Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: River Terrace 2
Date: Thursday, 07/Nov/2024
2:15pm
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3:45pm
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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
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

5:45pm
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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
7:00pm
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8:30pm
Dance & Movement Interest Group Meeting
Location: River Terrace 2
Date: Friday, 08/Nov/2024
7:15am
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8:45am
Music Notation and Visualization Interest Group Meeting
Location: River Terrace 2
9:00am
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10:30am
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

Nathaniel Mitchell



Musical Expressions of Urgency, Anger, and Buffoonery in Marc Blitzstein’s *The Cradle Will Rock*

Michael Buchler



Between Continuity and Discontinuity: Expressive Transformations and Structure in the work of Max Steiner

C. Catherine Losada

10:45am
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12:15pm
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

Sitong {Bella} Chen



Imagined Amateurism: Post-Tonal Gestures and Modernist Techniques in Chinese American Composers’ Depiction of Chinese Folk Music

Hon Ki Cheung



Fantasy and Formenlehre in Imperial Japan

Rina Sugawara

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Russian and Soviet Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: River Terrace 2
2:15pm
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5:30pm
Has Music Theory Become More Diverse Since 2019?
Location: River Terrace 2
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/23nertwa
 

Chair(s): Christopher Endrinal, Rachel Lumsden

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

What is Music Theory? SMT Conference Presentations Then and Now

Joseph Straus, Hang Ki Choi

 

Interculturality in the Global Age

Yayoi Uno Everett

 

Music Theory Pedagogy: Beyond the Three Bs

Elizabeth Marvin

 

Five Years On and I’m Still Conflicted

Philip Ewell

 

Diversity Solutions and Non-Solutions

Catrina Kim

 

SMT Membership Demographics and the Leaky Pipeline

Clifton Boyd

 

Five Lessons from my First Five Years in Music Theory

Hanisha Kulothparan

 

Personal Reflections on the Recent SMT Student Social Climate Survey

Gerardo Lopez

7:00pm
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8:30pm
Hip-Hop and Rap Interest Group Meeting
Location: River Terrace 2
This meeting will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/mrxyfuw8
Date: Saturday, 09/Nov/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
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

10:45am
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12:15pm
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

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Popular Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: River Terrace 2
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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
Date: Sunday, 10/Nov/2024
9:00am
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11:00am
Bodies, Instruments, and Historical Epistemologies
Location: River Terrace 2
Chair: Thomas Christensen, University of Chicago
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/4e5r4k7h
 

Rameau’s Finger Mechanics: Thoroughbass Pedagogy, The Fundamental Bass, and Enlightenment Epistemology

Michael Weinstein-Reiman



Alfabeto, punto, and diapason: the guitar as an instrument of music theory in seventeenth-century Iberia

Juan Patricio Saenz



Final Sonority Voicing in Renaissance Vocal Polyphony

Ben Duinker



Mathematical and Practical Aspects of Zhu Zaiyu’s Twelve-Tone Equal Temperament: Perspectives from the Sinophone Literature

Jason Yin Hei Lee

11:15am
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12:15pm
Musical Processes and Empirical Methodologies
Location: River Terrace 2
Chair: Trevor de Clercq, Middle Tennessee State University
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/5dn6vkm2
 

The Contingency of Music Cognition

Andrew Goldman



Bright Beats: Timbre’s Influence on Rhythm and Meter

Joshua Rosner, Michael Wagner, Stephen McAdams


 
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