Music Theory Midwest

 

 

  8:00-9:00   Registration

 

  9:00-9:15   Introduction and Welcome

 

9:15-10:45   Music, Language, and Metaphor (Shersten Johnson, University of St. Thomas, Chair)

•   Grief and Denial in Mozart's Piano Sonata in A Minor — Mauro Botelho, Davidson College

•   Trends in/over Time: Rhythm in Speech and Melody in 19th-Century Art Song — Leigh VanHandel, Michigan State University

•   Frame-Shifting as a General Process in Tonal Music — Elizabeth P. Sayrs, Ohio University

 

  11:00-12:00   Topics in Twentieth-Century Music I: Debussy (Gregory Marion, University of Iowa, Chair)

•   Formal Facets of Metric Fluctuation in Debussy's Book I Prelude "Danseuses de Delphes" — Michael Oravitz, Ball State University

•   Shorting Closed Circuits: Sigur Rós's Realization of Debussy's Predictive Technologies — Greg Brown, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

  11:00-12:00   Time and Unity in Tonal Music (Karl Braunschweig, Wayne State University, Chair)

•   Rethinking Conceptions of Unity: Schubert's Moment Musical, Op. 94, No. 2 — Rene Rusch Daley, University of Michigan

•   Schenker's Times: Temporal Indications in Schenker's Models — Hali Fieldman, University of Missouri-Kansas City

 

12:00-2:00   Lunch; MTMW Executive Board meeting

 

  2:00-3:30   Topics in Twentieth-Century Music II: Schoenberg and Serialism (Gretchen Foley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Chair)

•   Zeroing In: Vision and Integrity in Schoenberg's Op. 19 — Matthew Arndt, University of Wisconsin-Madison

•   Symmetrical Patterns of Pitch Emphasis and Text/Music Relationships in Schoenberg's Final Opus — Thomas M. Couvillon, Jr., Eastern Kentucky University

•   Simplifying Complex Multiplication — Catherine Losada, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati

 

  2:00-3:00   Wagner (Ronald Rodman, Carleton College, Chair)

•   From "Tarnhelm" to Hollywood: The Associativity of Harmonic Progression — Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, University of Minnesota

•   David Lewin and Valhalla Revisited: Neo-Riemannian and Schenkerian Approaches to Motivic Corruption in Wagner's Ring Cycle — Graham G. Hunt, University of Texas at Arlington

 

  3:45-5:15   Brahms and Metric Conflicts (Leslie David Blasius, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chair)

•   Problems of Phrase Rhythm and Grouping in Brahms's String Sextet in B-flat Major, Op. 18, First Movement — Christopher Brody, University of Minnesota

•   Metric Cubes and Metric Transformations in Some Music of Brahms — Scott Murphy, University of Kansas

•   A Theory of Metric Transformations — Moonhyuk Chung, University of Chicago

 

9:00-10:30   Topics in Twentieth-Century Music III: Ginastera, Rochberg, and Crumb (Neil Minturn, University of Missouri, Chair)

•   Motivic Composing-Out in Ginastera's Piano Sonata No. 1, Third Movement — Jessica R. Barnett, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati

•   Sonata Rhetoric and Transformational Processes in the First Movement of Rochberg's String Quartet No. 6 — Mustafa Bor, University of British Columbia

•   Transpositional Combination and Collectional Interaction in George Crumb's Vox Balaenae — Brian Christopher Moseley, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati

                 

  10:45-12:15   Topics in Twentieth-Century Music IV: Copland, Bartók, and Aperghis (Gretchen Horlacher, Indiana University, Chair)

•   Copland's Fifths — Stanley V. Kleppinger, Butler University

•   Rhythmic Evolution in Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta — Randolph B. Johnson, The Ohio State University

•   Disembodied Sounds and Silent Gestures: Making Sense of Georges Aperghis's Les guetteurs de sons — Philip Duker, University of Michigan

                 

  10:45-11:45   Medieval and Renaissance Music (Miguel A. Roig-Francolí, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, Chair)

•   Rehearing Machaut's Motets: Taking the Next Step in Understanding Sonority — Jared C. Hartt, Washington University, St. Louis

•   The Modes in Thomas Morley and the English Renaissance — David E. Stern, Ball State University

 

12:15-2:15   Lunch

 

  2:15-3:45   Intervals, Transformations, and Tonnetze (Nora Engebretsen, Bowling Green State University, Chair)

•   A Generalized Interval System for Rameau's Music and Thought — Justin P. Hoffman, Columbia University

•   Teaching with Tiles: Introducing Neo-Riemannian Concepts in the Undergraduate Classroom — Candace Brower, Northwestern University

•   Harmonic Function: With Primary Triads, with Roots, and with Dualism — David Clampitt, Yale University

 

  4:00-5:00   Business Meeting

 

  5:00-6:00   Keynote Address

•   Real and Apparent Simplicity in Musical Explanation, Occam's Razor and Music-theoretic Wormholes — Gregory Proctor, The Ohio State University

 

           6:30   Banquet