TSMT 2022 Program

Texas Society for Music Theory
44th Annual Conference
March 4 - 5, 2022
University of North Texas
Denton, Texas

Conference Program

A Zoom link will be provided to all registrants for remote viewing

Registration is required for access to the conference.

All live events are in the University of North Texas College of Music Building, Central Standard Time

Please review the lastest UNT Coronavirus information if coming to campus.

KEY:

Poster or Presentation Handout

Friday, March 4 - Morning Sessions

REGISTRATION and COFFEE: (8:00 - 9:00 Music Building Commons )

WELCOME: (8:45 - 9:00 Room 230 [Choir Room] )

John Richmond, Dean of the College of Music
Justin Lavacek, Local Arrangements Chair

SESSION I: (9:00 - 10:45 Room 230 [Choir Room] )
Expanding the Canon Through Rhythm & Meter

Session Chair: Cynthia Gonzales, Texas State University

"Centering Meter, Provincializing the West: Toward a Diversified and Inclusive Music Theory Curriculum"
Hanisha Kulothparan, Eastman School of Music
"The Making of Tarab: Emotion as Temporal Disruption in Umm Kulthūm's 'Alf Leila wa Lelia'"
Issa Aji, University of Texas at Austin
"Dissecting the Rhythmic Surface: Embodied Choreographic Syncopations in Rhythm Tap Dance"
Rachel Gain, University of North Texas

SESSION II: (9:00 - 10:45 Room 250 )
Texture, Tonality, & Timbre

Session Chair: Peter Martens, Texas Tech University

"Key Duality and Melody-Bass Disjunction in Fauré"
Matthew Bilik, University of North Texas
"Absent-Tonic Choruses in 1960-1990 Popular Song"
David Heetderks, University of North Texas
"Analyzing Characteristic Timbres of 1980s Popular Music"
Alissa Stolt, Texas Tech University

BREAK: (10:45 - 11:00 )

SESSION III: (11:00 - 12:45 Room 230 [Choir Room] )
Metric Structure & Volatility

Session Chair: Jose Garza, Texas State University

"Metric Conflict as Variation in Gustav Holst's 'Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity'"
Jay Smith, Texas A&M University - Kingsville
"Structured Chaos: Techniques of Metric Instability and Transience in Metal"
Dorian Stewart, University of North Texas
"A DFT-Based Approach to Metricity in Ligeti's 'L'escalier du Diable'"
David Falterman, Eastman School of Music

SESSION IV: (11:00 - 12:45 Room 250 )
Intervals, Scales, & Tonality

Session Chair: Susan de Ghizé, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi

"Developing Ogolevets' Doubly Augmented Prime: A Voice-leading Structure in the Music of Shostakovich"
Amy Hatch, University of North Texas
"The Meaning of Intervals: Phenomenology-Based Harmonic Analysis"
Lance Russell, Dallas College
"Probabilistically Modeling Scale Theory"
Matt Chiu, Eastman School of Music

LUNCHEON: (12:45 - 2:00 Room 230 [Choir Room] & Music Building Courtyard )

Friday, March 4 - Afternoon Sessions

Pedagogy Session (2:00 - 3:00 Recital Hall )
The Note Doctors: Dialogue on the latest Theory Pedagogy Trends

Session Chair: Kevin Clifton, Sam Houston State University

Presenters:

BREAK: (3:00 - 3:30 )

Keynote Address: (3:30 - 4:30 Recital Hall )

Chair: David Forrest, Texas Tech University

African Art Music and the Challenge of Postcolonial Composition

Kofi Agawu, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Reception: (4:30 - 5:00 Room 230 [Choir Room] )

Student Dinner Meeting (6:00 - 8:00 Room 230 [Choir Room] & Music Building Courtyard )

Saturday, March 5

Poster Session: (8:00 - 9:00 Music Building Commons )

Session Chair: Rachel Mann, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

"Another Typical German Sonata Form?: Regional Preferences and Georg Joseph Vogler's 'Baierische National' Symphony"
Doug Donley, Independent Scholar
"Chopin's Poetics of Decline: The 'Largo' Movement from The Cello Sonata In G minor, Op. 65"
Aleksandr Rodzianko, Eastman School of Music
"Polyphonicized Recapitulation in Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto"
Ellen Bakulina, University of North Texas

Engaging Undergraduates Panel: (8:30 - 9:15 Room 230 [Choir Room] )

Chair: David Forrest, Texas Tech University

Panel:

SESSION V: (9:30 - 11:15 Room 230 [Choir Room] )
Signals, Symbols, & Semantics

Session Chair: Ann Stutes, Wayland Baptist University

"'Now Let's Play It Backwards': Musique Concrète and the Psychedelic as Topical Field in the Beatles' Mid-1960s Songs"
Emily Vanchella, Texas A&M International University
"The 'Heroic' subdominant in minor-key film themes of the 2010s"
Benjamin Graf & Xiao Yun, University of North Texas
"The Semantic Evolution of Chromatic Mediants: A Baroque Origin"
Jason Yin Hei Lee, University of British Columbia

SESSION VI: (9:30 - 11:15 Room 250 )
Form

Session Chair: Matthew Santa, Texas Tech University

"From French Agrément to Spanish Cadence: The Tierce coulé to the AC3"
Bryan Stevens, University of North Texas
"Medial Caesura, wherefore art thou? The Augmented-Sixth Chord as a Formal Initiator in 19^th-Century Sonata Expositions"
Graham Hunt, University of Texas at Arlington
"Tonality, Modality, and Form in Eric Ewazen's Sonata No. 1 for Flute and Piano"
Samantha M. Inman, Stephen F. Austin State University

TSMT Business Meeting: (11:30 Room 230 [Choir Room] )

TSMT Executive Board

David Forrest (Texas Tech University), President
Cynthia I. Gonzales (Texas State University), Past-President
Kevin Clifton (Sam Houston State University), Secretary
Andrew Davis (University of Houston), Treasurer Amy Fleming (Baylor University)
Susan de Ghizé (Texas A&M-Corpus Christi)
Samantha Inman (Stephen F. Austin State University)
Ann Stutes (Wayland Baptist University)

TSMT 2022 Program Committee

Stacey Davis (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Yiyi Gao (University of North Texas, winner of the 2021 Colvin Award)
Charles Leinberger (University of Texas at El Paso)
Angela Ripley (Baylor University)

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Texas Society for Music Theory 44th Annual Conference March 4 - 5, 2022 University of North Texas Denton, Texas