IU Graduate Music Theory & Musicology Associations Host 29th Annual Symposium on Research

On Friday and Saturday, March 31 and April 1, the Graduate Musicology Association (GMA) and Graduate Theory Association (GTA) hosted the Twenty-Ninth Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The symposium featured twelve student presentations, organized into panels on topics such as “Music and Multimedia: New Perspectives,” “Rhythm, Meter, Harmony,” “Embodiment and Entanglement,” and “Playing with Meaning and Memory.”

In addition to these panels, there were two roundtable discussions held at the symposium. IU Musicology students Miguel Arango Calle and Travis Whaley led the session on “Notation and the Body,” while IU Theory student Jack Bussert chaired the discussion on “Analytical Applications of Intonation Theory.”Each year the IU student body nominates speakers to give featured presentations at the symposium. This year’s lineup was a trio of IU’s own professors, including Dr. Peter Burkholder, who opened the event with his talk, “Making Old Music New: Performing, Arranging, Borrowing, Schemas, Topics, Intertextuality.” Dr. Orit Hilewicz presented on “Luciano Berio’s Compositional Poetics as Performance,” and Dr. Andrew Mead gave his talk, “Unfinished Business.”

The symposium was started in 1994 by the Graduate Theory Association. For the last three years, the GTA has partnered with their colleagues in the Graduate Musicology Association to increase the symposium’s diversity and impart. The symposium invites graduate students from all over the US and Canada to present research, participate in workshops and engage in lively debates about music scholarship. The event is co-sponsored by the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, the Departments of Music Theory and Musicology, and the Indiana University Funding board.

2022-2023 GMA OFFICERS
Co-Presidents: Sarah Sabol, Mingfei Li
Vice Presidents: Kaylee Feller-Simmons, Bridget Foley
SRC Representative: Kate Hamori
GPSO representative: Kristin Rasmussen

2022-2023 GTA OFFICERS
President: Connor Reinman
Vice President: Samantha Waddell
Secretary/Librarian: Lev Roshal
Treasurer: Mítia D’Acol
Events Coordinator: Joey Grunkemeyer
Publicity Chair: Wade Voris
GPSO representative: Alexander Shannon

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Click HERE to access the final 2023 Program
All Events in Sweeney Hall unless otherwise noted

Friday, March 31:

12:00-12:30 P.M. Registration | Ford-Crawford Hall
12:30-1:30 P.M. Featured Presentation I — J. Peter Burkholder, Indiana University, “Making Old Music New: Performing, Arranging, Borrowing, Schemas, Topics, Intertextuality” (Reception to follow in Room M267 in the Music Library)
3:00-3:45 PM Registration | Sweeney Hall
3:45 P.M. Opening Remarks
4:00-5:00 P.M. ROUNDTABLE: Notation and the Body
5:00-5:15 P.M. Break
5:15-6:45 P.M. Music and Multimedia: New Perspectives
7:00-9:00 P.M. Trivia Night | Musical Arts Center, Room 070 (Dinner will be provided)

Saturday, April 1:

8:00-9:00 A.M. Breakfast Reception, Registration | Auer Hall Green Room
9:00-11:15 A.M. RHYTHM, METER, HARMONY
11:30-12:30 P.M. EMBODIMENT AND ENTANGLEMENT
12:30-1:30 P.M. Break (Lunch provided in the Auer Hall Green Room)
1:30-2:30 P.M. Featured Presentation II — Orit Hilewicz, “Luciano Berio’s Compositional Poetics as Performance”
2:45-4:15 P.M. PLAYING WITH MEANING AND MEMORY
4:30-5:30 P.M. ROUNDTABLE II — Analytical Applications of Intonation Theory
Cook Music Library, Room 267
6:30-7:30 P.M. FEATURED PRESENTATION III — Andrew Mead, “Unfinished Business”
8:00-10:00 P.M. Post-Conference Reception

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