Sunday, November 7, 11:00 ET

11:00-12:30 ET

Hearing/Listening/Signing

Cora Palfy, Chair

  • Alexandrea Jonker, Keeping the “Ear” in “Ear Training”: Incorporating “Blind Hearing” for Improved Aural Skills Pedagogy
  • Timothy Chenette, Beyond Gestalt Listening: Interdisciplinary Models for Harmonic Dictation
  • Anabel Maler, Analyzing Melodic Lines in Sign Language Music
Timbral Techniques

Alfred Cramer, Chair

  • Calder Hannan, Diegetic Sound? Re-thinking Musical Narrative by way of Experimental Hip Hop
  • Jeremy Tatar, Emergent Timbres and Motor Mimesis in Screw Music
  • Joshua Rosner, Opening the Door: A Multifaceted Approach to the Analysis of Text Setting in Kate Soper’s Door (2007)
Poster Session 5: Fourier Analysis / Linear Approaches

Richard Cohn, Chair

  • Jennifer Harding, Musical Maps and Chord Cartographies: Mapping Harmony in Fourier Space
  • Aditya Chander, Analyzing Hemiolas with the Discrete Fourier Transform
  • Trevor Hofelich, Contextualizing Triadic Post-Tonality in Three Preludes from Dmitri Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87
  • Benjamin K. Wadsworth and Meghan O’Harra, Urlinie Play and Musical Narrative
The Schumanns

Harald Krebs, Chair

  • Alexander Martin, Dreamlike Ambiguities in Clara Schumann’s “Ihr Bildnis”
  • Matthew Poon, “Schumann’s Fragment” Revisited: Non-Tonic Initiating Functions in the Nineteenth Century
  • Jeremy Nowak, Pre-cadential Phrase Endings in the Piano Works of Robert Schumann

11:00-2:15 ET

Provincializing Western Art Music Syntaxes

Chris Stover (Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University), Anna Yu Wang (Harvard University), Organizers; Michael Tenzer (University of British Columbia), Noriko Manabe (Temple University), Co-Chairs

  • Liam Hynes-Tawa, Three Views of Western Tonality: Successive Provincialization in the Orchestral Works of Yamada Kōsaku
  • Scott Murphy, Carnatic Elucidations of Structure and Expression in Hollywood’s Scales
  • Ian Quinn, On “Pien” (Biàn 變) Tonality
  • Grant Sawatzky, Irregular to whom? Segmentation, grouping, and “irregular” phrase lengths in Klassen’s Plautdietsch folk song collection
  • Chris Stover, “Proto-Structure” and “Anti-Structure”: Against Teleology in African Musical Processes
  • Anna Yu Wang, Perceiving banyan: Temporal Syntax Unbeholden to Meter