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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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Date: Thursday, 09/Nov/2023
8:00am - 12:00pm	SMT Executive Board Meeting Location: Plaza Court 5
8:30am - 12:30pm	AMS Board of Directors' Meeting Location: Plaza Court 4 Closed meeting.
9:00am - 12:00pm	Peer Learning Program: Music and Sound in Political Movements Location: Plaza Court 1 Noriko Manabe, leader		Peer Learning Program: Music Theory Fundamentals Today: Core Skills, Concepts, and Repertories Location: Plaza Court 2 Ian Quinn, leader
9:00am - 1:00pm	France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918 Location: Director's Row H
12:00pm - 12:30pm	Eileen Southern Scholars Cohort Meet-up Location: Governor's Sq. 10
12:15pm - 1:15pm	AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Orientation Location: Director's Row E
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Joint New Attendee Reception Location: Plaza Ballroom A
1:00pm - 2:00pm	AMS Buddy Meet-up Location: Plaza Court 6		SMT Conference Guides Common Meeting Location: Plaza Court 3
1:00pm - 6:00pm	Exhibit Hall Open Location: Plaza Exhibit Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.
2:15pm - 3:45pm	19th-Century Technology on the Opera Stage Location: Grand Ballroom II Chair: Gundula Kreuzer, Yale University Ending with Flair: Final Transformations in Late-Eighteenth-Century Magical Operas Miguel Arango Calle Finding the Ghostly Tones: Wagner’s Audiovisual Constructions of the Phantom Crew in _Der fliegende Holländer_ Feng-Shu Lee Le Prophète and Its Sun: Electrifying Audiences at the Paris Opera Kimberly Francis, Sofie Lachapelle, Stephanie Frakes	Biographical Reinventions: Grainger, Beach, and Ellington Location: Governor's Sq. 12 Chair: Deane Root “The new life is hard”: Amy Beach’s European Years and the Launching of her Second Career E. Douglas Bomberger Duke Ellington’s Publicity Manuals and the Shaping of an Iconic Career, 1931–1967 Mark Samples Inventing Percy Grainger on Stage and Screen Sarah Kirby	Change and Conflict in Chant Location: Plaza Ballroom E Chair: Barbara Haggh-Huglo A Gregorian Chant, a Melodic Revelation from Mount Sinai, and the Burning of Martyrs at the Stake: The Legends and Presumed Relationship of Sanctus and Aleinu Daniel Seth Katz The Sequentiaries from Cividale: New Insights into Local History Eleonora Celora Were Crusader Scribes the Heralds of Square Notation? Uri Jacob	Chinese Music in Theory and Practice Location: Plaza Ballroom D Chair: Heeseung Lee Chinese Musical Instruments, from Ming to Qing: Zhu Zaiyu’s Yuelü quanshu and Its Influence on Joseph-Marie Amiot’s Treatises Stewart Arlen Carter Music and Dance in Zhu Zaiyu’s Ceremonial Music: An Ontological Intervention on Early Modern Dance Studies Joyce Wei-Jo Chen Stretched to the Breaking Point: Singing as Phonological Analysis in Kunqu Theory Jacob Reed
	Gender and Voice on Record Location: Majesty Ballroom Chair: Lisa Barg Culturally Situating Trans-Femininity through Hyperpop’s Technologically-Processed Vocals Lily Shababi Music for the Weaker Sex: Gender as an Organizing Principle in Postwar Mood Albums Jennifer Messelink Sound, Sex, and Somaesthetics Richard Beaudoin	Lisette: A Song's Journey From Haiti & Back Jean Bernard Cerin¹, Nicholas Matthew² 1: Cornell University; 2: University of California, Berkeley Location: Governor's Sq. 14 Jean Bernard Cerin, Nicholas Matthew	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 Jacob Eichhorn Plagal and Authentic Conflict as Tonal and Narrative Structure in Jesus Christ Superstar Kyle Hutchinson The “what” and “when” of cadences Christopher White, Helkin Sosa	Musical Responses to Trauma Location: Governor's Sq. 17 Chair: Erin Brooks, SUNY Potsdam “‘Real Pain’: Trauma and Good Non-Sovereignty in the music of Indigo De Souza.” Dan DiPiero Hearing Suffering and Faith in Lingua Ignota’s SINNER GET READY Olivia Rose Lucas Waters on Fire: Post-War Trauma, Disability, and Multi-Narrative Strategies in Prog Rock Marcelo Gabriel Rebuffi
	Style and Interpretation in American Music Location: Windows Chair: Jonathan A. Gómez, University of Southern California "Procession In Shout": Cecil Taylor’s Metamorphosis of Language to Music in A Rat’s Mass Michelle Aeojin Yom Disrupting Orchestral-ness in Ornette Coleman’s Skies of America Luke Riedlinger Putting Ecstatic Minimalism into Words Victoria Aschheim	Taking on Administrative Roles in Academia: Preparation, Challenges, Rewards Location: Plaza Ballroom F Taking on Administrative Roles in Academia: Preparation, Challenges, Rewards Chair(s): Catherine Mayes, Maria Cristina Fava Presenter(s): Rebecca Cypess, Andrew Dell’Antonio, Christine Getz, Mark Katz, Tiffany Kuo	Video Game Music Location: Silver Chair: Julianne Grasso, Florida State University Playing Between Forms: Intersemiotic Translation and the Classical Arrangement of Video Game Music Stefan Greenfield-Casas Lyrical, Ludic, and Leitmotivic: Video Game Song Lyrics and Semantic-Leitmotivic Transformation Blaire Ziegenhagel From Galant to Gaming: Schemata in Early Video Game Music Alan Elkins	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
	Women, Musical Communities, and Social Change Location: Vail Chair: Peng Liu Lifting as She Climbed: Mollie Fines and Music in African American Women’s Clubs Marian Wilson Kimber Sounding Freedom at the Capital: Persian Protest Music in the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement Sara Fazeli Masayeh There is no Audience Without Ladies: Gendered Participation in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro Concert Culture (1860-1900) Miranda Bartira Tagliari Sousa
2:15pm - 4:15pm	Perspectives on Rhythm and Meter Location: Denver Chair: Kofi Agawu, The Graduate Center, CUNY “A network of interacting forces”: rhythm, African philosophy, and music theory Chris Stover Long-form Non-isochrony and Implicit Music Theory: Cyclicity and Entrainment in Cantos de Boga Lina Sofia Tabak The Racializing Logic of Kazakh “Free Meter” in Soviet Theoretical Writings Knar Abrahamyan Poetic Meter: A View from Music Theory Joseph Straus, Rebecca Moranis		Text and Music Location: Governor's Sq. 15 Chair: Stephen Rodgers, University of Oregon Text, Texture, and Timbre: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Art Song Kaitlyn Clawson-Cannestra Paths Toward bII and Revelations of Loss in Brahms’s Songs Loretta Terrigno Singing Lyrics to Life: Melody and Lyrical Meaning in Recent Singer-Songwriter Music Hannah Fulton The Energetics of Florence Price’s Caged Birds James Sullivan
3:15pm - 4:30pm	Coffee Break Location: Plaza Exhibit Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.
4:00pm - 5:30pm	“Doing Musicology” with Primary Sources Location: Grand Ballroom II “Doing Musicology” with Primary Sources Chair(s): Reba Wissner Presentations of the Symposium Using Primary Sources to Undo Common Misconceptions Matteo Magarotto Sourcing Better Research Questions Dan Blim Ethnography Using Online Popular Sources Elizabeth Massey Teaching Music History through Ephemera Reba Wissner Forging Musicological Skills through Forging Primary Sources Louis Epstein	19th-Century Biography Location: Windows Chair: Sarah Day-O'Connell, Skidmore College Chorale Transformation and Triumph in Mendelssohn's Sinfonia VI and Hensel's Das Jahr Claire Fontijn Home Divided: Social Class in the Schumann Marriage Roe-Min Kok Liszt’s Franciscanism Revisited: Separating Fact from Fiction Jorge Luis Modolell	19th-Century Orchestration, Genre, and Form Location: Plaza Ballroom F Chair: Jeffrey Sposato ‘Einheit’, ‘Freiheit’ and Vormärz Aesthetics: Political ventures through formal strategies in Ferdinand David’s Violin Concerti Dominik Ralph Mitterer “Als reines Organ Gefühles”: Wagner’s Associative Orchestration and the Tristan Matrix Julie Anne Nord Orchestrational Absorption, Traumatic Rehearing, and the Gothic Specters of Berlioz’s _Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale_ Samuel T. Nemeth	British Imaginings of the Other Location: Governor's Sq. 16 Chair: Arman Schwartz “Look Not in My Eyes”: Musical Readings of A. E. Housman’s Strategies of Concealment in A Shropshire Lad Alison Elizabeth Gilbert Music Aesthetics and the Urban Imaginary in Late-Victorian London Katherine Fry Projecting Britishness to the Soviet Union: Music Coverage in Britain’s Russian-Language Journal Angliia Thornton Miller
	Composing Jewish Modernity Location: Governor's Sq. 12 Chair: Mackenzie Pierce _Spinoza, A Life in Three Acts_: Localizing and Personalizing Jewish History and Western Thought in an American Opera Jennifer Ronyak German Jewish Universality and the Passions of Graun and Bach Samuel Teeple Jewish Music, Right and Left Irit Youngerman	Does Russian music have a woman problem? (Re)locating the feminine in song, opera and music history Marina Frolova-Walker University of Cambridge, Location: Governor's Sq. 14 Chair: Peter Schmelz Chair(s): Peter Schmelz Presentations of the Symposium Death Becomes Her: Musorgsky's Lyric Voice Philip Bullock From Lady Macbeth to Juliet of Mtsensk and back again: have we lost Shostakovich's Katerina Izmailova? Pauline Fairclough Towards a Social History of Female Pianism in Late-Tsarist Russia Marina Frolova-Walker	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	Music and Disability Location: Silver Chair: Tekla Babyak, Disabled Independent Scholar Representations of Stuttering in Popular Song from 1965 to Present and the Rhythmic Implications Kristi Hardman Understanding through Unintelligibility: A Close Reading of Neil Young’s Voice in Trans (1982) Gerardo Lopez Movement as Music in Signed Song: Analyzing Rosa Lee Timm’s “River Song” Anabel Maler
	Music, Media, and Place: AMS Music and Media Study Group Panel and Business Meeting Katherine Reed , Location: Plaza Ballroom E Chair: Daniel Bishop Chair: Jordan Carmalt Stokes, West Chester University of Pennsylvania - Wells School of Music Presenter: Katherine Reed, California State University, Fullerton Chair(s): Daniel Bishop, Jordan Stokes Presenter(s): Kate Galloway, Jonathan Minnick, Dale Chapman, James Denis Mc Glynn	Now You See Us, Now You Don’t: Radical Queer Expression and Mainstream Assimilation Harry Castle , Location: Vail Chair: William Cheng Chair(s): William Cheng Presentations of the Symposium Singing "Out": Radicalism and Assimilation in Queer Community Choirs AJ Banta It’s Funny, Honey: Gender Identity and the Performance of Drag in Musical Theatre Harry Castle “Doing Something Unholy:” Mainstreaming Queer Subculture on TikTok Kelly Hoppenjans	Organological Origins and Obsessions Location: Governor's Sq. 17 Chair: Lindsey Macchiarella, University of Texas at El Paso Albrecht Dürer: His Obsession with Music Susan Forscher Weiss The First Instrument: Paleolithic Organology and Other Considerations on the Origins of Music Joshua Charney Traces of European Renaissance Keyboards in Early Modern Sub-Saharan Africa Janie Cole	Representing Racialized Selves and Others in Czech Music Brian Stuart Locke Western Illinois University, Location: Plaza Ballroom D Chair: Kelly St. Pierre Chair(s): Kelly St. Pierre Discussant(s): Michael Beckerman Presenter(s): Tina Frühauf, Brian Locke, Tereza Havelková, Christopher Campo-Bowen
	Spaces and Transformations Location: Governor's Sq. 11 Chair: Nora Ann Engebretsen, Bowling Green State University Chord-Member Space and Transformations Alexander Michael Shannon Transcendent Triadic Chromaticism in Songs by Mel Bonis Rachel H. Rosenman Geometry and Fingerboard Shapes: Voice Leading in the Instrumental Space of the Violin Leah Frederick	What is Latin Song in the Medieval World? Mary Channen Caldwell University of Pennsylvania, Location: Majesty Ballroom Chair(s): Mary Channen Caldwell Discussant(s): Mark Everist Presenter(s): Henry Drummond, Rachel May Golden, Christopher Preston Thompson, Catherine Saucier, Melanie Shaffer, Charles Brewer
4:30pm - 5:30pm	Harmony in Popular Music Location: Governor's Sq. 15 Pivot Sonority Markedness as Bass-Chord Disjunction in Pop and Rock Matthew Allan Bilik Interpreting Chromaticism in Pop Chord Loops Brad Osborn		Meter and Form in Metal Location: Denver Chair: Olivia Rose Lucas Contextual counting: an insider approach to metal analysis Calder Hannan Form as a Technology of Cultural Production in Heavy Metal Music Michael Dekovich
5:00pm - 5:45pm	AMS President's Plenary Lecture Pre-Session Location: Gold
5:00pm - 6:15pm	AMS Board Meet & Greet 1 Location: South Convention Lobby		Joint Interest Group and Affiliates Fair Location: South Convention Lobby
5:30pm - 7:00pm	SMT Music Theory Online Editorial Board Meeting Location: Governor's Sq. 10
6:00pm - 7:00pm	Dreaming Reparative Musicologies in a Paranoid Time (AMS President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture) Location: Grand Ballroom II Chair: Georgia Cowart, Case Western Reserve University Presenter: Suzanne G Cusick, New York University
6:30pm - 7:45pm	Joint Welcome Reception Location: Plaza Ballroom (A/B/C)
7:00pm - 9:00pm	Northwestern University Reception Location: Governor's Sq. 17
7:30pm - 9:00pm	SMT Analysis of World Musics /History of Theory Interest Groups Meeting Location: Silver	SMT Dance & Movement Interest Group Meeting Location: Grand Ballroom I	SMT Mathematics of Music Interest Group Meeting Location: Governor's Sq. 15
8:00pm - 10:00pm	AMS Ecomusicology Study Group Lightning Talks and Business Meeting Heidi Lee Jensen Alfred University Location: Governor's Sq. 16 Heidi Lee Jensen	Anti-Semitism, Music, and Music Studies: Views from the Field Uri S Schreter Harvard University, Location: Plaza Ballroom D Chair(s): Uri Schreter, Nicolette van den Bogerd Discussant(s): Amanda Ruppenthal Stein Presenter(s): Ruth HaCohen (Pinczower), Bonnie Gordon, Rebecca Cypess, Kathryn Huether	Beyond the Staff: Notation Pedagogies and Practices Ginger Dellenbaugh Yale University, Location: Majesty Ballroom Chair(s): Giulia Accornero, Ginger Dellenbaugh Presentations of the Symposium Notation, Context & Representation Olufunmilayo B. Arewa Pedagogy through Performance: Shōga and Notation in Gagaku Music Theory Toru Momii Inscribing Music in the Body: How Sign Language Reimagines Embodied Musicality Anabel Maler Black American Music and the Ambivalence of Notation Jonathan A. Gómez	Early Sacred/Liturgical Musics and Digital Humanities: Skills and Resources Catherine Saucier Arizona State University, Location: Governor's Sq. 14 Chair(s): Suzanna Feldkamp, Christina Kim Presenter(s): Nicholas Bleish, Henry Drummond, Richard Haefer, Lucia Denk, Madeline Styskal, Dmitriy Stegall, James Cook, Gillian Gower, Adam Whittaker, Margot Fassler, Eleonora Celora, Ralph Corrigan, Addi Liu
	Popular Music, Gendered Violence, and Trauma Studies Jillian C Rogers , Location: Governor's Sq. 12 Chair(s): Jillian C Rogers, Erin M Brooks Presenter(s): Lindsey Eckenroth, Kristofer Eckelhoff, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Lauron Kehrer, Gayle Murchison	Taking Stock: The Ibero-American Music Study Group Turns Thirty Vera Wolkowicz , Location: Vail Chair(s): Carol A. Hess, Bernard Gordillo Brockmann Presenter(s): William J. Summers, Walter A. Clark, Ana Alonso-Minutti, Alejandro L. Madrid, M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Jacqueline Avila, Cesar D. Favila, Rafael Torralvo da Silva, Sergio Ospina-Romero
8:30pm - 11:59pm	AMS/SMT After Dark Location: Windows

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