AMS-NE Fall 2023 Meeting
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Hosted by Boston University’s Center for Early Music Studies
Local arrangements by Prof. Victor Coelho (Boston University)
Program of the Meeting (Sep 30, 2023)
Abstracts and presenters are available here.
10:30-11:00AM Refreshments and Welcoming Remarks
11:00AM-12:30PM Session #1
- Janie Cole (Yale University)
“The Circulation of Renaissance Keyboards in Early Modern Sub-Saharan Africa” - Emily Korzeniewski (Yale University)
“Machaut’s Rests in Scribal Hands” - Flora Giordani (Boston University)
“A Methodological Proposal for the Critical Edition of Domenico Zipoli’s Mass of Potosí (Mass in F major, or Four-part Mass)”
12:30-2:30PM Lunch Break (see list of restaurant recommendations below)
2:30-3:30PM Session #2 (Keynote Lecture)
- Jane Bernstein (Tufts University)
“Materiality, Technology, and the Music Book in Sixteenth-Century Rome and Venice”
3:30-3:45PM Break
3:45-4:45PM Session #3
- Michael Noone (Boston College)
“The Immigrant, the Illiterate Widow, and Music Printing in Early 17th-century Spain: The Case of Susana Muñoz in Salamanca” - Lynette Bowring (Yale University)
“Notating Improvisation in Early Modern Italy”
5:00PM Closing Reception near Kenmore Square (RSVP with Victor Coelho, blues [at] bu [dot] edu)
Local Arrangements Information
Map image of meeting location, subway stop, and parking nearby. Map numbers listed below.
Meeting Location (#1 on map image above; also on this map)
Boston University
College of Fine Arts
855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215
Rm. 254 (Marshall Room)
Subway Transportation (#2 on map image above; also on this map)
MBTA Subway Stop: Green Line B (Amory Street)
MBTA directions from North Station:
take any Green Line inbound, get off at Copley, stay on the platform and take the Green Line B towards Boston College
MBTA directions from South Station:
Take Red Line to Park Street, transfer to Green Line B towards Boston College
Parking near the meeting location
Public Parking on Saturdays is available at Agganis Arena (preferable), 2 blocks from 855 Commonwealth Ave (#3 on map or here) and the Langsam Lot (on map here). Details for both are here.
Accessibility information available here.
Restaurants for lunch close to 855 Commonwealth Ave. Most of these are within 5 minutes.
- Otto [link]: thin crust pizza, quite good
- Life Alive [link]: tasty organic and mostly vegetarian food
- Boston House of Pizza [link]: a grill that has everything but specializes in Greek food
- Chipotle and Taco Bell
- Brown Sugar [link]: excellent Thai place located three blocks up Commonwealth Ave just past Agganis Arena
- Sunset Cantina [link]: Mexican, but has other options and decent margaritas.
- Target [link] (right across from 855 Comm Ave) has snacks, smoothies, and a small grocery for fruit, water, etc.
* RSVP for the Meeting’s Closing Reception with Victor Coelho (blues@bu.edu) and please address any local arrangements questions or special equipment needs to him.