Texas Society for Music Theory 37th Annual Conference February 27 - 28, 2015 University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, Texas

Conference Program

February 27 - Morning Sessions

Union East 312, University of Texas at El Paso

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

WELCOME: (9:00)

• Charles Leinberger, Chair, Local Arrangements Committee
• Steve Wilson, Interim Chair, The Department of Music
• Patricia Witherspoon, Dean, The College of Liberal Arts
• Diana Natalicio, President, UTEP

SESSION I: (9:15 - 10:45) - 20th-Century Analysis

• "A Long Song: Melodic Structure in Ligeti's Hora Lunga"
  Crystal Peebles, Ithaca College
• "Serial Organization in Krzysztof Penderecki's Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima: Rotation, Multiplication, and Contour"
  Kája Lill, University of North Texas
• "(Post-)Tonal Key Relationships in Scriabin's Late Music"
  Jeff Yunek, Kennesaw State University

BREAK: (10:45 - 11:00)

SESSION II: (11:00 - 12:00) Theorizing Harmony

• "How Far Can Rameau Go?: The Breakdown of Historical Strategies for Theorizing Dissonant Chords in Twentieth-Century Tonal Repertoires"
  Damian Blättler, Rice University
• "The vii^o7 as Subdominant"
  Daniel Arthurs & Diego Cubero, University of North Texas

LUNCH: (12:00 - 1:30, Union East 313)

February 27 - Afternoon Sessions

SESSION III (Pedagogy Session): (1:30 - 2:30) - Aural Skills Pedagogy

• "Developing Aural Skills: A Logical and Layered Approach to Teaching Ear Training"
  Barbara Wallace Dallas Baptist University
• "Process and Outcome in Aural Skills Instruction: Using Music for Ear Training"
  Tim Koozin, University of Houston

BREAK: (2:30 - 2:40)

SESSION IV: (2:40 - 4:10) - 20th-Century melody, motive, and meter

• "Motivic Transformation and Impossible Fantasy in Schnittke's Concerto Grosso I (1977)"
  Cara Stroud, Florida State University
• "When the Stars Align: Troping and Text-Painting in Edgard Varèse's La croix du sud"
  Jennifer Salamone, University of Kentucky
• "Metric Instability and Conflict in Song and Cycle: Benjamin Britten's The Holy Sonnets of John Donne"
  Stuart Duncan, Yale University

BREAK: (4:10 - 4:20)

Session V: Keynote Address: (4:20 - 5:20)

"Seeing, Hearing, Teaching: The Audiovisual and Music Theory"
David Neumeyer, University of Texas at Austin

February 28

Union East 312, University of Texas at El Paso

Coffee/Poster Sessions (8:00 - 9:15)

STUDENT POSTER SESSIONS (Atrium Lobby)

• Finding relevance in the two-year music theory and aural skills curriculum: an invitation to application, for music majors
  Becky Paul, Justin Gusky, Stefan Greenfield-Casas, Dylan Ilseng, & Sundas Mohi, University of Texas at San Antonio
• Accessibility, Flexibility, and Effectiveness: Applying Matthew Shaftel's Analytical Methodology to Alban Berg's Wozzeck
  Eric Hester, Western Michigan University
• Chord-scale Usage as Compositional Method in Jazz: Scalar Application Types in the Music of Thad Jones
  Michael Rogers, University of North Texas

SESSION VI: (9:30 - 10:30) - Duality and Sentences

• "Man on Fire (2004) and the Semiotic Duality of its Deployment of Clair de lune"
  Brent Ferguson, San Marcos, TX
• "The Sentence and SRDC in Recent Popular Songs"
  Jeffrey Ensign, University of North Texas

BREAK: (10:30 - 10:40)

SESSION VII: (10:40 - 11:40) - Beginnings, Endings, and Surprises in Mozart and Haydn

• "Of Beginnings and Endings: P as Agent of Closure in Haydn's Sonatas"
  Samantha Inman, University of North Texas
• "'Appraisal Responses' to Surprising Events in Mozart's Viennese Piano Concertos"
  Jay Smith, University of North Texas

BREAK: (11:40 - 11:55)

TSMT Business Meeting: (12:00 - 12:30)

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