Schedule
With the exception of the reception, banquet, and keynote, all events will take place in the Amy E. DuPont Music Building (AED) on the University of Delaware campus. All paper sessions and the workshop will be in AED 207.
FRIDAY, MARCH 30
11:30–12:30	Registration     (AED Atrium)
12:30–  1:45	Short Papers Rachel Hall, Saint Joseph’s University, Chair
12:30 Toward an understanding of voice leading in the third movement of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms Mark Richardson, East Carolina University       12:45 Two Manons, a Moor, and a Madam: Tonal Brokenness in Four Operas by Puccini, Verdi and Massenet Edward Latham, Temple University         1:00 What a Pile of Bricks Can Tell Us About Steve Reich Peter Shelley, University of Washington         1:15 Does the change of a melody’s meter affect tonal pattern perception? Stefanie Acevedo (presenter), University at Buffalo, SUNY; David Temperley, Eastman School of Music; and Peter Pfordresher, University at Buffalo, SUNY         1:30 Theorizing Sound in the Cloud Christian Carey, Rider University
1:45– 2:00	Registration     (AED Atrium)
1:45– 2:00	Welcoming Remarks
2:15– 3:45	New Theoretical Approaches Jonathan Kochavi, Swarthmore College, Chair
2:15 Deriving Chords and Functions From Musical Surfaces Using Statistical Methods Christopher White, Yale University         2:45 Voice Leading as Set Andrew Wilson, CUNY Graduate Center         3:15 Music Analysis as Play William O'Hara, Harvard University
3:45–4:00	Registration     (AED Atrium)
4:00–6:00	Workshop (Open to all registrants): Harmony and Voice Leading in the Music of Igor Stravinsky Joseph N. Straus, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
	Optional but recommended preparatory reading: Download PDFs of a new article submitted to Spectrum by Professor Straus.    Article       Examples
6:30–7:00	Reception Caffé Gelato, 90 E. Main Street (10 minute walk from the music building)
7:00	Banquet Caffé Gelato
SATURDAY, MARCH 31
8:00–  9:00	Executive Board Meeting, AED 208
9:00–10:30	Rock, Pop, and World Music Keith Salley, Shenandoah Conservatory, Chair
9:00 Tapping to Taqasim: A Study of Temporal Prediction in Listening to ‘Free Rhythm’ Mitchell Ohriner, Shenandoah Conservatory         9:30  Does Rock Play By Its Own Rules? An Empirical Investigation of Harmonic Expectation in Rock Music Bryn Hughes, Ithaca College       10:00 Reconsidering the Notion of “Cadence” Based on Evidence from Pop-Rock Music Drew F. Nobile, CUNY Graduate Center
10:30–10:45	Registration    (AED Atrium)
10:45–12:30	Short Papers Cynthia Folio, Temple University, Chair
10:45 A Taxing of the Taxonomy in the Beatles’ “Taxman”: Beyond the AAB Phrase Model of the 12-bar Blues Trevor de Clercq, Eastman School of Music       11:00 Repetition and Developing Variation in terms of Derrida’s Concept of the Trace Hyekyung Park, University at Buffalo       11:15 Quantifying Metric Dissonance: Modeling Offset Downbeats through Applied Discrete Calculus Steven Reale, Youngstown State University       11:30 BREAK       11:45 Capturing and Creating Disability in Some Pieces by György Kurtág R. David Salvage, Hampden-Sydney College       12:00 Schubert and Beethoven: Recasting their relationship through analysis of repetition Caitlin Martinkus, McGill University       12:15 Peripheral (re)vision: expressive structural articulation in Dvořák’s String Quartet in C Major, op. 61 Daniel Partridge, CUNY Graduate Center
12:30– 1:45	Lunch and Business Meeting Room 118, AED
1:45– 2:45	Keynote Address (Gore Recital Hall in the Louise and David Roselle Center for the Arts--across from the AED Music Bldg.)
	Theorizing Music, Theorizing Disability Joseph N. Straus, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
3:00–4:00	Baroque Music Vincent Benitez, The Pennsylvania State University, Chair
3:00 Passepieds and Pendants: Interpreting Characterization through Aria Pairs in the Late Baroque Gregory Decker, Bowling Green State University       3:30 Liberation from Constraints: Bach’s Fugue in G minor from Book 2 of the “48” Eric Wen, Mannes College of Music
4:00–5:00	Twentieth-Century Music Rachel Bergman, George Mason University, Chair
4:00 Serial Anomalies and Extra-Systematic Criteria in the Music of Milton Babbitt Zachary Bernstein, CUNY Graduate Center       4:30 Rotational Structure in Bartók’s Piano Sonata, First Movement Robert Keller, Louisiana State University

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