2019 Program

South Central Society for Music Theory Conference
March 15–16, 2019

Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana


THURSDAY, MARCH 14


7:30 p.m. (School of Music Recital Hall) Constantinides New Music Ensemble concert
Free and open to the public


FRIDAY, MARCH 15


8:00–9:00 a.m. Coffee Reception (Music & Dramatic Arts Building, 102)

8:00–9:00 a.m. Registration (Music & Dramatic Arts Building – lobby)

9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks (Music & Dramatic Arts Building, 215)

9:15–10:15 a.m. Session 1 (Concurrent Papers)

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10:15–10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30–11:30 a.m. Session 2 (Concurrent Papers)

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11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Lunch Break (nearby restaurants listed in conference packet)

1:00–2:00 p.m. Music Forum Lecture, “The Liturgical Other: Women, Jews, and South Italian Chant”
(Music & Dramatic Arts Building, 249)
Luisa Nardini (Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Texas at Austin)

2:00-3:30 p.m. Session 3 (Concurrent Papers)

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3:30-3:45 p.m. Break

3:45-4:45 p.m. Session 4 (Concurrent Lightning Talks)

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7:30 p.m. (School of Music Recital Hall) Lomazov-Rackers Piano Duo concert
Free and open to the public


SATURDAY, MARCH 16


9:00–11:00 a.m. Workshops (The French House)

Workshop 1 (The French House, 200)
“Tonal and Harmonic Ambiguity in the Analysis of Popular Music”
Trevor de Clercq (Assistant Professor of the Recording Industry, Middle Tennessee State University)

Workshop 2 (The French House, 218)
“Incorporating Computational and Corpus Methods into Your Research”
Daniel Shanahan (Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Cognition, Ohio State University)

11:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Plenary Discussion (The French House, 135)
Ben Wadsworth (Kennesaw State University), moderator

  • “The Certain Uncertainty in Popular Music Analysis”
    Trevor de Clercq (Middle Tennessee State University)
  • “Measuring the Immeasurable in Music”
    Daniel Shanahan (Ohio State University)

12:00-12:30 p.m. SCSMT Business Meeting (The French House, 135)
[ Minutes from the 2018 Business Meeting ]
[ 2019 Business Meeting Agenda ]
[ Proposed Social Media Guidelines ]
[ Results from 2019 Member Survey ]
[ Minutes from the 2019 Business Meeting ]