Conference Program

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SATURDAY, APRIL 5

8:00–9:00 am: Registration, coffee, breakfast
The Plaza Level

9:00–10:30 am: Session 1A, Special Session: Constructing Identity in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s Omar (2022)
Room 523

• Andrew Pau (Oberlin College & Conservatory), “‘Here We Have Our Place’: The Musical Construction of African Identity in Omar”

• Sylvie Tran (Oberlin College & Conservatory), “Musical Representations of Assimilation and the Antebellum South in Omar”

• Christa Cole (Oberlin College & Conservatory), “The Role of the Chorus in Omar”

9:00–10:00am: Session 1B: Chappell Roan and Joni Mitchell
Room 524
Stephen Spencer (Hunter College, CUNY), Chair

• Ash Mach (Eastman School of Music), “Towards a Contextual Queering of Chappell Roan’s ‘Pink Pony Club’”

• Rebecca Moranis (CUNY Graduate Center), “An Analysis of Joni Mitchell’s Vocal Evolution”

10:30-10:45 AM: Break

10:45–11:15 am: Session 2: Poster Session
The Plaza Level

• Richard Ashley (Northwestern University), “Cognitive Processes in Music Analysis: An Investigation through Protocol Analysis and Eye Tracking”

• Sarah Case (Mannes School of Music), “Leitmotif and Structure in the Prelude to Act III of Wagner’s Siegfried”

• Bai Xue (CUNY Graduate Center), “Form and Structure in Ewe Music”

11:15 am–12:15 pm: Session 3: Musicals
Room 523
Poundie Burstein (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY), chair

• Hunter Hoyle (Northwestern University), “Theorizing the Broadway Overture: A Formal and Cognitive Investigation”

• John Lawrence (University of Chicago), “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Form: Sondheim’s Early Deviations from the Sentence-Period Paradigm”

12:15–1:45 pm: Lunch Break

1:45–3:15 pm: Session 4A: AAWM
Room 523
Panayotis Mavromatis (New York University), Chair

• Stephen Guerra (University at Buffalo, SUNY), “A New New-World Harmonic Schema”

• Lina Tabak (Indiana University), “‘Rhythmic Venom’ or Comfortable Groove? On Microtiming in Colombian Currulao”

• Ruixue Hu (Eastman School of Music), “Understanding Non-Lexical Vocables in Music”

1:45–3:15 pm: Session 4B: Meanings
Room 524
Gilad Rabinovitch (Queens College, CUNY), Chair

• Ryan Krell (University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music), “Transformation, Narrative, and Cyclical Form in The Arcadian Wild’s Principium”

• Ryan Galik (Eastman School of Music), “A Framework for Tangled Diegetic Hierarchies Beyond Cinematic Music”

• Cheng Wei Lim (Columbia University), “Pokémon, Interculturality, and Topic Theory”

3:15–3:30 pm Break
3:30–5:15 pm: Plenary Events, 12th-floor Lounge
3:30 pm–4:00 pm: Business meeting
4:15 pm–5:15 pm: Keynote Lecture, Clifton Boyd (New York University), “Black Barbershop and Music Theory in the Age of Jim Crow”
5:15–7:30 pm: Dinner break
7:30–9:30 pm: Conference Workshop, Kristi Hardman (UNC Charlotte), “Considering Ethics in the Process of Analyzing Music”
Room 523

SUNDAY, APRIL 6

8:30–9:00 am: Registration, coffee, breakfast
The Plaza Level

9:30–11:00 am: Session 5: Twentieth-Century Composers
Joseph Straus (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Chair

• Jacob R. Ludwig (University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music) and Evan Martschenko (Eastman School of Music), “Uncovering Howard Hanson’s Proto-Set Theory Pedagogy”

• Aidan McGartland (McGill University), “Britten the Serialist: Twelve-Note Thinking in the Music of Benjamin Britten”

• Stanley Ralph Fink (Drake University), “The Doppelgänger as Musical Complement in Julia Perry’s The Cask of Amontillado”

11:00–11:15 am: Break
11:15 am–12:15 pm: Session 6: Form and Formalism from Lachenmann to Metal
Landon Morrison (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester), Chair

• Avinoam Foonberg (University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music), “Screaming Forms and Formal Screaming: Timbral Transformations in Extreme Metal Verse-Choruses”

• Zachary Bernstein (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester), “Playing with the Net Down: Formalism and the Dialectic in Helmut Lachenmann’s Music and Thought”