Schedule
Note: Unless otherwise specified, all events are in the Woolworth Center of Musical Studies, Room 102 (breaks and reception will be in the Atrium).
FRIDAY, MARCH 13
11:00–12:00	Registration
12:00–  1:15	Short Paper Session 1 Chair: Mark Yeary, Univdersity of Louisville
12:00 Thematic Simultaneity and Structural Ambiguity in Prokofiev’s Sonata Forms Rebecca Perry, Yale University       12:15 Shostakovich’s Dominants Simon Prosser, City University of New York Graduate Center       12:30 Octatonic Polysemy in the Introduction to Part 2 of The Rite of Spring Paul Lombardi, University of South Dakota       12:45 The melodies of L’Orestie and Pierre Boulez’s new compositional method Joseph Salem, Yale University         1:00 Sound as Subjectivity: A Reconsideration of Gibsonian Affordance Cora S. Palfy, Northwestern University
1:15– 1:30	Break/Registration
1:30– 1:45	Welcoming Remarks
1:45– 3:15	Long Paper Session 1: Nineteenth-Century Music Chair: Kofi Agawu, Princeton University
1:45 In the French Style: Metric Types and Embodied Meaning in Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Matthew Bell, University of Texas at Austin         2:15 The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Trial, Error, and Chord Magic in Wagner’s Die Feen Steven Vande Moortele, University of Toronto         2:45 Strange Narration: Cognitive Complexity in Mahler’s Late Adagios Eric Hogrefe, University of Texas at Austin
3:15– 3:30	Break/Registration
3:30– 5:30	Professional Development Workshop (open to all registrants): “The Materialities of Music Theorie” Jairo Moreno, University of Pennsylvania (keynote speaker)
5:30– 6:00	Reception
7:00	Banquet Location: Prospect House, Princeton University
SATURDAY, MARCH 14
8:00–  9:00	Executive Board Meeting (Woolworth 101)
9:00–10:30	Long Paper Session 2: Modernist Approaches Chair: Jonathan Kochavi, Swarthmore College
9:00 Ravel’s Octatonic Scripts Damian Blättler, Rice University         9:30 Harmony, Rhetoric, and Linearity in Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet Ryan Howard, William Paterson University       10:00 Jean Langlais’s Sharpwise Inflections Nathan Lam, Indiana University
10:30–10:45	Break/Registration
10:45–12:30	Short Paper Session 2 Chair: Edward Latham, Temple University
10:45 Brahms and the Construction of the Ballad Genre Jacob Gran, Louisiana State University       11:00 The Tonal Problem as a Source of Narrative in Brahms’s “Unbewegte laue Luft,” Op. 57 no. 8 Loretta Terrigno, City University of New York Graduate Center       11:15 Reconsidering Style Register in the Late Baroque Gregory Decker, Bowling Green State University       11:30 How to Forge a Missing Link: Winfried Michel’s “Haydn” and the Style-Historical Imagination Frederick Reece, Harvard University       11:45 Improving Retention Through Curricular Revision at a Small Comprehensive University Anna Stephan-Robinson, West Liberty University         12:00 Harmonic Function in Popular Music Ian Quinn, Yale University; and Christopher White, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
12:30– 1:45	Lunch and Business Meeting
1:45– 2:45	Keynote Address: Rameau and Enchanted Materialism Jairo Moreno, University of Pennsylvania
2:45– 3:00	Break
3:00–4:00	Long Paper Session 3: Eighteenth-Century Music Chair: Scott Burnham, Princeton University
3:00 Cognition in Scottish Common Sense Music Theory, 1770-1786 Carmel Raz, Yale University       3:30 Menuets vicieux, Z figures, and sonic analogues: Embodied meanings of hypermeter in Haydn and Mozart’s symphonic minuets Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska, Northwestern University
4:00–5:00	Long Paper Session 4 Chair, Daniel Zimmerman, University of Maryland
4:00 Functional Neo-Riemannian Theory and Perceptual Voice-Leading Distance - A Lewinian Perspective Andrew Aziz, Florida State University; and Trevor Haughton, Eastman School of Music       4:30 “Promissory Note” Narrative Strategies in Schubert’s Three-Key Expositions Aaron Grant, Eastman School of Music

Return to main MTSMA page