February 21 - morning sessions

REGISTRATION: (7:15 - 8:15) and Continental Breakfast (coffee, juice, donuts, muffins, bagels)

WELCOME: (8:15):

• Blaise Ferrandino - TSMT President and meeting host
• Joseph Butler - Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies for the College of Fine Arts

SESSION I: (8:20 - 9:20) - Of unity and transformation in 20th-century Music

• "Chromatic Saturation and the Significant Gap as Unifying Devices in Berio's Sinfonia"
  Catherine Losada - City University of New York Graduate Center

• "Arrays and K-Nets: Transformational Relationships within Perle's Twelve-Tone Tonality"
  Gretchen Foley - University of Nebraska

BREAK: 9:20 - 9:30

SESSION II: (9:30 - 11:00) - Understanding line: studies in voice-leading and performance pedagogy

• "Voice Leading Attractions: A Study of Diatonic-Seventh Chords"
  Greg Bulls - Texas Tech University
• "New Voice-leading Techniques in Beethoven's Opus 135"
  Amy Carr-Richardson - East Carolina University
• "Forks in the Road: Teaching Scarlatti's Sonata in C Major (K.159, Longo 104)"
  Stephen Slottow - University of North Texas

BREAK: 11:00 - 11:10

SESSION III: (11:10 - 12:10) - Aspects of musical form

• "Closure in Pop-Rock Music: 'Julia' by King's X"
  Guy Capuzzo - Texas Tech University
• "Towards an Absolute Pitch Understanding of Classical Form"
  James Mackay - Loyola University

LUNCH: (12:10 - 1:40) Kelly Alumni Center

February 21 - afternoon sessions

SESSION IV: (1:50 - 2:50) Keynote Address

BREAK: 2:50 - 3:00

SESSION V: (3:00 - 4:00) - Rhythm and meter in 20th-century music

• "Metrical Ambiguities in Ursula Mamlok's Panta Rhei (1981)"
  Roxane Prevost - State University of New York at Buffalo
• "A Manual, a Model, and a Sketch: Renaissance Dance Rhythms in Stravinsky's Ballet Agon"
  Mark Richardson - East Carolina State University

BREAK: (4:00 - 4:05)

SESSION VI: (4:05 - 5:05) Structure and expression

• "Heinrich Schenker and the Organicism Debate: Unpacking Schenker's Place in the Germanic Philosophical Tradition"
  Andrew Kizas - Toronto, Canada
• "Heart and Brain: Structure and Emotional Content in Schoenberg's Film Music, Begleitung zu einer Lichtspielszene, Op. 34"
  Hidetoshi Fukuchi - University of North Texas

February 22

COFFEE and DONUTS: (8:00 - 8:25)

All presentations relate to the teaching of the core music theory curriculum

SESSION VII: (8:25 - 9:40)

• "Contents and Structure of an Intra-Disciplinary Undergraduate Music Theory Curriculum"
  Nico Schuler - Southwest Texas State University
• "You Have a Piano Proficiency..., I Have a Piano Proficiency..., We All Have a Piano Proficiency...Couldn't We All Agree?"

  PANEL DISCUSSION

  • Vicki Conway - University of Texas at Tyler
  • Guillermo Martinez - Texas Christian University
  • Karen McBee - Panola College
  • Shirley Watterston - Stephen F. Austin State University

BREAK: 9:40 - 9:50

SESSION VIII: (9:50- 11:05)

• "An Aural Skills Approach to Context and Modulation in Tonal Music"
  Timothy Cutler - Austin College
• "Music Theory in High School: Issues and Answers"

  PANEL DISCUSSION:

  • Terry Eder - Carrolton Newman-Smith High School
  • Kent Ellingson - Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts
  • Nancy Scoggin - Joshua High School
  • Bill Phillips - Plano Senior High School
  • Blaise Ferrandino - moderator

BREAK: (11:05 - 11:15)

SESSION IX: (11:15 - 11:45)

• "Musicianship: An Integrated Approach to Music Theory, Ear Training, Sight Singing, and Keyboard Harmony"
  Anthony Kosar - Rider University, Westminster Choir College

TSMT Business Meeting (12:00 - 1:00)

TSMT Executive Board

• Blaise J. Ferrandino (Texas Christian University), President and Host
• Timothy McKinney (Baylor University), President-elect
• Philip Baczewski (University of North Texas), Secretary
• Jana Millar (Baylor University), Treasurer
• Ed Pearsall (University of Texas at Austin)
• Tim Koozin (University of Houston)
• Nico Schuler (Southwest Texas State University)

Program Committee

• James Bennighof (Baylor University)
• Leon Couch III (Texas A&M University)
• Doug Rust (Centenary College)
• Matthew Santa (Texas Tech University)