Texas Society for Music Theory 42nd Annual Conference February 28 - 29, 2020 University of Houston Houston, Texas

Conference Program

Jointly with the American Musicological Society Southwest Chapter

The concert on Feb. 27, 2020, by the Moores School of Music Faculty Artists, "Chamber Music of Beethoven", was cancelled due to the closure of the University of Houston campus because of the water emergency in the City of Houston.

The University of Houston campus was closed on Friday, February 28 -- Friday's conference sessions were held at Houston Baptist University.

The concert on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, by the Moores School of Music Faculty Artists, "Chamber Music of Beethoven", was relocated to 7:00 PM (with a new start time) at Christ Church Cathedral, 1117 Texas Ave., Houston 77002. The preceding reception was cancelled due to the closure of the University of Houston campus because of the water emergency in the City of Houston.

The University of Houston facilities were again unavailable on Saturday, February 29 -- Saturday's conference sessions were held at Houston Baptist University. The joint poster session was convened at the Brown building, room 257 ,starting at 8:30 a.m.

February 27

7:30: CONCERT (Dudley Recital Hall, Moores School of Music)

Chamber Music of Beethoven
Moores School of Music Faculty Artists

Friday's conference sessions will be now be held at Houston Baptist University.

February 28 - Morning Sessions

8:00 - 8:50: REGISTRATION and COFFEE ( HBU Hinton Center Lobby)

9:00 - 9:10: WELCOME (HBU Hinton Center Dillon II)

9:15 - 10:45: TMST CONCURRENT SESSIONS I, II, & III

TSMT SESSION I (HBU Hinton Center: Dillon II) - Form

• "The Medial Subphrase in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Style: Characteristics, Function, and Variants"
  Bryan Stevens, University of North Texas
• "Loosening the 'Shackles' of Sonata Form: Intersections of Formal, Tonal, and Operatic Drama in Fidelio"
  Benjamin Graf, University of North Texas and Graham Hunt, University of Texas at Arlington
• "Understanding Ritornello Form in the Op. 6 Concertos of G. F. Handel"
  Matthew Santa, Texas Tech University

TSMT SESSION II (HBU Brown Administrative Complex: Room 257) - Pedagogy & Temporality

• "Playing to Learn: Pedagogical Games in the Music Theory Classroom"
  Angela Ripley, College of Wooster
• "Don't Count Your Cadences before They Hatch: Advocating for Discussions of Closure in Pedagogical Contexts"
  Brian Jarvis, University of Texas at El Paso and John Peterson, James Madison University
• "Temporal Techniques in the Serial Music of Roberto Gerhard"
  Rachel Mann, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

TSMT SESSION III (HBU Brown Administrative Complex: Room 269) - Early Music

• "O V, Where Art Thou? Notre Dame Polyphony, 'Dominant' Sonorities, and a New Approach to Diatonic Set Theory"
  Jessica Fulkerson, Tufts University
• "Dowland, Ornithoparchus, and Self-Fashioning in Early Seventeenth-Century England"
  Joshua Klopfenstein, University of Chicago

10:45 - 10:55: BREAK

11:00 - 12:00: TMST CONCURRENT SESSIONS IV, V, & VI

TSMT SESSION IV (HBU Hinton Center: Dillon II) - Jazz Departures

• "Extending Jazz's 'Backdoor Dominant' to the Back Porch: The Role of the Subdominant Chord in Establishing a 'Backdoor' P-D-T Harmonic Paradigm"
  Scott Strovas, Wayland Baptist University and David Hawkins (1966-2019), Wayland Baptist University
• "A Jazz-Oriented Approach to John Adam's Post-1988 Works"
  Alexander Sanchez-Behar, Texas A&M-Kingsville

TSMT SESSION V (HBU Brown Administrative Complex: Room 257) `- Instrumental Techniques

• "'It's Just Blowing Air into a Tube!': Analyzing Slide Schemata in Arthur Pryor's Blue Bells of Scotland"
  Paul Garza, University of Houston
• "Janáĉek's Virtual Viola d'amore"
  Ethan Edl, Yale University

TSMT SESSION VI (HBU Brown Administrative Complex: Room 269) - Billy & The Beatles

• "Billy Joel and the Cinematic American West"
  Sean Atkinson, Texas Christian University
• "The Beatles' Abbey Road: Topic, Persona, and Social Discourse"
  Timothy Koozin, Univeristy of Houston

12:00 - 1:25: LUNCH (open)

February 28 - Afternoon Sessions

1:30 - 2:30: TSMT PEDAGOGY SESSION (HBU Hinton Center: Dillon II)

Session Chair: Blaise Ferrandino, Texas Christian University

Terry Eder, Lovejoy High School and College Board Consultant
Blaise Ferrandino, Texas Christian University and College Board Consultant
Nancy Scoggin, Joshua High School and College Board Consultant

2:30 - 2:40: BREAK

2:45 - 3:45: PLENARY SESSION I (HBU Belin Chapel)

Session Chair: Andrew Davis, Univeristy of Houston

Scott Burnham, Princeton University

3:45 - 3:55: BREAK

4:00 - 6:00: PLENARY SESSION II (HBU Belin Chapel)

Session Chair: Timothy Koozin, Univeristy of Houston

William Kinderman, University of California Los Angeles

"Interpreting Virtual Subjectivity in Performing Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: External and Internal Motivations for Extreme Shifts"

Robert Hatten, University of Texas at Austin

Saturday's conference sessions will be again be held at Houston Baptist University.

February 29

8:00 - 9:45 REGISTRATION (HBU Brown Administrative Complex: Second Level)

8:30 - 9:45: TSMT & AMS-SW JOINT POSTER SESSION and COFFEE (HBU Brown Administrative Complex: Room 258)

• "A Predictive Neural Network for Tonal Melodic Completion"
  Philip Baczewski, Independent Scholar
• "An Alternate Timeline for Carl Maria von Weber's Health History Proposed"
  Katherine Buckler, Texas State University
• "Best Practices for Short-Term Study Abroad in Music"
  Joseph E. Jones, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
• "Cadential Function in Nineteenth-Century Russian Music"
  Chad Scarborough, University of Oregon
• "Chants, Hypertexts, and Prosulas"
  Luisa Nardini, University of Texas at Austin
• "Mendelssohn's Impact on the Spreading of the Church Hymn O Word of God Incarnate in American and Korean Hymnals and Its Connection to an Old German Hymnal"
  Sa Ra Park, Texas State University
• "Somewhere between Modality and Atonality: The Superset and Subset Tetrachords in Ennio Morricone's Score for Disclosure"
  Charles F. Leinberger, University of Texas at El Paso
• "The American Chaminade Club Phenomenon"
  Michele Aichele, University of the Incarnate Word and Texas A&M University

9:45 - 9:55: BREAK

10:00 - 11:00: TSMT SESSION VII & AMS-SW CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1 & 2

TSMT SESSION VII (HBU Brown Administrative Complex: Room 257) - Doubles

• "Global Double Cycle and Damaged-Global Double Cycle as Representations of Fate in Nineteenth-Century Opera"
  Levi Walls, University of North Texas
• "Hearing the 'Deal with God': The Double-Tonic Complex in Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill"
  David Forrest, Texas Tech University

AMS-SW CONCURRENT SESSION 1 (HBU Brown Administrative Complex: Room 269)

• "A Tale of Two Rondos: Beethoven's Sonata in C major, Opus 53 (Waldstein), and Clementi's Sonata in C major, Opus 34, no. 1"
  James MacKay, Loyola University New Orleans
• "Two Newly Discovered Cello Sonatas by Giovanni Bononcini"
  Guido Olivieri, University of Texas at Austin

AMS-SW CONCURRENT SESSION 2 (HBU Brown Administrative Complex: Room 270)

• "Jewishness between Performance and Appropriation: Music for The Merchant of Venice on Film"
  Kendra Preston Leonard, Silent Film Sound and Music Archive, University of Houston
• "The Cultural Appropriation of Beethoven in the GDR, Reflected in the Two East-German Beethoven Films"
  Nico Schüler, Texas State University

11:00 - 11:10: BREAK

11:15 - 12:15: TSMT SESSION VIII & AMS-SW CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3 & 4

TSMT SESSION VIII: (HBU Brown Administrative Complex: Room 259) - Grand Fanfares

• "Fanfare Topics as Boundary Markers in Mozart's Da Ponte Operas"
  Andrew Vagts, University of North Texas
• "Main Theme as Grand Presentation: Webster's Antiperiod and Large-Scale Sentence Design in Selected Classical Sonata Expositions"
  James MacKay, Loyola University New Orleans

AMS-SW CONCURRENT SESSION 3 (HBU Brown Administrative Complex: Room 269)

• "Water Parties, Fireworks, and Royal Public Image: Re-evaluating Handel's Instrumental Music in London"
  Peter Kohanski, University of North Texas
• "From Universalism to Universality: Laclauan Universals in Latin American Cosmopolitan Music Discourses"
  Daniel Castro Pantoja, University of Houston

AMS-SW CONCURRENT SESSION 4 (HBU Brown Administrative Complex: Room 270)

• "Tailleferre and Tokenism"
  Megan Sarno, University of Texas at Arlington
• "Re-examining Holst through a Feminist Lens"
  Rachel Gain, University of North Texas

12:15 - 1:45: TSMT BOX LUNCH & BUSINESS MEETING (HBU: Brown Room 257)

2:00 - 4:00: PLENARY SESSION III (HBU: Brown Room 257)

Session Chair: Kevin Salfen, University of the Incarnate Word

James Hepokoski, Yale University

"Beethoven as Sentimentalist: The Glory of War in the Finale of the Eroica"

Michael Spitzer, University of Liverpool

4:05 - 4:45: AMS-SW LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION (HBU: Brown Room 257)

Stephen Husarik, University of Arkansas Fort Smith

4:50-5:20: AMS-SW Business Meeting (HBU: Brown Room 257)

7:30: CONCERT (Moores School of Music Opera House)

Music of Beethoven
Moores School of Music Symphony Orchestra with Kristóf Baráti

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