Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Friday, 08/Nov/2024 | ||||
| 7:15am - 8:30am |
W. W. Norton Music Theory Focus Group Location: City Terrace 6 By invitation only. |
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| 7:15am - 8:45am |
Retired Members Coffee Hour Location: City Terrace 4 |
Student Breakfast Reception Location: River Terrace 1 Hosted by the SMT Professional Development Committee. |
Music Notation and Visualization Interest Group Meeting Location: River Terrace 2 |
Analysis of World Musics & Timbre and Orchestration Interest Groups Joint Meeting Location: River Terrace 3 This meeting will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/uaen2j59 |
| 8:00am - 9:30am |
Poster Session Location: Conference Center A A Comparison of the Accuracy of Two Algorithms for Predicting the Behavior of ’Soul Dominants’ in the McGill Billboard Corpus Dispersed Harmony as a Means of Distinguishing Sacred Harp Hymn-Tune Subgenres Macroharmonic Embeddings for Analysis Two Views of Distance in Amy Beach’s “When Soul is Joined to Soul” Distances in voice-leading spaces: Functional chord mapping and abstraction Orchestration as an elucidating factor of harmonic function Rosalía’s Strategic and Expressive Use of the Andalusian Cadence Schema Ted Dunbar’s System of Tonal Convergence (1975) and the Speculative Tritone Substitution Rethinking Beethoven’s Late Style: A Multi-Parametrical Analysis in Op. 127/II, with an Emphasis on Hypermetrical Perspective Tone-Clock Theory and Jazz: Applying Chromatic Tonalities to Contemporary Jazz Analyzing Patrick Stump's "Soul Voice": Vocal Timbre as a Signifier of Style and Genre Images and Topics in the Soundtracks of the Squid Game Series Choose Your Own Adventure: Empowering Student Choice in Learning, Assessment, and Grading Pitch, Motive, and Non-Alignment in the Idiomatic Phrasing of Melodic Rap Verses Your Turn to Lead: Cultivating Student Leadership in Music Theory and Aural Skills Exploring Form in Popular Music with Timeline Share Great Escape: Escape Rooms as Pedagogical Experiences in Music Theory Diverse Experiences of Irregular Meters |
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| 8:00am - 8:00pm |
Nursing Mother's Room Location: Client Office 3 Pick up key at registration desk. |
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| 8:30am - 6:30pm |
Exhibit Hall Location: Conference Center B |
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| 8:30am - 6:30pm |
Registration Desk Location: Conference Center B |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Sonata Theory and Formal Strategies Location: City Terrace 9 Chair: John Cuciurean, Western University Breakthrough’s Formal Critique: Reassessing Deformation and Modernism in the fin-de-siècle Symphony Compound S-Module Strategies in Emilie Mayer’s Solo Sonatas The (Romantic) Long Way Around: Retracted Tonal Areas and the ‘Deferred SK’ Exposition |
Theorizing East Asian Pop Location: City Terrace 12 Presentations of the Symposium Influencers and Idols: The Two Phrygians of J-pop Fiery Voices, Cool Sound: Four Vocal Types in J-pop K-pop’s Western Sound and Korean Musical Agency |
Opera, Musical Theatre, and Film Location: River Terrace 2 Chair: Tomoko Deguchi, Winthrop University Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/2fashwbn
Markedness Correlations and the Constraints of Operatic Multimedia Musical Expressions of Urgency, Anger, and Buffoonery in Marc Blitzstein’s *The Cradle Will Rock* Between Continuity and Discontinuity: Expressive Transformations and Structure in the work of Max Steiner |
Proximate Spaces: Reading Through Text, Intertext, and Recomposition Location: River Terrace 3 Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/54ryu5en
What Schubert Learned from Goethe Mazurkas Heard and Half-heard: On Intertextual Networks and (Re)composing From Them From Song to Concerto: Recomposition, Retrieval, and Closure in Amy Beach's Piano Concerto, op. 45 |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
Global Music Theory (As an Insurgent Practice) Location: City Terrace 6 By invitation only. |
Music Psychology and the Ideas of Ernst Kurth Location: City Terrace 8 By invitation only. |
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| 9:00am - 12:15pm |
Creating Spaces that Connect Community: A Workshop and Discussion Location: City Terrace 7 |
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| 10:30am - 10:45am |
Coffee Break Location: Conference Center B Free beverages. |
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| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Form in Popular Music Location: City Terrace 9 Chair: Christine Emily Boone, University of North Carolina Asheville Democratized Form: Collage and Cohesion in the Music of Bon Iver Last Choruses Harmony and Formal Function in deadmau5 |
Gestural Languages: Phenomena, Sound, and Stage Location: City Terrace 12 Chair: Jennifer Iverson, University of Chicago Dance, Trance, and Glance: Unsuk Chin’s Chamber Recreation of Korean Shaman in Gougalon, Movement III, “The Grinning Fortune Teller with the False Teeth” WANG Amao’s One Person Stage (2021)— Synchronizing the Perceptual Metrical Grid and the Sounding Melody Interaction of Noise and Pitch in Live Electroacoustic Music: the Distinctive Approach of Jasna Veličković |
Modeling Musical Analysis Location: Conference Center A Presentations of the Symposium Prolongation in Turkish Music Malambo and Motive in The Second Movement of Ginastera’s Sonata para piano Harmonizing Uncertainty: Ambiguous Tonicizations in the Music of Summer Walker The Duality of Drums: Exploring Timpani’s Melodic and Percussive Potential in Rodis’s Colossus "That word in my Bible": Listening to the Louvin Brothers’ "Broad Minded” A Rhetorical Strategy to Subvert Artistic Suppression: A ‘March’ That is Not a ‘March’ in R. Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses (1937) Yamada Kōsaku’s Inno Meiji: A Portrait of Modern Optimism Locating the ‘Sonata’ in Fanny Hensel’s Sonata o Fantasia Storytelling and Meter in clipping.’s "Story 2” Curious Words and Exaggerated Singing—Humor and Satire in Musicals Comparing the Choreomusical Styles of Marious Petipa and George Balanchine in the Berceuse of Harlequinade Texture and Timing in the Score-Stop The Restorative Obsession of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 2 Metrical Dissonance and Phrase Grouping in HWANG Yau-Tai’s Oblivion (遺忘) "A Blueprint for Dancers": the Fiery and Unforgettable Measures of Rosendo Mendizábal’s "El Enterriano” |
Representing East Asian Traditions in Composition, Past and Present Location: River Terrace 2 Chair: Yayoi Uno Everett, CUNY Hunter College and the Graduate Center Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/zr7zv2dr
Musical Form and Development in Peking Opera Compared with Western Music Imagined Amateurism: Post-Tonal Gestures and Modernist Techniques in Chinese American Composers’ Depiction of Chinese Folk Music Fantasy and Formenlehre in Imperial Japan |
| Timbral Inscriptions: Notation, Tuning, Meter Location: River Terrace 3 Chair: Landon Morrison, University of Rochester Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/2zdy2xr2
Theorizing Notation: Darmstadt, 1959-1965 Restoring Carlos Chávez's Modernism Sofia Gubaidulina's Shadow Tuning and Post-Soviet Hauntology |
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Committee on Disability & Accessibility Brown Bag Lunch Location: City Terrace 4 Open to all attendees. |
Mathematics of Music Interest Group Meeting Location: City Terrace 7 |
Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Group Meeting Location: City Terrace 9 |
Music Cognition Interest Group Meeting Location: City Terrace 12 |
| Committee on Feminist Issues & Gender Equity Brown Bag Lunch Location: Mathews Open to all attendees. |
Russian and Soviet Music Interest Group Meeting Location: River Terrace 2 |
Improvisation & Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Groups Joint Meeting Location: River Terrace 3 |
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| 1:00pm - 3:00pm |
CV Review Waiting Room Location: City Terrace 5 Hosted by the SMT Professional Development Committee. |
CV Review Location: City Terrace 6 Hosted by the SMT Professional Development Committee. |
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| 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
Artusi Ice Cream Social Location: Conference Center B Join us for ice cream treats and get to know the Artusi team of educators! Open to all attendees. |
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| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Don’t Bore Us – Take it to the...Prechorus? Location: City Terrace 7 Chair: Drew Nobile, University of Oregon “Take it to the Bridge:” Exploring transitional sections in R&B “What’s in an OP?”: Narrative, KonoSuba, and the 3/4 Prechorus Enter the Prechorus: Producing Intensification in Two Recent Taylor Swift Songs |
Harmonic Perceptions: Analytical Styles in Chromatic Harmony Location: City Terrace 9 Chair: Scott Gleason, Oxford University Press Analyzing Vincent d’Indy’s Music with Order Spaces Sonic Experience: A Kurth Inspired Analysis The Psychoacoustics of Chromatic Tonality in Phenomenological and Retrospective Spaces: A Dialogue |
Bach to “Bach” Location: City Terrace 12 Chair: Karl Braunschweig, Wayne State University Choreographing Form, Formalizing Choreography: Formal Functions in Sam Weber’s “Bach” Tripartite Period Organization in J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C major (BWV 1061), First Movement Rage Against the Machine: Narratives of Resistance and Struggle in “Widerstehe doch der Sünde,” BWV 54/i |
Reconceiving Texture: Style, Temporality, Expression, and Performance Location: River Terrace 3 Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/yzmtx8zy
Presentations of the Symposium Analyzing Texture: Preliminaries Performing Textural Developing Variation: The Courante from Bach’s Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828 Texture Analysis with Social Networks in Hank Levy’s Whiplash |
| 2:15pm - 5:30pm |
Has Music Theory Become More Diverse Since 2019? Location: River Terrace 2 Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/23nertwa
Presentations of the Symposium What is Music Theory? SMT Conference Presentations Then and Now Interculturality in the Global Age Music Theory Pedagogy: Beyond the Three Bs Five Years On and I’m Still Conflicted Diversity Solutions and Non-Solutions SMT Membership Demographics and the Leaky Pipeline Five Lessons from my First Five Years in Music Theory Personal Reflections on the Recent SMT Student Social Climate Survey |
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| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Alternative Theatricalites in the Music of Kaija Saariaho Location: City Terrace 7 Presentations of the Symposium Theatricality, temporality and the listener in Kaija Saariaho’s Graal théâtre (1994) Staging Sound in Kaija Saariaho’s Study for Life (1980, rev. 2019) Hidden Theatricality in String Quartets by Kaija Saariaho |
Integrating global and popular music into the theory curriculum with Dr. Adem Birson (NYU Steinhardt) & Trevor de Clercq PhD (Middle Tennessee State University), Presented by Auralia & Musition. Location: City Terrace 8 Join Dr. Adem Birson (NYU Steinhardt) and Trevor de Clercq PhD (Middle Tennessee State University) to gain valuable insights and practical suggestions for integrating global and popular music into the theory and aural curriculum. |
Expanding How Music Means Location: City Terrace 9 Chair: Brian Hyer, University of Wisconsin – Madison “The Feeling of Being”: Rethinking Musical Emotion and Affect through the Arab Concept of Ṭarab Learnedness as Type and Style in Haydn's Nelsonmesse Political Meaning of Compositional Technique, Viewed through a Peircean Lens: Three Case Studies from Fascist and Post-WWII Italy |
Punk, Reggaeton, Rap Location: City Terrace 12 Chair: Kyle Adams, Indiana Universtiy The Influence of Punk on Emo in the 21st Century "Sex Sells": A Decolonial Analysis of Purplewashing and Sexual Narrative in the Women of Reggaeton The Language of “Feel”: Understanding J Dilla’s “Perfectly Imperfect” Rhythm in Musicians’ Words |
| Jazz Theory, Music, and Improvisation Location: River Terrace 3 Chair: Joon Park, University of Illinois Chicago Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/mvd6vt33
Place and No-Place in Cecil Taylor’s “This Nearly Was Mine” Expressive Timing, Thematic Transformation, or Both? Onset Displacement and Ontology in Performances of Jazz Standard Melodies Beyond the Ballpark: Ambiguity and Flexibility in Improvised Organ Music for the Game Show "Beat the Clock" |
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| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Public Music Theory Poster Exhibit Location: 3rd Floor Skybridge Open to the public. Free snacks.
Probing minor scale pedagogy Adapting the Music Theory Curriculum: Tools, Strategies, and Challenges Two active-listening lessons: “What do you hear?” and the “Structural Harmony Listening Worksheet” What is the Current Relevance of this Composition? Inviting Our Students to Freely Discuss (even censored) Topics Community Engagement through Songwriting Does Music Theory Matter? Hands-On High School Music Theory via Movable Tile Boards Analyzing Listening as Inclusive Musical Analysis Rethinking Beethoven’s Late Style: A Multi-Parametrical Analysis in Op. 127/II, with an Emphasis on Hypermetrical Perspective Tone-Clock Theory and Jazz: Applying Chromatic Tonalities to Contemporary Jazz Analyzing Patrick Stump's "Soul Voice": Vocal Timbre as a Signifier of Style and Genre Images and Topics in the Soundtracks of the Squid Game Series Choose Your Own Adventure: Empowering Student Choice in Learning, Assessment, and Grading Pitch, Motive, and Non-Alignment in the Idiomatic Phrasing of Melodic Rap Verses Your Turn to Lead: Cultivating Student Leadership in Music Theory and Aural Skills Exploring Form in Popular Music with Timeline Share Great Escape: Escape Rooms as Pedagogical Experiences in Music Theory Diverse Experiences of Irregular Meters |
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| 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Prospective Graduate Student Fair Location: Conference Center B |
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| 5:30pm - 7:30pm |
College Board Reception Location: Orlando |
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| 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
Florida State University Reception Location: Clearwater |
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| 6:30pm - 8:30pm |
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Reception Location: River Terrace 1 |
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| 7:00pm - 8:30pm |
History of Theory Interest Group Meeting Location: City Terrace 7 |
Hip-Hop and Rap Interest Group Meeting Location: River Terrace 2 This meeting will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/mrxyfuw8 |
Music and Philosophy Interest Group Meeting Location: River Terrace 3 This meeting will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/3tcj86ck |
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| 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
University of Oregon Reception Location: City Terrace 6 |
Eastman School of Music Alumni Reception Location: Daytona |
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| 9:00pm - 11:00pm |
University of Chicago Reception Location: Clearwater |
Northwestern University Reception Location: Orlando |
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