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Index of Titles

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Contribution Title	Author(s)	Session
¿Nueva Salsa? Formal Hybridization of Salsa in the Digital Age	Vilches, Tori	New and Hybrid Pop Forms
‘¡Conversa, Conversa!’: A Parametric Analysis of Participant Interaction in Salsa Dura	Hangen Vázquez, Irén	Bodies in Motion
‘Mieux qu'aucun autre': Adolphe Sax and the Practice of Timbre	Heinricks, Haley	Instruments and Orchestration
"Les plaisir ont choisi pour asile": Pleasure and Affect in Lully's Passacailles	Ganade D'Acol, Mitia	Bodies in Motion
"Tempocizations" and Other Ways Tempo Acts Like Tonic in Recent Metal	Hannan, Calder	21st-Century Genre Cues and Behaviors
“For Me, Music Has No Boundaries”: Analytical Perspectives on the Music of Unsuk Chin	Lee, Ji Yeon	“For Me, Music Has No Boundaries”: Analytical Perspectives on the Music of Unsuk Chin
“Hey, Listen!” Is That A Ghost?: Musical Specters and Haunting in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) and Tears of the Kingdom (2023)	Matos-Tovar, Luis	Ludomusicology
“I Have Tried to Write Paradise”: Analogies of Space, Color, and Light in Kaija Saariaho’s Sombre (2012)	Cobb, Nathan	Instruments and Orchestration
“Newest Twelve-Tone Technique”: Walter Bishop, Jr.’s Fourth Cycles in Theory, Composition, and Jazz Improvisation	De Souza, Jonathan	Jazz Harmony and Tonality
“Same as it Ever Was”: Gesture and Meaning in David Byrne’s Physicality in “Once in a Lifetime” from Stop Making Sense	Thomas, Isabelle	Bodies in Motion
“The Bare Necessities”: Song Type as a Highly Diagnostic Feature in the Disney Sound	King, Amy	Poster Session
\|\|: Mahler's Repeats :\|\|	Reenan, Sam	Sonata Forms
A NARROW STRIP OF SOUND: POETIC VERTICALITY AND MODERNIST FRAGMENTARITY IN KURTÁG’S OP. 35A AFTER HÖLDERLIN’S “IM WALDE”	Wu, Yi-Cheng Daniel	Song Cycles and Concept Albums
A new method for incorporating timbre and orchestration into groove analysis	Lussier, Kelsey	Groove is in the Heart
A Practice-Based Introduction to George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization	Hannaford, Marc	A Practice-Based Introduction to George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization
An Adventure in 7s: Tigran Hamasyan's "Nairian Odyssey"	Ricci, Adam	Meters, Perceived and Otherwise
An Unknown Infinite (Archive): Flow, Layering, and Rupture as a Fugitive Theory for Hip-Hop Form	Cupps, J.P.	21st-Century Genre Cues and Behaviors
Analytical Methodologies for 8-Bit Chiptune Music	Yee, Thomas	Analytical Methodologies for 8-Bit Chiptune Music
Analyzing Genre in the Post-Genre Streaming Era feat. Sleep Token’s “Caramel”	Tasber, Kellin	21st-Century Genre Cues and Behaviors
Analyzing Studio Orchestration in the Hybrid Music of Michel Legrand	Oudin, Mael (1,2)	Timbre Studies
Bach’s 8-Measure Parallel Periods and Their Structural Consequences	Brody, Christopher	Phrase, Sentence, Period.
Backbeat as an Agent of Reinterpretation in the Music of DOMi & JD BECK	Peloso, Anna	Groove is in the Heart
Blended Formal Functions and Narrative in the Music of Joanna Newsom	Hottle, Rachel	Pop Formal Functions
Brahms’s Scherzo from the String Sextet in G Major, Op. 36: Contrapuntal Relics, Rhetorical Modes, and Formal Processes	Rusch, René	Sonata Forms
Bulgarian Closure Repurposed in Kate Bush’s The Sensual World with Trio Bulgarka	Beliveau, Annie	Cadence and Closure
Celebrating Queer Ear: Reflecting, Inviting In, and Looking Forward	Sullivan, James	Celebrating Queer Ear: Reflecting, Inviting In, and Looking Forward
Centering Boccherini from the Periphery: Reassessing Form, Style, and Method in Eighteenth-Century Music	Sánchez-Kisielewska, Olga	Centering Boccherini from the Periphery: Reassessing Form, Style, and Method in Eighteenth-Century Music
Charli xcx's Brat and the Remix of Expectation	Star, Allyson	New and Hybrid Pop Forms
Chord–Voice Leading Duality	Sherrill, Paul	Voice Leading
Colouring Shapes and Forms: Timbral and Orchestrational Strategies in the Serial Works of Elisabeth Lutyens	McGartland, Aidan	Timbre Studies
Compound B Sections in Pop-Rock Music: 2010–2015	Yunek, Jeff; Markey, V; Mino, Karla; Duarte, Seraphim	Poster Session
Curation, Advocacy, and Analysis: Pauline Decker and the Nineteenth-Century Song Cycle	Rodgers, Stephen	Song Cycles and Concept Albums
Defining the Colonial Galant: Global Circulation and Musical Style in the Eighteenth Century	Grant, Roger Mathew	Global Circulations
Diatonic Dodecaphony?: William Alwyn's Tonal Tone Rows in the Symphony No. 4 (1959)	Krell, Ryan	Time and Tonality in Music Since 1950
Do Humans Dream of Virtual Singers? Human-Machine Liminality in Vocaloid Music	Garza, Jose	Poster Session
Dual Topical Signification in Game of Thrones Leitmotifs	Gruver, Laine	Film, TV, Video Games
Dvořák from the New World of Mathematical Music Theory: Wick-Rotated Fibonacci Polynomials and Nested Interval Structures in the Second Movement of Symphony No. 9	Coury-Hall, M. A.	Transformations and Interval Spaces
Enacting Violence through Choreography-Orchestration Relationships in Stravinsky’s Sacrificial Dance	Moranis, Rebecca	Choreography
Enharmonicism and Associative Uses of Tonality in /Lohengrin/ and Beyond	Bivens, Sam	19th-Century Opera
Epistemic Strings: Thinking Music Theory through the Oud, Sitar, and Guitar	Tagore, Pramantha	Epistemic Strings: Thinking Music Theory through the Oud, Sitar, and Guitar
Examining Marked Vocal Expressions in Katie Gavin of MUNA (2013–)	Tobin, Sarah	Voice and Identity
Expanded Continuations in Belle Époque Instrumental Music	Pau, Andrew	Phrase, Sentence, Period.
Expanding the Toolkit: Transformations in Evolving Pitch Spaces	Rodriguez, J. Benjamin	Pitch-Class, Positional, and Pantuvarali Spaces
Exploring Takemitsu’s Landscape: Gesture, Pitch, and Timbre as Cultural Markers	Schweitzer, Benjamin	Quotation and Reference
Form As Heard: Kurt Westphal’s Verlaufskurve	Rivera, Luis Armando	Formenlehre
Framing Functions in Japanese City-Pop	Farr, Jacob	Pop Formal Functions
From Aristoxenus to Salinas: The Longue Durée of Sextuple Meter	Torrente, Alvaro	Historical Materials: Phrase, Meter, Scale
From Off-the-Dome to Punching In: Techniques of Inscription and Stylistic Change in Hip-Hop	Reed, Jacob	Performance- and Practitioner-Centered Theories
From Seven to 5,040: the Curious Case of Marin Mersenne’s Theory of Octave Species	Basso, Pierre (1,2)	Historical Materials: Phrase, Meter, Scale
Generic Constraints and Hypermetric Variety in the Keyboard Works of Manuel Blasco de Nebra	Espinosa, Bryan	Phrase, Sentence, Period.
Genre and Crossover in the 21st Century	Bilidas, Stefanie	Genre and Crossover in the 21st Century
Grief, Ecstasy, Irony: The Lullaby Topic and Narrative in the Music of Amy Beach	Clarke, Sabrina	Topic Formation and Use
Groove States: Loops, Layers, and Shifting Subjectivities in Solange’s A Seat at the Table	Slote, Audrey	Groove is in the Heart
Gustav Andreas Lautier’s Interval Theory with A Spirit of German Idealism	Xu, Jiayi	Mode and Its Philosophies in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Harmonic Dualisms	Lill, Kája	Harmonic Dualisms
Harmonic Rhythm and Pulse Streams in the Late Music of Elliott Carter	Capuzzo, Guy	Harmonic Progressions, Harmonic Rhythm
Harmony in Diversity: A Taxonomy of Phrase Endings in Traditional Qin Music through Corpus Study	Hu, Ruixue	Historical Materials: Phrase, Meter, Scale
Hearing Compositional Effort in Jean Mouton's Nesciens Mater	Hamilton, Robert	Canons Old and New
Hearing the Court, Hearing the Seasons: Topics in Salvatore Sciarrino’s Da gelo a gelo	Serrano, Daniel	Pastoral and Nature Topics
How an Ending Becomes Audible: One Bar Repetition and Metrical Re Centering in Schubert D.810	Zhao, Xijun	Poster Session
Hypermeter as Dramatic Rhetoric in Bellini’s Operas: Franco-Italian and Germanic Conventions in Tension	Perez Tabares, Carlos	19th-Century Opera
Hypermetrical Gravity in Later 19th-Century Russian Opera	Roshal, Lev	19th-Century Opera
Integrating Timbre into the Undergraduate Music Theory Curriculum	Bergeron-Dumaine, Holly	Integrating Timbre into the Undergraduate Music Theory Curriculum
Investigating Tonality in Korean Popular Songs through Terminal Openings	Park, Joon	Poster Session
Irregular Meters, Globally Speaking	Tenzer, Michael	Irregular Meters, Globally Speaking
Is Everything Romantic?: Sonic Expressions of Gender in Hyperpop Vocal Production	Korkontzelos, Lilly	Voice and Identity
It Takes a (Virtual) Village: Identity and Vocal Persona in Animal Crossing: New Horizons	Davis, Sean	Film, TV, Video Games
It Takes Three (Singers): Deviations from Verse-Chorus Form Involving Three Soloists	Wilson, Austin	Alternative Formal Constructions
Italian Ears and English Ears in Seventeenth-Century Opera	Weaver, Charles	Pitch, Language, Tone
Leaving So Soon? Pre-Resolution Cadential Evasion in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Music	Edwards, Sion	Cadence and Closure
Listening to Rhythm Game Charts	Acevedo-Arús, Marcos	Ludomusicology
Mega Tubes: Moon Hooch’s Pursuit of the Saxophone’s Lowest Note	Heilig, John	Instruments and Orchestration
Melodic Transformations and Levenshtein Distance in Johanna Beyer’s Early Music	Jonker, Alexandrea	Transformations and Interval Spaces
Mensural Canon and Block Canon in Ligeti’s Sketches and Compositions of the 1980s	Yust, Jason	Canons Old and New
Mentorship in Music Theory: Mentors and Mentees share their experiences	Carter-Enyi, Aaron	Mentorship in Music Theory: Mentors and Mentees share their experiences
Modeling Topical Emergence: Boccherini’s Brilliant Pastoral	Schossberger, Barak	Pastoral and Nature Topics
Modes alla moda: Between Keys and Modes in Benedetto Marcello’s Lettera famigliare (c.1716)	Shafner, Noah	Mode and Its Philosophies in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Modifications of the Pastoral Topic in Musical Portrayals of the American Frontier	Tran, Sylvie	Pastoral and Nature Topics
Movement-Oriented Form and Function in 21st-Century Metal Breakdowns	Wirshba, Carle J.	Pop Formal Functions
Music and Technology: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents, and Speculative Futures	Dolan, Emily I.	SMT Plenary - Music and Technology: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents, and Speculative Futures
Music Theory Examples from Artists with Disabilities: A Crowdsourcing Session	Easley, Dave	Music Theory Examples from Artists with Disabilities: A Crowdsourcing Session
Music Theory, Technology, and Our Future: How We Hold Moonbeams in our Hands	White, Chris	SMT Plenary - Music and Technology: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents, and Speculative Futures
On Raffi and Late Style	Simonds, Zachary	Poster Session
On Symmetries, Patterns, and Constructing the ‘Instrumental Imagery of Western Music’: Morton Feldman’s Coptic Light	Hilewicz, Orit	Time and Tonality in Music Since 1950
Palestrina's embedded ninths	Ingram, Thomas	Chromaticism and Closure in the Renaissance
Parageneric Space as Formal Prosthesis: Reframing the Introduction-coda Frame	Echevarria, Rafael	Formenlehre
Parsimony and Intercardinality through the DFT: What harmonic qualia tell us about voice leading	Williams, Chris	Voice Leading
Pentatonicism in Jazz: An Analysis of Anhemitonic Pentatonicism’s Affordances for Dissonance throughout Jazz Styles	Felter, Collin	Jazz Harmony and Tonality
Piano Keyboard (Mod-14) Voice-Leading Spaces	Shannon, Alexander	Pitch-Class, Positional, and Pantuvarali Spaces
Piano Lids, Bungee Cords, and Bottle Caps: Theorizing (with) Tap Dance’s Instrument	Gain, Rachel	Choreography
Pierre Boulez’s Symphonie mécanique and his mechanics of symphonic harmony	Salem, Joseph	Harmonic Progressions, Harmonic Rhythm
Place, Process, and Context in the Music of Yoshimura Hiroshi	Mason-Nguyen, Pamela	Global Circulations
Polytonal Closure: Mechanism of Convention and Machination of Narrative	Sanders-Fast, Connor	Cadence and Closure
Positional Space on the Double Bass Fingerboard	Mielcarek, Maxwell	Pitch-Class, Positional, and Pantuvarali Spaces
PUNKing the Concept Album: Angst as Art in Cursive’s The Ugly Organ (2003)	WHITE, NICHOLAS	Song Cycles and Concept Albums
Putting the Universal in UDL: Accessibility in Keyboard and Aural Skills Courses	Clawson-Cannestra, Kaitlyn; Sulaiman, Michelle	Poster Session
Reading Harmony Situationally in a Corpus of Jazz Standards	Geyer, Ben	Jazz Harmony and Tonality
Reconstructing Hexachordal Solmization: Opportunities and Limitations	Rabinovitch, Gilad	Reconstructing Hexachordal Solmization: Opportunities and Limitations
Recontextualizing Leipzig: Xiao Youmei’s Conception of Scale and Musical-Institutional Practices in China	Feng, Juyuan	Global Circulations
Reencountering the “Tonaloide”: Intertext, Memory, and Alienated Tonality in the Music of Helmut Lachenmann	Bernstein, Zachary	Time and Tonality in Music Since 1950
Regional Tonal Dynamics as Generative Mechanism in Jia Daqun’s Stirred by Autumn (Eight Songs for Baritone and Piano)	Gao, Yiyuan	Pitch, Language, Tone
Repetition, Platforms, and Engagement: Musical Experience in Short-Form Media	Miller, Natalie	Pay Attention!
Revisiting Formalism	Conlee, Jade	Revisiting Formalism
Ritual Signal and Modernist Dread: Topic-Fields, Troping, and Sonic Judgment in Chess of the Wind (1976)	Akhavian, Armin	Film, TV, Video Games
Roll to the Beat of Your Own Drum: Beat Timing Analysis in the Ancient Fife and Drum Practice	Vivian, Samantha (1); Lookenbill, Zachary (2)	Poster Session
Shifting Hemitonic Fields in Two Concertos by John Williams	Cairns, Zachary	Transformations and Interval Spaces
Sonata as Topic: Timbral Structure in the Late Work of Richard Strauss (1942–1948)	Stemen, Jonah	Topic Formation and Use
Sondheim’s Fractured Pastiches	Buchler, Michael	Quotation and Reference
Steady Asymmetries in Quintuple and Septuple Time	Osborn, Brad	Meters, Perceived and Otherwise
Sun Ra's Tone Science	Gawboy, Anna	Performance- and Practitioner-Centered Theories
Supporting Dyslexic Learners: Improving Instructional Strategies for Undergraduate Music Theory	Heggie, Caroline	Poster Session
Tech Tips and Best Practices for Publications, Presentations, and Pedagogy	Diaz, Jennifer	Tech Tips and Best Practices for Publications, Presentations, and Pedagogy
Technology, the Time of Musical Labor, and the Time of Musical Listening	Drott, Eric	SMT Plenary - Music and Technology: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents, and Speculative Futures
Tempo Variability in Country Music: Patterns and Change Over Time	Carter, David S. (1); von Appen, Ralf (2)	Considering Country Music
Temporal Determinacy and Negative Affordance in Wii Sports Resort (2009)	Cummins, Cameron	Ludomusicology
The C(o)untry Costume: Chappell Roan and Queering Genre in “The Giver”	Lynch, Kasey	Considering Country Music
The Choreomusical Motive and Mexican Sones	Tinajero Perez, Andrea	Choreography
The Contours of Timbre in Rebecca Saunders's Fury II	Mach, Ash	Timbre Studies
The Eternal In the Sonata's Act: Leading-Tone Inversion, Combinatorial Logic, and Sonata Teleology in Bruckner's Sixth Symphony	Walch, Florian	Sonata Forms
The Neo-Phrygian Quartet: Beethoven’s Op. 131	Crompton, Jonathon	Mode and Its Philosophies in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries
The Note at Infinity	Tymoczko, Dmitri	Voice Leading
The Other Cadence: Plagal Mechanisms in Historical and Contemporary Practice	Motazedian, Táhirih	The Other Cadence: Plagal Mechanisms in Historical and Contemporary Practice
The Problem of Development in English Fantasy Form: Interventions in National Music by Vaughan Williams, Cobbett, and Britten	Sugawara, Rina	Alternative Formal Constructions
The Status of Music Cognition within Music Theory: A Gendered Problem?	Palfy, Cora	The Status of Music Cognition within Music Theory: A Gendered Problem?
The Stepping-Up Principle: Assessments that Challenge and Encourage Students to Progress	Shafer England, Jennifer (1); Duker, Philip (2)	Pedagogies and Public Music Theory
The Unpublished Analyses of Schoenberg’s Works in His Fundamentals of Musical Composition	Stoecker, Philip	Pedagogies and Public Music Theory
The use of Recontextualized Timbral Invariance and Genre Shifts in Dual Metal and Emo Verse-Chorus Teleological Structures in "Schizophrenia Legacy”	Foonberg, Avinoam	Poster Session
The Voiceless in Raven Chacon’s Voiceless Mass: Specters and Spectral Analysis	Dreyer, Gia	Voice and Identity
Theorizing Alberto Ginastera’s Compositional Grammar: Transtextuality and Bearbeitung	Saenz, Juan Patricio	Quotation and Reference
Theorizing Polymeter: Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming & “In-Fix” Phrasing	Reynolds, Atticus	Meters, Perceived and Otherwise
Tight-Verse/Loose-Chorus: Country's Crooked Chorus	Carlock, Samantha	Considering Country Music
Timbre, Perception, and Musical Form in Tan Dun’s Water Concerto (1998)	Wang, Anqi	Poster Session
Tonal Expectations? On Cadential Trajectories and Half Cadences in Petrucci’s First Books of Frottole	Praskurnin, Vlad	Chromaticism and Closure in the Renaissance
Topicalizing the Monumental: Transitioning from “Heroic as Genre” to “Heroic as Topic”	Grunkemeyer, Joey	Topic Formation and Use
Transformations of the Omnibus Progression at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	Piché, Marie-Ève	Harmonic Progressions, Harmonic Rhythm
Two Halves and a Hole: Non-Congruent Sonata Form in Scarlatti and Schumann	Segall, Christopher	Formenlehre
Unexpected Sources of Interpretive Similarity and Variety: A Quantitative Study of 23 Performances of Bach’s Fourth Cello Suite Prelude	Monfredo, Clare	Performance- and Practitioner-Centered Theories
Unveiling the “Mysterious” Notes in Chinese Qinqiang Opera Through Computational Methods	Zhang, Tengyue (1); McKemie, Daniel (2); Devaney, Johanna (3)	Poster Session
Visualizing Consonance: Harmonographs as Tools of Public Music Theory	Arias-Runyan, Shelby	Pedagogies and Public Music Theory
Well-Worn Grooves: Selective Attention, Boredom, and the Musical Rewards of Excessive Familiarity	Galik, Ryan	Pay Attention!
What’s That Tune? A Study in Applause-as-Recognition in Live Jazz Recordings	Costello, Kevin	Pay Attention!
What’s the Point of a Musical Riddle? Playing Games with Elway Bevin’s “Five Wounds” Canon (1631)	Barbre, Renée	Canons Old and New
When Numbers Become Symbols: Meaning Through Pitch Transformation in Yoruba Dùndún Drumming	Ukaewen, Sunday Oluwaseun	Pitch, Language, Tone
When One Becomes Many: The Layered Single-Block Form as Process in Aka Music	Xue, Bai	Alternative Formal Constructions
When the Afterparty’s Over: Epilogic Function of After-Chorus Modules in 2020’s Dance Pop	Grider, Killian	New and Hybrid Pop Forms
Where's Gesualdo? - Mapping the Pathways of Late Renaissance Chromaticism	Faulkner, Jackson	Chromaticism and Closure in the Renaissance

Society for Music Theory 49th Annual Meeting

November 5-8, 2026

Hyatt Regency Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI, USA

Index of Titles