Music and Cats / Book of Abstracts - Catalog - Page 6
Program Day One
15:10 – 16:10 Panel 5 (Historical Perspectives)
11: 15:10 – 15:25 Modal Tomcatting and Catcalling: Analysis of Orlando di Lasso’s “O Lucia, miau,
miau” (1560)
(Camilo Lozano Velasquez / Case Western Reserve University)
12: 15:25 – 15:40 Cat Songs and Singing Cats in the Seventeenth Century
(Katherine Butler /Northumbria University, UK)
13: 15:40 – 15:55 Sounding the Cat: From Meows to Metaphor in Musical Representation
(Chenyu Xiao / University of Leeds)
15:55 – 16:10 Discussion
16:40 – 17:20 Panel 6 (Cats as Musicians)
14: 16:40 – 16:55 Zoosemiotics, Zoomusicology and Musical Creation
(Iván Alhucema / Composer, Independent Scholar)
15: 16:55 – 17:10 An Analysis of CATcerto, a Concerto for Cat and Chamber Orchestra by Mindaugas
Piečaitis
(Christine Boone / St. Olaf College)
17:10 – 17:20 Discussion
17:25 – 18:05 Panel 7 (Music Theory)
16: 17:25 – 17:40 “Das ist höhere Katzenmusik”: Feline Metaphors and Sexual Anxiety in Music
Criticism
(Ross Hagen / Utah Valley University)
17: 17:40 – 17:55 Cat Music and Ataraxía: A Reconstruction of Michael Rother’s Album Katzenmusik
(1979)
(Oliver Zöllner / Stuttgart Media University)
17:55 – 18:05 Discussion
18:10 – 19:00 Panel 8 (Composers and Their Mewses)
18: 18:10 – 18:25 Creation and Appreciation: The Cat as Image and Metaphor Between Feng Zikai’s
Painting and Musical Writing
(Xinyun Zhao / University of Cologne)
19: 18:25 – 18:40 The Organ Stop Cats: Twentieth-Century Composer Connections in the Work of
Jean Langlais
(Emma Wimberg / University of North Texas)
18:40 – 18:55 Discussion
18:55 – 19:00 Closing Remarks
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