Texas Society for Music Theory

February 25 - Morning Sessions

REGISTRATION: (8:00 - 9:00) and Snacks (coffee, donuts, and pastries)

WELCOME: (9:00):

• Graham Hunt - Meeting Host
• Larry Wiley - Chair of the Department of Music
• Beth Wright - Dean of the College of Liberal Arts

SESSION I: (9:15-10:45) - Formal/Musicological Analysis: The Sonata and Variation Principles Revisited

• "The Major Dominant in Minor-Mode Sonatas: Brahms's Fourth Symphony and its Predecessors"
  Boyd Pomeroy, Georgia State University
• "Issues of Program, Design and the Symphonic in Strauss's Don Quixote"
  Jennifer Sadoff, University of North Texas
• "Form in Shostakovich: Toward a Post-tonal Sonata Principle"
  David Castro, University of Oregon

BREAK: 10:45 - 11:00

SESSION II: (11:00-11:30) Issues in College Music Theory

• "Raising Standards of College-Level Music Theory Instruction by Means of Appropriate Diagnostic Tests, Placement Tests, and Remedial Theory"
  Nico Schüler, Texas State University

LUNCH: (12:00 - 1:30) University Center, Rio Grande Room A

February 25 - Afternoon Sessions

SESSION III: (1:45-2:30) Keynote Address

• "The Accompanied Cadenza in Shostakovich's Twelfth String Quartet"
  Patrick McCreless, Yale University

BREAK: 2:30 - 2:45

SESSION IV: (2:45-3:45) - Chord Distances and Voice Leading Reconsidered

• "Non-tonal Pitch Space and Hierarchical Structure"
  Michael Berry, Texas Tech University/CUNY Graduate Center
• "Inverted Dominants and the Perception of Root Motion in Dominant-Tonic Progressions"
  Greg Bulls, Texas Tech University

BREAK: 3:45 - 4:00

SESSION V: (4:00-5:00) - Schenkerian and Neo-Riemannian Perspectives

• "Transformational Reduction: A Cross-Analytical Approach to Richard Strauss' Late Song Im Abendrot"
  Graham Hunt, University of Texas at Arlington
• "Heinrich Schenker's Analytical Conception of Orchestration"
  Timothy Cutler, Austin College

February 26 - Morning Sessions

COFFEE & DONUTS/PASTRIES (8:30 - 9:00)

SESSION VI: (9:00 - 10:00) - Rhythm, Text, and Borrowings in 20th Century Music

• "Association between Rhythm and Text in Dallapiccola's Sicut Umbra"
  Sunhyun Ahn, University of Maryland
• "Borrowing and Critique in Satie's 'Humoristic' Piano Suites"
  B. Jean Hare, University of Texas at Austin

BREAK: 10:00-10:15

SESSION VII: (10:15-11:15) Twelve-Tone Analysis: Berio and Gerhard

• "Vestiges of Twelve-Tone Practice as Compositional Process in Berio's Sequenza I for Solo Flute"
  Irna Priore, North Carolina School of the Arts
• "Thoughts on Modern Music: Serialism in Roberto Gerhard's First String Quartet"
  Rachel Mitchell, University of Texas at Austin

BREAK: 11:15-11:30

TSMT Business Meeting (11:30 - 12:30)

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