30th Annual Meeting, May 27–28, 2022

Department of Music, Claire Trevor School of the Arts,

University of California, Irvine

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Registration and coffee, 12:30 a.m.–1:00, CAC 1st floor Colloquium Room;

all sessions CAC Colloquium Room

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Friday, May 27

 

Pedagogy 1: Diversifying the Canon

1:00 p.m.- 2:30 p.m.

 

Amy Bauer, chair, University of California, Irvine

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“To Accommodate To Western Taste”: Teaching Style Topics of the Exotic

Ian Gerg, Southeastern Oklahoma State University

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Toward an Anti-Racist Post-Tonal Pedagogy: George Walker’s Lilacs in Theory IV

Evan Ware, California State Polytechnic University

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Identity Through Learning: Diversifying Gender Representation in Music Theory Textbooks

Tori Vilches, Texas Christian University

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Coffee break 2:30–2:45 p.m.

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Pedagogy 2: New Post-tonal Approaches

2:45 p.m.- 4:15 p.m.

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Jack Boss, chair, University of Oregon

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Pc-set Relationships: Connecting Theory to Practice in the Post-Tonal Classroom

John King, University of Oregon

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Reframing Leong’s “Wissen, Können, Kennen” for the Post-Tonal Theory Classroom

Ben Duinker, University of Toronto

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Pokémon Pedagogy: The Hidden Curriculum in the Post-Tonal Classroom

Blaire Ziegenhagel, University of Oregon

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Coffee break 4:15 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

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Session 3, Post-tonal Pitch Organization

4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

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Jack Boss, chair, University of Oregon

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Pitch Fields as Background Structures in Pieces by Lilburn, Rabb, and Ho

Robert Gross

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Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin: Sketches, Harmonic Fields, and Text-Painting

Gabrielle Choma, University of Oregon

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Linkage of the Generated Chords in the Aggregates from the First Movement of Charles Wuorinen’s Third Piano Sonata

Lydia Lee, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati

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Dinner break 6:00 p.m.

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UCI Symphony Orchestra, 8:00 p.m., Irvine Barclay Theatre

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Saturday, May 28

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Coffee and pastries 9:00–9:15

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Session 4, Nineteenth-Century Music

9:15 a.m.- 11:15 p.m.

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Dr Joe Davies, chair, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, UCI & Maynooth University

 

Ableist Histories of Modal Theory: A.B. Marx and Heinrich Schenker as Case Studies

Tekla Babyak, Independent Scholar, Davis, CA

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Musical Sehnsucht: Linear and Rhythmic Strategies in Brahms’s Vocal Quartets

Jason Lee, University of British Columbia

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Analyzing Deception in Opera and Lieder

Edward Klorman, Schulich School of Music, McGill University

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“Rough Jointing” (Die harte Fügung) as an Organizational Principle in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana

Ji Yeon Lee, Moores School of Music, University of Houston

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Coffee break 11:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

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Session 5, Heavy Metal Music

11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.

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Andrew Aziz, chair, San Diego State University

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Functions and Characteristics of Heavy Metal Supersections

Michael Dekovich, University of Oregon

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What is a riff? A Structural Definition and its Analytical Consequences for Process and Form in Heavy Metal

Ciro Scotto, Ohio University

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Lunch break 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m

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Business meeting 2:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m.

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Session 6, Music on Film

2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.

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Evan Ware, chair, California State Polytechnic University

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Tension, Text, and Timbre at the Climax: An Analysis of Burlesque (2010)

Madison Stepherson, University of Oregon

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Sounding Out Dystopia: Timbre and Ecological Recovery in Thom Yorke’s ANIMA (2019)

Nathan Cobb, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Tonal Rumble: (Bi-)Tonality and Transformation in West Side Story

Andrew Aziz, San Diego State University

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Coffee break 3:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

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Keynote lecture 4:00 p.m.

Canonic Upheavals: Clara Schumann Then and Now

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Dr Joe Davies, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow

University of California, Irvine & Maynooth University

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