Texas Society for Music Theory


TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING --- MARCH 5-6, 1999
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS

FRIDAY, MARCH 5

8:15 - 9:00 a.m.TSMT Registration in the Lobby of the College of Music Concert Hall

9:00 - 10:15 Welcome and Paper Session I (College of Music Concert Hall) --
Analytical Issues in Rock Music

     Andrew Fowler:     "Revision in Rock"

     Kevin Clifton:     "Tori's Promissory Note:  The Significance of F# in 
                        'Putting the Damage On'"

10:30 - 11:40 Paper Session II--New Perspectives on Composers
 


     Sarah Reichardt:       "Repetition and Interval Pairing as Formal Processes 
                             in Joan Tower's Island Prelude"

     Vincent Benitez:       "A Creative Legacy:  Messiaen as Teacher of Analysis"

12:00 noon TSMT Luncheon, Club at College Inn


2:00 p.m. Keynote Address (College of Music Recital Hall) --
"Of Tempo, Science, and Other Things"

David Epstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


3:15 - 5:00 Paper Session III (College of Music Recital Hall) -- Music and Its Past
 



     Gene K. Willet:       "The Use of Pre-Existing Music to Convey Romantic Irony 
                           in Mahler's First Symphony"

     Jonathan Brooks:      "Excavating Tonal Artifacts in Arnold Schoenberg's 'Mädchenlied,' 
                           Op. 48, No. 3"

     Mark McFarland:       "Anxiety over the 'Anxiety of Influence'"

SATURDAY, MARCH 6

9:00 - 10:45 a.m. Panel Discussion (Performing Arts Center, Instrumental Rehearsal Room)
"Pre-College Music Theory: Hopes, Realities, and Possibilities"
 


Panelists:     David Hooten (McLennan Community College), theory instructor
               Stefan Kostka (University of Texas), theory instructor, textbook author
               Robert Nelson (University of Houston), theory instructor, textbook author
               Patricia Price (High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, Houston), 
                    theory instructor
               Steve Werpy (University of Houston), music education instructor
               John Snyder (University of Houston), moderator

11:00 TSMT Members' Business Meeting (Performing Arts Center)

Program Selection Panel:
Blaise Ferrandino (Texas Christian University),
Cynthia Gonzales (University of Texas),
Tim Koozin (University of Houston),
and Douglas Rust (Southwestern University)

Texas Society for Music Theory Executive Board:
James Bennighof, President (Baylor University);
Don McManus, Secretary (Lufkin,TX);
Doug Claybrook, Treasurer (Baylor University);
Philip Baczewski (University of North Texas)--also Meeting Host Representative;
David Hooten (McLennan Community College);
Timothy McKinney (University of Texas at Arlington);
and Kip Wile (Sam Houston State University).