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9:00-11:00 Session: Metric Dissonance
Gurminder Bhogal, Disappearing into the Ether: Notions of Metric Stability
in Ravel's "Noctuelles"
Jonathan Malin, Metrical Dissonance, Energetics and Music-Text Relations
in Schoenberg's "Valse de Chopin"
Tiina Koivisto, Rhythm, Meter, and Notated Meter: Structure in Elliott
Carter's Second String Quartet
Peter Martens, Non-Binary Strategies in Led Zeppelin's "The Ocean"
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Session: Music & the Divine 1
Scott Schouest, Symbolic Composition: Messiaen and the Roman Catholic
Faith
Marianne Tatom, Sacred Mirrors: The Palindrome and the Ikon in John
Tavener's "The Protecting Veil"
12:15-1:30 Lunch (Executive Committee Meeting)
1:30-2:30 Session: Music & the Divine 2
Kevin Clifton, The Church, The Self, and The Other: The Significance
of a Homosexual Narrative in Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos
Stephen Nuss, The Conversion of Ruth Crawford: The "Waters of Existence
and Covert Evangelization in Piano Prelude IX
2:30-3:30 Poster session: Pedagogy & Cognition
Eric Isaacson, Buying Time: raise the bar for 1st year theory computer
Brian Alegant, "Making the Grade": Contract Grading in the Music Theory
Curriculum
Joseph Kraus, "Fantasy with Order": Utilizing David Blum's *Casals
and the Art of the Interpretation* in an Analysis for Performance ClassAnalysis
of Performers
Claire Boge, Everything Old is New Again: Barlett, Schenker & Ishi
Nico Schuler, Teaching Analytical Studies from a Methodological Point
of View
Susan Rachel Mina, Keyfinder: A Computer Algorithm for Key finding
based on Melodic Pattern Matching
3:30-5:00 Session: Music and Literature
Stephen Rodgers, Comedy and Incongruity: Shostakovich's Adaption of
Gogol
Joseph Shuffield, Shared Uncertainties: Point of View in Britten's
The Turn of the Screw
Cheryl Christensen, Interrelationships: A study of poetic and musical
symbolism in two songs from Edvard Grieg's song cycle, Haugtussa
5:00 Dinner
7:30 Keynote Address: Janet Schmalfeldt, Tufts University
9:00 Reception
SATURDAY, MAY 20 2000
9:00-10:30 Session: Opera and Film
Evan Jones, Harmonic Deception, Nested Bass Descent, and the Apparent
Dominant: The Hymns to Venus from Tannhauser
Wayne Alpern, Wozzeck and the Geometry of Ambivalence
Michael Buchler, Laura and the Essential Ninth: Were They Only a Dream?
9:00-10:30 Session: Ligeti & Messiaen
Amy Bauer, Tone Color, Conceptual Blends in Modernist Music
Clifton Callender, Mental Models of Gradual Transformations in Music
Eleanor Trawick, Order, durations time, Messiaen
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 Session: Rhythm & Romanticism
Bradley Hunnicut, Pegasus Unbridled: Riemann Theory of Rests: Beethoven's
Op. 7
Jill Brasky, Prestidigitation: Nietzsche's Tempo in Wagnerian Opera
10:45-11:45 Session: Early Music
Ralph Lorenz, Structure in Renaissance Melody: Applications from Contour
Theory
Paul Murphy, Meter and Dissonance Control in Music Theory Treatises
of the Spanish Baroque: 1672-1736
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Special Forum: Reimagining the Core Curriculum
Brief introductions followed by open discussion
Moderator, Michael Cherlin, University of Minnesota
Barbara Bowker Ellis, Including Rock Music in Core Curriculum
Eleanor Trawick, In theory, In general
Nancy Rogers, Role of Music Cognition Research in Revising Core Curriculum
3:15-4:15 Session: Theorists Revisited
Frank Samarotto, Historical Analysis and Hermeneutic Dialogue: Revisiting
the Kirnberger-Schulz Analysis of Bach's Fugue in B minor
Peter Smith, Another Look at Brahms's Three-Key Expositions
3:15-4:15 Session: Improvisation/Jazz
Mark Butler, Music Theory, Notation, Improvisation: A Consideration
of the Music-Theoretical Study of Improvised Music
Robert Hodson, Making the Changes: Complexity and Coherence in Jazz
Harmony
4:30 MTMW Business Meeting
5:30 Banquet
8:00 Concert: Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem