Eleventh Annual Meeting

Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, 2013

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Schedule
 

FRIDAY, MARCH 15

   
11:45–12:30 Registration
THE ARTIST’S PALATE
   
12:30–  1:30 Short Paper Session
Dmitri Tymoczko, Princeton University, Chair
PRESSER HALL 140
   
  I: Chorale (Bach)
  12:30

How Melody Engenders Cadence in the Chorales of J. S. Bach: A Corpus Study
Trevor de Clercq, Ithaca College

   
  12:45 There are 13 (and also 3) Functions in the Bach Chorales
Christopher White and Ian Quinn, Yale University
   
  II. Chorus (Rock)
    1:00 Rhythmic and Timbral Associations in Sufjan Stevens’s “Come On, Feel the Illinoise!”
Megan Lavengood, CUNY Graduate Center
   
    1:15 The Chorus as Telos in Rock Songs With Prechorus
Drew Nobile, CUNY Graduate Center
   
  1:30– 1:45

Break; Registration
THE ARTIST’S PALATE

   
  1:45– 2:00

Welcoming Remarks
PRESSER HALL 140

   
  2:00– 4:00 Long Paper Session: In Memoriam Steven Strunk I
Henry Martin, Rutgers University, Newark, Chair
PRESSER HALL 140
   
    2:00 Jazz Harmony, Transformations, and ii-V Space
Michael Mcclimon, Indiana University
   
    2:30 Chord-Scale Networks in the Music of Wayne Shorter
Garrett Michaelsen, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
   
    3:00 Reflection on Strunk’s Tonnetz
Joon Park, University of Oregon
   
    3:30 Metrically Dissonant Layers of Swing: Double Time in Two of Louis Armstrong’s Performances of “Lazy River”
Matthew J. Voglewede, University of Oregon
   
  4:00– 4:15 Break
THE ARTIST’S PALATE
   
  4:15– 6:00 Workshop: Scott Burnham (Princeton University), Writing about Music
PRESSER HALL 140
   
  7:00 Banquet
Las Cazuelas Restaurant, 426 W Girard Ave., Philadelphia, PA (215) 351-9144
   
 
SATURDAY, MARCH 16
 
  8:00–  8:55 Executive Board Meeting
   
  9:00–10:00 Short Paper Session: Frameworks for Listening
Vincent Benitez, Pennsylvania State University, Chair
TUTTLEMAN HALL 107
   
    9:00 Thoroughly Nested Sentences and Formal Perception in Two of Scriabin’s Early Preludes
Keith Salley, Shenandoah Conservatory
   
    9:15 Electric Evolutionary Fairytales: Binary State GIS, Mendelian Genetic Metaphor, and Boolean Symbolism for Schoenberg, Schumann, and Others
Joshua Mailman, University of California, Santa Barbara
   
    9:30 Mahler's Contrapuntal Practice: Form and Voice Leading in the Adagietto
Andrew Nicolette, Louisiana State University
   
    9:45 Symphonic Hearing: Listening as Active Participation
Daniel Stevens, University of Delaware
   
10:00–10:15 Break; Registration
TUTTLEMAN HALL 107
   
10:15–11:15 Long Paper Session: Speech and Motion, Rhythm and Meter
Christopher Doll, Rutgers University, Chair
TUTTLEMAN HALL 107
   
  10:15 Groove, Variety, and Disjuncture in the Rap of Antwan André Patton (aka Big Boi)
Mitchell Ohriner, Shenandoah Conservatory
   
  10:45 Analyzing Music and Dance: Tchaikovsky and Balanchine
Kara Yoo Leaman, Yale University
   
11:15–12:15 Short Paper Session: In Memoriam Steven Strunk II
Cynthia Folio, Temple University, Chair
TUTTLEMAN HALL 107
   
  11:15 A Study of Bill Evans’ “Displacement”: Intentional Schenkerian, PC-Set, and Serial Principles
Yung-Ching Yu, University of Kentucky
   
  11:30 Syncretism in David Baker’s Piano Compositions
Vasil Cvetkov, Southeastern Louisiana University
   
  11:45 Microtime in Jazz Drumming: The Beat-Upbeat Ratios of Philly Joe Jones
Dustin Mallory, Rutgers University
    
  12:00 Harmonic Idioms in the Piano Music of Scott Joplin
Yosef Goldenberg, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
   
12:15– 1:30

Lunch and Business Meeting
THE ARTIST’S PALATE

   
  1:30– 2:30 Keynote: Scott Burnham (Princeton University),“Beethoven and Schubert in 1826: String Quartets and the ‘Movement of Phenomena.’”
PRESSER HALL 140
   
  2:30– 2:45 Break
THE ARTIST’S PALATE
   
  2:45–4:15 Long Paper Session: Conceptualizing Harmonic Space, Distance, and Transformation
Rachel Hall, St. Joseph’s University, Chair
PRESSER HALL 140
   
  2:45 Schubert’s Harmonic Language and the Tonnetz as a Continuous Geometry
Jason Yust, Boston University
   
  3:15 “A Flight into the Exotic Distance”: Harmony and Voice Leading in the Act IV Duet from Bizet’s Carmen
Andrew Pau, Oberlin College
    
  3:45 Scriabin’s Harmonious Unity: Unity through Transposition in Alexander Scriabin’s Op. 69, No. 2
Jeff Yunek, Louisiana State University
   
  4:15–5:15 Long Paper Session: Revision and Response
Philip Duker, University of Delaware, Chair
PRESSER HALL 140
   
  4:15 Leonhard Euler’s Tentamen novae theoriae musicae and the Inheritance of 17th Century Philosophy
Zachary Bernstein, CUNY Graduate Center
   
  4:45 The Ursatz and Liszt’s Revisions
Michael Vitalino, University of California, Santa Barbara
   
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