MUSIC THEORY MIDWEST
1996 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
FRIDAY, MAY 17
9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Registration Lobby, Dalton Center
10:00 - 11:50 a.m. Twentieth-Century Analysis Lecture Hall, Dalton Center
- David Clampitt (SUNY at Buffalo): Ramsey Theory, Q-Relations, and Webern Op.
5, No. 4
- Shaugn O'Donnell (University of Wisconsin): Transformational Voice Leading in
Two Songs by Charles Ives
- Steven A. Harper (University of Texas): Contour Theory and Minimal Interval
Content Descriptions: A Consideration of Two Homophonic Works by Webern
- Robert Clifford (University of Arizona): Textural Contour and the Medial
Structural Level in Webern's Op. 11, No. 1
- Wayne Alpern (CUNY): Minimum Aggregate Partitions: Mapping Timepoints in
Babbitt's String Quartets Nos. 3 and 4
11:50 - 1:00 Lunch
12:00 noon Meeting, MTMW Executive Board
1:20 - 2:40 p.m. Rhythm and Meter Lecture Hall
- Justin London (Carleton College): The Irregular Hypermetric Structure of Early
Delta Blues
- Bruce Taggert (Michigan State University): Measure 22 Revisited: Meter and
Hypermeter in the First Movement of Mozart's Symphony #40
- Gabe Fankhauser (Florida State University): Motion-Propelling Rhythmic
Dissonance in Brahms's Op. 76, No. 3
- Walter Everett (University of Michigan): Any Time at All: The Beatles' Free
Phrase Rhythms
2:30 - 2:50 p.m. Break
2:50 - 4:50 p.m. Text as Expression, I Lecture Hall
- Richard Ashley (Northwestern University): Bernstein in Disguise at the Ball
- Brian Walsh (Ohio State University): Queensryche's "Suite Sister Mary": An
Examination of Formal Expansion and Thematic Unity in Popular Song
- Melissa M. Stewart (SUNY-Buffalo): Irony and the Chorus in Alternative Rock
Music
- Edward D. Latham (Yale University): The Dialogue of Contrast in Schoenberg's
Moses und Aron, I.2: Drama, Structure, and Aural Salience
- Leigh VanHandel (Stanford University): Composition and Collage: Morton
Subotnick's A Key to Songs
- 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Reception Sprau Tower, 10th Floor
- Co-sponsored by Western Michigan University
and Bowling Green State University
- 8:00 p.m. A Concert of Norwegian Music & Dance Dalton Center, Recital Hall
- Karin Løberg Code, Hardingfele (Harding fiddle)
(reception following)
SATURDAY, MAY 18
8:00 - 2:30 Registration Lobby, Dalton Center
8:30 - 10:00 Analytic Methodologies Lecture Hall
- David Huron (Stanford University): Problems with Applying Set-Theory to the
Analysis of Tonal Music
- Miguel Roig-Francoli (Northern Illinois University): Beyond Prolongation: A
Theory of Pitch Extension in Atonal Music
- Dora Hanninen (Rochester, New York): A General Theory for Context-Sensitive
Musical Segmentation
- Stephen Edwards (University of Texas at Austin): Variety in Mozart's Sonatas:
Using Multiple Modes of Analysis
8:30 - 9:20 Text as Expression, II Rehearsal A
- Elizabeth Paley (University of Wisconsin): "Music, Such as Charmeth Sleep":
Musical Narrative in Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream
- Elizabeth Sayrs (Ohio State University): Tutte or Tutti? Men, Women, and Music
in Mozart's Così fan tutte
9:20 - 10:10 Theory Pedagogy Rehearsal A
- Yayoi Uno (University of Colorado): Custom(er)-Tailored Pedagogy for Ear
Training of Post-Tonal Melodies
- José António Martins (Chicago, Illinois): Force and
Counterforce: Accentual Balance in the Music of the Classical Period
10:00 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:50 Early Music Analysis Lecture Hall
- Richard Devore (Kent State University): Early Compositional Uses of Musical
Silence
- Kelly V. Mahon (University of Kansas): Physics, Metaphysics, and the
Generation of Minor Harmony in Adrian Willaert's Victimae paschali
laudes
- Ralph Lorenz (Racine, Wisconsin): An Ear-Training Session from
Sixteenth-Century Wittenberg
- Richard Hoffman (Ithaca College): Prolongation and Post-Schenkerian Early
Music Analysis
10:30 - 11:40 Style, Idea, and Culture Rehearsal A
- Kenneth Kwan (SUNY-Buffalo): A Tale of Two Dialects
- Michael Buchler (Evanston, Illinois): Style Versus Idea: Expressionist
Aesthetics and Splintered Formalism in Schoenberg's Die glückliche
Hand
- Jonathan Roller (Wilmore, Kentucky): Ives Reduced: A Linear Analysis of the
Third Movement of Ives's Third Symphony
11:50 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Keynote Lecture Hall
2:00 - 3:20 Special Session: Music, the Electronic Lecture Hall
Media, and the Cultivation of Reality
John Covach (University of North Carolina), moderator
- Richard Littlefield (Baylor University): MTV and the Signifying G
- Ronald Rodman (Carleton College): And Now a "Message" from our Sponsor: The
Hierarchy of Musical Paradigms in American Musical Television Commercials
- Reynold Simpson (University of Missouri, Kansas City): Animated Realities:
Visual Play and Aural Expectations
- William Rosar (The Claremont Graduate School): Gestalt Psychology and Film
Music
- John White (Ithaca College): Remaking the "Cover" Tune: Cultural Change
Through Stylistic Variation
3:20 - 3:40 Break
3:40 - 4:50 Tonal Analysis Lecture Hall
- James William Sobaskie (University of Wisconsin-Marathon Center): Schenker's
Concept of the Auxiliary Cadence
- Peter Smith (University of Notre Dame): Brahms and Motivic 6/3 Chords
- William Renwick (McMaster University): Voice-Leading Patterns in Tonal Music
5:00 - 5:30 MTMW Business Meeting Lecture Hall
- 7:00 (?) Banquet
- University Roadhouse, 1332 W. Michigan Avenue
SUNDAY, MAY 19
9:00 - 11:20 Evolving Formal and Harmonic Process Lecture Hall
- Paula Telesco (Wayne State University): Enharmonicism and the Omnibus
Progression
- Don McLean and Brian Alegant (McGill University): Structural Framing,
Recapitulation, and Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words
- Richard Bass (University of Connecticut): From Gretchen to Tristan: The
Changing Role of Harmonic Sequences in the Nineteenth Century
- Richard Cohn (University of Chicago): Weitzmann's Regions and Cycles: An
Early Group-Theoretic Approach to Triadic Progressions
- 11:20 - 12:00 Round-Table Lecture Hall
- Helen Brown, MTMW President
Presentation of the Arthur J. Komar Award
12:00 Meeting of the 1996 Program Committee and MTMW officers