Texas Society for Music Theory 34th Annual Conference March 2 - 3, 2012 Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX

Conference Program

March 2 - Morning Sessions

Brown-Lupton University Union (BLUU) Ballroom A & B

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

WELCOME: (9:00 - 9:15)

SESSION I: (9:15 - 10:45) - Brahms Studies

• "Cyclicism and Expanded Type 1 Forms in Chamber Works by Brahms and Dvořák"
  Carissa Reddick, University of Northern Colorado
• "Rethinking the 'Unthinkable': Defining Closure in Brahms's Sonata Forms"
  Joan Campbell Huguet, Eastman School of Music
• "Brahms and Schoenberg: A Shared Structure of Nostalgia"
  Cynthia Gonzales, Texas State University

BREAK: (10:45 - 11:00)

SESSION II: (11:00 - 12:00) Narrative and Meaning in Schumann and Barber

• "In Moda d'una Tragedia: Narrative Reversal and Failed Transcendence in the Second Movement of Schumann's Piano Quintet"
  Emily Gertsch, Florida State University
• "Rhythm as Narrative in Barber's Piano Concerto, Op. 38"
  Matthew Bell, Florida State University

LUNCH: (12:00 - 1:30)
Kelly Alumni Center, Cox Ballroom

March 2 - Afternoon Sessions

Brown-Lupton University Union (BLUU) Ballroom A & B

SPECIAL SESSION: (1:30 - 2:30)

• "...of DNA, Structural Norms, and Diversity of Expression: Learning of, and through, Musical Contextualization"
  Blaise Ferrandino, Texas Christian University

BREAK: (2:30 - 2:40)

SESSION III: (2:40 - 4:10) - Text/Music Relations

• "Aspiring Toward Heaven: Tonal, Motivic, and Narrative Structure in Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227"
  Jennifer Smith, Florida State University
• "Formal Construction in the Early Seventeenth-Century Motet: Structural Parallelisms in Three Settings of Psalm 90:10"
  Benjamin Dobbs, University of North Texas
• "Deceiving the Ear: Recontextualization, Key Association, and Auxiliary Cadence in Hugo Wolf's An den Schlaf"
  Ryan Taycher, University of North Texas

BREAK: (4:10 - 4:20)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: (4:20 - 5:20)

• "Absolute-Pitch Acquisition: Effects of Nature, Nurture, and Tone Language"
  Elizabeth West Marvin, Eastman School of Music

RECEPTION: (5:30 - 7:00)
Kelly Alumni Center, Cox Ballroom

March 3

Moudy Building rm. 141 North

COFFEE (8:00 - 9:00)

SESSION IV: (9:00 - 10:00) - Musical Expectations and Experiential Learning

• "Experiential Learning in College Music Theory"
  David Forrest, Texas Tech University
• "The End is Near: Expectation and the Perception of Closure"
  Crystal Peebles, Northern Arizona University

BREAK (10:00 - 10:10)

SESSION V: (10:10 - 11:10) - On the Edge

• "Interpreting a Bsus(add3) Chord: Varying Degrees of Suspension in Brad Mehldau's Sehnsucht"
  Daniel Arthurs, University of North Texas
• "'It's not my imagination, I've got a gun on my back!': Riff Schemes, Form, and the Creation of Energy in Early American Hardcore Punk Rock (1978-1983)"
  Dave Easley, Oklahoma City University

BREAK: (11:10 - 11:20)

TSMT BUSINESS MEETING: (11:20 - 12:20)

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