MTSMA 2020 Presentations 

Welcoming Remarks

Kip Wile, MTSMA President
Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University


Session 1: Signification and Narrativity

Musical Form and Dramatic Implication in the Fricka's Scene in Die Walküre, Act 2
Ji Yeon Lee, University of Houston

The Dramatic Potential of Auxiliary Cadences in Cole Porter Songs with Minor-to-Major Choruses*
Morgan Markel, Eastman School of Music

Tonic and Topic: A Study of Key Selection in American Hymnody
Jennifer Shafer, University of Delaware


Session 2: Transcribing Time and Space

A Taxonomy of Musical Transcription as Translation*
Eron Smith, Eastman School of Music

Collection Space: Systematizing Parsimonious Trnasformations in French Scalar Tonality*
Matthew Kiple, Temple University

Measuring Time in Morton Feldman's Late Music
Jeremy Tatar, McGill University

The Sound of Starlight in George Crumb's "Music of the Starry Night"*
Rachel Hottle, McGill University


Session 3: Fissions and Fusions

Spectral Fission in Barbershop Harmony*
Jordan Lenchitz, Florida State University

Formal Fusion in Robert Schumann's Sonata Forms*
Matthew Poon, University of Toronto

Beyond "Becoming": Progressive and Retrogressive Thematic Metamorphosis in Fanny Hensel's Piano Sontatas*
Tyler Osborne, University of Oregon

The Sonata-Fugue Hybrid in Haydn's Early Symphonies*
Carl Burdick, University of Cincinnati


Session 4: Rhythm, Meter and Perception

Listening to a Gradual Process: Gesture in Steve Reich's Melodica and its Signification*
Martin Ross, Western University

Putting the Math in Math Rock*
Matthew Chiu, Eastman School of Music

Phenomenal Accents, Meter, and the Vocal Backbeat in Country Music from 2000 - 2019*
Kristi Hardman, The Graduate Center, City University of New York


Session 5: Pedagogy

Don't Count Your Cadences Before They Hatch: Advocating for Discussions of Closure in Pedagogical Contexts
Brian Edward Jarvis, University of Texas at El Paso
John Peterson, James Madison University

The Perceptual Attraction of Pre-Dominant Chords
Jenine Brown, Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University
Daphne Tan, University of Toronto

Saving Figured Bass: Pedagogical Functions, Scaffolding, and Analytical Representations
Philip Duker, University of Delaware

On Music Theory, the 'Classical' Guitar, and Indigenous Music: Hidden Avenues for Diversifying Our Core Repertoire
Keith Salley, Shenandoah Conservatory — Shenandoah University

* denotes eligibility for the Dorothy Payne Award for Best Student Paper



Zoom discussions took place on July 18, 2020:

Zoom Session #1:  1-2 PM

Tonic and Topic: A Study of Key Selection in American Hymnody
Jennifer Shafer, University of Delaware

A Taxonomy of Musical Transcription as Translation*
Eron Smith, Eastman School of Music

Measuring Time in Morton Feldman's Late Music
Jeremy Tatar, McGill University

Spectral Fission in Barbershop Harmony*
Jordan Lenchitz, Florida State University


Zoom Sessions #2:  2:30-3:30 PM

Listening to a Gradual Process: Gesture in Steve Reich's Melodica and its Signification*
Martin Ross, Western University

Putting the Math in Math Rock*
Matthew Chiu, Eastman School of Music

Phenomenal Accents, Meter, and the Vocal Backbeat in Country Music from 2000 - 2019*
Kristi Hardman, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Saving Figured Bass: Pedagogical Functions, Scaffolding, and Analytical Representations
Philip Duker, University of Delaware

On Music Theory, the 'Classical' Guitar, and Indigenous Music: Hidden Avenues for Diversifying Our Core Repertoire
Keith Salley, Shenandoah Conservatory — Shenandoah University


MTSMA 2020 Program Committee
Kevin Holm-Hudson (University of Kentucky)
Karen Bottge (University of Kentucky)
Chelsea Hamm (Christopher Newport University)
Joseph Siu (University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Daniel Zimmerman (University of Maryland)


MTSMA Executive Committee
Kip Wile, President (Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University)
Anna Stephan-Robinson, Vice President
Jenine Brown, Secretary
Joseph Siu, Treasurer
Chelsey Hamm, Member-at-Large
Jennifer Shafer, Member-at-Large
Keith Salley, Member-at-Large


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