THURSDAY, JUNE 2nd
Concurrent Session 6: 9:30-11:00am
6B Paper Session: Rethinking Tradition (HDH 234)
Session Chair: Gordon E. Smith
Rebellion in the Salsa Club: Challenging Basic Dance and Musical Structures Through Improvisation (in-person)
Rebecca Simpson-Litke
University of Manitoba
L’incursion de la violoniste Classique dans la musique traditionelle Québécoise instrumentale: d’un territoire à l’autre (in-person)
Aurélie Thériault Brillon
Université Laval
Inverting the Eurocentric Approach: Reimagining the Ottoman Piece “Çeçen Kızı (Chechen Girl)” using Intercultural Collaboration in North America (online)
Bahar Gjuka
University of Calgary
Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:30am
Concurrent Session 7: 11:30am – 12:30pm
7B: Opera (HDH 234)
Session Chair: Christianne Rushton
Black Opera: A Showcase of Black Opera Companies, Works, and Artists (in-person)
Sophie Bisson
York University
The Havana Opera Company: Transnational Traveling Italian Opera in the Americas in Mid-Nineteenth Century (online)
Miranda Tagliari Sousa
University of Pittsburg
Lunch Break: 12:30 – 2:00pm
Concurrent Session 8: 2:00 – 3:30pm
8A: 19th-Century Music (HDH 226)
Session Chair: Michelle Boyd
Evaluating Dvořák’s “Niche” the 1892 Farewell Tour, the Dumky Piano Trio Op. 90 and Perceptions of Dvořák as a Chamber Music Composer (online)
Eva Branda
Wilfrid Laurier University
Poison or Salve? Music and Melancholy in Robert Schumann’s “Aus den Hebräischen Gesängeng” (online)
Jamie Meyers-Riczu
University of Alberta
Franck’s Early Compositions: What We Can Learn from Childhood Works (in-person)
Jon-Tomas Godin
Brandon University
8B: Music & Media (HDH 234)
Session Chair: Cintia Cristiá
Lost in Transcription? Captioning Music and Sound in Streaming Television (in-person)
James Deaville
Carleton University
Evoking the Past: Tensions between Historical and Gameplay Functions in Assassin’s Creed (in-person)
Stephanie Lind
Queen’s University
Strashno, no (Scary, but): How IC3PEAK and Shortparis Express Anti-Putinism in their Music (online)
Aleksandra Drozzina
Purdue University Fort Wayne
Break: 3:30 – 4:00pm
Concurrent Session 9: 4:00 – 5:00pm
9A: Pedagogical Practices (HDH 226)
Session Chair: Colette Simonot-Maiello
Storying Methodology as Practice Towards Decolonizing Instrumental Music Education (in-person)
Katie Tremblay
Trent University
Sankofa Songs: African Nova Scotian Song Repertoire and Aural Skills Pedagogy (in-person)
Peter Fielding
Kennesaw State University
Closing Ceremony: 5:15 – 6:00pm
To cap off our three-day meeting, please join us for final acknowledgements, as well as to hear the prize awards!
Prizes to be awarded:
- MusCan George Proctor Prize
- Student Composition Prize
- SOCAN/MusCan Awards for Writings on Canadian Music
- SOCAN/MusCan Award of Excellence
- Honorary Lifetime Membership to MusCan