Thursday, November 4, 11:00 ET

11:00-12:30 ET

Intersectionality and Music Analysis: An Introduction

Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women
Jan Miyake (Oberlin Conservatory & Conservatory), Chair and Organizer; Lori Burns (University of Ottawa), Nadine Hubbs (University of Michigan), Alisha Lola Jones, (Indiana University), Presenters

Opera/Operetta

Deborah Burton (Boston University), Chair

N.B. Unfortunately there was a Zoom error during this session, please use the following two links to access the recordings of this session:

Opera/Operetta - part 1

Opera/Operetta - part 2

  • Andrew Vagts, Horn Fifths, Fanfare, and Pastoral Topics in Mozart's “Per pietà, ben mio”
  • Karen E. H. Messina, Autonomous Accord: The Double Formal Complex in the Act I Finale of Tosca
  • John Y. Lawrence, Sullivan’s Slyly Shifting Stresses
Towards Defining A Musical Style

Christopher Doll (Rutgers University), Chair

N.B. Unfortunately there was a Zoom error during this session, please use the following two links to access the recordings of this session:

Towards Defining A Musical Style - part 1

Towards Defining A Musical Style - part 2

  • Fred Hosken, Characterizing a Signature Metric Feel: The Stax Sound
  • Steven Reale, “Bobbing on the Surface as the Shadow Glides Below”:Phishy Polyphony and the Evacuated Signifier
  • Amy Bauer and Luis Zambrano, El cajón del Mariachi: Schemata of a Vernacular Genre
20th-Century Composers’ Tonal Organization

Andrew Mead (Indiana University), Chair

N.B. Unfortunately there was a Zoom error during this session, please use the following two links to access the recordings of this session:

20th-Century Composers’ Tonal Organization - part 1

20th-Century Composers’ Tonal Organization - part 2

  • Dylan Principi, Milhaud’s Technique of Combination: Tonal Juxtapositions in the String Quartets
  • Jared Redmond, Roslavets’s Old System of Tone Organization: Scriabinism, Synthetic Chords, and the Fifth Piano Sonata (1923)
  • C. Catherine Losada, Rotational Arrays in the Music of Boulez
History Of Theory: 18th-Century Europe

YouYoung Kang, Chair

  • Callum Blackmore, Embodying the Querelle des Bouffons: The Voice of the Royal Mistress and Music-Theoretical Dispute in Eighteenth-Century France
  • Siavash Sabetrohani, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater: Musical Debates and Nationalist Aspirations in Late-Eighteenth-Century Germany
  • Frank Heidlberger, Between Hamburg, Vienna and Paris: Anton Reicha’s Music Theory from the Perspective of his Early Manuscripts