2006 - Tenth Annual Meeting
2005 - Ninth Annual Meeting
2004 - Eighth Annual Meeting
2003 - Seventh Annual Meeting
2002 - Sixth Annual Meeting
2001 - Fifth Annual Meeting
2000 - Fourth Annual Meeting
1999 - Third Annual Meeting
1998 - Second Annual Meeting
1997 - First Annual Meeting
2007 Eleventh Annual Meeting - Chicago, IL
Friday, February 23
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| 12:00-12:30 | Registration |
| 12:30-12:45 | Opening remarks |
| 12:45-1:45 | Situating Theology and Sound: Historical and Ethnographic Approaches
- Michael Alan Anderson (University of Chicago), "Theology in Monophonic Compositional Design: The Case of Basis prebens"
- Bertie Kibreah (University of Chicago), "Dueling Fakirs and Phantom Shrines in Bangladesh"
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| 2:00-3:00 | Mediating Writing and Music
- Crystal Peebles (Florida State University), "The Analysis of Fugue: Reexamining Rhetorical Approaches"
- Lauren Holmes (Yale University), "Music and Intermediality in Virginia Woolf's The Waves"
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| 3:00-5:00 | Keynote Address (Fulton Recital Hall)
Scott Burnham (Princeton University), "Musical Writing"
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| 8:00 | New Music Ensemble Concert (Fulton Recital Hall)
Barbara Schubert, Director
- Jacob Bancks (University of Chicago), Three Sad Songs
- Nicholas DeMaison (University of California – San Diego), (murmur[-ing?])
- Laura Kramer (Indiana University – Bloomington), Tangents
- Xinyan Li (University of Missouri – Kansas City), Prayer of the Fall
- Carmel Raz (University of Chicago), Adom
- Carl Schimmel, (Duke University), Towns of Wind and Wood
- Matthew Schreibeis (University of Pennsylvania), immaus
- Aaron Young (University of British Columbia), Burst
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Saturday, February 24
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| 9:00-9:30 | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:30-10:30 | Contesting Memory
- Peter Kupfer (University of Chicago), "Commemorating October: Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony as a Memory Project"
- Noel Verzosa (University of California – Berkeley), "The Idealization of Montmartre and the Wartime Legacy of Satie"
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| 10:45-12:15 | Tonality, Motive and Form: Reexamining Analysis
- Mark Yeary (University of Chicago), "Categories of Tonality in the Motets of William Byrd"
- Martin Nedbal (Eastman School of Music), "How about Some Borsch with Cherries? Musorgsky's The Marriage and the Wagnerian Leitmotif"
- Nicholas Betson (Yale University), "On Charles Ives and Cumulative Form"
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| 2:00-3:30 | Parameters of Music: Color, Time and Space
- Mariusz Kozak (University of Chicago), "Modeling Musical Color: A Formalized Approach Based on Spectrum Centroids"
- Rachel Adelstein (University of Chicago), "The Procrustean Clock"
- Peter Shultz (University of Chicago), "Musical Space in Schumann's 'Abends am Strand'"
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| 3:45-4:45 | Musical Representation and Reception in Opera and Film
- Colette Simonot (McGill University), "The Unsilenced Carmelites: Comparing the Music of an Historical Event and Its Operatic Representation"
- Samuel N. Dorf (Northwestern University), "Music and the Pornographic: Shifting Sensibilities in Deep Throat (1972)"
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Special thanks to the following University of Chicago institutions for supporting this conference:
- The Adelyn Russell Bogert Fund of the Franke Institute for the Humanities
- The Division of the Humanities (Danielle Allen, Dean)
- The Department of Music (Robert Kendrick, Chair)
- The Graduate Music Society (Mark Yeary, Erin Sullivan, Alex Berezowsky, and Erika Honisch, officers)
- EthNoise! The Ethnomusiclogy Workshop (Shayna Silverstein)
Thanks also to Scott Burnham for providing the keynote address, to Barbara Schubert and the New Music Ensemble performers for the concert, to Larry Zbikowski and Thomas Christensen for guidance and moral support, to Kathy Holmes, Jess Cullinan, Melanie Cloghessy, Melody Harter, Jennifer Maxwell in the Music Department for help on a variety of matters.
2006 Tenth Annual Meeting -
Evanston, IL
Friday, February 24
(Sessions
held in Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place, Evanston,
IL)
1:00-2:30pm – Creating National Histories
Katie Graber, Chair
1) Robert Torre
(University of Wisconsin- Madison), “The Venetian Diaspora of Music and
Musicians in Dresden, 1717-1733”
2) Kevin R. Burke (University of Cincinnati),
“Defining a National Opera: German Criticism of Schumann’s Genoveva”
3) René Rusch
Daley (University of Michigan), “Music Treatises as Historical
Constructs: Narrative Strategies in Schenker’s Harmonielehre
and Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre”
3:00-4:00pm – Musical Production and Sound Identity
Melissa Reilly,
Chair
1) Stefan Fiol
(University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Regional Identification
through Music Videos in Uttaranchal, North
India"
2) Majel Connery
(University of Chicago), “Bodies On Record”
4:30pm –
Keynote Address
Kay Kaufman Shelemay
(Harvard University)
“Becoming
Significant Others: Thoughts on Collaboration in the Field”
8:00pm –
New Music Recital
Nicholas DeMaison
(University of California-San Diego), Aspects
I-V
Eun Young Lee (University of Chicago), Wandering
Zvonimir Nagy (Northwestern University), On A Lantern
Sungji Hong (University of York), Impetuoso
Panayiotis Kokoras (University
of York), Metasound
Saturday, February 25
(Sessions to be held at the John Evans
Alumni Center, 1800 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL)
9:30-11:00am – American Extravaganza
Gregory Weinstein,
Chair
1) Kristina Schmidt (University of
Wisconsin-Madison), “Millay, Music, and
Modernism: A New Interpretation of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s
Poem ‘The Concert’”
2) Timothy Shaw (University of Connecticut),
“Freedom of Expression in the Sacred Harp Tradition: An Analysis of Five
Shape-Note Hymns”
3) J. Griffith Rollefson
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The 'Robot Voodoo Power’
Thesis: Black Magic, White Science, and Afrofuturism
from Sun Ra to Kool Keith”
11:30am-12:30pm
– Perceiving Music:
Music and the Body
Caroline Davis,,
Chair
1)
Robert A. Duke, Carla M. Davis,
Sarah Allen, and Katherine R. Goins (The University
of Texas at Austin), “Focus of Attention Affects Performance of Motor
Skills in Music”
2)
Philip Duker
(University of Michigan), “Relating Disembodied Sounds and Silent
Gestures: Aperghis’s Les Guetteurs de
Sons and Multimedia Analysis”
2:30-3:30pm – Music & Literature I :
Journeys through Consciousness
Sam Dorf, Chair
1)
Christopher M. Barry
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Sanity, Delusion, and Musical
Structure in Richard Strauss’s Don
Quixote”
2)
Jessie Fillerup
(University of Kansas, Washburn University), “Ravel’s
Poe-etics: Effect and the Grotesque in La Valse”
3:45-4:45pm – Music & Literature II
: Political and Psychic Channels
Anya Holland-Barry, Chair
1)
Jennifer Ward (University of
Wisconsin-Madison), "'We are the Dead': War and Remembrance with "In
Flanders Fields"
2)
Katya Slutskaya Levine
(City University of New York Graduate Center), “Metempsychosis in Sergei Prokofiev’s Music of the Soviet Period: The
Opera Sémyon Kotko”
5:30pm – Dinner Reception
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2005
Ninth Annual Meeting - Madison, WI
[All panel sessions
will be in the Inn Wisconsin rooms in the Memorial Union. Other locations are as listed below.]
Friday, February 25
1:15-2:15pm – Jazz and Gender
Expectations
Natalie Zelensky, Chair
1) Anna-Lise P. Santella (University of Chicago), “‘Jazz
up your lingerie:’ Gender, Class, Musicality, and Sexuality in Ernst Lubitsch’s The Smiling Lieutenant”
2) Julia Chybowski
(UW Madison), “The Etude gone ‘Jazz-Mad:’ Construction of
Illness and Gender in Educational Debates over American Music”
2:30-3:30pm – Reassessing Music
Studies
Ching Ching Cecilia Lo,
Chair
1) Jim Sykes (University of Chicago),
“The Sad Fate of the Philosophy of Music”
2) Kwesi Brown (Bowling Green State University),
“‘It was 40 years ago today…:’
A Reassessment of Mantle Hood’s Atumpan”
4:00-5:30pm –
Keynote Address [Frederic March
Playcircle in the Memorial Union]
Richard Taruskin (University of California—Berkeley)
“Did
Sombody Say Censorship?”
5:30-6:30pm –
Keynote Reception
6:30-7:30pm – New
Music Recital [Morphy Recital Hall in the Mosse
Humanities Building]
Katherine Saxon (University of Oregon), Vox dilecti mei
Pelarin Bacos III
(University of Chicago), “Through Midnight”
Alexander Nohai-Seaman
(UW Madison), Awake, Under a Glass
Moon
William Coble (University of Chicago), L'horizon infini
Rob Deemer
(University of Texas, Austin), La Maja Dolorosa
Saturday, February 26
8:30-9:15am – Casual Breakfast
9:15-10:45am – Music's Role in Film
Griff Rollefson, Chair
1) Peter Kupfer
(University of Chicago), “Prescriptive Paradoxes, Mediated Totalities and
Rain: Adorno and Eisler on Film Music”
2) Kevin R. Burke (University of Cincinnati
College – Conservatory of Music), “Anton Karas's
Zither: ‘The Fourth Man’ in Carol Reed's The
Third Man”
3) Samuel N. Dorf
(Northwestern University), “The Sound of Fear: Race, Violence, Drugs, and
Jazz in American Extra-Diegetic Film Music from the
1950s”
11:00am-12:00pm
– Pop Music and Critical Theory
Molly McGlone,
Chair
1) Katie Graber (UW Madison), “Beyond
Vulgarity: Subjectivity in Frank Zappa’s
Music”
2) Charles Mueller (Florida State University),
“A Requiem for Reality: The Postmodern Trajectory of Brian Warner”
1:15-2:15pm – Between the State and
the Popular
Jeffrey DeThorne, Chair
1) Ann Oleinik
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Negotiating the Past,
Negotiating Modernity: Garifuna Paranda
Music of Belize”
2) Melissa Reiser (UW
Madison), “Jazz
in East and West Berlin During the Cold War”
2:25-3:55pm – Intersections of
Identity and Ideology
Jessica Courtier,
Chair
1) Eduardo Herrera (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign), “Coriún Aharonián:
Ideological Awareness and Issues of Cultural Identity in Latin American
Contemporary Music”
2) Christopher Urbiel
(Central Michigan University), "Making the Incidental Essential: The
Sacred and Secular Intertwined in Vaughan Williams's Organ Works"
3) Rebecca Meador Bennett (Northwestern
University), "Music and the Ultra-Modern Lifestyle: A Cultural Study of Djane Lavoie-Herz"
4:05-5:05pm – Reclaiming the Popular
Nate Bakkum, Chair
1) Chris Ballengee
(Bowling Green State University), “From Ethiopia to the Andrews Sisters:
Calypso, Appropriation, and World War II”
2) Davis Brown (UW Madison), “’Live
from the Plantation:' American Hip-Hop and Fela Kuti's Radical Legacy”
5:30-8:00pm – Dinner Reception
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2004
Eighth Annual Meeting - Chicago, IL
All talks except for the keynote address held in Classics 10, on the first
floor of the Classics
building
Friday, February 27
10:00-11:30: Narratives in American Music
Fabian Holt (University of Chicago), Chair
1) Jeffrey DeThorne
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), “Narrativity
in the Abstract: The Music of Phillip Glass”
2) Benjamin Piekut
(University of California, San Diego), “John Cage and the American
Pastoral”
3) Kelsey Cowger
(University of Chicago), “Cultural Politics, Representation and the Music
of Shaft”
1:00-2:00: In
with the West
Jaime Jones (University of Chicago), Chair
1) Tamara Roberts (Northwestern University),
“Hear the Truth: Intercultural Music Exchange in
‘Addictive’”
2) Sindhumathi Revuluri
(Princeton University), “Gayatri Mantra meets
the West”
2:15-3:15:
Cognition and Performance
Jean Littlejohn (Northwestern University), Chair
1) Peter Martens (University of Chicago),
“Glenn Gould’s Constant Rhythmic Reference Point:
Performing and Hearing Pulse in Bach’s
Goldberg Variations, 1955 and 1981”
2) Matthew Arndt (University of
Wisconsin-Madison), “Toward a Cognitive Theory of Fractals”
3:30-5:00:
Keynote Address (Fulton Recital Hall)
Ellen Rosand (Yale University)
“In
Defense of Seneca”
Saturday, February 28
9:15-10:45: Image and Representation
Donald James (University of Chicago), Chair
1) Natalie Zelensky
(Northwestern University), “Too Black: Contrasting Images of Bessie Smith
and Ethel Waters in Early Blues Marketing”
2) Matthew Tift
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Musical AIDS: On the Popularity of
American Musical Responses to HIV/AIDS in the 1990s”
3) Gavin Steingo (New
England Conservatory), “South African Music After
Apartheid: Kwaito, the “Party Politic”,
and the Appropriation of Gold as a Sign of Success”
11:00-12:00: Out
with the West
Anna Nekola (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Chair
1) Suzanne Wint
(University of Chicago), “Composing Hybridity: Liminality in African ‘Western Art
Music’”
2) Griff Rollefson
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), “’Is This Really Liberty,
Equality, Fraternity?’: The Emergence of French
Rap and the Americanization as Cultural Miscegenation Thesis”
1:30-3:00:
Oppositions
David Hyatt (University of Chicago), Chair
1) Richard Plotkin
(University of Chicago), “Deflowering Parsifal”
2) Christopher Barry (University of
Cincinnati), “A Dialogue on the Edge: Sets, Series, and ‘Plastic
Blocks’ in Schoenberg’s Klavierstück, Op. 23 No. 2”
3) David Gordon (University of Chicago),
“Meanders, Inlets and Fissures: Structural Order and Disorder in Ligeti’s Melodien”
3:15-4:45:
Production, Reproduction, and Representation
Daniel Barolsky (University of Chicago), Chair
1) Katie Graber (University of
Wisconsin-Madison), “Revealing Subtleties: Gender Representation and
Participation in Beijing Opera”
2) Byron Dueck
(University of Chicago), “Aboriginal Square Dance in Manitoba as
Representation and Realization of Sociability”
3) Josh Walden (Columbia University),
“Lip-sync in “Lipstick”: 1950s Popular Songs Recomposed in a
Television Series by Dennis Potter”
8:00: New
Music Ensemble Concert featuring MGMC compositions. Held
in Fulton recital hall.
Barbara Schubert, Director
Grace
Choi (Brandeis University),
Nostalgia for Flute Solo
Ja Young Choi (University
of Minnesota), Tone for Solo Vibraphone
William Coble (University of Chicago), Intrada
for Solo Violin
David Dies (University of Wisconsin -Madison), Lorca
Songs for Soprano and Violoncello
Jeff Morris (University of North Texas), Quintet for Horn with Woodwinds
& Piano
Alexander Nohai-Seaman (University of
Wisconsin-Madison), Miniatures for Violin and Piano
Also
performed will be Concerto for Pizzicato Piano and Ten Instruments by
Tan Dun, featuring Lisa Kaplan, pianist with eighth blackbird, as soloist
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2003
Seventh Annual Meeting - Evanston, IL
Hardin Hall Click
here for a map and lovely photo of Hardin Hall
Friday, February 28th
1:30-2:30:
Performance Parameters
1) Hedy Law (University of Chicago), “Staging
of Passions in C.P.E. Bach's Keyboard Music: Body as Mediator of Sound and
Passion”
2) Jaime Jones (University of Chicago),
“Performing (Indian, Western, highbrow, lowbrow) Selves in Bollywood Musicals”
2:30-3:30:
Decoration and Dedication
1) Gurminder Kaur Bhogal (University of Chicago), “’D’une faiblesse
extreme’: Arabesque and Metric Dissonance in Daphnis et Chloe
(1909-1912)”
2) Marianne Lambelet
(Northwestern University), “’She perfumes the ayre
with her breath’: Gender in Early Modern Song Dedications”
4:00-5:30:
Keynote Address
David Roche, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Old Town
School of Folk Music
”Different Strumming: the case for performing ethnomusicology as a
subversive act”
7:30: Concert of New Student Works, Garrett Chapel Click
here for a map and lovely photo of Garrett.
Chaipruck Mekara
(Northwestern University),
Gathering
Cory
Kasprzyk (Grand Valley State University), Music for Oboe and Piano
Matthew
Pace (Washington University), Four
Songs for Soprano and Piano
David
Gordon (University of Chicago), A
Song of Ascents
Jong Yeoul Chong
(University of Chicago), Dual for
Solo Bassoon
Chen
Yao (University of Chicago), Pour
Saturday, March 1st
8:30-9:00: Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:30:
Death, Destruction, and Hysteria
1) Laura Neff (University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign), “Perspectives on Childhood: Misinterpretations of
Innocence in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony”
2) Jo Ellen Sager (Ohio University), “Webern and Seurat: Science and
Innovations”
3) Jeffrey Mansell
(University of Wisconsin, Madison), “A Restless Spirit: Hysteria evoked
in Def Leppard's Music”
10:45-11:45:
Music Messing with Time and Space
1) Michael Berry (CUNY), “A Modular Space
Approach to Voice Leading in Atonal Music”
2) Roxanne Prevost
(SUNY, Buffalo), “Metrical Ambiguities in Ursula Mamlok’s
Panta Rhei
(1981)”
11:45-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:30:
Music and Social Purpose in America
1) Megan Jenkins (University of Iowa),
“New Negro or Sellout: Harry T. Burleigh and
the Harlem Renaissance”
2) Elizabeth Uzelac
(Northwestern University), “’Songs to Grow
on’: People’s Songs, Inc. and the Conception of American
Song”
3) Srephanie Krehbiel (Michgan State University), “Water for a Barren Land:
Worship among Mennonites in East Freeman, South Dakota”
2:30-2:45: Refreshment Break
2:45-3:15:
New Technology for Analysis
1) Michael Schutz
(Northwestern University), “Automated Assistance in the Process of
Musical Analysis”
3:15-4:15:
Memory and (Re)Creation
1) David Dies (University of Wisconsin,
Madison), “On the Nature of the Sketch: Schoenberg's
Opus 15/XIV”
2) Damian Espinosa (University of Chicago),
“The ‘Fictive’ Pop Hit in Hollywood Films: (Re)Creation”
5:00+: RECEPTION
Prof.
Gini Gorlinski's House
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2002
Sixth Annual Meeting - Madison, WI
Friday, February 22
2:00-3:30: Performing Theatricality, Gender and Power
1) Sarah Williams (Northwestern University),
“Concord and Discord, Harmony and Cacophony: Sonic Disorder and
Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe”
2) Dirk von der Horst
(Claremont Graduate University), “Asceticism and Theatricality in St. Alessio”
3) Jessica Courtier (University of
Wisconsin-Madison), “Ladies at the Keyboard: Performing Gender and Haydn's Piano Trios”
4:00-5:30:
Keynote Address
Suzannah
Clark (Merton College,
Oxford)
”Music Theory and Musicological Imagination”
Saturday, February 23
9:00-10:30: Perceiving Meter and Musical Syntax
1) David Siarny
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), “A Furiant
Squared: Metric Ambiguity and Hypermetric Displacement in Dvorák's
Op. 46/I”
2) Peter Martens (University of Chicago),
“Hearing Syntax: Toward a Listener-Based Analytic Method”
3) Brent Yorgason
(Indiana University), “Downbeat Space and Extrametrical Time”
10:45-12:15:
(Non-)Musical Participation in the Americas
1) David Gleason (Tufts University),
“Improvisation, Interaction, and Communication in Salsa
Performance”
2) Michelle McQuade Dewhirst (University of Chicago), “Pop Goes to the
Opera: Contemporary Opera and its ‘Americanisms’”
3) Donald James (University of Chicago),
“TG’s, CG’s and TGIT’s:
Non-Musical Participation and the Commodification of
Experience in Jam Band Taping Culture”
1:30-3:00: In
the Shadows of Early Modernism: Hermeneutic and Theoretical Readings
1) Alan Dodson (University of Western Ontario),
“Rethinking Schenker’s Musical Ontology through Gadamer's
Critique of Aesthetic Consciousness”
2) Sherry D. Lee (University of British
Columbia), “The Shadow of the Scherzo on Mahler's Seventh Symphony”
3) José António
Martins (University of Chicago), “Bartók’s
Polymodal Chromaticism and the Dasian
System”
3:00-4:00:
Fantasy and “Lost” Pieces
1) Gene Willet (University of Texas at Austin),
“Music as Fantasy: Lynch, Zizek and Lacan on the Lost Highway”
2) Matthew Tift
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Excuse Me, Where Could I Find
Mozart’s Clarinet Concert?”
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2001
Fifth Annual Meeting - Chicago, IL
The
Midwest Graduate Music Consortium held its fifth annual meeting at the
University of Chicago on March 30 and 31st. Don Michael Randel,
editor of The New Harvard Dictionary of Music and President of the
University of Chicago, gave the keynote address on “Where did musicology
go in the 20th century and where might it get to in the 21st.” Twelve
papers and five compositions were presented by graduate students from the
University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northwestern
University, the University of Iowa, the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Florida State University, the CUNY Graduate
Center, and the Eastman School of Music. The papers and compositions were all
excellent, and lively discussions took place during the sessions and throughout
the weekend.
Friday, March 30
1:30-3:10: Welcoming remarks and Session 1, Opera Studies
1) Arman Raphael Schwartz (University of Chicago),
“Regressions of Listening: the Vocal Object and Listening Subject, from Barthes to Berio”
2) Julie McQuinn
(Northwestern University), “Resisting the Pull of Destiny: 'Genderization' on Trial in Debussy's Pelléas
et Mélisande”
3) Cathy Cole (University of Chicago),
“Colonizing Natural Society: The Uneasy Peace of Rameau’s
‘Les Sauvages’”
3:30-5:00:
Keynote Address
Don
Michael Randel, Professor of Music and President of the University of Chicago
“Where did musicology go in the 20th
century and where might it get to in the 21st.”
7:30
Concert
Erin
Gee (University of Iowa), Mouthpiece for solo voice
Paul
A. Oehlers (University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign), Spawn for two channel tape
Scott
Gendel (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Effusion
for tuba and piano
David
M. Gordon (University of Chicago), Canticum
for flute, violin and guitar
Gregory
J. Hutter (Northwestern University), Toccata
for flute and mallets
Saturday, March 31
9:15-10:45: Session 2, The Theorist's Toolbox
1) Scott Baker (Florida State University),
“A Heterogeneous Analysis of the Eighth Piano Sonata, Op. 66 of Alexander
Scriabin”
2) Albin Read Jones (University of Iowa),
“Elaboration of Hexachordal Structures and
Networks in Elliott Carter’s 90+ for Solo Piano”
3) Donald G. Traut
(Eastman School of Music), “The Displacement Operation in Schenkerian
Theory”
11:00-12:30: Session 3, Music and Identity
1) Chun-bin Chen (University of Chicago),
“From Chen Da to Chen Ming-chang:
fabricating authenticity in Taiwanese folk/popular music”
2) Morgan Luker (University
of Wisconsin, Madison), “’Deconstructing Havana’: Bill Laswell's Imaginary Cuba and the Critical Revision
of Authenticity”
3) Kimberly Marshall Bohannon (Northwestern
University), “’We are Muslims’ and ‘Torah Tots’:
The Role of Children’s Cassettes in Constructing a Hyphenated
Identity”
2:30-3:30: Session 4, Meter, Rhythm and Performance
1) Paul Steinbeck
(University of Chicago), “Fred Anderson on December 4th”
2) Daniel G. Barolsky
(University of Chicago), “Score and Performance as Musical
Collaboration”
3:45-4:45: Session 5, Music and Society
1) Marc E. Johnson (CUNY Graduate Center),
“Ein Heldenrequiem?: Richard
Strauss’s Metamorphosen and the Death of
the German Cultural Hero”
2) Jeffers Engelhardt
(University of Chicago), “The (Re)turn to
Religious Tradition: Pilgrimage and Process in Music Since 1975”
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2000
Fourth Annual Meeting - Madison, WI
The
Midwest Graduate Music Consortium held its Fourth Annual Meeting on the campus
of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 7-8, 2000. Thirteen papers and
five compositions were presented by graduate students from the campuses at
Indiana, Northwestern, SUNY-Buffalo, Columbia, University of Warwick,
University of Texas-Austin, University of Chicago, University of Iowa,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
An
engaging keynote address entitled “What a Philosophy of Music can Do for You” was given by Dr. Jerrold Levinson,
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He
is the author of Music, Art, and Metaphysics, The
Pleasure of Aesthetics, and most recently Music in the Moment.
Karen Bottge (University of Wisconsin) served as
chair for the conference, local arrangements were coordinated by Andrea Zieger (University of Wisconsin), and the original version
of this webpage was set up by Amy Harrell (University
of Wisconsin).
Friday, April 7, 2000
1:30-1:50 Registration
1:50-3:20 Session
1
Peter Martens (University
of Chicago) Chair
1) Christopher Bathke
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Not Just Another
Kodo: Taiko Drumming and Ethnic Identity in
America”
2) Donna S. Parsons (University of Iowa),
“More Than Mere Shop Ballads: The Society of Women Musicians and the
Pursuit of Musical Excellence”
3) D. Jason Smith (Ball State University),
“Towards a Musical Continuum: Cross Relations of Musical Genres”
3:30-4:30 University Lecture Series:
Jerrold
Levinson (University of
Maryland)
Aesthetic Realms: Ways and Means
4:50-5:50 Session 2
Jill T. Brasky (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Chair
1) Lynn M. Hooker (University of Chicago),
“Solving the Problem of Hungarian Music: Contexts for Bartók’s
Early Career”
2) Judy Kuhn (University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee), “Shostakovich’s
Intimate Voice: Language and Meaning in the Fourth Quartet”
7:30-9:30 Welcoming reception
Saturday, April 8,
2000
8:45-9:15 Registration
9:15-10:30 Keynote Address:
Jerrold
Levinson (University of
Maryland)
What
the Philosophy of Music Can Do for You
10:40-12:10 Session
3
Yonatan Malin (University of Chicago) Chair
1) Jason Oakes (Columbia University),
“There’s Always Something There to Remind Me: Modern Memories in
the Loser’s Lounge”
2) Laura Vroomen
(University of Warwick), “Leaving Smash Hits Land: Fandom,
Age and Practices of Distinction”
3) Anna Nekola
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), “A Little Bit of...?:
Lou Bega and a Multi-Musical Culture”
Lunch Break
1:30-2:30 Session 4
Daniel
J. McConnel (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Chair
1) Marianne Tatom
(University of Texas-Austin), “Sacred Mirrors: The Palindrome and the Ikon in John Tavener’s The
Protecting Veil”
2) Stanley V. Kleppinger
(Indiana University), “Motivic Genealogy in Movement II (Vivace) from Aaron Copland's Piano Sonata”
3:00-4:30 Session 5
Scott
Schouest (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Chair
1) J. Guy Stalnaker
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Narratives of Seduction, Seductions
of Narratives: Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca”
2) Shersten Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison),
“The Musical Unconscious: Hearing the Unspoken in Britten's
Death In Venice”
3) Susan Rachel Mina (Northwestern University),
“Salmon as Marsyas: The Flaying and
Effeminizing of Thomas Salmon”
Dinner Break
7:30 Concert (Morphy
Recital Hall)
Victoria Malawey Elder (Indiana University), String Quartet
Albin Read Jones (University of Iowa), Ubereinstimmung
Paul Friedman
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), The Way Things Work
Mark Dennis
McConnell (SUNY-Buffalo), Insurrection
Michael G. Sinshack (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Jeu de temps
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1999
- Third Annual Meeting - Chicago, IL
The Midwest
Graduate Music Consortium held its Third Annual Meeting on the campus of the
University of Chicago, April 23-24, 1999. Eleven papers and four compositions
were presented by graduate students from the University of Wisconsin, the
University of Chicago, Indiana University, Harvard University, and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Paper topics covered the full gamut of
current musical scholarship, including sessions on Machaut's
Motets, Popular Music, Nineteenth-Century Music, Rationality and Autonomy, and
Interdisciplinary Influences.
A
lively keynote address on "The Dramaturgy of Excess" in Peter Sellars' production of The Marriage of Figaro was given by Professor David Levin (Germanic
Studies, University of Chicago). Adrian P. Childs (University of Chicago)
served as program chair for the conference, while local arrangements were
coordinated by Ryan Minor (University of Chicago).
Friday, April 23
12:00-1:30 Registration
1:30-1:40 Welcoming
Remarks
Richard
Cohn, Chair, Univ. of Chicago Department of Music
1:40-3:10 Session
1:Revisiting Machaut's
Motets
Karen
Bottge (University of Wisconsin), Chair
1) Nikkola E. Carmichael (University of Chicago),
“Courtly and Divine Love: Reinterpreting Machaut’s
Motet 14”
2) Yossi Maurey
(University of Chicago), “Machaut’s Motet
5 in Light of New Musical and Literary Evidence”
3) Catherine Saucier (University of Chicago),
“Fiery Love, Obedience, and Death: Spiritual Connections between the
Three Voices of Machaut's Motet 10”
3:30-5:00 Keynote address
David
Levin (Germanic Studies,
University of Chicago)
“The
Dramaturgy of Excess: Peter Sellars--Mozart/da Ponte--The Marriage of Figaro
“
8:00-10:00 Welcoming reception
Saturday, April 24
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:30 Session
2: Topics in Popular Music
Loraine
Schneider (University of Chicago), Chair
1) Anna Nekola
(University of Wisconsin - Madison), “‘We Stand for the
Neighborhood’: The Critical Reception of Paul Simon’s The
