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: Silver
Date: Thursday, 09/Nov/2023
2:15pm
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3:45pm
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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
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

7:30pm
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9:00pm
SMT Analysis of World Musics /History of Theory Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Silver
Date: Friday, 10/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
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

10:45am
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12:15pm
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

12:30pm
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2:00pm
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Meeting
Location: Silver
2:15pm
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3:45pm
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

4:00pm
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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

7:30pm
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9:00pm
SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group Meeting
Location: Silver
Date: Saturday, 11/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:00am
Country Music
Location: Silver
Chair: Jocelyn Neal, UNC Chapel Hill
 

“So Lonesome I Could Cry”: The Tear-Jerking Refrain in Country Music

Ben Duane



She Tells the Story: The Lyrical Narrator, Persona, and Empowerment in Country Songs

Madison Stepherson

10:15am
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12:15pm
Form in Popular Music
Location: Silver
Chair: Drew Nobile, University of Oregon
 

“We All Have a Hunger”: Formal Blends as Rebuilds in Popular Song

David Scott Carter



Formal Functions of Melodic Patterns in Popular Music

Jeremy Michael Robins



Recombinant Teleology in Improvised Popular Music

Micheal Sebulsky



Formal Features of the Songs of Chuck Berry

Christopher Doll

12:30pm
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2:00pm
SMT Music Informatics & Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Silver
7:30pm
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9:00pm
SMT Improvisation Interest Group Meeting
Location: Silver
Date: Sunday, 12/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
Theorizing Timbre, Texture, and Space in Hip-Hop Music
Location: Silver
 

Organizer(s): Jeremy Tatar

Chair(s): Jeremy Tatar

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A New Model for Analyzing Texture in Recorded Hip Hop

Kelsey Lussier

 

Trap Music’s Heterogeneous Sound Ideal

Ben Duinker

 

Spatial Reinterpretation in Hip-Hop Sampling Practice

Philipp Elssner

10:45am
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11:45am
Discoveries in Post-Tonal Music
Location: Silver
Chair: Antares Boyle
 

Whole-Tone-Plus Hexachords and Row Partitioning Strategies in Two Works by Roger Sessions

Laura Hibbard



The legacy of Ligeti’s unsung innovation: Textural Incline of Pitch (TIP)

Joshua Banks Mailman


 
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