Musicological Film Studies: Sources, Bibliography, and Editions
February 26-28, 2009
Intellectual Commons, Room 233
Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California
At this three-day symposium a group of international scholars will speak on such issues as sources and archives of film music, issues of accessibility, and editions (and what those would entail). The latter is particularly important, since no published editions of American film scores currently exist for study along with the film. The third day of the conference will be linked with the regional AMS chapter meeting.
Registration fee is $120 ($60 for students).
Checks made payable to the AMS (the American Musicological Society) should be mailed to Michael Pisani, Symposium Program Director, Vassar College, Box 595, Poughkeepsie, New York, 12604.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
THURSDAY
9:00 a.m.: Registration
9:15 a.m.: Welcome / Introduction: Michael Pisani (Vassar College)
9:30 a.m.: Editing and Editions: Whither Film Score Editions? (Moderator: James Wierzbicki, University of Michigan, Executive Editor, MUSA)
Richard Smiraglia (Editor-in-Chief, Knowledge Organization, Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University), and James D'Arc (Brigham Young University). Discussant: Ben Winters (Institute of Musical Research, University of London).
11:30 a.m.: Reconstruction, Roundtable discussion (Moderator: William H. Rosar)
John Morgan (composer, Los Angeles), “Reconstructing Film Scores,” with Kathleen Mayne (composer and restorer of “Monstrous Movie Music”), James D’Arc (Brigham Young University), and Lukas Kendall (Editor and Founder, Film Score Monthly)
12:30 p.m.: Lunch
2:00 p.m.: USC Cinematic Arts Library digitization project of the film scores of Dimitri Tiomkin and Elmer Bernstein, presented by Sandy Garcia-Myers (University of Southern California)
2:30 p.m.: Methodologies I (Moderator: TBA)
Jonathan Waxman (New York Univ.): “A Review of Composer Commentaries on DVDs,” Knut Holtstraeter (Univ. of Bayreuth): “Mauricio Kagel’s Compositions of Film and Music: A Philological Survey,” Kristin Force (York University, CA): “Methodical Issues in Examining Philip Glass’s Film Scores,” and Ian Sapiro (University of Leeds): “Reconsidering the Film Score: A Case Study—The Music of Trevor Jones”
4:30 p.m.: Dinner
6:30 p.m.: Methodologies II (Moderator: TBA)
Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University): “Filming with Mengelberg – Revisited,” Todd Decker (Washington University, St. Louis): “8 Brass, 5 Sax, 4 Rhythm: Swing Arrangements and Arrangers in the Musicals of Fred Astaire,” and Krin Gabbard (SUNY Stony Brook): “Malle Meets Miles: Jazzing the French Cinema”
8:00 p.m.: Source Studies I (Moderator: TBA)
Volker Straebel (Technical University Berlin): “The optical soundtrack as a means of sound synthesis. Implications of a media-specific art form” and Miguel Mera (Anglia Ruskin University): “Sketches, Ashes and Music Technology”
FRIDAY
9:00 a.m.: Source Studies II (Moderator: TBA)
Nathan Platte (University of Michigan): “Music by “Max Steiner & Co.”: Compositional Camaraderie in Gone with the Wind (1939),” Laura Lynn Broadhurst (Rutgers University): “A Musicologist's Journey Down the Yellow Brick Road: Creating a Source Study of the Score for M-G-M's The Wizard of Oz in a Terra Incognita,” and Linda Schubert (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point): “Hollywood Gives Shakespeare One More Chance”: Archival Sources of Information for Stothart’s Score for Romeo and Juliet (1936)”
10:30 a.m.: Break
10:45 a.m.: Source Studies III (Moderator: TBA)
Franco Sciannameo (Carnegie Mellon): “Urtext(ual) Issues in Nino Rota’s Scores to The Godfather, Parts I and II," Tobias Plebuch (Humboldt University Berlin): “Liturgy of Crime: The Music for the Baptism Scene in The Godfather,” Roberto Kolb and José Luis Castillo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): “Redes: A Critical Edition of Music Composed by Mexican Silvestre Revueltas for Paul Strand's The Wave (1934),” and William H. Rosar (University of San Diego): “Music: The Handmaiden of the Movies”
12:45 p.m.: Lunch
2:15 p.m.: Sources and Archives I (Moderator: TBA)
Kate McQuinston (University of Hawaii): “Musical Evidence in The Stanley Kubrick Archive: A Survey of Documents,” Antonio Ferrara (Rome): “A collection of film scores at the Library of the National School of Cinema in Rome,” Ben Winters (Institute of Musical Research, University of London) and Miguel Mera (Anglia Ruskin University): “Screen Music Sources in the U.K. and Ireland,” and James D'Arc (Brigham Young): “Holdings of the Film Music Archive”
4:15 p.m.: Sources and Archives II (Moderator: TBA)
Janet Bradford (Brigham Young): The Union Catalog of Motion Picture Music. Richard Smiraglia, discussant.
5:00 p.m.: Reception in the Doheny Memorial Library Courtyard
SATURDAY
9:00 a.m.: Registration / Coffee
9:30 a.m.: AMS Paper Session I (papers TBA)
11:00 a.m.: Sources and Archives III, Roundtable (Moderator: Leslie Andersen, Cal State, Long Beach)
Sandra Joy Lee (USC Warner Bros. Archives), Warren Sherk (Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts/Sciences), Peggy Alexander (UCLA), James D’Arc (Brigham Young), Janet Bradford (Brigham Young), and Sandy Garcia-Meyers (USC)
1:00 p.m.: Lunch
2:30 p.m.: AMS Chapter Business Meeting
2:45 p.m.: AMS Paper Session II (papers TBA)
4:45 p.m.: Conference concludes
8:00 p.m.: CONCERT in Costa Mesa (optional): Pacific Symphony Orchestra, cond. Carl St. Clair. Joseph Horowitz, artistic director. “Hollywood’s Golden Age”: Music of Erich W. Korngold, Bernard Herrmann, Mikos Rozsa, and James Newton Howard.