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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Session Overview
Location: Grand Ballroom I
Date: Thursday, 09/Nov/2023
2:15pm
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3:45pm
Visibility, Coalition, and Hearing Otherwise: Music Theory and Asian/American Identities
Location: Grand Ballroom I
 

Organizer(s): Toru Momii, Vivian Luong

Chair(s): Toru Momii

Discussant(s): Ellie Hisama

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The (In)convenience of Labels

Gurminder K. Bhogal

 

Do I Hear Here? A Probing of Asian-American Identity in Jazz Studies

Varun Chandrasekhar

 

Affective Contingency in the Discipline

Catrina S. Kim

 

Disciplining the Professional Music Lover: On Minor Feelings in Music Theory

Vivian Luong

4:00pm
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5:30pm
HBCUs and Music Theory
Location: Grand Ballroom I
 

Organizer(s): Christopher Endrinal, Rachel Lumsden

Chair(s): Christopher Endrinal, Rachel Lumsden

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

HBCUs and Music Theory

Maya Cunnigham, Richard Desinord, Paula Grissom-Broughton, Tamyka Jordon-Conlin

7:30pm
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9:00pm
SMT Dance & Movement Interest Group Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom I

Date: Friday, 10/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
Theory, History, and the Practice of Listening
Location: Grand Ballroom I
Chair: Maryam Aline Moshaver, University of Alberta
 

Theorizing Musical Listening in Ottoman Istanbul (1560-1640 CE): Ontology, Perception, Affect and Multiplicity

Peter McMurray



“The Unpsychological Notion That Music is Made Up of Tones”: Comparative Musicology and Gestalt Theory in Berlin, 1906-1913

Henry Burnam



“There Aren’t Seven Notes”: The Affordances of Small-Vocabulary Solmization Systems

Megan Long, Ian Quinn

10:45am
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12:15pm
Queer Otherwise Possibilities in the SMT and Beyond: A Workshop and Conversation
Location: Grand Ballroom I
Chair: Vivian Luong, University of Oklahoma
 

Organizer(s): Vivian Luong

Chair(s): Vivian Luong

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Queer Otherwise Possibilities in the SMT and Beyond: A Workshop and Conversation

Vivian Luong, Edward Klorman, Cora Palfy, Deborah Rifkin

12:30pm
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2:00pm
SMT Music & Psychoanalysis Interest Group Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom I
2:15pm
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5:30pm
Professional Ins and Outs: Practicing/Performing Public Music Theory
Location: Grand Ballroom I
 

Organizer(s): Melissa Hoag

Chair(s): Drew Nobile, Elizabeth Sayrs

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Public music theory outside the academy

Matt Baileyshea, Daniel B. Stevens, Jennifer Beavers, Megan Lyons, David Thurmaier, Megan Kaes Long

 

Public Music Theory Within the Academy

Abigail Shupe, Deborah Rifkin, Christine Boone, Nancy Rogers

7:30pm
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9:00pm
SMT Musical Theater Interest Group Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom I

Date: Saturday, 11/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
Redefining Music Theory through Translation
Location: Grand Ballroom I
 

Organizer(s): Edwin Li

Chair(s): Anna Yu Wang, Chris Stover

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A Linguistic Approach to Music Analysis in 21st-Century China

Rong Qian

 

Metric Theory as an Instrument of Nationalism: Dobri Hristov’s “Rhythmic Fundamentals of Bulgarian Folk Music” (1913)

Daniel Goldberg

 

Gusti Putu Made Geria’s World of Balinese Music Theory

Michael Tenzer

10:45am
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12:15pm
Lessons from the CRIM Project: What Can We Teach Machines about Renaissance Counterpoint, and What Can They Teach Us about Analysis
Location: Grand Ballroom I
 

Chair(s): Richard Freedman

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Presentation types and formal function in Renaissance polyphony

Julie Cumming

 

With Baccusi in the Jacuzzi; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Numbers

Peter Schubert, Sylvain Margot

 

Block quotation in two chanson-masses by Orlando di Lasso

Vlad Praskurnin

2:30pm
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3:15pm
SMT Business Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom I

Open to all attendees.

3:15pm
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4:00pm
SMT Awards Ceremony
Location: Grand Ballroom I
4:15pm
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6:00pm
SMT Plenary: Public Music Theory
Location: Grand Ballroom I
Chair: Stephen Rodgers, University of Oregon

Submit questions for the panel at the following link: https://shorturl.at/kvJK1

 

SMT Plenary: Public Music Theory

Harald Krebs, Cory Arnold, Lydia Bangura, Alyssa Barna, J. Daniel Jenkins

7:30pm
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9:00pm
SMT Disability and Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom I

Date: Sunday, 12/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:00am
Analyzing Jazz
Location: Grand Ballroom I
Chair: Joon Park, University of Illinois Chicago
 

Grouping Against the Groove: Metrical Dissonance in Hiromi’s “Voice”

Sam Falotico



Monk's Bridges

Henry Martin, Keith Waters

10:15am
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12:15pm
The Popular Singing Voice
Location: Grand Ballroom I
Chair: Christine Boone
 

Trauma, Dissociation, and the Popular Singing Voice

Emily Garlen Milius



Voicing Form in Beyoncé's Lemonade

Drew Nobile



Stability and Instability in Vocal Performance: A Case Study of Rihanna’s Anti (2016)

Johanna Devaney



Excess Inhalations in Taylor Swift’s Midnights (2022)

Mitchell Ohriner