Music Theory Midwest
2002 Thirteenth Annual Conference
University of Minnesota
May 17-18, 2002 - Minneapolis, MN
Preliminary Program
Session 1: Rhythm, Time, Narrative, Drama
9:00 The
Schenkerian Interruption as Dramatic Nexus
Edward Latham, Temple University
9:30 Metric Displacement and Romantic Longing in the German Lied
Yonatan Malin, University of Chicago
10:00 A Metrical Narrative in Brahms: Implications for Performance
Ryan McClelland, Indiana University
10:30 Schenkerian
Time: A Search for an Explanation for Heinrich Schenker’s
Relative Silence on Issues of Rhythm and Meter in his Theoretical Writings
Kent D. Cleland, Baldwin-Wallace College
Session 2: Words, Images, Spaces, Music
11:15 Music,
Environmental Design, and the Choreography of Space:
Progress Towards an Analytic Method
James Rhodes, Shorter College
11:45 Music
as Fantasy: Lynch, Zizek, and Lacan on The Lost Highway
Gene K. Willet, University of Texas at Austin
12:15 The
Structure of What Is Beyond the Words: Musico-Poetic Analysis
of “Visit” from Scenes from a Novel (1979-82) by
György Kurtág
Dina Lentsner, The Ohio State University
Lunch (12:45-2:15) (Meeting of MTMW Executive Board)
Session 3: Post-Tonal Languages
2:15 Bartók’s Polymodal Chromaticism and the Dasian System
José António Martins, University of Chicago
2:45 Modality in Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto
Gary W. Don, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
3:15 A Theory of Harmony and Voice Leading for Olivier Messiaen’s Music
Christoph Neidhöfer, McGill University
3:45 Symmetrical Complexities in George Perle’s Modal Suite
Philip Stoecker; Graduate Center, CUNY; Hofstra University
Session 4: Analyzing Improvisation
4:30 Patricia Barber’s Postmodern Blues
Kevin J. Holm-Hudson, University of Kentucky
5:00 The Formation of Texture Within Collective Free Improvisation
John W. White, Ithaca College School of Music
Reception to follow
Saturday, May 18, 2002
Session 5: Interpreting the Late Romantics
9:00
The Sorrows of Young Brahms?: On the Intersection of Structure
and Tragic Expression in the C-minor Piano Quartet
Peter H. Smith, University of Notre Dame
9:30 “Sie
bleiben wie Allen”: Rotational Form and the Thematization
of Failure in Mahler’s Fish Sermon
Warren J. Darcy, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music
10:00 Wolf’s Mägdlein and Breuer’s Anna O.: Traumatic Loss and Hysteria
Karen M. Bottge, University of Wisconsin – Madison
10:30 Performance
Anxiety in Arnold Schoenberg’s op. 2 #2, “
Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm”
Jennifer Elizabeth Goltz, University of Michigan
Session 6: Behind the Theory
11:15 Musical Intuitions and the Function of Music Theories
Scott M. Gleason, University of Wisconsin – Madison
11:45 “Homo Academicus” in the Field of Music Theory
Karen Fournier, University of Western Ontario
Lunch (12:15-1:45)
Session 7: Motivic Processes
1:45 Motivic Processes in the Late Music of Gabriel Fauré
James William Sobaskie, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point
2:15 Prokofiev’s “Wrong-Note” Motives
Deborah Rifkin, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music
Session 8: Hidden Narratives
3:00 The Silent Narration of Ives’s The Unanswered Question
Matthew McDonald, Yale University
3:30 Sound
Connections: The “Stories within the Stories”
in Book II of Debussy’s Preludes
Gregory J. Marion, University of Iowa
Business meeting (4:15-4:45)
Keynote Address (5:00-6:00) Alexandra Pierce, University of Redlands
5:00 Deepening Music Theory through Movement Research: Its Potential
for Performance, Analysis, and Teaching
Catered banquet to follow