Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Saturday, 09/Nov/2024
7:15am
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8:45am
SMT-V Editorial Board Meeting
Location: City Terrace 4
Closed meeting.
Interest Groups Breakfast Meeting
Location: St. Johns
By invitation only.
 
8:00am
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10:00am
SMT-Pod Drop-In Gathering
Location: City Terrace 5
Open to all attendees.
8:00am
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8:00pm
Nursing Mothers' Room
Location: Client Office 3
8:30am
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2:00pm
Registration Desk
Location: Conference Center B
8:30am
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6:30pm
Exhibit Hall
Location: Conference Center B
9:00am
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10:30am
Theoretical Crossings: New Applications
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: Chris Stover, Griffith University
 

Shostakovich, Lowered Modes, and SLIDE

Simon Prosser



Tonal Gravity and Twelve-Tone Music: A Lydian Chromatic Concept Analysis of Anton Webern’s Piano Variations, op. 27/1

Mark Micchelli



Unveiling Patterns: Schillinger and the Fibonacci Series in Compositional Design

Joe Argentino

From Sync to Syncopation
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Olivia Rose Lucas, Louisiana State University
 

The Role of Continuous and Ambiguous Tempo Changes in Doom Metal’s Heavy Grooves

David James Heetderks, Dorian Stewart



Sticking Syncopations: Embodied Rhythm in Marching Percussion

Zachary Lookenbill



Not just syncopation: Rhythmic complexity is ... complex.

Leigh VanHandel

Feminist Models of Analysis: Building Methodologies through Listening
Location: River Terrace 2
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/2zz8a6us
 

Chair(s): Carla Colletti

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Daphne Oram’s Pulse Persephone (1965) : A Ground-breaking and Unique Composition from the Early Years of Electronic Music

Douglas Rust

 

Texture as Form in Lili Boulanger’s Clairières dans le ciel

Stephen Rodgers

 

Hearing Culture Beyond Lyrics in Global Popular Music: A Case Study of Teresa Teng

Clare Eng

Contrapuntal Novelties in the Long 18th Century
Location: River Terrace 3
Chair: Danuta Mirka, Northwestern University
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/3kwmx5se
 

Corelli's Contrapuntal Prinner

Karl Braunschweig



The Prinner as Transition(?) in Sonata-form Arias by Haydn and Mozart

Graham G. Hunt



Non-Chord Tones from the Vienna Woods: Vernacular Classical Origins of the Melodic-Harmonic Divorce

John Lawrence

 
9:00am
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12:15pm
Intercultural Dialogue: Gesture, Time, and Symbolism in Music by Isang Yun, Toshio Hosokawa, and Charles Kwong
Location: City Terrace 7
 

Chair(s): Yayoi Uno Everett

Discussant(s): Christian Utz

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Music of Gestures: Expressions of Light and Shadow in Isang Yun’s Images (1968)

Jung-min Lee

 

Toshio Hosokawa’s Cosmology of Sounds: Poetics of Silence and Sound, Shadow and Light

Yayoi Everett

 

A Play of Light: Temporal Cycles and Intercultural Dialogue in Toshio Hosokawa’s Utsurohi

Benjamin Schweitzer

 

Music as Growth: Tracing the Rhetorical Similarities in Yun, Hosokawa, and Kwong

Joon Park

10:30am
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10:45am
Coffee Break
Location: Conference Center B
Free beverages.
10:45am
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12:15pm
Distinctive Modernisms: Scriabin, Xenakis, Euba
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: Jason Yust, Boston University
 

Scriabin's Cycles: Octatonic Keys, Sonata Form, and Harmonic Alchemy in the Works 1911-12

Jared Redmond



Symmetrical Structures in Xenakis’s Okho: At the Intersection of Mathematics and Literature

Joseph Tovell Chang



Akin Euba and the Role of Pitch Structures in "African Pianism"

Jack Boss

Haydn’s Middles
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Roman Ivanovitch, Indiana University
 

Haydn’s Hinge Joints: Schemata and the Contrasting Middle in Symphonic Small Ternary and Minuet Forms

Timothy McKinney



Standing/Dancing/Pirouetting on the Dominant: Medial Caesurae and Galant Schemata in the Symphonies of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

Christopher James Tarrant



Haydn's Exposition-like Developments

Evan Tanovich

Architecture of Aggression: Form and Process in Heavy Metal
Location: River Terrace 2
Chair: Brad Osborn, University of Kansas
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/2x8vxvyu
 

Terminally Anti-Climactic Form in Post-1990s Progressive Metal

Zachary Robert Simonds



Mutually Exclusive Two- and Three-Part Forms in Heavy Metal Songs

Nolan Stolz



What is a riff? A Structural Definition and its Analytical Consequences for Process and Form in Heavy Metal

Ciro Gerard Scotto

Prosody and Text Setting in Popular Music
Location: River Terrace 3
Chair: Stephen Eugene Rodgers, University of Oregon
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/43vm5ah7
 

"All the Lonely Starbucks Lovers": Prosodic Dissonance in Taylor Swift's Discography

Alexander Michael Shannon



Vocality and Plurality in Sign Language Cover Songs

Anabel Maler



The Development and Artistry of Text-Setting in Japanese Rock: Happy End and the Great Japanese Rock Debate (1970)

Noriko Manabe

 
12:30pm
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2:00pm
Music Informatics Interest Group Meeting
Location: City Terrace 7
Music and Psychoanalysis Interest Group Meeting
Location: City Terrace 9
Work and Family Interest Group Meeting
Location: City Terrace 12
Popular Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: River Terrace 2
Jazz Interest Group Meeting
Location: River Terrace 3
This meeting will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/ys48cdvs
2:15pm
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3:00pm
SMT Business Meeting
Location: Conference Center A
Meeting will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/2rhjmbkp
3:00pm
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3:45pm
SMT Awards Ceremony
Location: Conference Center A
Ceremony will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/2rhjmbkp
4:00pm
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5:00pm
SMT Keynote: What’s Left of Music Theory?
Location: Conference Center A
Chair: Maryam Aline Moshaver, University of Alberta
Vijay Iyer, Harvard University Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/y5z3zv8v
5:30pm
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7:00pm
A Concert of Compositions by SMT Members, performed by SMT Members
Location: Grand Ballroom 6
PERFORMED BY: Cynthia Folio (flute), Nathan Lam (clarinet), Paul Miller (violin), Evan Jones (cello), Robert Wells (piano)
 

Chair(s): David Temperley, Cliff Callender

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Swells (for solo piano)

Dmitri Tymoczko

 

In Silence (for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano)

Jane Kozhevnikova

 

Laerciando (for flute, clarinet, and piano)

Stephen Guerra

 

If there is a dead thing still rotting (for flute and recited text alone)

Richard Drehoff Jr.

 

Pancanonic Fugue in A Minor (for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello)

Scott Murphy

 

Being (for cello and piano)

Victoria Malawey

 

The Spinning Wheel (for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano)

J. Daniel Jenkins

7:00pm
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8:30pm
Queer Resource Interest Group Meeting
Location: City Terrace 7
Film and Multimedia Interest Group Meeting
Location: City Terrace 9
Musical Theater Interest Group Meeting
Location: City Terrace 12
Global Interculturalism & Musical Peripheries and Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Groups Joint Meeting
Location: River Terrace 2
This meeting will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/yaydebv4
Performance and Analysis Interest Group Meeting
Location: River Terrace 3
This meeting will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/43v3kbwe
7:30pm
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9:00pm
Awards Reception
Location: St. Johns
9:00pm
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11:00pm
University of Texas at Austin Alumni Reception
Location: City Terrace 4
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Networking Reception
Location: City Terrace 5
McGill University Reception
Location: City Terrace 6
   
9:30pm
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11:30pm
Yale Alumni Reception & Party
Location: City Terrace 8

 
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