Music Theory Midwest

Eighteenth Annual Conference • 13–14 April 2007 • University of Kansas

 

Tentative Program

 

Friday, 13 April

All events are in Swarthout Hall unless otherwise indicated.

 

8:00–9:00am      Registration

 

9:00–9:15           Opening Remarks

                           Lawrence R. Mallett (Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music and Dance, School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas)

 

9:15–10:45         Session 1: “Rhythm and Meter”

•   Clare Sher Ling Eng (Yale Univ.), “Being and Becoming: Rhythmic Function Analysis Applied to Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53”

•   Breighan Moira Brown (Univ. of Cincinnati), “First-Order Metric Parallelisms: A Schenkerian Approach to Rhythm and Meter in Tchaikovsky’s Valse (Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, III)”

•   Brett Clement (Univ. of Cincinnati), “Rhythmic Dissonance in the Music of Frank Zappa”

 

11:00–12:00       Concurrent Sessions

                           Session 2a: “Chord Classes”

•   James J. McGowan (McMaster Univ.), “Dissonant Tonics: A Tonal Legacy of French Extended Harmony, circa 1900”

•   Nicole Biamonte (Univ. of Iowa), “Augmented-Sixth Chords vs. Tritone Substitutes”

 

                           Session 2b (Room 402): “Agency”

•   John Stephen Reef (Indiana Univ.), “Finding Agency in a Chopin Nocturne”

•   Mitch S. Ohriner (Indiana Univ.), “Playing the Role: Performative Agency in Selected Performances of Schubert’s Sonata in A Minor, D. 845”

 

12:00pm             Lunch Recess / Exec. Board Meeting

 

1:30–3:30           Poster Session (location TBA): Pedagogical Techniques

                           NB: The Poster Session overlaps with Session 3.

•   Ed Klonoski (Northern Illinois Univ.), “Re-Thinking Part-Writing as a Tool for Teaching Voice Leading”

•   Stanley V. Kleppinger (Butler Univ.), “Strategies for Introducing Pitch-Class Set Theory in the Undergraduate Classroom”

•   Anne Marie de Zeeuw (Univ. of Louisville), “Constructing a Derived Twelve-Tone Series: A Sample Procedure”

 

1:45–3:15           Session 3: “The Symbolic and the Expressive”

                           NB: Session 3 overlaps with the Poster Session.

•   Timothy C. Best (Indiana Univ.), “Tragedy as Expressive Genre: the Cathartic Element in Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music”

•   David James Heetderks (Univ. of Michigan), “Composing Out Homesickness: Thematic Return in Chopin Mazurkas”

•   Rob C. Keller (Louisiana State Univ.), “Interpreting Musical Symbols in Schubert’s Death and the Maiden, D. 531”

 

3:30–5:00           Session 4: “Issues of Form in the 20th Century (I)”

•   Brian Christopher Moseley (Univ. of Cincinnati), “Transpositional Combination and the Analysis of Musical Form in George Crumb’s Lux Aeterna”

•   Kyle R. Fyr (Indiana Univ.), “Form, Proportion, and Metrical Emergence in John Adams’s Phrygian Gates”

•   Christopher Endrinal (Florida State Univ.), “Burning Bridges: Defining the Interverse Using the Music of U2”

 

5:00                    Sessions concluded for Friday

 

7:30                    Concert: KU Wind Ensemble (Lied Center, West Campus)

 

 

Saturday, 14 April

All events are in Swarthout Hall unless otherwise indicated.

 

8:00–9:00am      Registration

 

9:00–10:00         Session 5: “Symmetries”

•   Inessa Bazayev (City Univ. of New York, Grad. Center), “Voice-leading Symmetries in the Late Works of Alexander Scriabin”

•   Gretchen C. Foley (Univ. of Nebraska), “Informed Interpretation: Preparing Perle’s ‘Three Inventions for Solo Bassoon’ from the Perspective of Symmetry”

 

10:15–11:45       Concurrent Sessions

                           Session 6a: “Issues of Form in the 20th Century (II)”

•   Mark McFarland (Georgia State Univ.), “Early Silent Film and Cone’s Theory of Stratification, Interlock and Synthesis”

•   David Thurmaier (Univ. of Central Missouri), “Progress of a Tune: Ives and ‘The Red, White, and Blue’”

•   Ivan Eduardo Jimenez (Univ. of Pittsburgh), “Structural Depth in the First Movement of Gorecki’s Symfonia pieni aosnych [Symphony of Sorrowful Songs], Op. 36, for Soprano and Orchestra, 1976”

 

                           Session 6b (Room 402): “Models of Hearing and Representation”

•   Matthew J. Arndt (Univ. of Wisconsin), “Harmony and Voice Leading in Phrygian Polyphony”

•   Steven Rings (Univ. of Chicago), “A Tonal-Intervallic GIS and Some Related Transformational Systems”

•   Shersten R. Johnson (Univ. of St. Thomas), “Notational Systems and Conceptualizing Music: A Case Study of Print and Braille Notation”

 

11:45                  Lunch Recess

 

12:30–2:00pm    Concert: Helianthus (new-music ensemble) (Murphy Hall)

 

2:15–3:45           Session 7: “Music and Text”

•   Melissa Hoag (Indiana Univ.), “Multiply-Directed Moments in Brahms’s ‘Schön war, das ich dir weihte’”

•   Robert C. Cook (Univ. of Iowa), “A Whitman Song by George Crumb and Emerson’s Compensation”

•   Kyle Adams (Indiana Univ.), “Case Studies in the Music/Text Relationship in Rap”

 

4:00–5:00           Business Meeting

 

5:00–6:00           Keynote Address

                           Severine Neff (Eugene Falk Distinguished Professor, Univ. of North Carolina), “Schoenberg’s ‘Augustin’: Popular Music, Classical Form, and the Notion of Juxtaposition”

 

6:45                    Banquet at Paisano’s (Italian restaurant)