Music Theory Midwest

Sixteenth Annual Conference
Oberlin Conservatory
21-22 May, 2005 - Oberlin, OH


Prelminary Program:

SATURDAY, 21 May 2005

8:00 AM, Registration in Conservatory Lounge

9:00, Introduction and Welcome in Kulas Recital Hall

9:15 - 10:45, Solo Session in Kulas - Rhythm and Meter, Justin London, chair

Rhythmic Strata in Bach's Solo Violin Works - Joti Rockwell (University of Chicago)

Syncopation as Transformation - Daphne Leong (University of Colorado)

Measure for Measure: Re-forming Metric Wellness - David Loberg Code (Western Michigan University)

 

11:00 - 12:30, Solo Session in Kulas - Form, Tonal Process, and Interpretation, Alan Cadwallader, chair

Brahms and the Disintegrating Dominant - Norman Carey (Eastman School of Music)

Continuous Exposition vs. Two-Part Exposition in the First Movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto in F Major, K. 459 - Eva Sze (CUNY Graduate Center)

What Lies Buried under the Linden Tree? Form, Tonal Process, and Meaning in the

        Funeral March of Mahler's First Symphony - Warren Darcy (Oberlin College Conservatory)

 

12:30 - 2:00 PM, MTMW Executive Board Meeting in Bibbins 325 (boxed lunches provided)

 

2:15 - 3:15, Concurrent Session in Bibbins 325 - The Perception of Musical Pulse, Candace Brower, chair

Meter and Measuring - Brent T. Yorgason (Indiana University School of Music)

Glenn Gould's Constant Rhythmic Reference Point: Communicating Pulse in Bach's "Goldberg Variations," 1955 and 1981 - Peter A. Martens (University of Chicago)

2:15 - 3:15, Concurrent Session in Bibbins 326 - Pedagogy

Music Scrambles and Tonal Form - Alan Gosman (Michigan State University)

Harmonic Dictation Exercises for Use in Extended Tonal and Atonal Music Theory Curricula - Mark Sallmen (University of Toronto)

 

3:30 - 5:00, Solo Session in Kulas - Neo- Riemannian Theory

When Chromaticism and Diatonicism Collide: A Fusion of Neo-Riemannian and Tonal Analysis

        Applied to Wagner's Motives - Graham Gregory Hunt (University of Texas at Arlington)

Through the Looking Glass: Triads and Seventh Chords in Two-Dimensional Pitch Space -

        Steven D. Thompson (University of Kentucky)

Musical Equivalency of Alphabetical Order in Torke's Telephone Book -

        Stuart Thomas Deaver (The University of Kansas)

 

5:30, MTMW Banquet at the Oberlin Inn

 

Evening Activities:

Carlisle Reservation (5 miles from campus), a nature preserve featuring meadows, forests and wetlands

Enjoy $3 movies at Oberlin's historic movie theater.

There may be informal student performances TBA

Cleveland Orchestra performing pieces by Botti, Rachmaninoff, and Bartok, 45-50 minute drive to

Severance Hall. 8 PM. For tickets, call (216) 2311-1111 or visit www.clevelandorchestra.com.

SUNDAY, 22 May 2005

8:00 AM, Graduate Student Breakfast at the Home of Deborah Rifkin, 25 Locust Street

9:00 - 10:30, Concurrent Session in Bibbins 325 - Musical Narrative, Ron Rodman, chair

Mozart's Ladies in Don Giovanni: Layering, Narrative, and Symbolism -

        Roger M. Grant (Ithaca College)

Narrative Codes and Voice-leading Strategies in Brahms's Intermezzo in E Major, Op. 116, No. 6 -

        Melissa Emily Hoag (Indiana University School of Music)

Aligning Media: Multimodal Gestures and Agency in Film Analysis -

        Joerg Adler (Indiana University School of Music)

9:00 - 10:30, Concurrent Session in Bibbins 326 - Transformational Theory, Jay Hook, chair

Variations on a Sanskrit Metrical Formula -

        Anton J. Vishio (University of Buffalo)

The Construction of an Integrated Transformational Network and Its Application to Pop-Rock

        Progressions - Scott Baker (University of Southern Mississippi)

Transformational Harmony and Voice-leading in the Canonic Writing of Stravinsky and Webern -

        Lawrence Beaumont Shuster (CUNY Graduate Center)

 

10:45 - 12:15, Solo Session in Kulas - Modernism and Postmodernism,

        Rebecca Leydon, chair

Convergent Voices: Berio, Lutoslawski, and Perception -

Ringing Changes in Schoenberg's Klangfarbenmetapher: Music by Schoenberg, Arvo Part and

        Brian Eno - Daniel McConnell (University of Wisconsin)

Between Modernism and Postmodernism: A Strand of Continuity -

        Catherine Losada (College-Conservatory of Music - University of Cincinnati)

 

12:30 - 1:45 PM, Aural Skills Roundtable in Bibbins 326 (pre-ordered boxed lunches available)

 

2:00 - 3:30, Concurrent Session in Bibbins 326 - Compositional Strategies, Gretchen Horlacher, chair

Obrecht's Approach to Five-Voice Composition as an Extension of Regis's Axial-Tenor Model -

        Tim S. Pack (Indiana University School of Music)

Sum Squares and Pentagrams: Transformational Tools in the Kit of the Perlean Analyst -

        Gretchen Foley (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

Stravinsky's Array-Pathway Analogues in Context: The Concept of an 'Anasystemic Variation

        Procedure' - David Carson Berry (College-Conservatory of Music - University of Cincinnati)

2:00 - 3:00, Concurrent Session in Bibbins 325 - Musical States of Consciousness

Strange, Strange, Hallucination: Hearing Altered States of Musical Consciousness -

        Shersten R. Johnson (University of St. Thomas)

The Sweetness of Suffering: Kundry and Christ - Molly Jean McGlone (University of Wisconsin)

3:45 - 4:45, Business Meeting in Kulas

5:00 - 6:00, Keynote Address by Lewis Rowell (Indiana University) in Kulas:

        "The Curious Problem of Triple Meter"

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