TSMT 2024 Program

Texas Society for Music Theory
46th Annual Conference
February 23 - 24, 2024
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas

Conference Program

KEY:

Friday, February 23 - Morning Sessions

REGISTRATION, COFFEE, AND POSTER SETUP: (8:00 - 8:30 Room: Carlisle Suite )

WELCOME: (8:30 Room: Carlisle Suite)

Martha Walvoord, Chair of Music, University of Texas at Arlington
Amy Hatch, Local Arrangements Chair

SESSION I: (9:00 - 10:45 Room: Palo Pinto)
Popular Corpora

Session Chair: David Easley, Oklahoma City University

"A Supervised Learning Approach to the Behavior of 'Soul Dominants' in the McGill Billboard Corpus"
Stanley Ralph Fink, Drake University
"How Are Verse Melodies Different than Chorus Melodies?: A Katy Perry Corpus Study"
Brian Edward Jarvis, University of Texas at El Paso
"Terminally Anti-Climactic Form in Post-1990s Progressive Metal"
Zachary Simonds, Florida State University

SESSION II: (9:00 - 10:45 Room: Carlisle Suite)
Interpreting Narrative

Session Chair: Sean Atkinson, Texas Christian University

"Functions of Chromatic Mediants in Video Game Music"
Jesse Forgione, Baylor University
"The Moment of Anagnorisis in Film: Tonal and Metric Shifts at Critical Turning Points"
Benjamin Graf, University of North Texas
"'Old Hundredth' and Christian Narrative in Three Works for Concert Band"
Samantha Inman, Stephen F. Austin State University

BREAK: (10:45 - 11:00 )

SESSION III: (11:00 - 12:00 Room: Carlisle Suite)
Undergraduate Lightning Talks

Session Chair: Jennifer Beavers, University of Texas at San Antonio

"Phrase Expansion of the Primary Theme in Domenico Scarlatti's Keyboard Sonata in E-flat Major, K.51"
(Mon) leong Cheok Kai, Sam Houston State University
"Mozart's Keyboard Concerto in C Minor: A Journey Beyond Compositional Norms"
Talitha Murphy, University of North Texas
"Distances in voice-leading spaces as tensional relationships: Determining form in John Adams' Nixon in China (1987)"
Eric Yang, University of Toronto
"Functions of Commercial Music in Horror Media"
Anna Wilmoth and Marc Santa, Texas Tech University

LUNCHEON: (12:15 - 1:15 Carlisle Suite )

Friday, February 23 - Afternoon Sessions

Pedagogy Session (1:30 - 2:30 Room: Carlisle Suite)
Making a Mess of Aural Skills

Session Chair: Benjamin Graf, University of North Texas

Presenters:

BREAK: (2:30 - 2:45)

SESSION IV: (2:45 - 4:30 Room: Palo Pinto)
Music, the Body, and Rebellion

Session Chair: Andrew Vagts, Baylor University

"The Role of Continuous and Ambiguous Tempo Changes in Doom Metal's Heavy Grooves"
Dorian Stewart, University of Oregon and David Heetderks, University of North Texas
"Embodied Expression in Joni Mitchell's Songs with Orchestra"
Timothy Koozin, University of Houston
"Rebellion Through Religion in Lūcija Garūta's God, Your Land Is Burning!"
Jacy Pedersen, Wichita State University

SESSION V: (2:45 - 4:30 Room: Carlisle Suite)
Sonata Experiments

Session Chair: Bryan Espinosa, Sam Houston State University

"Temporality, Tragedy, and Reversed Recapitulation in The Serial-Minimalist First Movement of Joe Hisaishi's East Land Symphony"
Ruixue Hu, Eastman School of Music
"The Secondary-Parameter Network for Sonata Form and Isang Yun's First Symphony"
Anne Delfín, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
"Yoshimatsu's 'Pseudo Sonata': Formal Organization in Takashi Yoshimatsu's Memo Flora"
Jacob Farr, University of Texas at Arlington

BREAK: (4:30 - 5:00)

Keynote Address: (5:00 - 6:00 Room: Fine Arts 258)

Chair: David Forrest, Texas Tech University

Strategies for Inclusive Teaching through Timbre
Megan Lavengood, George Mason University

Reception: (6:00 - 6:30 Room: Music Courtyard )

Saturday, February 24

Coffee: (7:45 Room: Fine Arts FA 303A )

SESSION VI: (8:15 - 10:00 Room: Fine Arts 303)
Reassessing Pitch

Session Chair: Angela Ripley, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

"Pitch, Motive, and Non-Alignment in the Idiomatic Phrasing of Melodic Rap Verses"
Devin Guerrero, Texas Tech University
"Plotting Medieval Polyphony: an enchiriadis Tonnetz"
Justin Lavacek, University of North Texas
"Specifications Grading as an Outcomes-Based Approach to Aural Skills Courses"
Stefanie Dickinson, University of Central Arkansas

SESSION VII: (8:15 - 10:00 Room: Fine Arts 309)
Post-Tonal Analysis

Session Chair: Sarah Sarver, Oklahoma State University

"Rethinking Stravinsky's Neoclassicism: the Ode's Reinvention of the Lament Bass"
Lucy Y. Liu, Texas Tech University
"Tracing Boulanger's La Grande Ligne in French Modernist Music"
Matthew Bilik, The Ohio State University
"Imagined Amateurism: Post-Tonal Gestures and Modernist Techniques in Chinese American Composers' Depiction of the Orient"
Hon Ki Cheung, University of Texas at Austin

Poster Session: (10:15 - 11:15 Room: Fine Arts 311)

Session Chair: Gillian Robertson, University of North Texas

"Engaging Aural Skills Students Through Model-Eliciting Activities"
Aaron Galliher, University of Texas at San Antonio
"A Theory of Cross-Modal Perception and Music Performance"
Samuel Gardner, Oberlin College and Conservatory
"A Formula for Healing: Metric Modulation in Entheos' Time Will Take Us All"
Jose Manuel Garza, Jr., Texas State University
"Transforming the Tonnetz: A Theoretical Perspective of Accordion Playing in the Music of David Lee Garza y Los Musicales"
Amy Hatch, University of Texas at Arlington
"Painterly Listening: Musical Ekphrasis, de Kooning's Untitleds, and Feldman's de Kooning"
Trevor James Smith, Tarleton State University

BREAK: (11:15 - 11:30)

TSMT Business Meeting: (11:30 Room: Fine Arts 258)

Agenda

TSMT Executive Board

David Forrest (Texas Tech University), President
Jennifer Beavers (University of Texas at San Antonio), President-elect
Kevin Clifton (Sam Houston State University), Secretary
Andrew Davis (University of Houston), Treasurer Damian Blättler (Rice University)
Amy Fleming (Baylor University)
Susan de Ghizé (Texas A&M-Corpus Christi)
Justin Lavacek (University of North Texas)

TSMT 2024 Program Committee

Andrew Chung (University of North Texas)
Ryan Galik (Michigan State University)
Jonathan Guez (University of Houston)
Hannah Percival (Houston Community College)

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Texas Society for Music Theory 46th Annual Conference February 23 - 24, 2024 University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas