Texas Society for Music Theory 28th Annual Conference February 24 - 25, 2006 University of North Texas Denton, TX

Conference Program

February 23 - Pre-conference Activity: Evening Concert

One O'Clock Lab Band in Concert
with guest artists Bill Holman & Pete Christlieb

February 24 - Morning Sessions

REGISTRATION: (8:00 - 9:00)

• Registration, Exhibits, and Coffee and Accompaniments

WELCOME: (9:00)

• Frank Heidlberger - Meeting Host Committee Chair
• James Scott - Dean of the College of Music
• Thomas Sovik - Chair of the Division of Theory, History, and Ethnomusicology

SESSION I: (9:15-10:45) - Composition, Process, and Analysis

• "Investigating the Relationship between Implied Polyphony and Meter in the Unaccompanied String Works of J.S. Bach"
  Stacey Davis, The University of Texas at San Antonio
• "Topical Pairing as Compositional Strategy in Mozart"
  Matthew Boyer, Indiana University
• "Lurking in the Background: Functional Tonality in Debussy"
  Jason Britton, University of Oregon

BREAK: (10:45 - 11:00)

SESSION II: (11:00-12:00) Musical Relationships: Contributions and Influences

• "Erich Schmid in Berlin - a Year with Arnold Schoenberg"
  Jacquelyn Hale, Southern Methodist University
• "Angelika Elias - an Introduction Through Schenkerian Analysis"
  Michaela Rejack, The Ohio State University

MUSIC AT NOON: (12:00 - 12:20)

• UNT African Drum Ensemble, directed by Gideon Alorwoyie

LUNCH: (12:40 - 1:30)

February 24 - Afternoon Sessions

SESSION III: (1:45-2:30) Keynote Address

• "Schenker's 'Missing' Book: the Evolution of Schenker's Der freie Satz"
  Charles Burkhart, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY

BREAK: (2:30 - 2:45)

SESSION IV: (2:45-3:45) - Schenkerian Readings

• "David Lewin and Valhalla Revisited: Neo-Riemannian and Schenkerian Approaches to Motivic Corruption in Wagner's Ring Cycle"
  Graham Hunt, The University of Texas at Arlington
• "Hugo Wolf's In der Frühe: a Case for a Schenkerian Reading and its Narrative Implications"
  Scott Baker, University of Southern Mississippi

BREAK: (3:45 - 4:00)

SESSION V: (4:00-5:00) - 20th Century Icons

• "Webern's Das Augenlicht, op. 26 and the 'Musical Idea'"
  Darin Hoskisson, University of Oregon
• "Schenker Meets The Beatles: Combining Multiple Analytic Models to Explain Pop-Rock Music"
  Rachel Mitchell, The University of Texas at Austin

TSMT Business Meeting: (5:15 - 6:00)

Optional Activty - Evening Recitals (6:30 - 9:30)

• 6:30 p.m., Concert Hall: Petronel Malan (piano)
• 8 p.m., Recital Hall: Nicholas Arbolino (oboe), with Daniel Stipe (piano)

February 25 - Special Session

Coffee & Accompaniments (8:30 - 9:00)

SESSION VI: (9:00 - 12:45) - Robert Ottman Remembered - Past and Present Issues in Music Theory Pedagogy

• "Opening Address"
  Joán Groom, University of North Texas
• "Memories of Robert Ottman: the Early Years 1949-1951"
  Dale Peters, University of North Texas
• "Memories of Robert Ottman: a Student Perspective"
  Philip Baczewski, University of North Texas

• "Encounter with Robert Ottman, the Music Man"
  Gene Cho, University of North Texas

• "Hindemith, Schenker, and the University of North Texas: Early Comparative Studies of Hindemith and Schenker Produced at the University of North Texas During the mid-1950s."
  Michael Lively, University of North Texas

• BREAK: (11:00-11:15)

• "The Drama of the Bridge: Modulation as Process"
  Frank Samarotto, Indiana University
• "Defending the Straw Man: Modulation, Solmization, and What to Do With a Brain Once You Get It"
  Gary S. Karpinski, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• College of Music, University of North Texas, Dr. James Scott, Dean
  
• The Division of Theory, History, and Ethnomusicology, UNT College of Music, Dr. Thomas Sovik, Chair
  
• The Center for Schenkerian Studies, UNT College of Music, Dr. Timothy Jackson and Dr. Stephen Slottow, Directors
  
• W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
  
• Prentice Hall
• University of North Texas Press

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