The 2024 Annual Meeting of the South Central Society for Music Theory will held jointly with Music Theory Southeast (MTSE) and will be hosted by Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN on March 15-16, 2024. Registration for the conference is available online through Eventbrite.
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Friday, March 15
Time | Ward Hall | McMeen 206 | ||
8:00 – 8:45 | (empty) | Registration | ||
8:45 | Opening Remarks | (empty) | ||
9:00-10:30 |
Video Game Music Chair: Wesley J. Bradford (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) Humor and Horror: Immersive Functions of Glissandi in Video Game Music Message from the Veins: Analyzing “Charts” in the Virtual Reality Rhythm Game Beat Saber Unique Timbral Effects in 8-Bit NES: Technological Affordances in Mega Man 1–3 |
20th century Chair: Rebecca Long (University of Louisville) Tracing Boulanger’s La Grande Ligne in French Modernist Music Hearing Materiality: Embodied Metaphors in György Ligeti’s Atmosphères and Lontano Subversion and Rebellion: Readings of Anti-Narrative Strategies in Eastman’s Piano 2 |
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10:30-10:45 | Break | |||
10:45-12:15 |
Phrase and Form in Popular Music Chair: David Geary (Wake Forest University) Pitch, Motive, and Non-Alignment in the Idiomatic Phrasing of Melodic Rap Verses Democratized Form: Collage and Cohesion in the Music of Bon Iver “All The Lonely Starbucks Lovers”: Prosodic Dissonance in Taylor Swift’s Discography |
Living Composers Chair: Jason Jedlička (Belmont University) Listening to Listening: Silence in the Music of Rebecca Saunders Texture and Form in Henry Threadgill’s In For A Penny, In For A Pound Listening for Culture in Performances of The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto |
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12:15- 2:00 | LUNCH | |||
2:00-3:30 |
Form, Hypermeter, and Multimedia Narratives Chair: Olivia Lucas (LSU) Rhythmic Resistance: Music’s Subversive Power in Women’s Anti-Violence Protests Tap Dance Choreographers as Composer-Analysts: Formal Interactions between Tap Dance and Post-Millennial Pop Music Storytelling in Under Two Minutes: Exploring Narrative and the 3/4 Prechorus in Anime OPs |
Schemata Chair: Mark McFarland (Georgia State University) Dispersed Harmony as a Means of Distinguishing Sacred Harp Hymn-Tune Subgenres One More Time: Ritornello Cycles in J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C major (BWV 1061), First Movement Bitter Rage, Beautiful Song: Form and Function in Maslanka’s Symphony No. 10 |
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3:30-3:45 | Break | |||
3:45-4:45 |
Lightning talks: Western Art Music Chair: Clare Sher Ling Eng (Belmont University) Extended Techniques and Valve Transformations and in Luciano Berio’s Sequenza X (1984) Nonexistent Fundamentals and Distant Partials as the Source of Tuning and Pitch Inception Distances in voice-leading spaces as tensional relationships: Determining form in John Adams’ Nixon in China (1987) |
Lightning Talks: Pop/Jazz/Media Chair: Lauren Crosby (Clemson University) “Ancient Voices”: A Hypermetrical and Orchestrational Analysis of the Theme Songs to Seasons of CBS’s Survivor All the Blues: Measuring Blue Note Usage in Jazz Improvisation Woo Young-Woo: Autistic, Not a Child Terminally Anti-Climactic Form in Post-1990s Progressive Metal |
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4:45-5:00 | Break | |||
5:00-5:45 | Recital (Ward Hall) | |||
Saturday, March 16
Time | Ward Hall | McMeen 206 |
8:00 | (empty) |
Student Workshop—attendance limited to accepted students 8:00-9:30 Analyzing Vocal Music of the Baroque: Concepts and Categories Dr. Christopher Brody (University of Louisville) |
8:30-9:30 |
Sonatas Chair: Jeriel Jorguenson (Lipscomb University) Signifyin(g) on the Performer/Listener: Formal Process as Rhetorical Prank in the Scherzo of Florence Price’s Piano Sonata in E Minor Compound S-Module Strategies in Emilie Mayer’s Solo Sonatas |
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9:30-9:45 | Break | |
9:45-10:45 |
Text Setting Chair: Trevor de Clercq (Middle Tennessee State University) Markedness Correlations and the Constraints of Operatic Multimedia From Old-Time to “Hard Times”: Phrase Rhythm and Prosody in the Music of Tyler Childers |
Topics Chair: Jane Clendinning (Florida State University) The Evolution of the Hero’s Introduction: Topic and Intercultural Trope in Kollywood Film Music From “Moonlight Blest” to Wordless Grief: Deforming the Lullaby Topos in Amy Beach’s Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother |
10:45-11:15 | Break | |
11:15-11:45 |
MTSE Business Meeting (Together for the first few minutes for the student paper awards) |
SCSMT Business Meeting (Together in Ward Hall for the first few minutes for the student paper awards) |
12:00-1:00 | Keynote: She Who Digs: Timbre, Voice, and Lateral Placement in Björk’s Fossora Victoria Malawey (Macalester College) |