Music Theory Midwest

 

Friday 14 May

8:00 a.m. --     Registration

9:00 Introduction and Welcome

9:15-10:45 Harmonic Practices

Kevin Swinden (Wilfrid Laurier University), "Chromatic Function without Bass-line Support"

Jose Antonio Martins (University of Chicago), "Stravinsky's Harmonic Practice and the                             Guidonean Space"

John D. Cuciurean (Arizona State University), "Post-Tonal Diatonicism and Harmonic Structure in Ligeti's Recent Music"

11:00-12:30 Theories of Form

Mauro Botelho (Davidson College),"Reconsidering the Sonata Principle"

Catherine Losada (Texas Tech University),"The Process of Modulation in the Musical Collage"

Tomoko Deguchi (Winthrop University),"Western Time and Eastern Form in Toru Takemitsu's Piano Distance (1961)"

 

12:30-2:00 Lunch Break (Executive Board lunch; other conference participants on their own)

 

2:00-3:00 p.m. [concurrent] Music for the Cinema

Rodgers, Stephen (Yale University),"Voice, Rupture, and Trauma in Film Music"   

David Helvering (Appleton, WI), "Re-touching Orson Welles's Touch of Evil: The Importance

            of Musical Segmentation on Scene Interpretation"

2:00-3:00. [concurrent] Timbre, Texture, and Sonority

Connie E. Mayfield (Kansas City Community College),"Exploring Electroacoustic Music from the Theorist's Perspective: New Avenues of Inquiry"

Douglas Rust (Centenary College of Louisiana), "Textural Intricacy and the Auditory Scene: A New Application of Bregman's Granular Analysis"

 

3:15-4:45 Music and Expression I

Arthur Stokes (Emory University), "Sonority and Meaning: Interpreting the Harmonic Musical Dimension"

Shersten Johnson (The University of St. Thomas), "Breathing Life into 'Ah! Sun-flower'"

Yayoi Uno Everett (Emory University), "Parody and Its Ironic Edge: Dramatic Works by Peter Maxwell Davies and Louis Andriessen"

Banquet [drinks from 5:15 or 5:30, dinner at 6:00]

Saturday 15 May

9:00-10:00 a.m. [concurrent] American Composers

Stanley V. Kleppinger (Indiana University), "Tonal Shifts and Structure in the Finale of Copland's       Third Symphony"

Daniel J. McConnell (University of Wisconsin-Madison),"John Adams's Perpetual Motion Machine"

 

9:00-10:00 [concurrent] Analysis and Performance

Marjaana Orvokki Virtanen (University of Turku, Finland, and Indiana University), "Formation of a Work's Gestural Interpretation: Changes in the Performers' Gestures during the Rehearsal Process of Einojuhani Rautavaara's Piano Concerti"

Daphne Leong and Elizabeth McNutt (University of Colorado at Boulder), "Virtuosity in Babbit's Lonely Flute" 

10:15-11:45 Musical Time

Aron Topielski (Chicago, IL), "Metric Dissonance, Musical Markedness, and Expressive Meaning in the 2nd Movement of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, K. 551"

Scott Murphy (University of Kansas), "On Harmony and Meter in the Rondo of Brahms's Op. 25             Piano Quartet"

Joti Rockwell (Chicago, IL), "Barline Breakdown: Bluegrass Rhythm and Banjo Transformations"

 

 

11:45 Lunch

 

12:45-1:45      Barr Institute Inauguration in library; tour of special collections

 

2:00-2:35 p.m. Walter Simmons [special single session]

2:45-3:45 [concurrent] Music and Expression II

Molly Jean McGlone (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Musical and Cultural Synthesis in the Adagio from the Sonata in B Minor for Violin and Cembala, B.W.V. 1014"

Gregory Marion (University of Iowa),"Solidarity or Discord? Debussy and the Sonata

2:45-3:45 [concurrent] Pedagogical Strategies

Eleanor Trawick (Ball State University), "Coming to an End: Compositions to Conclude a Twentieth-Century Analysis Course"

Deborah Rifkin and Diane Urista (Oberlin College Conservatory),"Dictation Detox: Playing Games for Better Aural Skills"

4:00 Business Meeting

5:00 Keynote Address

6:00 Reception