Friday, April 20
8:00-5:00 Registration, Coffee
Issues in Opera, 9:00-10:30
Session chair: Rebecca Leydon, Oberlin College Conservatory
Andrew Davis, "Puccini and the Twentieth Century: Juxtaposition, Stratification, and Integration in Act I of Turandot"
Shersten R. Johnson, "Britten's 'Musical Syllables'"
Edward Latham, "The Strategic Use of Tonality in Twentieth-Century Opera: A Linear-Dramatic Analysis of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess"
10:30-10:45: BREAK
Tonality as a Unifying Force, 10:45-12:15
Session chair: Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, Indiana University
J. Wesley Flinn, "'Together In Unity': The Approach To Tonality In Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms"
Peter S. Silberman, "Large-Scale Tonal Coherence in Scott Joplin's Rags"
Ronald Rodman, "On Tonal Design and Closure in the Classic Hollywood Film"
Instruments and Border Crossings, 10:45-12:15
10:45-11:15--Sean Mulhall, "High Pitch, Percussion Punch and Sheer Volume: The Tenor Banjo in Irish Traditional Music"
11:15-11:45--James Makubuya, "The Adungu and Alur Migrants"
11:45-12:15--Lucy M. Long, "Fiddle Traditions in Ohio: Native Genres, Sense of Place, Contested Contests"
12:15-1:45: LUNCH
Temporal Issues in 20th Century American Music, 1:45-3:45
Session chair: Michael Buchler, University of Iowa
David Thurmaier, "Borrowing, Time, and Temporality in Selected Chamber Works of Charles Ives"
Stanley V. Kleppinger, "Temporal Conflict in John Adams's Short Ride in a Fast Machine"
Julie Anne Scrivener, "Convergence Points and Their Formal Significance in the Tempo Canons of Conlon Nancarrow"
Margaret E. Thomas, "The Interaction of Irrational Proportions and Temporal Dissonance in Nancarrow's Study No. 41 for Player Piano"
"Just As I Am": Religious Identities, 2:15-3:45
2:15-2:45--Kimberly Marshall, "'It Throws My Mind off the Real Christianity': The Role of Music in the Creation of a Navajo Christian Identity"
2:45-3:15--David Vlado Moskowitz, "Iron, Lion, Zion: Biblical References in the Lyrics of Bob Marley"
3:15-3:45--Steven J. Cahn, "Kol Nidre as Text, Composition and Service"
3:45-4:00 BREAK
Metric and Rhythmic Topics, 4:00-5:00
Session chair: Nancy Rogers, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music
Daniel McConnell, "Schoenberg's Bells"
Justin London, "Some Non-Isomorphisms Between Pitch and Time"
Crossing Over: Folk Music and the Concert Hall, 4:00-5:30
4:00-4:30--J. Meryl Krieger, "Musical Hybridization and the Nationalist Music of Carlos Chávez and Silvestre Revueltas"
4:30-5:00--Joseph Lubben, "Dissolved Meters: Bach to Caracas"
5:00-5:30--Lewis Rowell, "Pentatonic Ragas in South Indian Music"
5:30-6:30 Reception
8:00 Concert
Saturday, April 21
8:00-5:00 Registration, Coffee
New Theories for 20th Century Music, 9:00-10:30
Session chair: Candace Brower, Northwestern University
Gregory Brown, "Fractured Relics and Forged Reproductions: Schnittke's String Quartet No. 3"
David Huron, "Toward a Theory of Timbre"
Philip Stoecker, "Inversional Symmetry and the Index-Zone"
Ethnomusicology: Processes of Perception, Transmission, and Transcription, 9:00-10:30
9:00-9:30--Karl D. Braunschweig, "An Ethnomusicological Approach to the History of Theory: Cultural Meanings Embodied in the Fundamental Bass"
9:30-10:00--Daniel G. Barolsky, "Score and Performance as Musical Collaboration"
10:00-10:30--Andrew Dewar, "Multiculturalism: Walking the Line between Tokenism and Inclusion"
10:30-10:45: BREAK
Asian Music and Serialism, 10:45-11:45
Session chair: Lee Blasius, University of Wisconsin--Madison
Nancy Y. Rao, "Pentatonicism Through Serialism: A Study of Three Modes of Integration"
Yayoi Uno Everett, "Gagaku, Serialism, and Beyond: Yoritsune Matsudaira's Silenced Quest"
From Database to Play List: Musical Technologies, 10:45-11:45
10:45-11:15--Kristen Holland & David Huron, "The Densmore Project: A Native American Music Database"
11:15-11:45--Randal Baier, "Topologies of Difference--Students, 'The play list' and the Impact of a Virtual Audio Community"
11:45-1:15: LUNCH
Form and Structure in Tonal Music, 1:15-3:15
Session chair: Joseph Lubben, Oberlin College Conservatory
Michael A. Siciliano, "The LRP Cycle in Schubert's 'Trost'"
James S. MacKay, "The Journey of a G-Flat: Motivic and Tonal Strategies in Schubert's
Alan Campbell, "The Binary Sonata Tradition in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: Bipartite and Tripartite 'First Halves' in the Venice XIII Collection of Keyboard Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti"
Peter H. Smith, "Brahms's Sontata Form, Schenker's Formenlehre,
and the Idea of Dimensional Counterpoint"
Sonata in B-Flat, D. 960, First Movement"
"Born in the USA": Regionalism, National Identity, and the Musical Text, 1:15-3:15
1:15-1:45--Jessica Anderson Turner, "Oh Virginia! Who and What Do You Sound Like?: Representation and Regionalism in the State Song Competition"
1:45-2:15--Melinda Russell, "America, Sing This!: The M.E.N.C. List of 42 Songs Americans Should Know and Sing"
2:15-2:45--Elizabeth Sayrs, "Narrative and Metaphor in 'The Hanging Tree'"
2:45-3:15--Kara M. Lochridge, "Karaoke Nights: Karaoke Bars in Missoula, Montana"
3:15-3:30: BREAK
3:30-4:00: MTMW Business Meeting
4:00-5:00: Keynote address by Kofi Agawu
5:30-7:30: Scheduled dinner at Faculty club
8:00: Concert
MTMW 2001 PROGRAM CHAIR:
Lawrence Zbikowski, University of Chicago larry@midway.uchicago.eduMTMW 2001 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:
Frank Samarotto, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati frank.samarotto@uc.edu