Texas Society for Music Theory 33rd Annual Conference February 18 - 19, 2011 Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX

Conference Program

February 18 - Morning Sessions

Merket Alumni Center

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

WELCOME: (9:00)

SESSION I: (9:15-10:45) - Theories of Form

• "'How much is enough?' Structural and Formal Ramifications of the Abbreviated Second A Section in Rondo Finales from Haydn to Brahms"
  Graham Hunt, University of Texas at Arlington
• "'Double Function' Sonata Forms in Franck's Late Chamber Music"
  Carissa Reddick, University of Northern Colorado
• "Conflict! Resolution! Balance! A Second Viennese Approach to Formal Design"
  Rachel Mitchell, University of Illinois

BREAK: (10:45 - 11:00)

SESSION II: (11:00-12:00) Subjectivity and Fulfillment in Schenker

• "Theories and Fantasies: Shapes in the Clouds"
  Stephen Slottow, University of North Texas
• "The Diatonic System and its Discontents: Schenker, Freud, and Die Wege zum Glück"
  Nathan Fleshner, Eastman School of Music

LUNCH: (12:00 - 1:45)

February 18 - Afternoon Sessions

School of Music, Room M01

SPECIAL SESSION: (1:45 - 2:45)

• "Harmonic Dictation: Sing it, Hear it, Name it, Notate It"
  Cynthia Gonzales, Texas State University

BREAK: (2:45 - 3:00)

Merket Alumni Center

SESSION III: (3:00-4:30) - Music Before 1750 and After 1950

• "Guido of Arezzo's Regule ritmice: A Verse Translation"
  Ken Stephenson, University of Oklahoma
• "Colonizing Familiar Territory: Musical Topics, Stylistic Level, and Handel's Cleopatra"
  Greg Decker, Florida State University
• "Retrogressions, Rogues, and Recent Theories of Rock Harmony"
  John Cotner, Stephen F. Austin State University

BREAK: (4:30 - 4:45)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: (4:45 - 5:45)

• "Musical Narrative Since 1900"
  Michael Klein, Temple University

RECEPTION: (5:45 - 9:45)

February 19

Merket Alumni Center

COFFEE (8:30 - 9:15)

SESSION IV: (9:15 - 10:45) - Twentieth-Century Music in Theory and Pedagogy

• "Some Principles of Post-Tonal Prolongation"
  Robert Gross, Rice University
• "Contour, Pitch Class, and Modular Space: A Post-Perceptual Study"
  Keith Salley, Shenandoah Conservatory

BREAK: (10:45 - 11:00)

TSMT BUSINESS MEETING: (11:00 - 12:00)

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