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MUSIC THEORY SOUTHEAST
and
SOUTH CENTRAL SOCIETY FOR MUSIC THEORY
March 15-16, 2024
Lipscomb University, Nashville TN
1 University Park Blvd.
Registration
8:00-8:45 AM – McMeen 206
Opening Remarks
8:45 AM – Ward Hall
Session 1a – Video Game Music
9:00-10:30 AM – Ward Hall
Chair: Wesley J. Bradford, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Humor and Horror: Immersive Functions of Glissandi in Video Game Music
Jeremy W. Smith (The Ohio State University) - Message from the Veins: Analyzing “Charts” in the Virtual Reality Rhythm Game Beat Saber
Drake Eshleman (Indiana University) - Unique Timbral Effects in 8-Bit NES: Technological Affordances in Mega Man 1–3
Matthew Ferrandino (Murray State University)
Session 1b – 20th Century
9:00-10:30 AM – McMeen 206
Chair: Rebecca Long, University of Louisville
- Tracing Boulanger’s La Grande Ligne in French Modernist Music
Matthew Bilik (The Ohio State University) - Hearing Materiality: Embodied Metaphors in György Ligeti’s Atmosphères and Lontano
Chris Lennard (Elon University) - Subversion and Rebellion: Readings of Anti-Narrative Strategies in Eastman’s Piano 2
Brendan McEvoy (Michigan State University)
Break
10:30-10:45 AM
Session 2a – Phrase and Form in Popular Music
10:45 AM-12:15 PM – Ward Hall
Chair: David Geary, Wake Forest University
- Pitch, Motive, and Non-Alignment in the Idiomatic Phrasing of Melodic Rap Verses
Devin Guerrero (Texas Tech University) - Democratized Form: Collage and Cohesion in the Music of Bon Iver
Audrey Slote (University of Chicago) - “All The Lonely Starbucks Lovers”: Prosodic Dissonance in Taylor Swift’s Discography
Alexander Shannon (Indiana University)
Session 2b – Living Composers
10:45 AM-12:15 PM – McMeen 206
Chair: Jason Jedlička, Belmont University
- Listening to Listening: Silence in the Music of Rebecca Saunders
Justin Weiss (University of Chicago) - Texture and Form in Henry Threadgill’s In For A Penny, In For A Pound
Guy Capuzzo (University of North Carolina Greensboro) - Listening for Culture in Performances of The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto
Clare Sher Ling Eng (Belmont University)
Lunch
12:15-2:00 PM
Session 3a – Form, Hypermeter, and Multimedia Narratives
2:00-3:30 PM – Ward Hall
Chair: Olivia Lucas, Louisiana State University
- Rhythmic Resistance: Music’s Subversive Power in Women’s Anti-Violence Protests
Jill Vogel (Louisiana State University) - Tap Dance Choreographers as Composer-Analysts: Formal Interactions between Tap Dance and Post-Millennial Pop Music
Stefanie Bilidas (University of Texas at Austin) - Storytelling in Under Two Minutes: Exploring Narrative and the 3/4 Prechorus in Anime OPs
Sam Falotico (Eastman School of Music)
Session 3b – Schemata
2:00-3:30 PM – McMeen 206
Chair: Xieyi “Abby” Zhang, Georgia State University
- Dispersed Harmony as a Means of Distinguishing Sacred Harp Hymn-Tune Subgenres
Robert T. Kelley (Lander University) - One More Time: Ritornello Cycles in J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C major (BWV 1061), First Movement
Vlad Praskurnin (CUNY Graduate Center) - Bitter Rage, Beautiful Song: Form and Function in Maslanka’s Symphony No. 10
Wesley J. Bradford (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Break
3:30-3:45 PM
Session 4a – Lightning Talks: Western Art Music
3:45-4:45 PM – Ward Hall
Chair: Clare Sher Ling Eng, Belmont University
- Extended Techniques and Valve Transformations and in Luciano Berio’s Sequenza X (1984)
Gillian Radcliffe (Florida State University) - Nonexistent Fundamentals and Distant Partials as the Source of Tuning and Pitch Inception
Navid Bargrizan (East Carolina University) - Distances in voice-leading spaces as tensional relationships: Determining form in John Adams’ Nixon in China (1987)
Eric Yang (University of Toronto)
Session 4b – Lightning Talks: Pop/Jazz/Media
3:45-4:45 PM – McMeen 206
Chair: Lauren Crosby, Clemson University
- “Ancient Voices”: A Hypermetrical and Orchestrational Analysis of the Theme Songs to Seasons of CBS’s Survivor
Micah Roberts (University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music) - All the Blues: Measuring Blue Note Usage in Jazz Improvisation
Connor Davis (Jacksonville State University), Peter Bryant, Laura Weinkauf, Shannon Roberston, Trevor Johnson - Woo Young-Woo: Autistic, Not a Child
Tiffany Ta (University of California, Santa Barbara) - Terminally Anti-Climactic Form in Post-1990s Progressive Metal
Zachary Simonds (Florida State University)
Break
4:45 – 5:00 PM
Recital
5:00-5:45 PM – Ward Hall
Graduate Student Workshop
8:00-9:30 AM – Ward Hall
(attendance limited to accepted students)
“Analyzing Vocal Music of the Baroque: Concepts and Categories”
Dr. Christopher Brody, University of Louisville
Session 5 – Sonatas
8:30-9:30 AM – Ward Hall
Chair: Jeriel Jorguenson, Lipscomb University
- Signifyin(g) on the Performer/Listener: Formal Process as Rhetorical Prank in the Scherzo of Florence Price’s Piano Sonata in E Minor
Benjamin Dobbs (Furman University) - Compound S-Module Strategies in Emilie Mayer’s Solo Sonatas
Tyler Osborne (University of Louisville)
Break
9:30-9:45 AM
Session 6a – Text Setting
9:45-10:45 AM – Ward Hall
Chair: Trevor de Clercq, Middle Tennessee State University
- Markedness Correlations and the Constraints of Operatic Multimedia
Nathaniel Mitchell (University of North Carolina Greensboro) - From Old-Time to “Hard Times”: Phrase Rhythm and Prosody in the Music of Tyler Childers
Samantha Waddell (Indiana University)
Session 6b: Topics
9:45-10:45 AM – McMeen 206
Chair: Jane Clendinning, Florida State University
- The Evolution of the Hero’s Introduction: Topic and Intercultural Trope in Kollywood Film Music
Hanisha Kulothparan (Eastman School of Music) - From “Moonlight Blest” to Wordless Grief: Deforming the Lullaby Topos in Amy Beach’s Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother
Sabrina Clarke (Meredith College)
Break
10:45-11:15AM
MTSE Business Meeting
11:15-11:45 AM – Ward Hall
Together for the first few minutes for the student paper awards.
SCSMT Business Meeting
11:15-11:45 AM – McMeen H206
Together for the first few minutes for the student paper awards.
MTSE 