SESSION I: (9:15 - 10:45 Piper Hall) - Sonatas

• "Preparing Classical Symphonies: Unusual Frames in the Eighteenth Century"
  Catrina Kim, Eastman School of Music and Univ. of Rochester
• "The Sonata in Late-Eighteenth-Century Spain: Blasco de Nebra's Seis Sonatas para Calve y Fuerte Piano (1780)"
  Bryan Stevens, University of North Texas
• "Don Juan's Ladies: Sonata forms of the female character arias in Mozart's Don Giovanni"
  Graham Hunt, University of Texas at Arlington

SESSION II: (9:15 - 10:45 Room 109) - Form in Schoenberg & Schwartz

• "'Unlimited, the Future is Unlimited': Re-imagining Expansion with Musical Theater"
  Brian Jarvis, University of Texas at El Paso and John Peterson, James Madison University
• "Defining Cadential Function in Schoenberg's Music"
  Andrew Eason, University of Oregon
• "Developing Variation as Formal Determinant: Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Perspectives"
  David Keep, Eastman School of Music and University of Rochester

SESSION III: (11:00 - 12:00 Piper Hall) - Harmonic Topics

• "Ending Formulae in Liszt's Lieder: The Plagal Cadence Revisited"
  David Falterman, University of North Texas
• "'I Don't Like Star Wars': Harmonic Escapes in 1978 Rock"
  David Forrest, Texas Tech University

SESSION IV: (11:00 - 12:00 Room 109) - Metric Topics

• "What Dwells Beneath the Surface: Rhythm, Meter, Culture, and Meaning in Contemporary Metal Music"
  Jose M. Garza, Jr., Florida State University
• "Transformation from Meter to Ameter in Ligeti's Désordre"
  Jay Smith, University of North Texas and Texas Woman's University

SESSION V: (2:45 - 4:15 Piper Hall) - Layers

• "Two Songs: Contrapuntal Courtship in Machaut's Le Voir Dit"
  Justin Lavacek, University of North Texas
• "Streams of Sound: Bregman's auditory stream theory as applied to Ives' 'The Housatonic at Stockbridge' from Three Places in New England"
  Hannah Percival, Texas Tech University
• "Polymodal Diatonicism in José Pablo Moncayo's Tierra de Temporal"
  Luis Sanchez, Texas Tech University

SESSION VI: (2:45 - 4:15 Room 109) - Theory, evolving

• "Die Teufelsmühle: Continental Reception of Vogler's Chromatic Rule of the Octave"
  Douglas Donley, University of North Texas
• "Unresolved Six-Four Chords in Beethoven"
  Benjamin Graf, University of North Texas
• "The Concept of Absolute Melody in Ferruccio Busoni's Mature Style"
  Colin Davis, Sam Houston State University

SESSION VII: (9:30 - 11:00 Piper Hall) - The Performer's Agency

• "Metric Malleability and Performer Expressivity in the First Movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 14, No. 2"
  Stacey Davis, University of Texas at San Antonio
• "Expressive Timing in Seven Performances of the Beginning of Beethoven's Op. 2, No. 1"
  Nico Schüler, Texas State University
• "Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards: Intertextuality and the Semiotics of Vocal Timbre as Markers of Recurring Archetypal Characters in the Music of Tom Waits"
  Joshua Albrecht, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

SESSION VIII: (9:30 - 11:00 Room 109) - Why does it work so well?

• "Creating a Sound of the Future: Large-scale Transformation in the Personic Environment of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories"
  Paul Garza, University of Houston and Lone Star College-North Harris
• "Rachmaninoff's Nostalgic 'Second' Movement of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43"
  Gillian Robertson, University of North Texas
• "Teaching an Old Joke New Tricks: A Fresh Approach to Haydn's Op. 33 Finales"
  Jennifer Salamone, Oberlin Conservatory

• "Music Theory and its Millennial Identity"
  Frank Heidlberger, Panel Organizer, University of North Texas
• "Early Music: Theory and Analysis"
  Timothy McKinney, Baylor University
• "Changing Attitudes toward Phrase and Cadence"
  Matthew Santa, Texas Tech University

• "Back to Basics in the Classroom"
  Kevin Clifton, Sam Houston State University
• "Jazz Theory and the Music Theory Curriculum"
  Jennifer Weaver, Dallas Baptist University
• "Changing attitudes toward junior music theorists"
  Ellen Bakulina, University of North Texas