Conference Agenda

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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
-
12:00pm
SMT Executive Board Meeting
Location: Acosta
Closed meeting.
8:00am
-
8:00pm
Nursing Mothers' Room
Location: Client Office 3
8:30am
-
6:30pm
Registration Desk
Location: Conference Center B
9:00am
-
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
-
2:00pm
Conference Guides Meeting
Location: Mathews
1:00pm
-
6:30pm
Exhibit Hall
Location: Conference Center B
2:15pm
-
3:15pm
Tension and Humor in Music for Film
Location: River Terrace 3
Chair: William Ayers, University of Central Florida
Session will be livestreamed.
 

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
 

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

 
3:15pm
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4:00pm
Coffee Break
Location: Conference Center B
Free beverages.
3:30pm
-
5:30pm
Just Two Cents on Tuning
Location: River Terrace 3
Session will be livestreamed.
 

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
Session will be livestreamed.
 

Chair(s): Sam Bivens

5:30pm
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6:30pm
Interest Group Fair
Location: Conference Center B
5:45pm
-
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.
6:30pm
-
8:00pm
Opening Reception
Location: River Terrace 1
Cash bar, free hors d'oeuvres
7:00pm
-
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
 
Date: Friday, 08/Nov/2024
7:15am
-
8:30am
W. W. Norton Music Theory Focus Group
Location: City Terrace 6
By invitation only.
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
8:00am
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9:30am
Poster Session
Location: St. Johns
 

A Comparison of the Accuracy of Two Algorithms for Predicting the Behavior of ’Soul Dominants’ in the McGill Billboard Corpus

Stanley Ralph Fink



Dispersed Harmony as a Means of Distinguishing Sacred Harp Hymn-Tune Subgenres

Robert T. Kelley



Macroharmonic Embeddings for Analysis

Matt Chiu



Two Views of Distance in Amy Beach’s “When Soul is Joined to Soul”

William O'Hara



Distances in voice-leading spaces: Functional chord mapping and abstraction

Eric Yang



Orchestration as an elucidating factor of harmonic function

Kelsey Lynne Lussier



Rosalía’s Strategic and Expressive Use of the Andalusian Cadence Schema

David Alexander Heinsen



Ted Dunbar’s System of Tonal Convergence (1975) and the Speculative Tritone Substitution

Dustin Chau



Rethinking Beethoven’s Late Style: A Multi-Parametrical Analysis in Op. 127/II, with an Emphasis on Hypermetrical Perspective

Wanyi Li



Tone-Clock Theory and Jazz: Applying Chromatic Tonalities to Contemporary Jazz

Jonathan Jurgen Lindhorst



Analyzing Patrick Stump's "Soul Voice": Vocal Timbre as a Signifier of Style and Genre

Joseph Grunkemeyer



Images and Topics in the Soundtracks of the Squid Game Series

Lydia Lee



Choose Your Own Adventure: Empowering Student Choice in Learning, Assessment, and Grading

Jennifer Shafer England



Pitch, Motive, and Non-Alignment in the Idiomatic Phrasing of Melodic Rap Verses

Devin Guerrero



Your Turn to Lead: Cultivating Student Leadership in Music Theory and Aural Skills

Angela Ripley



Exploring Form in Popular Music with Timeline Share

Brent Yorgason



Great Escape: Escape Rooms as Pedagogical Experiences in Music Theory

Megan Lyons



Diverse Experiences of Irregular Meters

Lena Console

8:00am
-
8:00pm
Nursing Mother's Room
Location: Client Office 3
8:30am
-
6:30pm
Exhibit Hall
Location: Conference Center B
8:30am
-
6:30pm
Registration Desk
Location: Conference Center B
9:00am
-
10:30am
Sonata Theory and Formal Strategies
Location: City Terrace 9
 

Breakthrough’s Formal Critique: Reassessing Deformation and Modernism in the fin-de-siècle Symphony

Rafael Echevarria



Compound S-Module Strategies in Emilie Mayer’s Solo Sonatas

K. Tyler Osborne



The (Romantic) Long Way Around: Retracted Tonal Areas and the ‘Deferred SK’ Exposition

Yonatan Bar-Yoshafat

Theorizing East Asian Pop
Location: City Terrace 12
 

Chair(s): Jacob Reed

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Influencers and Idols: The Two Phrygians of J-pop

Liam Hynes-Tawa

 

Fiery Voices, Cool Sound: Four Vocal Types in J-pop

Yiqing Mitty Ma

 

K-pop’s Western Sound and Korean Musical Agency

Jacob Reed

Opera, Musical Theatre, and Film
Location: River Terrace 2
Chair: Tomoko Deguchi, Winthrop University
Session will be livestreamed.
 

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

Proximate Spaces: Reading Through Text, Intertext, and Recomposition
Location: River Terrace 3
Session will be livestreamed.
 

What Schubert Learned from Goethe

Jonathan Guez



Mazurkas Heard and Half-heard: On Intertextual Networks and (Re)composing From Them

Derek J. Myler



From Song to Concerto: Recomposition, Retrieval, and Closure in Amy Beach's Piano Concerto, op. 45

David Andrew Keep

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
 

Chair(s): Vivian Luong, Stephen Lett

Discussant(s): Graciela Cain

10:30am
-
10:45am
Coffee Break
Location: Conference Center B
Free beverages.
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

Audrey Jane Slote



Last Choruses

Eron Smith



Harmony and Formal Function in deadmau5

Thomas William Posen

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”

Gui Hwan Lee



WANG Amao’s One Person Stage (2021)— Synchronizing the Perceptual Metrical Grid and the Sounding Melody

Yi-Cheng Daniel Wu



Interaction of Noise and Pitch in Live Electroacoustic Music: the Distinctive Approach of Jasna Veličković

Ivana Ilic

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.
 

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

Timbral Inscriptions: Notation, Tuning, Meter
Location: River Terrace 3
Session will be livestreamed.
 

Theorizing Notation: Darmstadt, 1959-1965

Isaac Otto Hayes



Restoring Carlos Chávez's Modernism

Lee Michael Cannon-Brown



Sofia Gubaidulina's Shadow Tuning and Post-Soviet Hauntology

Christopher Segall

Modeling Musical Analysis
Location: St. Johns
 

Chair(s): Kimberly Goddard Loeffert, John Peterson

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Prolongation in Turkish Music

Adem Merter Birson

 

Malambo and Motive in The Second Movement of Ginastera’s Sonata para piano

David Castro

 

Harmonizing Uncertainty: Ambiguous Tonicizations in the Music of Summer Walker

Richard Desinord

 

The Duality of Drums: Exploring Timpani’s Melodic and Percussive Potential in Rodis’s Colossus

Jose Manuel Garza, Jr.

 

"That word in my Bible": Listening to the Louvin Brothers’ "Broad Minded”

Sumanth Gopinath

 

A Rhetorical Strategy to Subvert Artistic Suppression: A ‘March’ That is Not a ‘March’ in R. Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses (1937)

Jeannie Ma. Guerrero

 

Yamada Kōsaku’s Inno Meiji: A Portrait of Modern Optimism

Liam Hynes-Tawa

 

Locating the ‘Sonata’ in Fanny Hensel’s Sonata o Fantasia

Catrina S. Kim

 

Storytelling and Meter in clipping.’s "Story 2”

Hanisha Kulothparan

 

Curious Words and Exaggerated Singing—Humor and Satire in Musicals

Wing Lau

 

Comparing the Choreomusical Styles of Marious Petipa and George Balanchine in the Berceuse of Harlequinade

Kara Yoo Leaman

 

Texture and Timing in the Score-Stop

Gerardo Lopez

 

The Restorative Obsession of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 2

Táhirih Motazedian

 

Metrical Dissonance and Phrase Grouping in HWANG Yau-Tai’s Oblivion (遺忘)

Joseph Chi-Sing Siu

 

"A Blueprint for Dancers": the Fiery and Unforgettable Measures of Rosendo Mendizábal’s "El Enterriano”

John Turci-Escobar

     
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 Music Theory Interest Group Meeting
Location: River Terrace 2
Improvisation & Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Groups Joint Meeting
Location: River Terrace 3
 
1:00pm
-
3:00pm
CV Review
Location: City Terrace 6
Hosted by the SMT Professional Development Committee.
CV Review Waiting Room
Location: City Terrace 8
Hosted by the SMT Professional Development Committee.
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

Jeremy Orosz



“What’s in an OP?”: Narrative, KonoSuba, and the 3/4 Prechorus

Sam Falotico



Enter the Prechorus: Producing Intensification in Two Recent Taylor Swift Songs

Caleb Mutch

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

Stephanie Venturino



Sonic Experience: A Kurth Inspired Analysis

Wade Alan Voris



The Psychoacoustics of Chromatic Tonality in Phenomenological and Retrospective Spaces: A Dialogue

Kyle Hutchinson

Bach to “Bach”
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Karl Braunschweig, Wayne State University
 

Choreographing Form, Formalizing Choreography: Formal Functions in Sam Weber’s “Bach”

Rachel Gain



One More Time: Ritornello Rotations in J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C major (BWV 1061), First Movement

Vlad Praskurnin



Rage Against the Machine: Narratives of Resistance and Struggle in “Widerstehe doch der Sünde,” BWV 54/i

Owen Belcher

Reconceiving Texture: Style, Temporality, Expression, and Performance
Location: River Terrace 3
Session will be livestreamed.
 

Chair(s): Jonathan De Souza, Johanna Frymoyer, Robert Hatten

Discussant(s): Jonathan De Souza, Johanna Frymoyer, Robert Hatten

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Analyzing Texture: Preliminaries

Johanna Frymoyer

 

Performing Textural Developing Variation: The Courante from Bach’s Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828

Robert Hatten

 

Texture Analysis with Social Networks in Hank Levy’s Whiplash

Jonathan De Souza

2:15pm
-
5:30pm
Has Music Theory Become More Diverse Since 2019?
Location: River Terrace 2
Session will be livestreamed.
 

Chair(s): Christopher Endrinal, Rachel Lumsden

4:00pm
-
5:30pm
Alternative Theatricalites in the Music of Kaija Saariaho
Location: City Terrace 7
 

Chair(s): Amy Bauer

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Theatricality, temporality and the listener in Kaija Saariaho’s Graal théâtre (1994)

Amy Bauer

 

Staging Sound in Kaija Saariaho’s Study for Life (1980, rev. 2019)

Nathan Cobb

 

Hidden Theatricality in String Quartets by Kaija Saariaho

Federico Favali

Integrating Global and Popular Music into the Theory Curriculum with Adem Birson (NYU Steinhardt) & Tim Wilson (Auralia & Musition), Presented by Auralia & Musition
Location: City Terrace 8
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

Issa Aji



Learnedness as Type and Style in Haydn's Nelsonmesse

Robert Benjamin Wrigley



Political Meaning of Compositional Technique, Viewed through a Peircean Lens: Three Case Studies from Fascist and Post-WWII Italy

Christoph Neidhöfer

Punk, Reggaeton, Rap
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Kyle Adams, Indiana Universtiy
 

The Influence of Punk on Emo in the 21st Century

Abi Seguin



"Sex Sells": A Decolonial Analysis of Purplewashing and Sexual Narrative in the Women of Reggaeton

Tori M Vilches



The Language of “Feel”: Understanding J Dilla’s “Perfectly Imperfect” Rhythm in Musicians’ Words

Fred Hosken

Jazz Theory, Music, and Improvisation
Location: River Terrace 3
Chair: Joon Park, University of Illinois Chicago
Session will be livestreamed.
 

Place and No-Place in Cecil Taylor’s “This Nearly Was Mine”

Chris Stover



Expressive Timing, Thematic Transformation, or Both? Onset Displacement and Ontology in Performances of Jazz Standard Melodies

Sean Robert Smither



Beyond the Ballpark: Ambiguity and Flexibility in Improvised Organ Music for the Game Show "Beat the Clock"

Christopher Gage

     
4:00pm
-
6:00pm
Public Music Theory Poster Exhibit
Location: 3rd Floor Skybridge
Open to the public.
 

Probing minor scale pedagogy

Jenine Brown, Yeonju Lee



Adapting the Music Theory Curriculum: Tools, Strategies, and Challenges

Wesley J. Bradford



Two active-listening lessons: “What do you hear?” and the “Structural Harmony Listening Worksheet”

Anna Stephan-Robinson



What is the Current Relevance of this Composition? Inviting Our Students to Freely Discuss (even censored) Topics

Michael Buchler



Community Engagement through Songwriting

J. Daniel Jenkins



Does Music Theory Matter?

Sara Bakker, Andrew Gades



Hands-On High School Music Theory via Movable Tile Boards

Robert Layton Wells



Analyzing Listening as Inclusive Musical Analysis

Rachel Short



Rethinking Beethoven’s Late Style: A Multi-Parametrical Analysis in Op. 127/II, with an Emphasis on Hypermetrical Perspective

Wanyi Li



Tone-Clock Theory and Jazz: Applying Chromatic Tonalities to Contemporary Jazz

Jonathan Jurgen Lindhorst



Analyzing Patrick Stump's "Soul Voice": Vocal Timbre as a Signifier of Style and Genre

Joseph Grunkemeyer



Images and Topics in the Soundtracks of the Squid Game Series

Lydia Lee



Choose Your Own Adventure: Empowering Student Choice in Learning, Assessment, and Grading

Jennifer Shafer England



Pitch, Motive, and Non-Alignment in the Idiomatic Phrasing of Melodic Rap Verses

Devin Guerrero



Your Turn to Lead: Cultivating Student Leadership in Music Theory and Aural Skills

Angela Ripley



Exploring Form in Popular Music with Timeline Share

Brent Yorgason



Great Escape: Escape Rooms as Pedagogical Experiences in Music Theory

Megan Lyons



Diverse Experiences of Irregular Meters

Lena Console

5:30pm
-
6:30pm
Prospective Graduate Student Fair
Location: Conference Center B
5:30pm
-
7:30pm
College Board Reception
Location: Orlando
6:00pm
-
8:00pm
Florida State University Reception
Location: Clearwater
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
Music and Philosophy Interest Group Meeting
Location: River Terrace 3
 
7:30pm
-
9:30pm
University of Oregon Reception
Location: City Terrace 6
Eastman School of Music Alumni Reception
Location: Daytona
9:00pm
-
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: City Terrace 10
By invitation only.
 
8:00am
-
10:00am
SMT-Pod Drop-In Gathering
Location: City Terrace 5
Open to all attendees.
8:00am
-
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
 

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, Louisisana 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.
 

Chair(s): Carla Colletti

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

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
-
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
-
10:45am
Coffee Break
Location: Conference Center B
Free beverages.
10:45am
-
11:45am
Haydn’s Middles
Location: City Terrace 12
 

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

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

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

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.
 

"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
-
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
2:15pm
-
3:00pm
SMT Business Meeting
Location: Conference Center A
Meeting will be livestreamed.
3:00pm
-
3:45pm
SMT Awards Ceremony
Location: Conference Center A
Ceremony will be livestreamed.
4:00pm
-
5:00pm
SMT Keynote: What’s Left of Music Theory?
Location: Conference Center A
Vijay Iyer, Harvard University Session will be livestreamed.
5:30pm
-
7:00pm
A Concert of Compositions by SMT Members, performed by SMT Members
Location: Clearwater
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
Performance and Analysis Interest Group Meeting
Location: River Terrace 3
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
Yale Alumni Reception (9:30-10:30 PM) open to current Yale faculty & students and Yale alumni. Yale Party (10:30-11:30 PM) open to all.
Date: Sunday, 10/Nov/2024
8:00am
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1:00pm
Nursing Mothers' Room
Location: Client Office 3
9:00am
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10:30am
Analyzing Style and Blues
Location: City Terrace 7
Chair: Clifton Boyd, New York University
 

Worrying the Line and Migration Tonality in Dorothy Rudd Moore’s Weary Blues

Lauren Shepherd



The Embodied Folk Guitar of Elizabeth Cotten

Rachel Hottle



Hearing Holiday: Analyzing Billie Holiday’s Singing

Dexter Edge

Dance and/as Music Analysis
Location: River Terrace 3
Chair: Kara Yoo Leaman, Mannes School of Music
Session will be livestreamed.
 

Rethinking Musical Metaphors Through Dance

Amy Ming Wai Tai



Tap Dance Choreographers as Composer-Analysts: Formal Interactions between Tap Dance and Post-Millennial Pop Music

Stefanie Bilidas



A New Multidimensional Method for the Musical Analysis of Choreographed Scenes

Rebecca Moranis, Johanna Devaney

 
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
 

Unashamedly Boastful: Shai Linne’s Flow and Lyrical Reformed Theology

Samuel Ng



Mediating a Sacred Imperial Chinese Genre: Musical Embodiment of Human-Divine Interactions through Timbre, Form, and Melodic Play in Guqin “Chang” (畅) repertory

MingJun X Wilson



Listening to Acculturation in Chazzan David Kusevitsky’s Cantorial Recitative “L’eil Boruch”

Mitchell Ohriner



"Feel the Emptiness": Micro-Schemata in the Music of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

Evan David Martschenko

Applying Sets and Cycles
Location: City Terrace 12
 

Higher-Order Euclidean Sets

Paul V. Miller



A Generalized Model of Wechsel Cycles

Alex Rodzianko



A World of Pure Imagination: Tiling the Tonnetz with an I-shaped Tile

M. A. Coury-Hall



Plotting Medieval Polyphony: An Enchiriadis Tonnetz

Justin Lavacek

Bodies, Instruments, and Historical Epistemologies
Location: River Terrace 2
Chair: Thomas Christensen, University of Chicago
Session will be livestreamed.
 

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

10:45am
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12:15pm
Popular, Internet, and Video Culture
Location: City Terrace 7
Chair: Julianne Grasso, Florida State University
 

Musical Effects of Pitch Correction in the Speech Sounds of Two Video Game Characters

Elizabeth Medina-Gray



Player Progress and Musical Affect in Early Video Game Music

Alan Elkins



The Mashups of Mouth Moods: Parody and Intertextuality in Neil Cicierega’s Third Album

Isaac William Smith

The Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout: Integrating Performance, (Ethno)Musicology and Music Theory to Sustain an American Tradition
Location: River Terrace 3
Session will be livestreamed.
 

Chair(s): Quintina Carter-Enyi

Discussant(s): Brenton Jordan, Eric Crawford, Aaron Carter-Enyi, Griffin Lotson

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Demonstration

Brenton Jordan

 

Transcription

Eric Crawford

 

Analysis

Aaron Carter-Enyi

 
11:15am
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12:15pm
Two Perspectives on Lili Boulanger
Location: City Terrace 9
Chair: Laurel Parsons, University of British Columbia
 

Flat Scale Degree Seven and Lost Love in Lili Boulanger’s Clairières dans le ciel

Matthew Bilik



Fauréan Influences in Lili Boulanger's Clairières dans le ciel

Andrew Pau

Popular Music, Participation, and Politics
Location: City Terrace 12
Chair: Scott Murphy, University of Kansas
 

Timbre as a (de)constructing force in 1000 gecs

Lindsey Reymore



Hermeneutics of the Musical Police State: Process and Collectivism in David Lang's I fought the law

Maeve Gillen

Musical Processes and Empirical Methodologies
Location: River Terrace 2
Chair: Trevor de Clercq, Middle Tennessee State University
Session will be livestreamed.
 

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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