Fourth Annual Meeting

Westminster Choir College
Princeton, New Jersey

March 17-18, 2006
 

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE



Friday, March 17, 2006
 

1:00-2:00 p.m.  Registration (Talbot Library 4/5)
 

2:00-2:30 p.m.  Dorothy Payne Award for Best StudentPaper (Talbot Library 1)

"Topical Pairing as Compositional Strategy in Mozart"
Matthew Boyer, Indiana University, Bloomington
 

2:30 - 4:00 p.m.  New Perspectives on MusicScholarship (Talbot Library 1)

"A Structuralist View of the Growth and Development ofKnowledge in Music Scholarship"
Karen Fournier, University of Michigan

"A Probability Function for Subset Embedding and Its Implicationsfor Abstract Pitch-Class Relations"
Justin Hoffman, Columbia University

"Repetition Theory"
Brian Hulse, Christopher Newport University
 

4:30-5:00 p.m. Business Meeting (Talbot Library 1)
 

5:00-5:45 p.m. Reception (Talbot Library 4/5)
 

6:00-7:45 p.m. Banquet (Williamson Hall)
Presentation of the Dorothy Payne Award for Best StudentPaper
 
 

Saturday, March 18, 2006
 

7:30-8:30 a.m. Officers Meeting (outgoing and newly elected) (Talbot Library 1)

8:00 a.m. Registration (Talbot Library 4/5)

8:00-9:00 a.m.  Continental Breakfast (Talbot Library 4/5)
 

9:00 - 10:00 a.m.  New Perspectives on Music TheoryPedagogy (Talbot Library 1)

"Asymmetric Meter Pedagogy for the 21st Century: Classification,Iconography, Solfege, and Musical Examples"
John White, Ph.D., Ithaca College

"Constructing "Musical Horse Sense":  Applying Fink'sParadigms for Significant Learning to Music Theory Instruction"
Bruce Kelley, Ph.D., Shepherd University
 

10:00 - 10:30 a.m.  Break (Talbot Library 4/5)
 

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.  Schoenberg's Break with Tonality (Talbot Library 1)

"A Nostalgic Farewell to Tonality:  Arnold Schoenberg'sSetting of Richard Dehmel's Poem 'Alles'"
Cynthia Gonzales, Texas State University

"Emancipation of Dissonance:  Music, Text, and Gesturein Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, 'Entruckung'"
Martin Lee, State University of New York at Buffalo
 

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  Discovering Musical Essences (Talbot Library 1)

"Emerson, Lake and Palmer's 'Toccata' and the Cyborg Essenceof Alberto Ginastera"

Kevin Holm-Hudson, University of Kentucky

"Core Components of Jimmy Webb's 'Didn't We'"
Thomas Robinson, The Graduate Center, City University of New York


12:30-1:30 p.m.  Luncheon (Scheide Student Center Dining Commons)
 


The members of the 2006 Program Committee are: Ellen Flint, Chair (Wilkes University);Shellie Gregorich (Mansfield University); Michael Klein (Temple University); Joel Phillips (Westminster Choir College); and Carl Wiens (Nazareth College).

The 2006 Officers and Board Members of the Society are: 
Pamela L. Poulin, President (Peabody Conservatory ofMusic); Eric McKee, Vice-President (Pennsylvania State University); Joel Phillips, Secretary (WestminsterChoir College); James Hiatt, Treasurer (James Madison University);Board Members:  Ellen Flint (Wilkes University); Dora Hanninen (Universityof Maryland); Kevin Holm-Hudson (University of Kentucky); Heather Felman (Student Representative; Graduate Center of the City University of New York); and Webmaster Kip Wile (Peabody Conservatory of Music).



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