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MUSIC THEORY SOUTHEAST
2023 ANNUAL MEETING
University of Georgia
Hugh Hodgson School of Music
250 River Road
Edge Recital Hall
Friday, March 10
Registration and Coffee
8:00–8:45 a.m. (Hugh Hodgson School of Music Main Lobby)
Introduction and Welcome
8:45–9:00 a.m. (Edge Recital Hall, 3rd floor)
Session 1: Sonata Form
9:00–10:30 a.m. (Edge Recital Hall)
Chair: Gabe Fankhauser (University of North Georgia)
- “What Separates a Sonata’s Closing Section from Its Subordinate Theme?”
Robert T. Kelley (Lander University)
- “Hearing the Sonata through Fanny Hensel’s Sonata o Capriccio (1824)”
Catrina S. Kim (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
- “Function and Type in the Main Themes of Robert Schumann’s Sonata Forms”
Matthew Poon (Oberlin College & Conservatory)
Break
10:30–10:45 a.m. (UGA Choral Suite, adjacent to Edge Recital Hall)
Session 2: Cadence, Theme Type, and Formal Function
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 p.m. (Edge Recital Hall)
Chair: Allison Wente (Elon University)
- “Cadential Rhetoric and Separate Agencies: Split-Voice PACs and their Impact on Formal Closure in the Music of Dvořák
Xieyi (Abby) Zhang (Georgia State University)
- “The ‘Nostalgic Sentence’: Historical Contexts and Sample Analyses”
Ash Stemke (Murray State University)
Lunch
11:45 a.m. –1:15 p.m.
Session 3: Schemas and Multimedia Approaches
1:15–2:45 p.m. (Edge Recital Hall)
Chair: David Geary (Wake Forest University)
- “Cue Schemas”
Nathaniel Mitchell (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
- “‘Feels Like Something That I’ve Done Before’: Massive Attack’s ‘Dissolved Girl’ Schema”
Grace Gollmar (University of Texas at Austin)
- “Battling Bosses to the Rhythmically Informative Music of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance”
Morgan Weeks (Louisiana State University)
Break
2:45–3:00 p.m. (UGA Choral Suite)
Session 4: New Theoretical Frameworks
3:00–4:00 p.m. (Edge Recital Hall)
Chair: Lauren Hartburg Crosby (Clemson University)
- “Toward a Theory of General Displacement in Prokofiev’s Music”
Evan Tanovich (University of Toronto)
- “Chord-Member Space and Transformations”
Alex Shannon (Indiana University)
Break
4:00–4:15 p.m. (UGA Choral Suite)
Session 5: Analysis of Hip Hop and Black Pop
4:15–5:15 (Edge Recital Hall)
Chair, Megan Lyons (Furman University)
- “‘Comin’ at You at Supersonic Speed’: Beat and Flow Switches in Contemporary Hip-Hop”
John DeBouter (University of Miami)
- “From a Musical to Political Resolution: The Tension of the Tonic Anticipation in Black Pop”
Matthew Oliver (The University of North Texas)
MTSE Concert
5:30–6:30 p.m. (Edge Recital Hall)
Conference Dinner
7:00 p.m. (Location TBD)
Saturday, March 11
Graduate Workshop: Making Fundamentals Inclusive
8:00–10:00 (Room 521, 5th floor)
Leigh VanHandel (University of British Columbia)
Registration and Coffee
9:30–10:00 a.m.
Session 6: Style & Identity
10:00–11:30 a.m. (Edge Recital Hall)
Chair: Rachel Lumsden (Florida State University)
- “A Posthuman Voice: Vocal Aesthetic and Identity in 2010s Witch House”
Tyler Osborne (University of Oregon)
- “‘Iraq and Roll’: Appropriating Rock in Post-9/11 Country Music”
Alan Reese (Wake Forest University)
- “Analyzing Patrick Stump’s ‘Soul Voice’: Vocal Timbre as a Signifier of Style and Genre”
Joseph Grunkemeyer (Indiana University)
Break
11:30–11:45 a.m.
Session 7: Intertextuality
11:45 a.m. –12:45 p.m. (Edge Recital Hall)
Chair: Cora Palfy (Elon University)
- “Intertextual Rhetoric and Popular Music”
Dickie Lee (University of Georgia)
- “Intertextual Sampling of ClassicalMelodies in Pop Music: Techniques of Phrase Structural Modification”
Tiffany Ta (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Lunch
12:45–2:15 p.m.
Session 8: Formal Function in Popular Music
2:15–3:15 (Edge Recital Hall)
Chair: Christine Boone (University of North Carolina, Asheville)
- “Formal Functions of Melodic Patterns in Popular Music”
Jeremy Robins (Claflin University)
- “‘Here is where I’ll end it’: Formal Incompleteness and Death in Popular Song”
Jacob Eichhorn (Eastman School of Music)
MTSE 