The Texas Society for Music Theory

24th Annual Meeting

 

University of Texas at Austin

Music Recital Hall

 

Friday, February 15, 2002

MRH 2.608

 

 

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.               Registration - outside MRH 2.608

 

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.             Welcome and Paper Session I – Tonal Structures,Old and New

 

Adam Ricci:          “A Classification Scheme for Harmonic Sequences”

Rachel Mann:        “Tonal References in Dallapiccola’s Andantino

                              Amoroso e Contrapunctus Tertius”

 

10:30 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.           Paper Session II – Elements of Structural Hierarchy in Contrasting Styles

 

Matthew Santa:     “Structural Levels in Post-Tonal Diatonic Music:  The First Scene from Stravinsky’s Agon”

Timothy Koozin: “Rhythm and Meter in Funk Music”

 

12:00 noon                              Luncheon - University of Texas Club

 

2:00 p.m.                                 Keynote Address –    "Composers' Words, Theorists' Analyses

(Sometimes the Twain Shall Meet)"

Peter Kaminsky – University of Connecticut at Storrs

 

3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.             Paper Session III –  Programatic and Symbolic Aspects

 

                                                Frank Riddick:      “Allusion, Association and Symbolism in Zemlinsky’s Second String Quartet”

Michael Klein:      “Pastoral and Tragic Expressive Narratives in Chopin’s Ballade in F minor, Opus 52”

Sarah Reichardt:    “The Space Between:  The Modern Subject and Shostakovich’s Seventh String Quartet”

                                               

 

                                               

 

Saturday, February 16

MRH 2.614

 

 

8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.             Paper Session IV- Harmonic and Tonal Structures in

                                    Chromatic and Modal Contexts

 

Vincent Benitez:  “Exploring Messiaen’s Later Harmonic Language:

      An Examination of Three Non-Modal Chord Types in Saint Francois d’ Assise”

Jacquelyn Hale:   “Wladimir Vogel’s Konzert fur Violoncello und

Orchester (1955):  Tertian Sonorities and Tonal Coherence in a Twelve-tone Work”

William Hussey:  “Linear Chromaticism in the Music of Dmitri

                              Shostakovich”

 

                                                Business Meeting – 10:30 a.m. MRH 2.614

 

 

Program Selection Panel

                                                   

Andrew Anderson (Southern Methodist University), Guy Capuzzo (Texas Tech University), Tim Cutler (Austin College), Kip Wile (Sam Houston State University)

 

TSMT Executive Board

 

Blaise J. Ferrandino (Texas Christian University), President; James Bennighof (Baylor University), Past-President; Philip Baczewski (University of North Texas), Secretary; Jana Millar (Baylor University), Treasurer; Ed Pearsall (University of Texas at Austin), board member and meeting host; Tim Koozin (University of Houston);  Karen McBee (Panola College); Barbara Wallace (Dallas Baptist University)