Eighth Annual Meeting

Penn State University
University Park, PA

Friday and Saturday, March 26-27, 2010

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Schedule

FRIDAY, MARCH 26

 
Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel
   
12:00–1:00 REGISTRATION (Conference Room 108)
   
  1:00–2:00 Cadential Successes and Failures (Conference Room 108)
Eric McKee, Penn State University, Chair
     
  1:00–1:30 Winner of the Dorothy Payne Award for Best Student Paper
Improvisational Memory, Formula, and the Pedagogy of Extemporized Binary-Form Dance Movements
Michael Callahan, Eastman School of Music
     
  1:30–2:00 The Consequences of Cadential Failure and Virtuosic Rhetoric in Liszt’s B-Minor Sonata
Kale Good, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University
     
  2:00–2:15 BREAK
   
  2:15–3:45 Mathematical Music Theory (Conference Room 108)
Richard Randall, Carnegie Mellon University, Chair
     
  2:15–2:45 The Anomalous PPVLs: A Transformational Oversight
Peter Leibensperger, CUNY Graduate Center
     
  2:45–3:15 Contour Vector Space
Rob Schultz, University of Massachusetts Amherst
     
  3:15–3:45 Scalar Transposition, Fractional Pitch-Classes, and Harmonic Sequences
Jason Yust, University of Alabama
     
  3:45–4:00 BREAK
   
  4:00–5:00 Studies in Meter (Conference Room 108)
Daniel Zimmerman, University of Maryland, Chair
     
  4:00–4:30 Dueling Dissonances: The Quest for Tonal and Rhythmic Resolution in the First Movement of Robert Schumann’s Piano Sonata no. 2, op. 22
Samantha Inman, Eastman School of Music
     
  4:30–5:00

Tenuto Ostinato? Listening Strategies for Ligeti’s Fanfares
Philip Duker, University of Delaware

     
  5:15 RECEPTION (Deans Hall Lobby)
   
  6:00 MTSMA BANQUET (Deans Hall)
   
 
SATURDAY, MARCH 27
   
Penn State University
   
  8:00–  9:00 EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING (112 Borland Hall)
   
  9:00–10:30 Composers at Work After 1945 (112 Borland Hall)
Taylor Greer, Penn State University, Chair
     
    9:00–  9:30 The Hidden Serial Structures of Luciano Berio: Analysis, Aesthetics, and Practice
Irna Priore, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
     
    9:30–10:00 Shapey’s Mother Lode Worksheet as Compositional Space
Christian Carey, Westminster Choir College of Rider University
     
  10:00–10:30 Augmented Canons and Eternal Time in the Music of Steve Reich
Sean Atkinson, University of Texas at Arlington
     
10:30–10:45 BREAK
   
10:45–11:45 Performing Chopin (112 Borland Hall)
Eric Wen, Curtis Institute and Mannes College of Music, Chair
     
  10:45–11:15 Instrumental Gesture in Chopin’s Étude in A-flat op. 25 no. 1
Eugene Montague, The George Washington University
     
  11:15–11:45 Projected Tension in Chopin Performance
Mitch Ohriner, Indiana University
     
11:45–1:15 LUNCH; BUSINESS MEETING (Zoller Café, Visual Arts Bldg.)
   
  1:15–2:45 Keynote, "Iconicity in African Musical Thought and Expression." Prof. Kofi Agawu, Princeton University (112 Borland Hall)
   
  2:45–3:00 BREAK
   
  3:00–4:00 Sequences in Context (112 Borland Hall)
Kip Wile, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Chair
     
    3:00–3:30 Linear Fragmentation and Sequential Repetition in Rachmaninoff’s Orchestral Music
Stephen Gosden, Yale University
     
    3:30–4:00 Open or Closed? Poulenc’s Major-Third Cycles of Minor Triads
David Heetderks, University of Michigan
     
  4:00–5:00 Analyzing Expression: Composers and Narrators (112 Borland Hall)
Edward Latham, Temple University, Chair
     
    4:00–4:30 Seriously Funny, or Beethoven as Humorist
Ian Wyatt Gerg, University of Texas
     
    4:30–5:00 Narrative Performance Analysis in Instrumental Classical Music
David Cosper, University of Virginia
     
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