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

2008 Student Conference

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

Friday, 4 April (all Friday events are in the Baur Room of the Corbett Center for the Performing Arts, unless noted otherwise)

1:00–2:00pm Registration Begins (in CCM Atrium)
2:00–3:45 Welcoming Remarks

Thomas Kernan
CCM Music Theory & Musicology Society President
Warren George
Interim Dean of the College-Conservatory of Music

Theory Keynote / "Thinking About Music" Lecture
Christopher Hasty
Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music Theory, Harvard Univ.
"Changing the Subject of Music in Theory"
4:00–6:00 Session I: Approaches to Structure
Brett Clement, chair
David Byrne
Univ. of Cincinnati
"Sonata Form and Tonal Structure in the First Movement of Bruckner’s Fifth  Symphony"
Yi-Cheng Wu
SUNY Buffalo
"Atonal Voice Leading and Harmonic Progression in Webern’s ‘Die Geheimnisvolle Flöte,’ op. 12 no. 2: Problems with Contemporary Theories"
Patricia Howland
CUNY Graduate Center
"Phrase Forms in the Music of Babbitt and Stockhausen"
Adam Kolek
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Noise and Form: Perceptual Structure in a John Zorn Collage"
8:00–9:30 Reception
Saturday, 5 April (all Saturday events are in Mary Emery Hall, Room 3250, unless noted otherwise)
8:15–9:00am Breakfast available

9:00–10:30

Session II: Nature and the Ethereal
Jason Hibbard, chair
Daniel Goldberg
Carleton College
"Good Humored Cockneys and an Unconcerned River: A Hermeneutic Interpretation of Holst’s Hammersmith"
Michelle Davidson
Univ. of Cincinnati
"Performers to Remember: The Representation of Music in the Autograph Letters Scrapbook of Countess Katrine Cecillia Cowper"
Michael Vidmar-McEwen
Indiana Univ.
"Franz Schubert and the Etherealized Mechanical"

10:45am–12:15pm

Session III: Harmonic Languages
Michael Kelly, chair
Kazuaki Shiota
Univ. of Cincinnati
"The Overtone Extraction Theory Based on Two Fundamentals"
Mike Solomon
Univ. of Florida
"Three Statistical Measures on the Dissolution of Tonality"
Danny Arthurs
Indiana Univ.
"Reconstructing Tonal Idioms: Temporal Plasticity in Brad Mehldau’s 'Unrequited'"

12:15–1:30pm

Lunch (provided for all participants; in the CCM Cafe)
1:30–2:30 Panel Discussion: "Studying Performance"
Christopher Hasty (Harvard Univ.), Jeongwon Joe (Univ. of Cincinnati), and Richard Taruskin (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
2:45-3:45 Session IV: Interpreting Opera
Leah Branstetter, chair
Bethany Smith
Univ. of Cincinnati
"Baba the Transgender Turk: Queering Neoclassicism in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s  Progress"
Joseph E. Jones
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Rapturous Duet or Righteous Lie: Der Rosenkavalier’s Presentation Scene Reconsidered"
4:00–5:45 Musicology Keynote / "Thinking About Music" Lecture
Richard Taruskin
Professor of Musicology, Univ. of California at Berkeley
"Shall We Change the Subject? A Music Historian Reflects"