The Music Theory and Musicology Society of the College-Conservatory of Music

2007 Student Conference

Conference Schedule
(For the attendee information page, click here.)

All events are in the Baur Room unless noted otherwise.

Friday, 9 February

2:00–3:30 Keynote Address I / "Thinking About Music" Lecture
William Rothstein
CUNY Graduate Center
How Non-Germanic Repertories Can Affect Our Theories of Nineteenth-Century Music
4:00–5:30 19th-Century Music / Schenkerian Topics
David Byrne, Chair
Danny Arthurs
Indiana Univ.
Irony and Illusion in the Second Movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op. 101
David Heetderks
Univ. of Michigan
Composing Out Homesickness: Thematic Return in Chopin Mazurkas
Breighan Moira Brown
Univ. of Cincinnati, CCM
"First-Order Metric Parallelisms": A Schenkerian Approach to Rhythm and Meter in Tchaikovsky’s Valse (Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, III)
8:00 Reception
Saturday, 10 February
9:00–10:30 Popular Music and Society
Brett Clement, Chair
Christopher Endrinal
Florida State Univ.
Burning Bridges: Defining the Interverse Using the Music of U2
John Stine
Univ. of Cincinnati, CCM
“I ...want...to...fit...in.”: The Role of Music and Consumer Saturation in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho
Gabriel Miller
Ohio State Univ.
Nonlinear Time in Funk as Exemplified in James Brown’s Say it Live and Loud
10:30–12:00 20th-Century Music and Music Theory (Room 3234)
Brian Moseley, Chair
Sean Atkinson
Florida State Univ.
Process and Intuition: Narration in Three Tales by Steve Reich
Michael Kelly
Univ. of Cincinnati, CCM
An Exploration of Pitch Organization in Krzysztof Penderecki’s Passion According to Saint Luke
Richard R. Randall
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Understanding Hybridity: Comparing Geometric Models of Tonal Hierarchy
10:30–12:00 Opera, Film and Culture
Kevin R. Burke, Chair
Noel Verzosa
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Wagner Reception and Modernity after Baudelaire: The Case of the Revue wagnérienne
Kunio Hara
Indiana Univ.
Distorted Musical Memory and the Creation of a New Heroine in Puccini’s Il tabarro
Peter Kupfer
Univ. of Chicago
Film Music and the Construction of Post-Soviet Collective Identity: Nikita Mikhalkov’s Burnt by the Sun
12:00–1:00 Lunch (provided free to those who register)
1:00–2:30 Panel Discussion (TBA)
2:30–3:30 18th-Century Music
Anna Alfeld, Chair
Crystal Peebles
Florida State Univ.
The Analysis of Fugue: Reexamining Rhetorical Approaches
Timothy Best
Indiana Univ.
Tragedy as Expressive Genre: the Cathartic Element in Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music
3:30–5:00 Keynote Address II
Mark Evan Bonds
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Rethinking Absolute Music: Hanslick the Radical