Music Theory Midwest

2003 Fourteenth Annual Conference
Indiana University
16-17 May, 2002 - Bloomington, IN


Program

Friday, May 16

 

8:00 Registration: Green Room, Sweeney Hall (ground floor)

9:00–11:00 Music in Time, Sweeney Hall  

Session chair, Candace Brower, Northwestern University

9:00     Finding the Beat in Metric Theory and Listener-Based Analysis

           Peter A. Martens, University of Chicago

9:30     Imaging the Performance: A Preliminary Report

Steven J. Cahn, University of Cincinnati

10:00   Web-Based Tools for Integrating Performance into Theory & Ear Training

Cynthia McGregor and Susan Piagentini, Northwestern University

10:30   Two Herzgewächsen in Three Quarter-Tones: Deconstructing Performance
(and Reconstructing Analysis) of a Schoenberg Work

Kevin Holm-Hudson, University of Kentucky

 

Concurrent sessions

 

11:15–12:15 Early Music Analysis, M340

Session chair, Miguel Roig-Francolí, University of Cincinnati

11:15   A Theory of Formal Function for Renaissance Music

            James S. MacKay, Loyola University New Orleans

11:45   Costanzo Festa’s Deus venerunt gentes: A Sixteenth-Century Axial-Tenor Motet?

            Tim S. Pack, Indiana University Bloomington

 

11:15–12:15 Post-tonal Configurations, Sweeney Hall

Session chair, Andrew Mead, The University of Michigan

11:15   Octave Partitionings, Hybrid Spaces, and TICK Operations
in Post-Tonal Diatonic Music

José António Martins, University of Chicago

11:45   Cyclic Wedges and Convergence Points

Philip Stoecker, CUNY Graduate Center

 

12:15–1:45 Lunch (Meeting of MTMW Executive Board, M350)

 

1:45–3:45 Pedagogy: Complexity and Accessibility

Session chair, Mary Wennerstrom, Indiana University Bloomington

1:45     Teaching Generalized Interval Systems

Ramon Satyendra, The University of Michigan

2:15     Canon in the Classroom: Reframing the Puzzle

Alan Gosman, Michigan State University

2:45     Getting the Big Picture: Putting Aural Skills in Context

Nancy Rogers, Florida State University

3:15     Pedagogical Tools for a Digital Music Library

Eric Isaacson and Brent Yorgason, Indiana University Bloomington

 

4:00–5:30 American Composers I

Session chair, J. Peter Burkholder, Indiana University Bloomington

 

4:00     Charles Ives’s Rube and its Derivatives

Timothy A. Johnson, Ithaca College

4:30     Tonal Design in the First Allegro Section from Copland’s Appalachian Spring Stanley V. Kleppinger, Indiana University Bloomington

5:00     Every Love but True Love: Unstable Relationships
in Cole Porter’s ‘Love for Sale’

Michael Buchler, Florida State University

 

5:30–6:30 Reception

 

Saturday, May 17


8:00 Registration, Green Room, Sweeny Hall


9:00–11:00 History of Theory, Sweeney Hall        

Session chair, Burdette Green, Ohio State University

9:00     Historically Informed Analysis: Interpreting Rhetorical Figures
in the Music of J.S. Bach

Karl Braunschweig, Wayne State University

9:30     Dynamics and Dissonance: The Implied Harmonic Theory of J. J. Quantz

Evan Jones, Florida State University

10:00   Chord Generation: Fétis vs. his Detractors

Jean Littlejohn, Northwestern University

10:30   Reconciling Anton Bruckner’s Harmonic Pedagogy and Compositional Practice

Jonathan Brooks, Anderson University

 

9:00–11:00 Follow-up Poster Presentations (See Friday 9:00, 10:00, and 3:15)        

M350 Peter Martens

M340 Kevin Holm-Hudson

M149 Eric Isaacson


Concurrent sessions

 

11:15–12:15   Tonal and Metric Structures, M340

Session chair, Hali Fieldman, University of Missouri-Kansas City

11:15   The Melodic Bass: Submerged Urlinies and ‘Urlinie Envy’

Brent Yorgason, Indiana University Bloomington

11:45   Metric Dissonance in the Second Movement of Brahms’s Piano Trio, Op. 101 Ryan McClelland, Indiana University Bloomington

 

11:15–12:15   Shostakovich and Others, Sweeney Hall

Session chair, Deborah Rifkin, Oberlin Conservatory

11:15   Flat Primary Triads and the Harmonic Idiom of Shostakovich and Prokofiev

            Gabe Fankhauser, Appalachian State University

11:45   An Aspect of Pitch Structure in Late Shostakovich

            Stephen Brown, Oberlin Conservatory

 

12:15-2:15 Lunch

 

Concurrent sessions

 

2:15–3:45 American Composers II, M340

Session chair, Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, Indiana University Bloomington

2:15     Motivic and Transformational Relationships as Unifying Devices
in Music for the Magic Theater

Catherine Losada, City University of New York Graduate Center

2:45     Arrays and K-Nets: Transformational Relationships

within Perle’s Twelve-Tone Tonality

Gretchen C. Foley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

3:15     Twelve-Tone Chords and Register: Spatial Processes

in Elliot Carter’s Remembrance

Tiina Koivisto, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki

 

2:15–3:45 Late Romantic Languages, Sweeney Hall

Session chair, Joseph Kraus, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2:15     Associative Tonality, Tonal Pairs and Psychological Space:
Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
Set Against the Backdrop of Romantic Psychology

Katherine R. Syer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2:45     Melodic Motive and the Narrative Path in Edvard Grieg’s Haugtussa, Op. 67

Cheryl Ann Christensen, The University of Texas at Austin

3:15     Post-Tonal Diatonicism in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony:
A Reconsideration of Diatonic Set Theory

Daniel Perttu, Kent State University

 

4:00–4:45 Business Meeting, Sweeney Hall

 

5:00–6:00       Keynote Address, Sweeney Hall

Deep Learning in the Theory Classroom: Pacing, Bumping, and Waltzes ‘in Four’ John Buccheri, Northwestern University

 

6:30–8:30 Banquet, Indiana Memorial Union, State Rooms East and West