Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Thursday, 07/Nov/2024
8:00am
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12:00pm
SMT Executive Board Meeting
Location: Acosta
Closed meeting.
8:00am
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8:00pm
Nursing Mothers' Room
Location: Client Office 3
8:30am
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6:30pm
Registration Desk
Location: Conference Center B
9:00am
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12:00pm
Hitchhiker’s Guide to IMTE (Intergalactic Music Theory of Everything)
Location: City Terrace 4
By invitation only.
A Toolkit for Analyzing Late Sixteenth-Century Polyphony
Location: City Terrace 6
By invitation only.
1:00pm
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2:00pm
Conference Guides Meeting
Location: Mathews
1:00pm
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6:30pm
Exhibit Hall
Location: Conference Center B
2:15pm
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3:15pm
Tension and Humor in Music for Film
Location: River Terrace 3
Chair: William Ayers, University of Central Florida
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/bp63rcnw
 

Cadentius Interruptus: Music as Cinematic Mood-Killer

Frank Lehman



A Taxonomy of Humor in Film Music and Sound

Táhirih Motazedian

2:15pm
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3:45pm
Extending Transformational Analysis – New Approaches, New Visualizations, New Repertoires
Location: City Terrace 7
 

Chair(s): Steven Rings

Discussant(s): Bozhidar Chapkanov, Desirée Johanna Mayr, Timothy Clarkson

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Harmonic Contrasts in Recent Progressive Rock: A Hybrid Functional-Transformational Analysis of Mask Machine (2014) by Flying Colors

Bozhidar Chapkanov

 

Claves as Source of Rhythmic Transformational Material in Francisco Mignone’s Fourth Sonatina

Desirée Johanna Mayr

 

Animation as a Tool for Transformational Analysis of Jazz Improvisation

Timothy Clarkson

Hypermeter and Phrase Rhythm
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: William O'Hara, Gettysburg College
 

Controversial Hypermeters in Bach’s Prelude No. 1 in C Major, WTC I

Ram Reuven



From Old-Time to “Hard Times”: Phrase Rhythm and Prosody in the Music of Tyler Childers

Samantha Harris Waddell



“Ancient Voices”: A Hypermetrical and Orchestrational Analysis of the Theme Songs to Seasons of CBS’s Survivor

Micah Judson Roberts

Understanding Music Theory Through Labor, Law, and Technologies
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Jocelyn Neal, UNC Chapel Hill
 

Form Regimes in American Popular Music

Michael Dekovich



AI, Copyright Law, and Musical Modernism’s Authorial Collapse

Calvin Peck



Understanding Music Copyright Through Legal Analysis and Music Theory

Gillian Radcliffe

Committee on Disability & Accessibility Session
Location: River Terrace 2
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/3n2ka847
 

Chair(s): Dave Easley

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Toward Equitable Teaching Practices for Transgender and Genderqueer Aural Skills Students: Voice, Gender, and Belonging

Kellin Tasber, Michael Callahan

 

Accommodations’ End: Universal Design in Music Theory Assessment

Evan Ware

 

Integrating Inclusive Strategies for Students with Visual Impairments: Examples and Shared Resources from NYU’s Curriculum Project

Sarah Louden

3:15pm
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4:00pm
Coffee Break
Location: Conference Center B
Free beverages.
3:30pm
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5:30pm
Just Two Cents on Tuning
Location: River Terrace 3
Chair: David Lawrence Clampitt, The Ohio State University
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/tc9z2f4u
 

A Balanced Take on Just Intonation in Tonal Music: Towards an Elastic Tonal Pitch Space.

Jan-Martin Gebert



1,203 Cent Octaves and 175 Cent Fifths?: Interval Quality and Frequency Ratio in Berlin School Comparative Musicology

Henry Burnam



Solfège Set Theory

Nathan Lam



The Myth of Transpositional Equivalence

Chris White, Megan Long

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Listening Trans and Trans Listening: Approaches to Music Analysis
Location: City Terrace 7
 

Chair(s): Vivian Luong

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The Idol’s Iki: Breathing Life Into the Transfeminist Cyborg

Christina Misaki Nikitin

 

“Shake It Up and Make It Fizz”: Material, Bonding Play, and Dungeon Intimacies in SOPHIE’s “VYZEE”

Stephen Tian-You Ai

 

Listening-With/As a Sea Anemone: Rippling Time and Trans Intimacy in felicita’s “Sex With Anemone”

hallie voulgaris

Formal Frictions in Tonal Music
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: Nathan John Martin, University of Michigan
 

The Romanticization of the Rounded Binary in Robert Schumann’s Music

Diego Cubero



Lyric Forms as Drama: Integration of Formal Functions and Text Organization in Primo Ottocento Opera

Carlos Perez Tabares



Form-Functional Fusion in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Preludes and Etudes-tableaux

Ryan Peter Krell

Temporality in Action
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Roger Mathew Grant, Wesleyan University
 

Temporality, Tragedy, and Reversed Recapitulation in The Serial-Minimalist First Movement of Joe Hisaishi’s East Land Symphony

Ruixue Hu



Measuring Time in Morton Feldman's Late Music

Jeremy Piotr Tatar



Turns En Manège: Balletic Strategies of Meter and Tempo in Tchaikovsky’s Closing Sections

Andrew Malilay White

Navigating Sensitive Topics
Location: River Terrace 2
 

Chair(s): Evan Jones

Discussant(s): Michael Buchler, Adrian Childs, Chris Endrinal, J. Daniel Jenkins, Ji Yeon Lee, Rachel Lumsden, Horace Maxile, Noel Painter

5:30pm
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6:30pm
Interest Group Fair
Location: Conference Center B
5:45pm
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6:45pm
SMT Student Social Climate Survey Report and Open Forum
Location: River Terrace 2
While we primarily invite students to attend, all are welcomed. This meeting will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/4xpy3xjf
6:30pm
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8:00pm
Opening Reception
Location: River Terrace 1
Cash bar, free hors d'oeuvres
7:00pm
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8:30pm
Scholars for Social Responsibility Interest Group Meeting
Location: City Terrace 9
Dance & Movement Interest Group Meeting
Location: River Terrace 2
Disability & Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: River Terrace 3
This meeting will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/4pw4vdsv
 

 
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