Conference Agenda
The Online Program of events for the 2023 AMS & SMT Joint Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.
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| Location: Governor's Sq. 11 |
| Date: Thursday, 09/Nov/2023 | |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Musical Closure Location: Governor's Sq. 11 Chair: David Sears "Here is where I'll end it": (Un)finishedness, (In)completeness, and Agency in Popular Music Plagal and Authentic Conflict as Tonal and Narrative Structure in Jesus Christ Superstar The “what” and “when” of cadences |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Spaces and Transformations Location: Governor's Sq. 11 Chair: Nora Ann Engebretsen, Bowling Green State University Chord-Member Space and Transformations Transcendent Triadic Chromaticism in Songs by Mel Bonis Geometry and Fingerboard Shapes: Voice Leading in the Instrumental Space of the Violin |
| Date: Friday, 10/Nov/2023 | |
| 9:00am - 12:15pm |
A Survey of the Sources of Serialism at its Centenary Location: Governor's Sq. 11 Presentations of the Symposium Walter Piston’s Serial Journey: What Archival Documents Reveal about the Composer and Pedagogue Serialism as Source of Inspiration for the Creation of (New) Musical Gestures Expanding the Search Parameters: Uncovering Evidence of Gerhard’s Expansion of Serialism in Notebooks, Scores, Folders, and Enigmatic Manuscripts The Twelve Tones of “Twelve-Tone Lizzie:” Elisabeth Lutyens’ Serialism of the 1960s Confronting Serialism: Kaija Saariaho’s Early Compositional Practice Surveying Serialism in the 12 Hommages à Paul Sacher |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Russian Music Theory Interest Group Meeting Location: Governor's Sq. 11 |
| 2:15pm - 4:15pm |
Harmonic Effects Location: Governor's Sq. 11 Chair: Daniel Harrison, Yale University Analyzing Displacement Techniques in Prokofiev’s Music Theorizing the Modal Double-Tonic Complex with Maurice Duruflé’s Works as a Case Study Theorizing Tonal Function in a Messiaen Mode 2 Idiom Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Schubert’s Promissory Note |
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm |
Gospel Music Location: Governor's Sq. 11 Modal Fluidity in Millennial Gospel Situating Gospel’s Inverted M2m |
| 7:30pm - 9:00pm |
SMT Composition Interest Group Meeting Location: Governor's Sq. 11 |
| Date: Saturday, 11/Nov/2023 | |
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Queer Theory Location: Governor's Sq. 11 Chair: Rachel Lumsden, Florida State University Knights, Incels, and Bach?: Transhistoricism and Queer Listening in Dorian Electra’s My Agenda Consonance, Dissonance, and Gender: A Queer-Theoretical Approach to Johanna Beyer's Clarinet Suites (1932) |
| 10:15am - 12:15pm |
Romantic Form Location: Governor's Sq. 11 Chair: Andrew Isaac Aziz, San Diego State University Spawn of the Symphonic Boa Constrictor: Formal Strategies from the Post- and Neo-Brucknerians Retracted Tonal Areas in Sonata-Form Expositions: Circular Directionality in Early Nineteenth-Century Music Medial Caesura, wherefore art thou? The Augmented Sixth chord as a Formal Initiator in 19th-Century Sonata Expositions Corpus Studies, Sonata Typology, and the 19th-Century Violin Concerto: Viotti, Saint-Saëns, and the Challenge of Recapitulatory Compression |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Timbre & Orchestration Interest Group Meeting Location: Governor's Sq. 11 |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Rethinking Intercultural Composition Location: Governor's Sq. 11 Chair: Olga Haldey, University of Maryland “A Letter from Siberia”: Tālivaldis Ķeniņš and Canadian Cultural Diplomacy within the Latvian SSR (1989-1991) Unification of Indian and Western Musical Idioms in Reena Esmail's "Meri Sakhi Ki Avaaz" ("My Sister's Voice") |
| 7:30pm - 9:00pm |
SMT Scholars for Social Responsibility Interest Group Meeting Location: Governor's Sq. 11 |
| Date: Sunday, 12/Nov/2023 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Music of China Location: Governor's Sq. 11 Chair: Nathan Lam Understanding Metric Flexibility and Performance Practice in Chinese Traditional Singing Luo Zhongrong’s trio ensemble One Yun Sharing Three-Gong Systems and the blending of Chinese and Western theoretical systems Expanding Music Literacy: Chinese Kunqü Opera Stage-Speech Tone Contour Transformation in YAO Chen’s Pipa Plays Opera (2013) |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Semiotics Location: Governor's Sq. 11 Chair: Yayoi U. Everett, CUNY Hunter College and the Graduate Center A Semiotic Exploration of the Music of Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon From Topic to Prime Sonority: The Structural Evolution of the "Guitar Chord" in Alberto Ginastera’s Oeuvre A “Woman’s Way of Listening” to Beethoven: Topical Competencies and Perceiving a Lullaby Topic in Beethoven’s Op. 90/II and Op. 101/I |