CCM: Composition, Musicology, & Theory

Recent activites of Divisional Faculty Members (2003–present)

Theory

David Carson Berry
Recent Publications
	Cole Porter’s Life in Music, with co-author Allen Forte (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, in progress).
	“The Roles of Invariance and Analogy in the Linear Design of Stravinsky’s ‘Musick to Heare,’” Gamut [peer-reviewed online journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic] (forthcoming).
	“The Journal of Music Theory during the Forte Years,” Journal of Music Theory (forthcoming in the fiftieth-anniversary volume).
	“Verborgene Wiederholungen? Schenker’s (Hidden?) Influence in America in the 1930s. Part I: George Wedge and the Filtering of Schenker’s Ideas for the ‘Average’ Person,” Theory and Practice (forthcoming).
	“Hans Weisse (1892-1940),” in Schenker-Traditionen: Eine Wiener Schule der Musiktheorie und ihre internationale Verbreitung [Schenker Traditions: A Viennese School of Music Theory and Its International Dissemination], ed. Martin Eybl and Evelyn Fink-Mennel (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2006): 91-103.
	“Stravinsky, Igor,” in Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, editors-in-chief John Merriman and Jay Winter (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006), vol. 4: 2261-63.
	“Schenkerian Theory in the United States: A Review of Its Establishment and a Survey of Current Research Topics,” Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie 2/3 (2005). Online version accessible at <http://www.gmth.de/www/zeitschrift.php?option=show&ausgabe=8&archiv=1>.
	“Victor Vaughn Lytle and the Early Proselytism of Schenkerian Ideas in the U.S.,” Journal of Schenkerian Studies 1 (2005): 92-117.
	A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature: An Annotated Bibliography with Indices (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2004); xii + 585 pp.
	"The Meaning(s) of 'Without': An Exploration of Liszt's Bagatelle ohne Tonart," 19th-Century Music 27/3 (2004): 230–62.
	"The Role of Adele T. Katz in the Early Expansion of the New York 'Schenker School,'" Current Musicology 74 (2002 [published 2004]): 103–51.
	"On Teaching 'Tonal Mirror Counterpoint': A Guide to Concepts and Practice," Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 16 (2002 [published 2004]): 1–56.
	"Hans Weisse and the Dawn of American Schenkerism," Journal of Musicology 20/1 (2003): 104–56.
Recent Presentations
	"What Kind of 'Patterning'? Issues of 'Thematicism' Reconsidered in Stravinsky's Abraham and Isaac," paper presented at Music Theory Midwest (Bowling Green, OH), 2008.
	"Stravinsky's Serialism and Musical Evolution: Tinkering, Preadaptation, and Non-Teleological Change," paper presented at the conference on "Music and Evolutionary Thought," hosted by the Institute of Advanced Study and the School of Music, Durham University (England), June 2007.
	"Stravinsky's Array-Pathway Analogues in Context: The Concept of an 'Anasystemic Variation Procedure,'" paper presented at the Society for Music Theory (Los Angeles, CA), 2006. NB: Earlier & different versions of this research were delivered at the following conferences: Fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music (Univ. of Sussex, UK), 2005; and annual conference, Music Theory Midwest (Oberlin, OH), 2005.
	"Judging Them by Their Covers: The Artistic and Commercial Connotations of Album-Cover Photographs," paper presented at the Cincinnati Art Museum in conjunction with an exhibition titled "Borrowed Time: The Photograph as Music Album Cover," 2006.
	"Krenek's Vocal Music: Innovative Serialism and Indicator of Poetics," paper presented at the Society for Music Theory (Boston/Cambridge, MA), 2005. [NB: The author was unable to deliver paper due to a family death.]
	"Verborgene Wiederholungen? Schenker's (Hidden?) Influence in America before Hans Weisse and the Mannes Vanguard," paper presented at the Society for Music Theory (Seattle, WA), 2004; and at the Music Theory Society of New York State (Rochester, NY), 2004.
	"The Professional Songwriter in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Jimmy Van Heusen as a Case Study," paper presented at the symposium "Celebrating the American Popular Song: Jazz and the Songsmiths," held as part of the 26th Annual Carolina Jazz Festival (Chapel Hill, NC), 2004.
	"The Structural Roles of Pentatonicism in Tin Pan Alley Songs," paper presented at the Society for Music Theory (Madison, WI), 2003.
	"Hans Weisse," paper presented at the Schenker-Traditionen Symposium, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (Vienna, Austria), 2003.
	"The Meaning(s) of 'Without': An Investigation of Liszt and His 'Bagatelle ohne Tonart,'" paper presented at a joint conference of Music Theory Society of New York State and New England Conference of Music Theorists (New Haven, CT), 2003.
	"Planning Chance: On the Pedagogical Value of Tonal Dice-Game Compositions," paper presented at the Yale Department of Music Colloquium (New Haven, CT), 2003.
Other Recent Activities and Services
	Program Committee Chair, Music Theory Midwest annual meeting (2007).
	Senator, University of Cincinnati Faculty Senate (2004-06).
	Editor, Theory and Practice, the Journal of the Music Theory Society of New York State (2003, 2004).
	Program committee member, SMT Popular Music Interest Group (2003–04).
Recent Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
	Emerging Scholar Award, Society for Music Theory (2006).
	Friends of CCM Faculty Projects Pool: grant to attend and present a paper at the Music Theory Society of New York State, Rochester, NY (April 2004).

Steven J. Cahn
Recent Publications
	Chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg (forthcoming).
	"Congenital Amusia Is More Than a Fine-Grained Pitch Deficit" (forthcoming).
	"On the Representation of Jewish Identity and Historical Consciousness in Schoenberg's Religious Thought," Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center (2003).
	"Kol Nidre, Op. 39," in Arnold Schönberg: Interpretationen seiner Werke (2002).
	"Kol Nidre in America," Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Centre (2002).
Recent Presentations
	"Imaging the Performance: Analyzing Music with a Similarity Matrix," poster presented at Society for Music Theory (Los Angeles), 2006.
	"Arnold Schoenberg: Letters to Jewry in America," paper presented at Library of Congress, 2004.
	"On Music-Specific Deficits: A Case Study of Congenital Amusia," paper presented at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Northwestern Univ.), 2004.
	"Imaging the Performance," paper presented at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Northwestern Univ.), 2004.
	"Mozart, Kant, Schoenberg: Clinging to the Enlightenment by Beethoven's Hair," paper presented at the International Congress on the Enlightenment (International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) (The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA), 2003.
	"Imaging the Performance: On Integrating Performance and Structural Information," paper presented at the Colloquium for the Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, National Institutes of Health (Washington, DC), 2003.
	"Imaging the Performance: A Preliminary Report," paper presented at Music Theory Midwest (Bloomington, IN), 2003.
Other Recent Activities and Services
	Co-director of Thinking About Music (CCM lecture series).
	Manuscripts read for Journal of the American Musicological Society, College Music Symposium, Oxford University Press, and W.W. Norton.
Recent Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
	Tangeman Sacred Music Center Grant (2006)
	National Institutes of Health (NIH), Contractor, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics (2002–07).
	UC University Research Council Grant (2003–04).

Catherine Losada
Recent Presentations
	"Between Modernism and Postmodernism; A Strand of Continuity," paper presented at the Society for Music Theory (Boston/Cambridge, MA), 2005; the Fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music (University of Sussex, UK), 2005; and Music Theory Midwest (Oberlin, OH), 2005.
	"The Process of Modulation in the Musical Collage," paper presented at the Society for Music Theory (Seattle, WA), 2004; Music Theory Midwest (Kansas City, MO), 2004; the West Coast Conference for Music Theory and Analysis (Santa Barbara, CA), 2004; and the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic (Philadelphia, PA), 2004.
	"Chromatic Saturation and the Significant Gap as Unifying Devices in Berio's Sinfonia," paper presented at the Texas Society for Music Theory (Fort Worth, TX), 2003 (Outstanding Student Paper Award); the Society for Music Theory Southeast (Davidson, NC), 2003; and a joint meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State and the New England Conference of Music Theorists (New Haven, CT), 2003.
	"Motivic and Transformational Relationships as Unifying Devices in Music for the Magic Theater," paper presented at the West Coast Conference for Music Theory and Analysis (Albuquerque, NM), 2003; Music Theory Midwest (Bloomington, IN), 2003; and the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory (Tucson, AZ), 2003.
	"Chromatic Saturation and the Significant Gap as Unifying Devices in the Musical Collage," lecture presented at the University of Texas at Austin (25 November 2003) and Harvard University (3 December 2003).
Other Recent Activities and Services
	Co-director of Thinking About Music (CCM lecture series), 2005-06.
	Manuscripts read for Theory and Practice.
Recent Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
	URC Research Grant to conduct research at the Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel, Switzerland) during the summer of 2005.
	Friends of CCM Faculty Projects Pool grant to attend and present at the Fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music, 2005.
	SMT Minority Travel Grant for paper presentation at the SMT conference in November, 2004.
	Herbert Colvin Award for outstanding student paper at the 2003 meeting of the Texas Society for Music Theory.

Miguel A. Roig-Francolí
Recent Publications
	Textbooks:
	Understanding Post-Tonal Music (McGraw-Hill, 2007).
	Harmony in Context (McGraw-Hill, 2003). [Reviewed by Ken Stephenson, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 15 (2001 [published 2004]): 103–12.]
	Articles:
	"Procesos compositivos y estructura musical: Teoría y práctica en Antonio de Cabezón y Tomás de Santa María," in Políticas y prácticas musicales en el mundo de Felipe II (Madrid: Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, 2004): 393-414.
	"A Theory of Pitch-Class-Set Extension in Atonal Music," College Music Symposium 41 (2001 [published 2003]): 57–90.
	Compositions:
	Partita, for eight instruments (Madrid, Spain: Editorial de Musica Española Contemporanea, 2006).
	Sonata for cello and piano (Valencia, Spain: Editorial Piles, 2004).
Recent Compositions
	Canticles for a Sacred Earth, for orchestra (September 2006-February 2007).
	Canticles for a Sacred Earth, for double quintet and two percussionists (April-December 2006).
	Antiphons and Psalms for the Victims of Genocide, for chamber orchestra and optional chamber chorus (March-May 2005).
	Dona eis requiem, in memory of the innocent victims of war and terror, for chamber orchestra and chamber chorus (January-March 2005).
	Easter Toccata, for organ (December 2004).
Recent Performances of Compositions
	Dona eis requiem, in memory of the innocent victims of war and terror, for chamber orchestra and chamber chorus, performed by: • Symphony Orchestra of the City of Ibiza, conducted by Adolfo Villalonga, Ibiza, Spain, 29 April 2007. • Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands in Menorca, Spain, on 12 April 2006. • Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands, conducted by Philippe Bender, Mallorca, Spain, on 11 April 2006 (premiere).
	Sonata for cello and piano, performed at: • DePauw University by Evan Jones and May Phang, 23 February 2007. • CCM by Evan Jones and May Phang, 22 February 2007. • Ibiza, Spain, 12 Nov. 2004 (at presentation of published score).
	Canticles for a Sacred Earth, for double quintet and two percussionists, premiered at CCM by the CCM Chamber Players, conducted by Rodney Winther, January 24, 2007.
	Easter Toccata, for organ, performed: • on Easter Sunday, 2006, at the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Chains (Cincinnati), by Blake Callahan. • at the Annual Concert of the American Guild of Organists, Cincinnati, 11 April 2005, by Blake Callahan. • on Easter Sunday, 2005, at Saint Margaret of York (Loveland), by Javier Clavere. • on Easter Sunday, 2005, at the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Chains (Cincinnati), by Blake Callahan.
	Partita, for Eight Instruments, performed by: • Faculty Orchestra of the Superior Conservatory of Music of the Balearic Islands, at official opening ceremony of the conservatory’s academic year, Ibiza, Spain, 13 Nov. 2004. • CCM Chamber Players, conducted by Rodney Winther, at CCM’s Werner Hall, 14 Nov. 2003.
	Five Pieces for Orchestra, performed by the CCM Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Mark Gibson at CCM’s Corbett Auditorium, 14 Oct. 2003.
Other Honors and Activities
	Winner of 2007 A.B. "Dolly" Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Cincinnati. See the news report here.
	Invited lecture at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música, Ibiza, Spain, April 26, 2007: "El mosaico de las estéticas musicales del siglo XX: Modernismo, postmodernismo, y el diálogo con el pasado."
	Program Committee member, Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2006.
	Chair, session on Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music Theory Midwest Annual Conference, Ball State University (Muncie, IN), 12–13 May 2006.
	Invited two-day composition workshop at Superior Conservatory of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain, 10–11 April 2006.
	Friends of CCM grants, 2006 (for travel to performance of Dona eis requiem in Spain); 2005 (for travel to premiere of Dona eis requiem in Spain); 2004 (for travel to CMS Conference in San Francisco).
	Recipient, 2005 University of Cincinnati Faculty Bonus Award for Achievement in Research/Creative/Professional Activity and Teaching.
	"Principles and Pedagogies: Organizing the Large Theory Lecture," invited presentation for session on Teaching Large Theory Lectures at the CMS Annual Conference, San Francisco (2004).
	Medal of Honor (highest academic honor) from Superior Conservatory of Music of the Balearic Islands, Spain, 2004.
	Chair, session on Early Music Analysis, Music Theory Midwest Annual Meeting, Indiana University, May 2003.
	Member of Music Theory Midwest’s Nominating Committee (2002-2003).
	Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy.

Robert Zierolf
Recent Presentations
	“Futurism’s Legacy,” paper presented at the Sixth European Music Analysis Conference, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg (Germany), October 2007.
	"Temporal Discontinuity and Postmodernism: the Most Radical Elements in Compositions by Charles Ives" paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 2006.
	"Old Question, New Music: Reception of Minimalism and New Consonance in Europe and the United States 1964 to the Present" paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 2006.