25th Annual Symposium of Research in Music Theory
Hosted by the IU Jacobs School of Music Graduate Theory Association
Friday and Saturday, February 8 and 9, 2019
Ford-Crawford Hall/Simon Music Center
To download a printable PDF copy of the program, click here.
Friday, February 8:
1:00-2:00pm: Registration in Ford Hall
2:00-2:15pm: Opening Remarks
2:15-5:15pm: Workshop: Professor Nicole Biamonte (McGill University), "Rhythm and Meter in Pop-Rock Music" (follow link to download materials)
5:15-7:30pm: Dinner Break, Indiana Memorial Union (Federal Room)
7:30-8:30pm: FEATURED PRESENTATION
Rachel Rosenman, chair
Professor Caleb Mutch (Indiana University), “The Problem of Beginnings in Baroque Form”
Saturday, February 9:
8:30-9:15am: Breakfast Reception, Registration
9:15-10:45am: TIME, TIMING, AND FORM
Leah Frederick, chair
Joseph Sowa, Brandeis University: “The Art of Transformation: The Heraclitian Form of Thomas Adès’s Tevot”
Nathan Pell, The Graduate Center, CUNY: “Tempo as Form: Orchestral Recordings from 1910–1940 in Light of Earlier Sources”
Nate Mitchell, Princeton University: “On Metrical Structure and Cuing Systems in Monroe’s ‘Muleskinner Blues’”
10:45-11:00am: Break
11:00am-12:00pm: TEMPORALITY AND TRANSCENDENCE
Emily Barbosa, Chair
Zack Zinser, Indiana University: “Motivic Association and Temporal Experience in Brahms’ Op. 85 Song Pair”
Lindsay Warrenburg, Ohio State University: “Signifiers of Transcendence in Moments of Durchbruch in Mahler Symphonies 1 and 2”
12:00-2:45pm: Graduate Student Roundtable Sessions/Lunch Break
Pedagogy (M267) - for more information click here
Notation (M340) - for more information click here
2:45-4:15pm: COLOR AND CLOSURE
Jack Bussert, Chair
Lindsey Reymore, Ohio State University: “Shades of Sound, Subtle and Sublime”
Lauren Hartburg, Florida State University: “Comma-Modified UTT Space: Segmentation and Closure in UTT Generated Voice-Leading Spaces”
David Orvek, Ohio State University: “Non-Syntactical Closural Features: A Study of Closure in Selected Works by Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg”
4:15-4:30pm: Break
4:30-5:30pm: FEATURED PRESENTATION
Mítia Ganade D’Acol, Chair
Professor Roman Ivanovitch, Indiana University: “Richness in Music (Or, Some Observations on Bach’s Sequences)”
5:30-7:30pm: Dinner Break
7:30-9:00pm: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
John Heilig, Chair
Professor Nicole Biamonte, McGill University: “Unpacking Formal Functions in Pop-Rock Music”
9:00-11:00pm: Post-Conference Reception