Music Theory Midwest
1997 Eighth Annual Conference
Carleton Collge
16-18 May 1997 - Northfield, MN
MTMW 1997 Program
Friday, 16 May 1997
Convocation (10:50-11:50 am)
Peter Schickele: A Musician's Life
Theoretical Issues (2:00-3:00)
Chair, Robert Gjerdingen, Northwestern University
"Quotation
as Influence: An Application of Harold Bloom's Theory of Influence to the
Music of Johannes Brahms."
William Hussey, University of Texas
"The
Musical Icon: Pattern, Perception, and Metaphor."
Candace Brower, Northwestern University
Break (3:00-3:30)
Analytical Approaches to the Music of Popular Culture (3:30-5:00)
Chair, Justin London, Carleton College
"'Where's
the Rest of Me?': Methods of Meaning in the Main Theme to Kings Row."
Scott Murphy, Kansas University
"Prolongation
and Modal Mixture in Rock Music."
Timothy Koozin, University of North Dakota.
"It's the Top: Cole Porter's
Mastery of the Fox-Trot Song."
Michael Campbell, Western Illinois University.
Saturday, 17 May 1997
Analysis of Wolf (9:00-10:00)
"Tonal
Process and Text in Hugo Wolf's Das verlassene Maegdlein."
Gordon Sly, Michigan State University
"Alternate
Backgrounds, or What [Can, Could, Should, Might (pick one)] the Ursatz Mean?"
Elizabeth Sayrs, Ohio State University
Break (10:00-10:45)
Historical Approaches to Analysis (10:45-11:45)
"The
'Harmonic Daring' of Anton Bruckner's Sixth Symphony (An Essay in Historical
Musical Analysis)."
Benjamin Korstvedt, University of Iowa.
"Changing
Places: Four-hand Piano Transcription and the Construction of Genre."
Thomas Christensen, University of Iowa.
Poster Session (9:00-12:00)
Chair, Claire Boge, Miami University of Ohio
"Introducing
Diatonic Set Theory into the Music Theory Curriculum."
Timothy Johnson, Mt. Holyoke College.
"Analytical
Poetry in Pedagogical Practice."
Claire Boge, Miami University of Ohio.
"Difficulty Factors in the Perception
of Melody by Skilled Listeners."
Jeffrey Gillespie, Butler University.
"Telephones, Tugboats, and Thai Cuisine:
Puzzle Cases for Music Theory."
David Løberg Code, Western Michigan University.
"A View
of Ear Training Pedagogy from the Student's Perspective."
Mary Jo Lorek and Randall G. Pembrook, University of Missouri-Kansas City
"Teaching
Pitch Internalization."
Edward Klonoski, Northern Illinois University
Peter Schickele, Keynote Address (1:30-2:30)
"The Path of Musical Progress, and Other Roads to Hell"
Analytical Approaches to Recent Music (2:45-3:45)
Chair, Anne Marie deZeeuw, University of Louisville
"A Sense
of Order at a Higher Level: the Influence of African Polyphony and Indonesian
Gamelan on the Recent Music of Gyorgy Ligeti."
Amy Bauer, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
"Untied
and Interlocked: Compositional Processes in John Adams's Shaker Loops."
Rebecca Jemian, Indiana University.
Break (3:45-4:15)
Scriabin and Ravel (4:15-5:15)
Chair, Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, Indiana University
"Voice-leading
Parsimony in the Music of Alexander Scriabin."
Clifton Callender, University of Chicago
"Non-Diatonic
Pitch Collections in the Piano Music of Maurice Ravel."
Sigrun Heinzelmann, University of Massachusetts.
Concert (8:00 )
A concert by the Renaissance group, Calliope, featuring a new work by Peter
Schickele entitled "Bestiary."
Sunday, 18 May 1997
Form (9:00-12:00)
Chair, Brian Hyer, University of Wisconsin
"A
Formal Dispute: Sonata Form and Brahms's Rhapsody in G Minor, Op. 79, No.
2."
Christopher Thompson, University of Wisconsin
"Brahms
and the Shifting Barline: Metric Displacement and Formal Process in the
Trios with Wind Instruments."
Peter Smith, Notre Dame
[Break 10:15-10:45]
"Inter-Movement
Parody in Beethoven."
Poundie Burstein, Mannes College/Hunter College
"A Faustian
Narrative in Franz Liszt's B-minor Sonata."
Minna Re Shin, McGill University
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