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
Date: Friday, 10/Nov/2023
12:00am
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12:30am
AMS/SMT After Dark (con't)
Location: Windows
7:00am
-
9:00am
W. W. Norton Focus Group
Location: Director's Row I

Closed session.

7:15am
-
8:45am
SMT Music Notation & Visualization Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
SMT Student Breakfast Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom A
7:30am
-
9:00am
American Brahms Society Board of Directors Business Meeting
Location: Tower Court C
AMS Communications Committee Meeting
Sarah Eyerly
Florida State University
Location: Governor's Sq. 10
 

Sarah Eyerly

AMS Publications Committee
Location: Tower Court D
Chair: Nancy Rao, Rutgers University
 
7:45am
-
8:45am
AMS Student Chapter Representatives to Council
Location: Director's Row E
8:00am
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9:30am
SMT Poster Session
Location: Columbine
 

Investigating Relationships among Mindset, Rapport, and Belonging in Undergraduate Music Theory Learners

Benjamin Dobbs, Shana Southard-Dobbs



Metric Irregularity as Characterization in Death Note (2006)

Thomas Charles Collison



Computational Analysis of Melodic Contour Based on CSIM and Clustering Techniques: A Model Tested by J. S. Bach’s Preludes in Cello Suites No.2 and 3

Lizhou Wang



The “Colors” of Parsimony in Cohn’s Reinterpreted Tonnetz

M. A. Coury-Hall



The Antiphonal Stream in Popular Music

David Forrest



Animated Harmonic Analysis Using DFT Phase Spaces and Coefficient Products

Jason Yust, Giovanni Affatato, Fabian C. Moss



Contextualizing Hildegard of Bingen’s Compositional Style through Computational Analysis

Jennifer Bain, Kate Helsen, Mark Daley, Jake Schindler



Emo Guitar Tunings: The Impact of Guitar Tunings on Fretboard Distances

Matt Chiu, Tyler M. Howie



Measuring the Uncanny: Chromatic Mediant Motion in Elliott Smith's, XO

Devin Ariel Guerrero, Brad Cawyer



Them bars really ain't hittin' like a play fight - Analysing weak alternative lineations and ambiguous lineation in relation to metrical structure in rap flows.

Kjell Andreas Oddekalv



Planting Another Tree: Relational Salience as a Hierarchical Form-Building Mechanism

Morgan Patrick



Choral Repertoire: Promising New Directions for Music Theory Teaching

Meghan Hatfield

8:30am
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10:00am
Eileen Southern Scholars Breakfast and Mentoring Session
Location: Tower Court B
Eileen Southern Travel Fund Committee
Location: Tower Court A
8:30am
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10:30am
New Approaches in Popular Music, Performance, and Technology
Location: Windows
Chair: John J. Sheinbaum, University of Denver
 

AI Song Contest Revisited: Collaborative Songwriting, Technological Ethics, and an Inter/Transdisciplinary Dialogue

Rujing Stacy Huang, Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang



Elizabeth Cotten, Joni Mitchell, and the Guitar/Body Interface

Rachel Hottle



Reconceiving Genre: Gender and Asian American Identity in Post-Millennial Rock

Lauren Shepherd



"We are not anonymous": Gender crisis and Self-identity in Chinese Pop Star Tan Weiwei's 2020 Virtual Performance

Wenzhuo Zhang

8:30am
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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.

9:00am
-
10:30am
Boethius, Harmonic Theory, and the Alia musica: New Perspectives
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
 

Chair(s): James Norman Grier

Discussant(s): David Cohen

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A Revised Geometry of Musical Pitch in the Tenth Century: Evidence from Amended Diagrams in Boethius’s Musica

Calvin M. Bower

 

“Wrong-Way Corrigan?” or just a little off-course? The Alia musica´s Expositor and the Modes

Charles M. Atkinson

 

The Number System of the First Quidam of the Alia musica: A Mystery Solved

Matthew Nace

Catholic Circles
Location: Majesty Ballroom
Chair: James Parsons
 

"Symphonies for God": The Disenchantment and Re-enchantment of Joseph Haydn's Mass Settings

Robert B. Wrigley



Musical oratory and Catholic networks: A prolegomenon to Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius

Joanna Bullivant



Sacred Neoclassicism: Catholic Ritual and Modernist Objectivism in Interwar France

Tadhg Sauvey

Constructions of Race and Gender in Film
Location: Vail
Chair: Jasmine Henry
 

End of Empire? Scoring for African-based Narrative Film, 1937-1966

John H. O'Flynn



Film-Opera as Transnational Activism: The Queer “Retro-Futurist” Politics of ORFEAS2021

Jane Isabelle Forner



Nondiegetic Sound and Queer Disembodiment in "Laura" (1944)

Stephen Rumph

Exploring Feminist Scholarship in Music Theory
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
 

Organizer(s): Carla Colletti

Chair(s): Carla Colletti

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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Judith Lochhead

Fairy tales and music between “Asia” and “Germany”
Amanda Hsieh
Durham University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: Anicia Timberlake
 

Chair(s): Anicia Timberlake

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Wagner, Fairy Tales, and the Staging of _Hänsel und Gretel_ in Japan, 1913

Amanda Hsieh

 

Modern Magic and Demystified Difference: Musical Fairy Tales in Weimar Republic Germany

John Gabriel

 

Making a Modern Fairy Tale: Music and Narrative in _Ponyo_ (2008)

Brooke McCorkle Okazaki

Lost and Found: New Work in Ravel Studies
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
 

Chair(s): Marianne Wheeldon

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Towards Unimaginable Sound: The Impact of Modern Sound Advancements on Ravel’s Orchestrations

Jennifer Beavers

 

Leaning into Ravel's "Unresolved Appoggiaturas"

Campbell Shiflett

 

On the Musical Cliché: Revisiting Ravel’s Bolero

Michael Puri

Open Access Resources in the Music History Classroom and Beyond: A Roundtable Discussion
Location: Grand Ballroom II
 

Open Access Resources in the Music History Classroom and Beyond: A Roundtable Discussion

Chair(s): Trudi Wright

Presenter(s): Sara Jo Cohen, Daniel Barolsky, Charles Garrett, Esther Morgan-Ellis, Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Jane Palmquist

Price’s “Whiteness”, Shostakovich’s “Jewishness” and Cooper’s “Royalty”: Signifying Otherness as Resistance within Existing Collectivities
Tanya Landau
Roosevelt University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
Chair: David Kjar
 

Chair(s): David Kjar

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Two Concertos, Both Alike in Dignity: Signifyin’ Tchaikovsky as Cultural Familiarity within Price’s First Violin Concerto

Grace Pugh

 

To Know Myself: Shostakovich’s Jewish Existential Irony in Satires (Pictures of the Past)

Tanya Landau

 

Outrageous Fortune: Signifying Modern “Royalty” with New Old-Music

David Kjar

Sounds, Materialities, and Pleasures in the Garden
Devanney Turpin Haruta
Brown University,
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
Chair: Denise Von Glahn
 

Chair(s): Denise Von Glahn

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Pleasure Gardens, Audible Landscapes: ‘Venedig in Wien’ and Schreker’s Elysium

Sadie Menicanin

 

Glassy Gardens, Shattered Sounds: Tinkering with the Botanical

Cana F. McGhee

 

Sonic Tranquility: Cultivating Quiet in Japanese Gardens in the United States

Devanney Haruta

The Genesis of Popular Song
Location: Silver
 

The "Nostalgic Sentence": Historical Contexts and Sample Analyses

Ash Stemke



(Chip)songs without words: Hearing Traditional and Ambiguous Rock Form in 8-bit NES Chiptunes

Richard Anatone, Gregg Rossetti



Play a song from the Jukebox: Music composition and analysis in the age of generative AI

Nicole Cosme-Clifford

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

Transnational Politics of the Stage
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Anne Searcy
 

Negotiating Racial Identity: Racialized Assimilation in the Performances of Lee Tung Foo as the First Chinese American Vaudeville Singer

FANGYUAN LIU



Mozart and Verdi for the Revolution: Performing Classical Music in Allende’s Chile (1970-73)

Alyssa Cottle



Representation, Performative Exchange, and Afropolitanism: Rethinking Opera Production in Nigeria through The Magic Flute.

Joshua Tolulope David

9:00am
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12:00pm
Graduate Student Workshop: Feminist Analysis
Location: Plaza Court 6

Rachel Lumsden, leader

Graduate Student Workshop: Marxism, Music Studies, and Hermeneutics
Location: Plaza Court 7

Sumanth Gopinath, leader

9:00am
-
12:15pm
A Survey of the Sources of Serialism at its Centenary
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
 

Organizer(s): Philip Stoecker

Chair(s): Philip Stoecker

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Walter Piston’s Serial Journey: What Archival Documents Reveal about the Composer and Pedagogue

David Thurmaier

 

Serialism as Source of Inspiration for the Creation of (New) Musical Gestures

Christoph Neidhöfer

 

Expanding the Search Parameters: Uncovering Evidence of Gerhard’s Expansion of Serialism in Notebooks, Scores, Folders, and Enigmatic Manuscripts

Rachel E. Mann

 

The Twelve Tones of “Twelve-Tone Lizzie:” Elisabeth Lutyens’ Serialism of the 1960s

Aidan McGartland

 

Confronting Serialism: Kaija Saariaho’s Early Compositional Practice

Nathan Cobb

 

Surveying Serialism in the 12 Hommages à Paul Sacher

Joseph Salem

Microtonal Listenings
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
 

Chair(s): Jordan Lenchitz

Discussant(s): Julia Werntz, Kate Galloway

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“…per aiutare una consonanza…”: Learning Vicentino's Enharmonic Music by Ear

Jordan Lenchitz

 

Listening to Recursive Translations of Easley Blackwood’s Twelve Microtonal Etudes

William Ayers

 

Danger! Wolf Crossing: Expressive Discordance in Froberger’s Keyboard Music

Stephen Tian-You Ai

 

Sonic Shadings in Two Versions of BWV 21/3, “Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not”

Jack Bussert

 

Finding Meter in Acoustics: Ryoji Ikeda’s matrix

Noah Kahrs

 

NANO-TONALITY: Queer Phenomenology or dis-Oriented Noumenology?

Paul Mortilla

10:15am
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11:15am
Cultural History of Western Music
Location: Plaza Ballroom A
10:15am
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11:30am
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.

10:30am
-
11:30am
SMT Retired Members Coffee Hour
Location: Director's Row J
10:45am
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12:15pm
Fragments to Footlights: What can we learn from operatic sketches?
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
 

Chair(s): Alexandra Amati

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Beyond bel canto: Donizetti’s Maria di Rohan

William Rothstein

 

Lost Liszt reclaimed: editing Sardanapalo

David Trippett

 

Modernism, Mosaics, Major-third cycles, and #MeToo: A new finale for Puccini’s Turandot

Deborah Burton

Mediation of Blackness in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Christopher Lynch
 

(Re)introducing Marian Anderson: Television’s Normative Power at the _Ford 50th Anniversary Show_ (1953)

Lauren Berlin



RCA’s Portrait of America: Opera, Blackness, and Industrial Integration Post-World War II

Matthew Keenan Timmermans

Mobility, Media, and Money in Early Modern Popular Music
Erica Pauline Levenson
SUNY Potsdam,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden
 

Chair(s): Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Servants and the Circulation of Opera Airs in Seventeenth-Century France

John Romey

 

Fashionable Farces: The Economics of French Musical Theater in Early Eighteenth-Century London

Erica Levenson

 

Bubble Ballads, Moving Media: Music and Financial Crisis, circa 1720

Morton Wan

Music Education and Cultural Identity in 19th-century France
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
Chair: Fabio Morabito, University of Alberta
 

À première vue: Sightreading as Performance in the Paris Conservatoire

Jack Blaszkiewicz



Church and State in the Music of a Small French Town: Moulins, c.1890

Katharine Ellis

Musical Utopias
Location: Majesty Ballroom
Chair: Lesley Hughes
 

Politics on the Program: Rudolf Mengelberg and the 1920 Mahler Festival

Justin Gregg



Reexamining the Dismissed: Cecilia Macca and the “Doom” of Sacred Nineteenth-Century Sicilian Music

Jeana Melilli



Utopian In Form, Bourgeois in Content: Moscow’s Conductorless Orchestra and Early Soviet Musical Life

Kevin Bartig

New Approaches to Studying Recorded Jewish Music
Mark Kligman
UCLA,
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
Chair: Randall Goldberg
 

Chair(s): Randall Goldberg

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“Gendered Voices of Home and Hopes for Tomorrow: Examining the Recorded Lullaby in Jewish Émigré Life through the Database of Recorded Jewish Music in America”

Danielle R. Stein

 

Immigration and the Sound of American Jewry: How the Immigration Act of 1924 Affected the Production of Commercial Jewish Music Recordings

Jeff Janeczko

 

“The Frequent Sounds of Sacred Jewish Music”

Mark Kligman

Performance, Analysis, and Embodiment
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
Chair: Daphne Leong, University of Colorado Boulder
 

Interpretive Agency: Flexibilities, Constraints, and Departures in Reena Esmail’s “Jhula Jhule”

Katherine Pukinskis



Performative Effort and Temporal Experience in Two Works by Elisabeth Lutyens

Christa Cole



Gestural Analysis of Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte

Crystal Peebles

Queer Musical Codes in Disguise
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
Chair: Jane Isabelle Forner
 

The Enemy Without: Blitzstein’s Reuben Reuben, Silence, and Biopolitics

Kira Gaillard



What is “Wild” about Wildeiana Music? Music and Oscar Wilde in 1882

Rachel Short



Queering Premodern Japan: Polycultural Vocality and Transhistorical Reappropriation in J-Pop

Christina Misaki Nikitin

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

Songs of the Self / Sounds of the Nation
Location: Vail
Chair: Pierpaolo Polzonetti
 

“Listen, Remember, and Recreate”: Jazz 101 in Occupied Japan

Stella Li



“Wilderness of Wickedness”: How a Musical Battle between Sex Workers and the Salvation Army Shaped Montana’s Settler Ideology

Siriana Lundgren



(Re)remembering Theodorakis: ‘Art-popular’ song as the afterlife of Greek wartime and resistance music making

Eirini Diamantouli

The Shape of Musicology to Come (AMS Critical Race Lecture)
Location: Grand Ballroom II
Chair: Lisa Barg
Chair: Jessica Perea

This session features contributions from:

Invited Panelists

  • Alex Blue V (Assistant Professor of Art History and Communication at McGill University
  • Rena Roussin (PhD candidate in musicology at the University of Toronto) 
  • Ireri E. Chávez-Bárcenas (Assistant Professor of Music at Bowdoin)
  • Amanda Hsieh (Assistant Professor of Musicology at Durham University)

Emcees

  • Diane Oliva (Assistant Professor of Musicology in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan; current CRIE member and incoming CRIE co-chair) 
  • Sergio Ospina Romero (Assistant Professor of Musicology in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University; current CRIE member)
Workshop: Rethinking Aural Skills Through Backwards Design
Location: Silver
 

Organizer(s): Timothy Chenette, Stacey Davis, Jenine Brown, Philip Duker, Daniel Stevens, Leigh Van Handel

Chair(s): Timothy Chenette, Stacey Davis

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Workshop: Rethinking Aural Skills Through Backwards Design

Timothy Chenette, Stacey Davis, Jenine Brown, Philip Duker, Daniel Stevens, Leigh Van Handel

10:45am
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12:45pm
18th-Century Poietics
Location: Windows
Chair: Bertil van Boer, Western Washington University
 

Between Idomeneo and Tito: Seria Style and Genre in Mozart's Concert Arias of the 1780s

Michael Goetjen



The Metamorphosis of Style

Virginia Georgallas



GROTESQUE AS AN ALTERNATIVE AESTHETIC MODE IN MADRILENIAN CHAMBER MUSIC DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Laura Trujillo Sanz



Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations as Music of Protest and Tragedy: Intertextual Readings in Theatrical Works of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Erinn Knyt

11:00am
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12:30pm
AMS Board Meet & Greet 2
Location: Plaza Exhibit
11:00am
-
2:15pm
Music Copyright Office Hours: Ask a Theorist-Attorney!
Location: Plaza Exhibit

SMT Booth 408 

Bring your burning music copyright questions to the Exhibit Hall and chat with music theorists whose work in music theory has brought them to the law. 

12:30pm
-
2:00pm
AMS Global East Asian Music Research Study Group Business Meeting
Kunio Hara
University of South Carolina
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Kunio Hara, University of South Carolina
Chair: Amanda Hsieh, Durham University
 

Kunio Hara

AMS Music and Disability Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom II
Chair: Elizabeth McLain, Virginia Tech
Chair: James Deaville, Carleton University
Presenter: Jeannette Jones, College of the Holy Cross
Presenter: Tekla Babyak, Disabled Independent Scholar
Committee on Career-Related Issues Brown-Bag Lunch
Catherine Mayes
University of Utah
Location: Director's Row E
 

Catherine Mayes

Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting
Kimberly Hannon Teal
University of North Texas,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
 

Kimberly Hannon Teal

Mozart Society of America Business Meeting and Study Session
Location: Vail
Music and the Unique Challenges of Dance Research: MDSG Workshop 2023
Stephen S. Hudson
,
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
 

Chair(s): Stephen S. Hudson, Rebecca Schwartz-Bishir

Presenter(s): Stephen S. Hudson, Rebecca Schwartz-Bishir

Music, Sound, and Trauma Study Group Business Meeting
Jillian C Rogers
Indiana University Bloomington
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
 

Jillian C Rogers

Pedagogy Study Group Business Meeting
Esther Marie Morgan-Ellis
University of North Georgia,
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
 

Esther Marie Morgan-Ellis

Skills and Resources for Early Musics Study Group Business Meeting and Keynote
Daniel DiCenso
College of the Holy Cross
Location: Majesty Ballroom
Chair: Daniel DiCenso, College of the Holy Cross
Chair: Catherine Saucier, Arizona State University
 

Daniel DiCenso

SMT Autographs & Archival Documents Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
SMT Committee on Disability & Accessibility Brown Bag Lunch
Location: Governor's Sq. 10
SMT Committee on Feminist Issues & Gender Equity Brown Bag Lunch
Location: Director's Row H
SMT Committee on LGBTQ+ Issues Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 9

Closed Meeting.

SMT Music & Psychoanalysis Interest Group Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom I
SMT Popular Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: Denver
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Meeting
Location: Silver
SMT Russian Music Theory Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
Society for Seventeenth Century Music Business Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Speed Mentoring
Location: South Convention Lobby
 
1:00pm
-
3:00pm
SMT CV Review Session
Location: Plaza Court 6
SMT CV Review Waiting Room
Location: Plaza Court 7
1:30pm
-
3:00pm
AMS/MLA Joint RISM Committee
Location: Director's Row G
Chair: Paul Allen Sommerfeld, Library of Congress
1:45pm
-
3:45pm
Rethinking Representation and Experience
Location: Windows
Chair: Naomi Andre, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 

Mid-Century Mood Music as Racial Kitsch

Jade Conlee



The “Black” Dutchman: Race, Casting, and Der Fliegende Holländer on the Bayreuth Stage

Ryan Minor



Working Conditions, Networking, Musical Aesthetics: Exploring Gendered Minoritarian Experiences within the Classical Music Profession

Alec Norkey

2:15pm
-
3:45pm
Analyzing Hip-Hop
Location: Denver
Chair: Noriko Manabe, Indiana University
 

Hip-Hop Sampling as Analytic Act

Jeremy Piotr Tatar



Formal Development in Hip-Hop: Vocal Groove and Phrase Structure in the Verses of 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G.

Leah Amarosa



Rhythm and Vocal Expression in Hip Hop Soul

Timothy Koozin

Hearing Hybridity
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
Chair: Bruno Alcalde
 

Tonal and Narrative Teleologies in Chris Thile's Music

Ben Baker



"What's Up Danger?" and the Assimilative Implications of its Musical Hybridity in Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse

Cristina "Trinity" Vélez-Justo



Hearing the Sonata Through Hensel's Sonata o Capriccio

Catrina S. Kim

Historicizing Celebrity
Shaena Weitz
University of Bristol,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: Clair Rowden
 

Chair(s): Clair Rowden

Discussant(s): Robert van Krieken

Presenter(s): Shaena Weitz, Emmanuela Wroth, Sarah Hibberd, Annegret Fauser

Interrogating "Global East Asia"
Kunio Hara
University of South Carolina,
Location: Grand Ballroom II
 

Chair(s): Kunio Hara

Presenter(s): Amanda Hsieh, Peng Liu, Bess Xintong Liu

Materials that Matter: Cultivating a Musical Tradition with Found Objects
Luke Helker
Benedictine College
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
 

Luke Helker

Missionaries and Music
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
Chair: Alicia Doyle
 

Britons in Transit: Music, Moravians, and the Beginnings of the Modern British Missionary Movement, 1790-1834

Philip Burnett, Rachel Cowgill



Reconsidering the Music of the California Missions

Bernard Gordillo Brockmann



Rethinking Translation: Hymns and Historical Changes in Korea in the Age of Pacific Empires

Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang

Music, Labor, and Jewish Identity
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
Chair: Karen Painter
 

Concept, Laboratory, Playground: Ursula Burghardt as Composer-Artist in the 5-Day-Race (1968)

Elaine Fitz Gibbon



The “Undesirable” in Box 14: A Counter-History of Jewish Men’s Labor for the Metropolitan Opera House, 1880-1940

Samantha Madison Cooper



Voices from the East and the South: Isaac Nathan’s Global-Historical Pedagogy in Regency Britain

Devon J Borowski

Music, State Populism, and Affective Nationalism in Early 20th-Century Latin America
Location: Majesty Ballroom
 

Chair(s): Ana Paola Sánchez-Rojo

Discussant(s): Jacqueline Avila

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Heitor Villa-Lobos and Political Opportunism in Music Education

Chelsea Burns

 

Workers’ Choirs, Eugenics, and Cultural Intimacy in 1930s Colombia

Daniel Castro Pantoja

 

Music and Populism in Mexican Post-Revolutionary Education

Ana P Sánchez-Rojo

New Considerations in Black Music Research
Location: Vail
Chair: Mark Burford, Reed College
 

From Out of Bondage to The Underground Railroad: Early African-American Musical Theatre Rediscovered

Nico Schüler



Washington Conservatory Alumni in the Long History of Black Music Studies

Louis Kaiser Epstein, Maeve Nagel-Frazel

Public Scholarship: How We Got Here, Where We’re Going
Reba Wissner
,
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
Chair: Imani Mosley
 

Chair(s): Imani Mosley

Discussant(s): Imani Mosley

Presenter(s): Reba Wissner, Karen Uslin, Crystal Peebles, J. Daniel Jenkins, Julianne Grasso

Puppetry, Music, and National Identity
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
Chair: Margaret Lucia, Shippensburg University
 

Between Human and Machine in Manuel de Falla’s _El retablo de Maese Pedro_

Sylvia Kahan



Reclaiming the Puppet’s Voice at the Petit-Théâtre de la Marionnette (1888-1894)

Catrina Flint de Médicis

Rethinking the West: Arabic and Hebrew Music Theory in Medieval Iberia
Location: Silver
 

Chair(s): Andrew Hicks

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Al-ʿAbdarī's Questions on the Fundamentals of Music: Music Theory in the Medieval Muslim West

Marcel Camprubi

 

Al-Fārābī in Hebrew: Elements of an Iberian-Provençal Jewish Epistemology of Music

Alexandre Cerveux

 

Islamicate Music Theory in Christianate Seville: Solomon ibn Yaʿīsh (d. 1345) on the Musical Motion of the Pulse

Giulia Accornero

Writing and Collecting Music in the Thirteenth Century: New Perspectives and Historiographical Challenges
Áine Palmer
Yale University,
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Mark Everist
 

Chair(s): Mark Everist

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Rethinking Musical Historiographies of Thirteenth-Century Paris: Benedicamus Domino and Unwritten Polyphony

Catherine A. Bradley

 

Notating Contrafacta in the Chansonnier Cangé

Áine Palmer

 

What Killed Petrus de Cruce?

Anna Zayaruznaya

     
2:15pm
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4:15pm
Harmonic Effects
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
Chair: Daniel Harrison, Yale University
 

Analyzing Displacement Techniques in Prokofiev’s Music

Evan Tanovich



Theorizing the Modal Double-Tonic Complex with Maurice Duruflé’s Works as a Case Study

Lukas James Perry



Theorizing Tonal Function in a Messiaen Mode 2 Idiom

Robert Hamilton



Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Schubert’s Promissory Note

Rowland Moseley

2:15pm
-
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

4:00pm
-
5:00pm
Ambient Music and EDM
Location: Silver
Chair: Victor Szabo, Hampden-Sydney College
 

A Posthuman Voice: Vocal Aesthetic and Identity in 2010s Witch House

Tyler Osborne



Don't Pop the Bubble: Intersections of ambient music, attention, expectation, and flow in Tim Hecker's Virgins

Ryan Galik

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Classical Forms
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
Chair: Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska, The University of Chicago
 

Cutting Out the Middle Man: The Medial Moment and the Binary-Ternary Transformation of Sonata Form

Yoel Greenberg, Barak Schossberger



Galant Schemata and Irregular Phrase Rhythm in late-Eighteenth-Century Spanish Keyboard Sonatas

Bryan Stevens Espinosa



Mozart's "operatic cadence"

Danuta Mirka

Composing the "Other" in the Early 20th Century
Location: Majesty Ballroom
Chair: Daniel Callahan
 

Associations & Politics in Henriëtte Bosmans’s Concertino voor piano en orkest (1928)

Alison Maggart



European or Oriental? Armenian Folksong Publications, Transnational Networks, and Self-Making in Fin-De-Siècle France

Michael Turabian



Exotic Novelties and New Women: Orientalism and Appropriation in Tin Pan Alley

Martha Schulenburg

Hearing “American” Music: Subjectivity and Diplomacy during the Cold War
Kari Lindquist
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Location: Plaza Ballroom F
Chair: Marysol Quevedo
 

Chair(s): Marysol Quevedo

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Untangling Governmental and Philanthropic Cultural Diplomacy in Antonio Fernández-Cid’s La música en los Estados Unidos

Andrew L. Barrett

 

Wind Bands in Cold War Diplomacy and The University of Michigan Symphony Band’s 1961 Tour

Kari Lindquist

 

Aerobic Sound, Neoliberal Bodies: Fashioning the “New American Person” in the US Cultural Imaginary

Destiny Meadows

Message Music: Musicology and Social Movements
Jessie Ann Owens
University of California, Davis,
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Jessie Ann Owens, University of California, Davis
Chair: Roger Freitas, Eastman School of Music
Presenter: Reiland Rabaka, University of Colorado Boulder
Presenter: Loren Kajikawa, George Washington University
 

Chair(s): Jessie Ann Owens, Roger Freitas

Presenter(s): Reiland Rabaka, Loren Kajikawa

Metric Modulations, Patterns, and Schemas
Location: Denver
Chair: Ben Baker
 

Temporal Transformations in the Timekeeper's Toolkit: Metric Modulation in Popular Music Drumming

Zachary Lookenbill



Formal Functions of Drum Patterns in Post-Millennial Pop Songs, 2012–2021

David Geary



Cue Schemas

Nathaniel Mitchell

Music, Technology, and Communication
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: James Gabrillo, University of Texas at Austin
 

Medium, Message, Performance: Technological Inadequacy in Igor Levit’s “House Concerts"

Edgardo Raul Salinas



Raising a Proper American Citizen: The Politics of Childhood in the Music of American Cartoons of the 1950s

Ala Krivov



Timbre Dematerialized: Illusory Instruments in "Arrival" and "The Lighthouse"

Cole D. Swanson

Orality in Italian Popular Song
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
Chair: Claudio Vellutini, University of British Columbia
 

Archiving Orality: Notation and Mimesis of Acts of Poetic Recitation in Musical Print

Chelsey Lee Belt



Napule è mille culure: Popular Neapolitan Music pre-1750

Alexandra Amati



Operetta, Neapolitan Song, and the Southern Origins of Italy’s Popular Music Industry

Ditlev Rindom

Quotation and Borrowing in the Sacred
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
Chair: Kelly Huff
 

'Imitatio’ and Josquin in the Sixteenth Century: The Benedicta es Complex and the Mass attributed to Hesdin and Willaert

David Michael Kidger



Imitating Birdsong or Praising Saint Catherine? The Courtly Remaking of a Fourteenth-Century Virelai

Johanna-Pauline Thöne



Sarum Plainchant in A Reformist Biblical Play: Problem or Solution?

Anne Heminger

Reframing the Music Theory Curriculum with Sarah Louden (NYU Steinhardt) & Paula Maust (Peabody Institute), Presented by Auralia & Musition
Location: Vail
Riddled with Regression?: Prospects for Inclusive Professionalism in the Music Fields
Location: Windows
 

Riddled with Regression?: Prospects for Inclusive Professionalism in the Music Fields

Chair(s): Stephanie Jensen-Moulton

Presenter(s): Ana R. Alonso Mutti, Lidia Aurora Chang, Christi Jay Wells, Michelle Aeojin Yom

Silence, Dissonance, and Dialogue: New Perspectives on French Modernism
David T. Salkowski
University of Tennessee,
Location: Grand Ballroom II
Chair: Louis Kaiser Epstein, St. Olaf College
 

Chair(s): Louis Epstein

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

On “Silence” in Music: Six Settings of “Un grand sommeil noir”

Megan Sarno

 

Les Six and Dissonant Combination: Both a Unifying Technique and a Target for Antisemitic Criticism

Dylan Principi

 

Music as Asymmetrical Encounter in Arthur Lourié, Raïssa Maritain, and Simone Weil

David Salkowski

Transauralities: Thinking Trans in Music/Sound Studies
Alejandrina M. Medina
University of California San Diego,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
Chair: Amy Cimini
 

Chair(s): Amy Cimini

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The Trans Ear/(h)earing

Alejandrina M. Medina

 

Vocal Transcendence: Performing and Perceiving Transgender Drag Vocal Performance

Morgan Bates

 

"I’ll figure out a way to get us out of here": Cavetown and Trans Youthful Care

Hermán Luis Chávez

4:30pm
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5:30pm
Gospel Music
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
 

Modal Fluidity in Millennial Gospel

M. Jerome Bell



Situating Gospel’s Inverted M2m

Scott Murphy

4:30pm
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6:00pm
Music Copyright Office Hours: Ask a Theorist-Attorney!
Location: Plaza Exhibit

SMT Booth 408 

Bring your burning music copyright questions to the Exhibit Hall and chat with music theorists whose work in music theory has brought them to the law. 

5:45pm
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6:30pm
AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 1
Location: Director's Row E
5:45pm
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6:45pm
Joint Prospective Graduate Student Fair
Location: South Convention Lobby
Reception for Friends of the AMS
Jessie Ann Owens
University of California, Davis,
Location: Governor's Sq. 10
 

Jessie Ann Owens

5:45pm
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7:45pm
Eastman School of Music Alumni Reception
Location: Director's Row I
Friends of Stony Brook
Location: Tower Court A
Rice University Alumni Reception
Location: Tower Court B
RIPM / RILM Reception
Location: Director's Row H
University of Kansas School of Music Meet and Greet
Location: Plaza Court 1
     
6:45pm
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7:45pm
Joint Student Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
7:00pm
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9:00pm
Case Western Reserve University Reception
Location: Tower Court C
Florida State University Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
New York University Reception
Location: Vail
Project Spectrum Reception
Location: Tower Court D
W. W. Norton Party
Location: Majesty Ballroom
     
7:30pm
-
9:00pm
SMT Composition Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group Meeting
Location: Silver
SMT Global Interculturalism & Musical Peripheries Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
SMT Hip-Hop & Rap Interest Group Meeting
Location: Denver
SMT Musical Theater Interest Group Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom I
     
8:00pm
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10:00pm
“Godless Communists” and “Christian Patriots”: Music and Spirituality in the Cold War
Gabrielle Cornish
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Location: Governor's Sq. 14
 

Chair(s): Gabrielle Cornish

Discussant(s): John Kapusta

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The Pope, Solidarity, and religious awakening of Polish composers in the 1980s

Beata Boleslawska

 

Incidentally On Purpose: Religious Content in Willis Conover’s Voice of America Jazz Hour

Maristella Feustle

 

Spirituality and Collective Memory in the Last Soviet Kazakh Opera

Knar Abrahamyan

AMS Ludomusicology Poster Session: Music, Games, and Play
Cristian Martinez Vega
AMS Ludomusicology Study Group,
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
 

Chair(s): Richard Anatone, Cristian Damir Martinez Vega

Discussant(s): TJ Laws-Nicola, Stefan Greenfield-Casas, Hyeonjin Park, Molly Hennig

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Poster 1

Presenter 1 Presenter 1

 

Poster 20

Presenter 20 Presenter 20

Disability Identity in Music Scholarship
Elizabeth McLain
Virginia Tech,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
 

Chair(s): Elizabeth McLain, Andrew Dell'Antonio

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Ethnography Through All Of Our Bodies: Reconsidering Methodology through Disability Expertise

Emily Williams Roberts

 

I got a right to be Mad: Madness in Beyoncé’s Lemonade

Samar Johnson

 

Perspective

Molly Joyce

 

Inclusive Music Workshops

Diane Kolin

 

An Initial Exploration of Autistic, Synesthetic Queer Listening

Steph Ban

 

You Want Us to do What? : Analysing the Disability Identity in Music Scholarship Call for Papers

Heather Strohschein, Mags Smith, Linda Yates

 

Crip-Punk! Exploring Disability and Liberation Through Music

Chris Wylie

Queer Musicology from Dykecore to the Quare Canon
Maria Murphy
University of Pennsylvania,
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
 

Chair(s): Maria Murphy, Tiffany Naiman

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Making Something from Nothing: How Playing Pretend in 1990s Dykecore Created Community

Alex Nik Pasqualini

 

“The eternally music-loving, music-making, intersexual Uranian”: Finding Queer Musicology at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Kristin Franseen

 

The Quare Canon: Queer Women-Identifying Songs of the Twenty-First Century

Jordan Brown

 

Mudang, Hwarang, and Han: Tracing Decolonial Expressions in eddy kwon's UMMA-YA

J. Frances Pinkham

Rethinking (Im)mobility in Global Music History Studies
Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang
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Location: Windows
 

Chair(s): Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang, Daniel Castro Pantoja

Discussant(s): Juliana M. Pistorius

Presenter(s): Sumanth Gopinath, Elisabeth Le Guin, Alejandro García Sudo

Student Engagement: Texts and Tools
Esther Marie Morgan-Ellis
University of North Georgia,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
 

Chair(s): Sarah Waltz

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Music History Texts in the Modern College Classroom

J. Peter Burkholder, Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Sara Haefeli, Esther M. Morgan-Ellis, Kristy Swift

 

Tools for Active Learning

Janice Dickensheets, Hayoung Heidi Lee

University of Chicago Reception
Location: Grand Ballroom II
 
9:30pm
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10:30pm
University of Alberta Reception
Location: Tower Court B
9:30pm
-
11:30pm
Society for Christian Scholarship in Music Annual Reception
Location: Tower Court A
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
University of Oregon Reception
Location: Director's Row I
Viola da Gamba Jam
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
10:00pm
-
11:59pm
Columbia University Reception
Location: Vail
LGBTQ Study Group Party
Maria Murphy
University of Pennsylvania,
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
 

Maria Murphy


 
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