All sessions meet in the Monroe Library
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Abstracts for each paper can be found here.
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Friday, 14 March |
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8:00 a.m. |
Registration & breakfast
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8:45 a.m. |
Opening remarks (Clare Eng, Belmont University)
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9:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
Form: Here and There
Cyclic Form and Inter-Movement Connections in Respighi’s Violin Sonata in B Minor Alexander Amato (Stephen F. Austin State University )
Understanding Hybridity in Contemporary R&B Formal Design Jeremy Orosz (University of Memphis)
Sonata Genre and Korean Influence: Eastern and Western in Isang Yun’s First Symphony Anne Delfin (University of Alabama)
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Authorship and Narrative
Analyzing Fan Authorship in Vocaloid Music Brandon Qi
Storytelling Through Leitmotivic Structures in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd Isabelle Thomas (The Ohio State University)
Lightning talk: Who Does The Night Belong To?: Using Timbre, Texture, And Recording Techniques To Interpret Narrative Across Sleep Token’s Discography Lilly Korkontzelos (Michigan State University)
Lightning talk: Numerous Narrators: Vocality and Meaning in Country Songs Madison Stepherson (University of Oregon)
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10:30 – 10:45 a.m. |
Break
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10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. |
Celebrating Emerging Scholars
Understanding Non-Lexical Vocables in Music Ruixue Hu (Eastman School of Music)
Tone-Clock Theory’s Expansion: An Analysis of Jenny McLeod’s Tone Clock Piece VIII Jonathan Lindhorst (McGill University )
Groove States: Loops, Layers, and Shifting Subjectivities in Solange's A Seat at the Table Audrey Slote (University of Chicago)
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(No concurrent session)
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12:15 – 2: 00 p.m. |
Lunch break
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2:00 – 3:00 p.m. |
Transformations Within and Without
Families of Set Classes Arising from a Cellular Automaton in Mod-12 and Other Modular Spaces Evan Jones (Florida State University)
Transformation Theory and the Ambiguity of the Body Jacob Wilkinson (Indiana University)
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Ludomusicology and an Indie
Lightning talk: Battle Against a Machine: A Computer-Aided Analysis of Motif and Meter in EarthBound Drake Eshleman (Indiana University)
Lightning talk: Music Helps Me Play: Classifying Supportive Player-Music Interactions in Video Games Morgan Weeks (Louisiana State University)
Lightning talk: The Role of Listening in Virtuosic Play: the Case of Katamari Damacy Speedrunning Marcos Acevedo-Arús (University of Texas at Austin)
Lightning talk: Vampire Weekend: Representing Indie Music’s Departure from Timbre and Texture as Form Ila V. Sharma (The Ohio State University)
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3:00 – 3:15 p.m. |
Break
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3:15 – 4:45 p.m. |
Back to the Canon
Hearing Hybridity: Jason Moran's Performance of Brahms's Intermezzo Op. 118, no. 2 Jonathon Crompton (Columbia University)
(De)mystifying Tristan: Tonality-Blurring Features in Wagner’s Prelude Barak Schossberger (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Lightning talk: Resources for Teaching Schenker through Keyboard Improvisation Jacob Gran (Louisiana Tech University)
Lightning talk: Vignettes for Structural Hearing in Three Preludes by Dmitri Shostakovich Trevor C. Hofelich (Swarthmore College)
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Rhythm: Then and Now
Groove on the Field: Microtiming “Feels” and Rhythmic Synchronization in Marching Percussion Zachary Lookenbill (University of Arkansas)
A Corpus Study of Swing Usage in Country Music, 1949-2023 Samuel Martin
Hypermetric Ambiguity: Between Scores and Recordings Armin Akhavian (Florida State University) |
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4:45 – 5:00 p.m. |
Break
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5:00 – 6:00 p.m. |
Roundtable discussion on AI Room: Multimedia 1
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Saturday, 15 March |
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9:00 – 11:00 a.m. |
Workshop: Rhythm (Sometimes) without Meter
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Workshop: Timbre in Aural Skills
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11:00 – 11:15 a.m. |
Break
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11:15 – 11:45 a.m. |
Business meeting (Clare Eng)
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11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Plenary Discussion (Mitch Ohriner, Timothy Chenette)
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