New Perspectives on Improvisation and Compositional Process
Friday Night Concert and Saturday Symposium in honor of Professor Anna Maria Busse Berger
Read more about the Friday night concert given by L’ensemble Coclico.
9:15 am: Introduction at 9:15 am by Department Chair Laurie San Martin ’91 (UC Davis)
Session I: 9:30–10:40 am
Chair: Pierpaolo Polzonetti (UC Davis)
9:30 am: Stephen Blum (The Graduate
Center, City University of New York)
“Three Musicological Concepts: Mode, Composition, Improvisation”
10:05 am: Jesse Rodin (Stanford
University)
“Memory, Liveness, and the Chanson”
10:40 am: Coffee & Tea
Session II: 10:55 am –12:05 pm
Chair: Beth Levy (UC Davis)
10:55 am: Jessie Ann
Owens (UC Davis)
“Improvisation and Composition in Cipriano de Rore’s Ariosto
Settings”
11:30 am: John Lutterman ‘06 (University of
Alaska)
“Re-creating 18th-Century Improvisatory Practices on the Cello”
12:05 pm: Lunch
2:00 pm
Christopher
Reynolds (UC Davis)
“A Career of Improvisation”
Session III: 2:15–3:25 pm
Chair: Carol A. Hess (UC Davis)
2:15 pm: Sarah Eyerly ‘07 (Florida State
University)
“Sound and Spirit: Improvised Hymnody in the Moravian Mohican
Missions.”
2:50 pm: Philippe
Canguilhem (University of Toulouse)
“Formulas for Composing and/or Improvising: A Closer Look at
Rome, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, ms. G 384”
3:25 pm: Coffee & Tea
Session IV: 3:45–4:55 pm
Chair: Henry Spiller (UC Davis)
3:45 pm: Robert O. Gjerdingen (Northwestern
University)
“Three Centuries of Classical Improvisation: Naples and Paris”
4:20 pm: Elisabeth Le Guin (UCLA)
“‘El cancionero de Santa Ana’: Improvisation as
the Practice of Freedom in a California Immigrant Community”
—with singers of Son del Centro / El
Centro Cultural de México
Made possible by support from the William E. Valente Endowment in Music, from the UCHRI, and support from the departments of Art History, Art Studio, History, French, and English.