Fourteenth Annual Meeting
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Friday and Saturday, April 8–9, 2016

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Schedule
 

FRIDAY, April 8
Cafe 58 (Irvine Auditorium)
3401 Spruce Street (corner of Spruce and 34th)

   
11:00–12:00 Registration
   
12:00–12:15

Welcoming Remarks

   
12:15–  1:30 Short Paper Session 1
Chair: Naomi Waltham-Smith, University of Pennsylvania
   
  12:15

What Can Music Identification from Harmonic Reductions Tell Us about Chord Progressions?
Ivan Jimenez, University of Pittsburgh; & Tuire Kuusi, Sibelius Academy

   
  12:30 “Canto Gregoriano”: Paul Creston’s Adaptation of Plainchant as Topic
Dylan Principi, Temple University
   
  12:45 “For Signs and for Seasons and for Days and Years”: Hierarchies of Musical and Textual Rhythm in Steve Reich’s Tehillim
Martha Sullivan, Rutgers University
   
    1:00 Schenker’s Elucidations on Unfolding Compound Voices from Der Tonwille 6 (1923) to Der freie Satz (1935)
Rodney Garrison, SUNY Fredonia
   
    1:15 Trans-cultural-stylstic solutions of Toshi Ichiyanagi’s Transfiguration of the Moon (1988), for shô and violin
Joshua Mailman, University of Alabama
   
  1:30– 1:45

Break/Registration

   
  1:45– 3:15 Long Paper Session 1: Twentieth Century Music
Chair: Cynthia Folio, Temple University
   
    1:45 Between Sign and Convention: On the Phenomenology of Modernist Musical Topics
Aaron Harcus, The Graduate Center, CUNY
   
    2:15 The Twentieth-Century Origins of the Feature Motive
Brent Auerbach, University of Massachusetts Amherst
   
    2:45 Dallapiccola and Musical Time: Nonlinear Narrative and Mixed Temporalities in Canti di Liberazione
Sabrina Clarke, Temple University
   
  3:15– 3:30 Break/Registration
   
  3:30– 5:30 Professional Development Workshop (open to all registrants):
“Transformational Analysis and ‘Hearing As.’"
Steven Rings, University of Chicago
   
  5:30– 6:00 Reception
   
  6:30

Banquet (NEW LOCATION)
The Farmacy
4443 Spruce St
Philadelphia, PA
267-432-1082

 

SATURDAY, April 9
Rose Recital Hall Rm 419 in Fisher Bennett Hall (4th floor, right out of the elevator)
3340 Walnut Street (corner of Walnut and 34th)

 
  8:15–  9:15 Executive Board Meeting
   
  9:30–11:00

Long Paper Session 2: Popular Music and Jazz
Chair: Jairo Moreno, University of Pennsylvania

   
    9:30

Harmonic Function in Rock: A Scale-Degree Approach
Mark Richards, Florida State University

   
  10:00 Invariant Properties of Harmonic Substitutions in Jazz
Keith Salley, Shenandoah University
   
  10:30 Can You Hear Me Now? : Audio Branding and the Sonic Logo
Alex Newton, The University of Texas at Austin
   
11:00–11:15 Break/Registration
   
11:15–12:30 Short Paper Session 2
Chair: Robert A. Baker, Catholic University
   
  11:15 On the Implied Narrative in Schumann’s Op. 35 Liederreihe
Alexander Martin, The Graduate Center, CUNY
   
  11:30 Canons in Hypermetrical Transitions in Mozart
Ellen Bakulina, Yale University
   
  11:45 Topic Theory and Popular Music: Nostalgia and Sentimentality
Sean Davis, Temple University
   
  12:00 Humorous Incongruities in Haydn’s Symphony No. 60 “Il distratto”- Excess and Opposition
James Palmer, University of British Columbia
   
  12:15 The “Sweet Thing” Scheme in American Vernacular Music
Nicholas Stoia, Duke University
    
12:30– 1:45

Lunch and Business Meeting

   
  1:45– 2:45

Keynote Address: “No Success Like Failure: Vocal Schemata and Bob Dylan’s Late Style.”
Steven Rings, University of Chicago

   
  2:45– 3:00 Break
   
  3:00–4:00 Long Paper Session 3: Twentieth Century Music II
Chair: Edward Latham, Temple University
   
  3:00 Framing the Argument: The Architecture of Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, & Strings
Gordon Sly, Michigan State University
   
  3:30 Winner of the Dorothy Payne Award for Best Student Paper
Timbre, Harmony, Orchestration, and Analysis, and Rautavaara’s Symphony no. 8 “The Journey”
Joshua Mills, Florida State University
  4:00–5:00

Long Paper Session 4: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Music
Chair: Anna Stephan-Robinson, West Liberty University

   
  4:00 The Four-Key Exposition? Schubert’s Sonata Forms, the Fantasia, and Questions of Formal Coherence
René Rusch, University of Michigan
   
  4:30

Winner of the Dorothy Payne Award for Best Student Paper
The Volta: A Galant Gesture of Culmination
Nathaniel Mitchell, Princeton University

   
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