Music Theory Southeast

19th Annual Meeting

Friday, March 5­—Saturday, March 6, 2010

 

Winthrop University

Rock Hill, SC

 

Program 

Friday, March 5

 

8:30-9:30     Registration

 

9:30-11:00   Narrative and Intertextuality (Chair: Joe Kraus, Florida State University)

 

ÒReading AdornoÕs Reading of the Rachmaninoff Prelude in C# Minor: Metaphors of Destruction,  Gestures of PowerÓ

 

Karen Bottge, University of Kentucky

 

ÒItÕs a Completely Different Song? Music, Text, and Intertextuality in Two Recent Paul Simon SongsÓ

 

Anna Stephan-Robinson, New York University

 

ÒChromatic Parentheses: An Exploration of their Structural and Narrative Implications in Select Songs from Richard StraussÕs Brentano Lieder, Op. 68Ó

 

Sarah Sarver, Florida State University

 

11:00-11:15 Break

 

11:15-12:15 Form (Chair: Rob Kelley, Lander University)

 

ÒDisrupted Form in Rebecca ClarkeÕs Viola SonataÓ

 

Sarah Gaskins, Florida State University

 

ÒBalance: Harmonic Rhythm and the Articulation of Musical Form in Select Sonata-Form Movements by Mozart and BrahmsÓ

 

Austin Patty, Lee University

 

12:15-2:00   Lunch

 

2:00-4:00     Modal, Tonal, and Post-Tonal Structures (Chair: Jill Brasky, University of South Florida)

 

ÒThe Role of Mode as a Structural Force in LassoÕs Si bona suscepimusÓ

 

Gregory Decker, Florida State University

 

ÒChord-Bible Harmony in Frank ZappaÕs Middle-Period Orchestral MusicÓ

 

Brett Clement, Stephen F. Austin State University

 

ÒThe Hidden Serial Structures of Luciano Berio: Analysis, Aesthetics, and PracticeÓ

 

Irna Priore, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 

ÒThe Subsumed MediantÓ

 

Eric Wen, Mannes College of Music

 

4:00-4:15     Break

        

4:15-5:15     Opera (Chair: Gabe Fankhauser, Appalachian State University)

 

ÒÔSomething Human:Õ Dramatic Transformation in PucciniÕs TurandotÓ

 

Ya-Hui Cheng, Fort Valley State University

 

ÒHearing VerdiÕs Signs: Recurring Themes, Topics, and Time in Act V of Don CarlosÓ

 

Dave Easley, Florida State University

 

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Saturday, March 6

 

8:00-8:30     Registration

 

8:30-9:30     Musical Time (Chair: Yayoi Everett, Emory University)

 

ÒAugmented Canons and Eternal Time in the Music of Steve ReichÓ

 

Sean Atkinson, University of Texas, Arlington

 

ÒDuration Segment Similarity in the Performance and Perception of Bart—kÕs Aksak MetersÓ

 

Mitch Ohriner, Indiana University

 

9:30-9:45     Break

 

9:45-10:45   Elliott Carter (Chair: Cliff Callender, Florida State University)

 

ÒElliott Carter's Reading of Ungaretti Poems in Tempo e TempiÓ

 

Alan Theisen, Florida State University

 

ÒText, Music, and Irony in Elliott CarterÕs Opera What Next?Ó

 

Guy Capuzzo, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 

10:45-11:00 Break

 

11:00-12:30 Pitch-Class Sets and Transformational Theory (Chair: Adam Ricci, University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

 

ÒPitch-Class Multisets and the Z-RelationÓ

 

Thomas Robinson, University of Alabama

 

ÒAll Set?: Contexts for Atonal Period Music AnalysisÓ

 

Danny Jenkins, University of South Carolina

 

ÒAre There Any Bad (or Good) Transformational Analyses?Ó

 

Michael Buchler, Florida State University

 

12:30-2:15   Lunch

 

2:15-3:00     Business Meeting

 

3:00-4:00     Keynote Address: Elaine Chew, University of Southern California

 

 


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