On Friday and Saturday, February 23-24, the Graduate Theory Association (GTA) and Graduate Musicology Association (GMA) will host the Thirtieth Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The symposium will featured twelve student presentations with panels on topics ranging from “Applying Analytical and Pedagogical Models” to “From Country to K-Pop: Perspectives on Popular Music.”
In addition to the student presentations, there will be a keynote lecture on “Mozart’s Operatic Cadence” and workshop with Prof. Danuta Mirka (Northwestern University) on “Eighteenth-Century Theory of Phrase Structure”; featured faculty presentations by IU Music Theory Profs. Eric Isaacson, Noriko Manabe, and Jay Hook; and IU Musicology Prof. Phil Ford; as well as social networking opportunities for symposium attendees.
To view a full list of the presentations and abstracts, please download the Symposium 2024 Program.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
All events are located in the Simon Music Center
Friday, February 23
Registration & Opening Sessions | Ford-Crawford Hall
11:00 A.M. -12:00 P.M. Registration
12:00-12:15 P.M. Opening Remarks from Dean Judah Cohen
12:15-1:15 P.M. FEATURED FACULTY PRESENTATION
Joey Grunkemeyer, Chair
Professor Eric Isaacson (Indiana University), “A Music Visualization Case-Study: Steve Reich’s Double Sextet”
1:30-3:00 P.M. FROM COUNTRY TO K-POP: PERSPECTIVES ON POPULAR MUSIC
Tori Vilches, Chair
Alexander Shannon (Indiana University), “‘All the Lonely Starbucks Lovers’: Prosodic Dissonance in Taylor Swift’s Discography”
Dylan Custer (Stephen F. Austin State University), “Music in the Country Style: A Study of Schematic Forms and Elements in Third and Fourth Generation Country Music”
Tiffany Ta (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Pretty Savage: Blackpink is the (Feminist) Revolution”
3:00-4:45 P.M. Break
Afternoon Sessions | Note various locations below
3:15-4:45 P.M. WORKSHOP (OPEN TO APPLICANTS ONLY) | Room SM271
Professor Danuta Mirka (Northwestern University), “Eighteenth-Century Theory of Phrase Structure”
4:45-6:45 P.M. GRADUATE STUDENT TRIVIA NIGHT (DINNER PROVIDED) | Room SM242
7:00-8:00 P.M. FEATURED FACULTY PRESENTATION II | Ford-Crawford Hall
Connor Reinman, Chair
Professor Philip Ford (Indiana University), “The View from the Cheap Seats at the UFO Show”
Saturday, February 24
Morning Sessions | Ford-Crawford Hall
8:00-9:00 A.M. BREAKFAST RECEPTION & REGISTRATION
9:00-10:30 A.M. SPIRITUALISMS: GODS, DEMONS, AND RITUALS
Jack Milton Bussert, Chair
Kaitlyn Canneto (Temple University), “‘God Before Their Eyes’: Sacred Jazz in Mary Lou Wil-liams’s ‘Anima Christi’”
Kitt Westerduin (Indiana University), “Echoes of a Sacred Ecology: Reconstructing Sounds of Pre-colonial Water Management Rituals in Tenochtitlan”
Grigorios Mathioudakis (University of California, Irvine), “Keeper of the Seven Keys: Fantastical Themes of Ironic Ambivalence at the Birth of Power Metal”
10:45-12:15 P.M. APPLYING ANALYTICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL MODELS
Thomas Collison, Chair
McKenna Sheeley-Jennings, “‘The Strings Murmur Unbidden’: Hidemith’s Sonata for Harp as an Instrumental Lied”
Brendan McEvoy, Michigan State University “Practicing What You Teach: Implementing a SOTL- and STEM-Informed Music Theory Curriculum”
Reed Mullican, Indiana University “The Elektra Chord…Resolves? Understanding Richard Strauss’ Chromaticism through Half-Step Voice-Leading and Schoenberg’s Vagrant Chords”
Afternoon Sessions | Note various locations below
12:30-2:30 P.M. LUNCH (OPEN TO GRADUATE STUDENTS AND PRESENTERS) | Room SM267
12:30-2:30 P.M. FEATURED FACULTY WORKSHOP (OPEN TO APPLICANTS ONLY) | Room SM271
Professor Noriko Manabe (Indiana University), “Analyzing meaning-making in the music of political movements”
2:45-3:45 P.M. KEYNOTE ADDRESS | Ford-Crawford Hall
Lev Roshal, Chair
Professor Danuta Mirka, Northwestern University, “Mozart’s Operatic Cadence”
4:00-5:30 P.M. SOUNDING COMMUNITIES | Ford-Crawford Hall
Grace Pechianu, Chair
Larissa Mulder (The Ohio State University), “Mammies, Maidens, and More: The Gendering of Irish Identity within Emigration Songs”
Adriane Pontecorvo (Indiana University), “No Dear Air: Sounding, Sensing, and Shaping Community through Radiophonic Irregularities and Improvisations”
Jason Buchea (The Ohio State University), “From Schizophia to Enophonia: Black Panther In Concert and the Repatriation of Musical Credit and Financial Opportunity”
5:30-7:00 P.M. Dinner Break
7:00-8:00 P.M. FEATURED FACULTY PRESENTATION III | Ford-Crawford Hall
Connor Reinman, Chair
Professor Julian Hook (Indiana University), “Musical Coincidences”
The symposium was started in 1994 by the Graduate Theory Association. Since 2021, the GTA has partnered with their colleagues in the Graduate Musicology Association to increase the symposium’s diversity and impact. 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.
2023-2024 GMA OFFICERS
Co-Presidents: Grace Pechianu and Kitt Westerduin
Vice Presidents: Elizabeth Hile (Ph.D.) and Anna-Sophia Burr (M.A.)
SRC Representative: Sarah Sabol
GPSO representative: Tess Rhian
2023-2024 GTA OFFICERS
Samantha Waddell, President
Lev Roshal, Vice-President
Wade Voris, Secretary/Librarian
Connor Reinman, Treasurer
Tori Vilches, Publicity Chair
Thomas Collison and Tori Vilches, Events Coordinators
Alex Shannon, GPSG Representative
TBD, SRC Representative
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