenkavalier and Arabella
(Joseph E. Jones, Texas A&M University-Kingsville)

Paper Abstracts

Music and Musical Life in the Utopian Community of La Réunion, Texas (1855-58), with a Little-Known Songbook
(John Michael Cooper, Southwestern University)

Poster Session Abstracts

The Song Remains the Same? The Effect of Oral Transmission on Folk Melodies
(Joshua Albrecht, The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and Daniel Shanahan, Louisiana State University)

The Labyrinth: Musical Intuitions in an Open Work
(Antonella Di Giulio, University at Buffalo)

Serge Jaroff and the Don Cossack Choir: The State of Research in the 21st Century
(Donna Arnold, University of North Texas, University of North Texas Music Library)

Minstrelsy, Vaudeville, and Jim Crow, as Reflected in the Special Collections of UNT Music Library
(Maristella Feustle and Ralph Hartsock, University of North Texas Music Library)

Color-Hearing and Music Analysis
(Jeremy Scott Logan, Texas State University)

Cantometrics Revisited
(Nico Schüler, Texas State University)