Clifton Callender (University of Chicago), Chair

Adrian P. Childs (University of Chicago): Symmetric Family Values: Notions of Closeness in Transformational Systems

Mike Siciliano (University of Chicago): Voice Leading, R-P Cycles, and Schubert's "Der Jüngling und der Tod"

Thomas Christensen (University of Iowa), Chair

Linda Ciacchi (Michigan State University): The Integration of Pacing, Phrasing and Proportion in Monteverdi's Late Madrigals

Brian G. Campbell (Minneapolis, Minnesota): The Ghost of Timotheus: Johann Mattheson's Der vollkommene Capellmeister and Moving the Passions of the Soul

Justin London (Carleton College), Chair

Eric McKee (Pennsylvania State University): Alternative Meanings in the First Movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in Eß Major, Op. 127: Emergence and Growth from Stagnation and Decline

Brian Alegant (Oberlin College) and Don McLean (McGill University): What Next?: Linkage and the Art of Building Bridges

Roger Graybill (The University of Texas at Austin): Stylistic Deviation as Hermeneutic Enigma

John Schaffer (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Chair

Nancy Yunhwa Rao (Rutgers University): An Analysis of the Use of Chinese Opera in Contemporary Music

Frank Riddick (Oklahoma City University): Diatonicism, Rotation, and "Invertible Counterpoint" in Arvo Pärt's De Profundis

Steven Nuss (Colby College): "Yes I Wrote It, But I Didn't Mean It": Hearing the Unintended in Tokuhode Niimi's Ohju (1988) for Solo Cello

Richard Cohn (University of Chicago), Chair

Robert C. Cook (University of Chicago): Voice Leading, A Non-Commutative Group, and the Double Reprise in Franck's Piano Quintet

John K. Novak (Northern Illinois University): Whole-Tone Harmony as an Extension of Tonal Harmony in the Music of Debussy: An Underestimated Technique of Conjunction

Kip Wile (Sam Houston State University): Motivic Voice Leading in the Music of Debussy

Russel B. Grazier, Jr. (University of Chicago): Hexatonicism and Octatonicism in the Songs of Debussy: A Neo-Riemannian Approach

Wayne Alpern (City University of New York): Bartók's Compositional Process: "Extension in Range" as a Progressive Contour Transformation

Helen Brown (Purdue University), Chair

Bruce C. Kelley (The Ohio State University): Music and the Mind: A Synthesis of the Pedagogical Theories of Writing-to-Learn and the Musical Cognition Theories of Mary Louise Serafine

Bruce Taggart (Michigan State University): Children and Music Theory: We Can Do More

William Marvin (Oberlin College): Music Reading/Aural Skills

James Buhler (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Chair

John S. Cotner (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Improvisation in the Electric Church: Voodoo Child (Slight Return) by the Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)

David Loberg Code (Western Michigan University): Dr. Seuss and the Politics of Pianos

Marianne Kielian-Gilbert (Indiana University), Chair

Gregory J. Marion (University of Michigan): Lifting the Fog: Assessing Debussy's "Brouillards"

Stephen E. Rodgers (Lawrence University): "The Body that Beats": Roland Barthes and Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana

Frank Samarotto (University of Cincinnati), Chair

Christopher K. Thompson (Knox College): A New Voice in Unfamiliar Surroundings: Sonata Form, Genre, and Brahms's Horn Trio, Op. 40

François de Médicis (Montreal, Quebec): A Way Out of a Theoretical Dead-End: Revaluating the Relationships between Developing Variation and Form and Style in Brahms's Music

Peter H. Smith (University of Notre Dame): Brahms and Subject/Answer Rhetoric

Candace Brower (Northwestern University), Chair

Deron McGee (University of Kansas): Simply Complex: Toward Understanding Music as a Complex Adaptive System

Lawrence Zbikowski (University of Chicago): Musical Analogy and Meaning Construction: An Approach from Conceptual Integration Networks

Michael Cherlin (University of Minnesota), Chair

Lars Rains (City University of New York): Directional Tonality and the Double- Tonic Complex in Mahler's Adagietto

Charlotte M. Cross (New York, New York): Schoenberg's Modern Theory: A Preliminary Investigation