Conference Agenda

Session Overview
 
Date: Wednesday, 06/Nov/2024
2:00pm
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6:00pm
SMT Executive Board Meeting
Location: City Terrace 5
Closed meeting.

 
Date: Thursday, 07/Nov/2024
8:00am
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12:00pm
SMT Executive Board Meeting
Location: Acosta
Closed meeting.
8:00am
-
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
-
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
2:15pm
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3:45pm
Extending Transformational Analysis – New Approaches, New Visualizations, New Repertoires
Location: City Terrace 7
Hypermeter and Phrase Rhythm
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: William O'Hara, Gettysburg College
Understanding Music Theory Through Labor, Law, and Technologies
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Jocelyn Neal, UNC Chapel Hill
Committee on Disability & Accessibility Session
Location: River Terrace 2
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/3n2ka847
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
4:00pm
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5:30pm
Listening Trans and Trans Listening: Approaches to Music Analysis
Location: City Terrace 7
Formal Frictions in Tonal Music
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: Nathan John Martin, University of Michigan
Temporality in Action
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Roger Mathew Grant, Wesleyan University
Navigating Sensitive Topics
Location: River Terrace 2
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
 

 
Date: Friday, 08/Nov/2024
7:15am
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8:30am
W. W. Norton Music Theory Focus Group
Location: City Terrace 6
By invitation only.
7:15am
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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
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9:30am
Poster Session
Location: Conference Center A
8:00am
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8:00pm
Nursing Mother's Room
Location: Client Office 3
Pick up key at registration desk.
8:30am
-
6:30pm
Exhibit Hall
Location: Conference Center B
8:30am
-
6:30pm
Registration Desk
Location: Conference Center B
9:00am
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10:30am
Sonata Theory and Formal Strategies
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: John Cuciurean, Western University
Theorizing East Asian Pop
Location: City Terrace 12
Opera, Musical Theatre, and Film
Location: River Terrace 2
Chair: Tomoko Deguchi, Winthrop University
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/2fashwbn
Proximate Spaces: Reading Through Text, Intertext, and Recomposition
Location: River Terrace 3
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/54ryu5en
     
9:00am
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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.
 
9:00am
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12:15pm
Creating Spaces that Connect Community: A Workshop and Discussion
Location: City Terrace 7
10:30am
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10:45am
Coffee Break
Location: Conference Center B
Free beverages.
10:45am
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12:15pm
Form in Popular Music
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: Christine Emily Boone, University of North Carolina Asheville
Gestural Languages: Phenomena, Sound, and Stage
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Jennifer Iverson, University of Chicago
Modeling Musical Analysis
Location: Conference Center A
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
Timbral Inscriptions: Notation, Tuning, Meter
Location: River Terrace 3
Chair: Landon Morrison, University of Rochester
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/2zdy2xr2
   
12:30pm
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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
1:00pm
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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.
 
2:00pm
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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.
2:15pm
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3:45pm
Don’t Bore Us – Take it to the...Prechorus?
Location: City Terrace 7
Chair: Drew Nobile, University of Oregon
Harmonic Perceptions: Analytical Styles in Chromatic Harmony
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: Scott Gleason, Oxford University Press
Bach to “Bach”
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Karl Braunschweig, Wayne State University
Reconceiving Texture: Style, Temporality, Expression, and Performance
Location: River Terrace 3
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/yzmtx8zy
     
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
4:00pm
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5:30pm
Alternative Theatricalites in the Music of Kaija Saariaho
Location: City Terrace 7
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
Punk, Reggaeton, Rap
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Kyle Adams, Indiana Universtiy
Jazz Theory, Music, and Improvisation
Location: River Terrace 3
Chair: Joon Park, University of Illinois Chicago
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/mvd6vt33
   
4:00pm
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6:00pm
Public Music Theory Poster Exhibit
Location: 3rd Floor Skybridge
Open to the public. Free snacks.
5:30pm
-
6:30pm
Prospective Graduate Student Fair
Location: Conference Center B
5:30pm
-
7:30pm
College Board Reception
Location: Orlando
6:00pm
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8:00pm
Florida State University Reception
Location: Clearwater
6:30pm
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8:30pm
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Reception
Location: River Terrace 1
7:00pm
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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
 
7:30pm
-
9:30pm
University of Oregon Reception
Location: City Terrace 6
Eastman School of Music Alumni Reception
Location: Daytona
 
9:00pm
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11:00pm
University of Chicago Reception
Location: Clearwater
Northwestern University Reception
Location: Orlando
 

 
Date: Saturday, 09/Nov/2024
7:15am
-
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
-
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
-
2:00pm
Registration Desk
Location: Conference Center B
8:30am
-
6:30pm
Exhibit Hall
Location: Conference Center B
9:00am
-
10:30am
Theoretical Crossings: New Applications
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: Chris Stover, Griffith University
From Sync to Syncopation
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Olivia Rose Lucas, Louisiana State University
Feminist Models of Analysis: Building Methodologies through Listening
Location: River Terrace 2
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/2zz8a6us
Contrapuntal Novelties in the Long 18th Century
Location: River Terrace 3
Chair: Danuta Mirka, Northwestern University
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/3kwmx5se
 
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
10:30am
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10:45am
Coffee Break
Location: Conference Center B
Free beverages.
10:45am
-
12:15pm
Distinctive Modernisms: Scriabin, Xenakis, Euba
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: Jason Yust, Boston University
Haydn’s Middles
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Roman Ivanovitch, Indiana University
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
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
 
12:30pm
-
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
-
3:00pm
SMT Business Meeting
Location: Conference Center A
Meeting will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/2rhjmbkp
3:00pm
-
3:45pm
SMT Awards Ceremony
Location: Conference Center A
Ceremony will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/2rhjmbkp
4:00pm
-
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
-
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)
7:00pm
-
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
-
9:00pm
Awards Reception
Location: St. Johns
9:00pm
-
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
-
11:30pm
Yale Alumni Reception & Party
Location: City Terrace 8

 
Date: Sunday, 10/Nov/2024
8:00am
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1:00pm
Nursing Mothers' Room
Location: Client Office 3
9:00am
-
10:00am
Analyzing Style and Blues
Location: City Terrace 7
Chair: Clifton Boyd, New York University
9:00am
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10:30am
Dance and/as Music Analysis
Location: River Terrace 3
Chair: Kara Yoo Leaman, Mannes School of Music
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/4pf6keu7
9:00am
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11:00am
Tragedy, Liturgy, and Myth Across Cultures and Genres
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: Christopher Segall, University of Cincinnati
Applying Sets and Cycles
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Ian Quinn, Yale University
Bodies, Instruments, and Historical Epistemologies
Location: River Terrace 2
Chair: Thomas Christensen, University of Chicago
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/4e5r4k7h
10:45am
-
12:15pm
Popular, Internet, and Video Culture
Location: City Terrace 7
Chair: Julianne Grasso, Florida State University
The Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout: Integrating Performance, (Ethno)Musicology and Music Theory to Sustain an American Tradition
Location: River Terrace 3
Presented with support from the Wallace Foundation.
Session will be livestreamed: https://tinyurl.com/435jwfp3
 
11:15am
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12:15pm
Two Perspectives on Lili Boulanger
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: Laurel Parsons, University of British Columbia
Popular Music, Participation, and Politics
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Scott Murphy, University of Kansas
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