Texas Society for Music Theory 35th Annual Conference March 1 - 2, 2013 University of North Texas Denton, TX

Conference Program

March 1 - Morning Sessions

Floyd Graham Room (MU 251), UNT College of Music

COFFEE and REGISTRATION: (8:00 - 9:00)

Recital Hall (MU 301), UNT College of Music

WELCOME: (9:00 - 9:15)

Stephen Slottow, Chair, Local Arrangements Committee
Frank Heidlberger, Chair, Division
James Scott, Dean

SESSION I: (9:15 - 10:45) - 20th-Century Topics

• "Double Syntax in Britten"
  David Forrest, Texas Tech University
• "'To Dance in Chains': Two Interpretations of Sonata Form from Ravel's Inter-war Period"
  Jennifer Beavers, University of Texas at San Antonio
• "Of Cycles and Loss: How an Interval Cycle Affects Meaning in Bang on a Can's Lost Objects"
  Sean Atkinson, University of Texas at Arlington

BREAK: (10:45 - 11:00)

SESSION II: (11:00 - 12:00) Baroque/Medieval Vocal Music

• "Finding the Right Footing: Dance Music and Signification in Baroque Opera Seria"
  Greg Decker, Bowling Green University
• "Surface versus Structural Chromaticism in Mannerist Madrigals"
  Ryan Taycher, University of North Texas

LUNCH: (12:00 - 1:30)
Silver Eagle Suite, UNT University Union

March 1 - Afternoon Sessions

Recital Hall (MU 301), UNT College of Music

SPECIAL PEDAGOGY SESSION: (1:30 - 2:30)

• "Teaching Musical Form With and Without the Score"
  Matt Santa, Texas Tech University

BREAK: (2:30 - 2:40)

SESSION III: (2:40 - 4:10) - Beethoven/Brahms

• "Comic Narrative Strategies in Beethoven's String Quartet No. 13, Op. 127: I. Maestoso--Allegro"
  Catrina Kim, University of Houston
• "Novelistic Analysis: A Reading of Brahms's Piano Sonata No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor"
  Janice Dickensheets, University of Northern Colorado
• "The Aesthetics of Rupture: Adorno and the Adagio of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony"
  Judith Ofcarcik, Florida State University

BREAK: (4:10 - 4:20)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: (4:20 - 5:20)

• "Partimento: Its Past and Future"
  Giorgio Sanguinetti, University of Rome - Tor Vergata

RECEPTION: (5:30 - 6:30)
College of Music Building Commons

March 2

Floyd Graham Room (MU 251), UNT College of Music

COFFEE (8:00 - 8:45)

Recital Hall, UNT College of Music

SESSION IV: (8:45 - 10:15) - Expression/Efficacy/Idioms

• "Embodied Expression in Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks"
  Timothy Koozin, University of Houston
• "SmartMusic: The Efficacy of an Electronic Sight-Singing Tutor"
  Cynthia Gonzales, Texas State University
• "Blues and Jazz Idioms in David Baker's Piano Music"
  Vasil Cvetkov, Southeastern Louisiana University

BREAK (10:15 - 10:25)

PANEL SESSION: (10:25 - 11:55) - From trailer to historic legacy: Approaches to Analyzing Music in Film

• "Sound and Semiotics in Hitchcock's Coming Attraction: Locating and Unraveling Meaning in Rope's Movie Trailer"
  Kevin Clifton, Sam Houston State
• "Musical Gesture, Modality, and Dissonance in L'Estasi dell'Oro from Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo: Decoding Ennio Morricone's Micro-Cell Technique"
  Charles Leinberger, University of Texas at El Paso
• "A Postcolonial Critique of Musical Topics in Film"
  James Buhler, University of Texas at Austin
• "Remastered and Remaindered: Debussy's Music, Nat King Cole's Song, and David O. Selznick's Attempt at High Art on a Low Budget"
  Sarah Ellis, University of Oklahoma

BREAK: (11:55 - noon)

TSMT BUSINESS MEETING: (noon - 1:00)

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