Friday, November 5, 2:30 ET
2:30-4:00 ET
Analyzing Complex Rhythms
Clifton Callender, Chair
- Tiffany Nicely, Mixed Messages: Motivic Ambiguity in Guinean Malinke Dance Drumming
- Stephen Taylor, Hemiola, Polytempo, and Aksak Rhythm in Nancarrow’s Piece No. 2 for Small Orchestra
- David Geary, A Three-Part Approach for Analyzing the Beat in Popular Music
Analysis Within Temporal Context
John Roeder, Chair
- Scott Gleason, Analytical and Compositional Aspects of Webern Reception at Darmstadt and Princeton
- Hei-Yeung (John) Lai, Recontextualized Musical Quotations in Two Repetitive Post-Tonal Works of Adams and Górecki
- Tobias Tschiedl, Contour Theory, Gesture and Embodiment: Promises, Problems and Continuous Alter
Sounds Of Freedom/Liberation/Demilitarization
Rachel Lumsden, Chair
- Jeffrey Perry, Cage and Joyce: Finnegans Wake, Demilitarized Language and Demilitarized Music
- Andrew Pau, The Musical Language of Freedom and Oppression in Richard Danielpour and Toni Morrison’s Margaret Garner
- Jordan Lenchitz, Organicism as Algorithm in Julius Eastman’s The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc
Vernacular Idioms And Topics
Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska, Chair
- David Heinsen, Topical Specification of Vernacular Idioms: Understanding the Farruca and the Garrotín as Musical Topics in Spanish Modernism
- Alberto Martin Entrialgo, Lyricism in the Subordinate Themes of Isaac Albéniz’s Iberia
- Zachary Lloyd, Florence Price’s Use of African American Topics in Thumbnail Sketches: A Day in the Life of a Washerwoman