Music Theory Midwest
Nineteenth Annual Conference
Bowling Green State University
May 16–17, 2008
Friday, May 16
8:00 Registration
9:00–9:15 Introduction and Welcome
9:15–10:45 SERIALISM and SEGMENTATION
What Kind of "Patterning"? Issues of "Thematicism" Reconsidered in Stravinsky's
Abraham and Isaac
David Carson Berry, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
Stability Space and the Below-n Threshold: An Empirical Approach
to Segmentation and Analysis
Mike Solomon, University of Florida
Berio's Serialism in the 1950s: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
Irna Priore, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
9:15–10:45 SONG
Youthful Idealism in Brahms's "Frźhlingslied," Op. 85, no. 5
Melissa Hoag, Oakland University
Schoenberg's "Lockung": Schwebende TonalitŠt and the Great Escape
Cynthia I. Gonzales, Texas State University–San Marcos
FaurŽ and the Art of the Sequence in La Chanson d'éve
Clare Sher Ling Eng, Yale University
11:00–12:30 MINIMALISM
Metric Dissonance and Form in Steve Reich's Different Trains
Paul Sherrill, Yale University
Musical Minimalism in the Twenty-First Century: Marc Mellits's Etude No. 2: Defensive Chili
Daniel Goldberg, Carleton College
Resulting Patterns, Palimpsests, and "Pointing Out" the Role of the Listener
in Reich's Drumming
Philip Duker, University of Michigan
11:00-12:30 HARMONY and MODALITY in POP-ROCK MUSIC
Harmonic Oscillation in Bjšrk's "Triumph of a Heart" and "Who Is It"
Victoria Malawey, Kenyon College
Modal Ambiguity and the Hybrid Mode in the Music of Gryphon
Russell A. Kahmann, University of Kentucky
Pentatonic and Modal Systems in Rock Music
Nicole Biamonte, University of Iowa
12:30–2:00 Lunch
2:00–4:00 SONATA THEORY
S-based Tonic Returns: A Schenkerian and Rotational Study
Brian D. Hoffman, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
Schubert's Expansive Sonata Forms: The Trio in E-flat, Op. 100 as Case Study
Timothy Best, Indiana University
Sonata Form and Tonal Structure in the First Movement of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony
David A. Byrne, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
Testing the Limits of Sonata Theory: Poulenc's Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone (1922)
Kevin Swinden, Wilfrid Laurier University
3:00–4:00 OPERA
Reflexive Narrative and Social Commentary in Lukas Foss's Introductions and Good-Byes
Elizabeth Lena Smith, Indianapolis, IN
The Gesamtkunstwerk Redefined: Mapping Audio and Visual Media in Schoenberg's Die glźckliche Hand
Sarah Louden, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
4:15–5:15 AURAL-SKILLS PEDAGOGY
The Use of Caplin/Schoenberg Thematic Prototypes as Vehicles for a Stylistically Sound Study of Melody in an Aural Skills Curriculum
Michael Oravitz, Ball State University
Sight Singing Anthology as Database: Developing a Trait-Based Search Tool for
Aural Skills Instruction
Gary S. Karpinski, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Richard Kram, Tyco Telecommunications
4:15–5:15 RENAISSANCE MUSIC
Reverse-Engineering the Monody: Madrigal Recomposition as Music Analysis
Christopher Brody, Yale University
A Preliminary Inquiry into Sixteenth-Century "Modality" in Selected Works by Josquin
Kyle Adams, Indiana University
5:30 Graduate Student Pizza Dinner—Discussion with Keynote Speaker
Saturday, May 17
8:00 Registration
9:00–10:00 TEXT-MUSIC RELATIONS
Ravel's "Song Without Words": Basque Poetry and the Idea of Memory in the Piano Trio
Sigrun B. Heinzelmann, Oberlin College Conservatory
Hungarian Text-Setting in the Choral Music of Bart—k and Kod‡ly
Sara Bakker, Indiana University
10:15–12:15 PERCEPTION, PHENOMENOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY
Auditory Stream Segregation and Schubert's Piano Sonata in B-flat, D. 960
Ben Duane, Northwestern University
Analytical Issues in Hugo Riemann's System der musikalischen Rhythmik und Metrik Foregrounded by Brahms's Intermezzo, op. 116, no. 4 in E major
Jim Bungert, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Music Analysis and Drastic Experience
Steven Rings, University of Chicago
The Limits of Extremism: From a Subjective to Objective Ontology of the Musical Work
Emily J. Adamowicz, University of Western Ontario
12:15–2:00 Lunch (MTMW Executive Board meeting)
2:00-4:00 IRONY and METAPHOR
A Disconcerting Striving for Cheerfulness: Ambiguities, Failures, and Cover-ups in Shostakovich's Sixth Quartet, mvt. 1
Denise Elshoff, The Ohio State University
Franz Schubert & the Etherealized Mechanical
Michael Vidmar-McEwen, Indiana University
Existential Irony in La Pasi—n segśn San Marcos by Osvaldo Golijov
Javier Clavere, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
Guitar Solo as Trope in Sonic Youth's "Pacific Coast Highway"
David Heetderks, University of Michigan
4:00–4:45 Business Meeting
5:00–6:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
John Covach (Eastman School of Music)
"When Things Just Don't Line Up: Textural Stratification in Rock Music"
6:30–8:30 Banquet