TSMT/SCSMT 2009 Program

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Texas Society for Music Theory
31st Annual Conference
Meeting jointly with the
South Central Society for Music Theory
February 6 - 7, 2009
University of Houston
Houston, Texas

Conference Program

Unless Otherwise Specified, All events are in the Moores School of Music Building

February 6 - Morning Sessions

REGISTRATION and COFFEE: (8:00 - 9:00) - Room 114

WELCOME: (9:00 - 9:15) - Room 160

David Ashley White, Director, Moores School of Music

SESSION I: (9:15 - 10:45) - Room 160
Popular Music

"How to Build a Groove: Meter as Process in Pop Song Introductions"
Robin Attas, University of British Columbia
"Five Types of Blues Scheme"
Nicholas Stoia, Duke University
"Progressive Rock's Politics of Experience"
Kevin Holm-Hudson, University of Kentucky

BREAK: (10:45 - 11:00) - Room 114

SESSION II: (11:00 - 12:00) - Room 160
Extensions of Tonal Theory

"The Urlinie and Fugue Analysis and Performance: An Omitted Passage from Der freie Satz"
Jennifer Sadoff Auerbach, University of Texas at Arlington
"A Framework for Describing Linkage Technique in Tonal Music"
Michael Baker, University of Kentucky

LUNCH BREAK: (12:00 - 2:00)

Luncheon 12:15 - 1:45. Lobby, Moores Opera House. Reservations required

February 6 - Afternoon Sessions

SESSION III: (2:00 - 3:00) - Room 108
Nineteenth-Century Music

"Phrase Rhythm as an Expressive Compositional Device in Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin"
René Pérez, University of North Texas
"Tchaikovsky's Triumphant Repetitions"
Brent Auerbach, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Keynote Address (3:15 - 4:45) - Dudley Recital Hall

"Performance and Analysis -- or Synthesis: Theorizing Gesture and Meaning for Performers"
Robert Hatten, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Visiting Professor of Music Theory, University of Texas at Austin

February 7

REGISTRATION and COFFEE: (8:00 - 9:00) - Room 114

SESSION IV (Concurrent): (9:15 - 10:45) - Room 118
Explorations in Harmony

"The Importance of Parallel Harmonization in Britten's War Requiem"
David Forrest, Texas Tech University
"The Dialectical Harmonic Language of Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony"
Ben Wadsworth, Louisiana State University
"On the Clarification and Expansion of Tonicization"
Gabriel Miller, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

SESSION V (Concurrent): (9:15 - 10:45) - Room 145
Theory Curriculum: Trends and Issues -- Roundtable Discussion

Moderator: Ann Stutes, Wayland Baptist University

BREAK: (10:45 - 11:00)

TSMT Business Meeting: (11:00 - 12:00)- Room 118

SCSMT Business Meeting: (11:00 - 12:00)- Room 145

TSMT Executive Board	SCSMT Executive Board
Ed Pearsall (University of Texas), President Matthew Santa (Texas Tech University), President Elect Jana Millar (Baylor University), Treasurer Philip Baczewski (University of North Texas), Secretary Cynthia Gonzales (Texas State University) Frank Heidlberger (University of North Texas) Ann Stutes (Wayland Baptist University) Barbara Wallace (Dallas Baptist University)	Rob Keller (Louisiana State University), President Matthew Steinbron (Louisiana State University), Vice President Joseph Brumbeloe (University of Mississippi), Treasurer John Latartara (University of Southern Mississippi), Secretary
TSMT Program Committee	SCSMT Program Committee
Michael Berry (Texas Tech University) Stacey Davis (University of Texas at San Antonio) Erik Heine (Oklahoma City University)	Douglas Rust (University of Southern Mississippi), Chair Michael Baker (University of Kentucky) Michael Chikinda (Queen's University in Kingston Ontario, Canada), Student Representative John Latartara (University of Mississippi) Janna K. Saslaw (Loyola University of New Orleans)

Local Arrangements Chair

Andrew Davis (University of Houston)

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