(All times are EDT)
Thursday, November 4
11:00–12:30
Session: 20th-Century Composers’ Tonal Organization
Prof. Andrew Mead, Chair
12:45–2:15
Session: Motives/Narritives/Timbres
David Orvek, “Like a Piece of Woven Material”: Unity and Organicism in Elizabeth Maconchy’s String Quartet No. 11
Session: Flexible Themes and Forms
Nathaniel Mitchell (MM ’15, Philadelphia, PA), Variations on a Theme by K. K. Slider: Variation Sets and the Hourly Music of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
2:30–4:00
Session: Delivery Schemata and Vocal Stress
Mitchell Ohriner (PhD ’11, University of Denver), Anaphoric Descents in Hip-Hop vocal Delivery
Session: Gestures and Fragments
John Heilig, Interpreting Harmony through Gesture in the Chromatic Music of Anton Webern
Poster Session 1
Nathan Smith (MM ’20, Yale University), Skiing in k Dimensions, Or, “Metric” k-ary n-Cubes in Some Music of (and since) Ligeti
5:30-6:30
Grad School Fair – IU Music Theory
Email mustheor@indiana.edu for details.
7:00 PM
Reception: Indiana Theory Review
Email mustheor@indiana.edu for details.
Friday, November 5
11:00–12:30
Session: Transforming Tunes/Appropriating Styles
Bruno Alcalde (MM ’12, University of South Carolina), Listener Interactions with Musical Hybridity in the Piano Puzzler Podcast
Session: Counterpoint
Patrick Domico (IU Musicology), and Lucy Y. Liu (PhD ’18, Illinois Wesleyan University), Compositional Techniques that Define Stravinsky’s Neoclassical Counterpoint
Session: Rethinking Jazz
Garrett Michaelsen (PhD ’13, University of Massachusetts), Chair
12:45–2:15
Session: Performative Challenges
Christa Cole, “And the Nightingale Sings…”: Performative Effort in Elisabeth Lutyens’s The Valley of Hatsuse, Op. 62
2:30-4:00
Session: Analyzing Complex Rhythms
David Geary (PhD ’19, Wake Forest University), A three-Part Approach for Analyzing the Beat in Popular Music
4:30 pm
Graduate Theory Association Open House
Email mustheor@indiana.edu for details.
Saturday, November 6
11:00–12:30
Session: The Expanding History of Theory II
Knar Abrahamyan (MM ’15, Yale University), Yuri Kholopov’s Theory of Universal Harmony as a Clandestine Bearer of Orthodox Beliefs
Session: Neo-Riemannian Excursions
Prof. Julian Hook, Chair
12:45–2:15
Poster Session 4
Prof. Kyle Adams, Convenor
8:00 PM
Reception: Indiana University Department of Music Theory
Visit our SMT landing page or SMT Schedule for info.
Sunday, November 7
11:00-12:30
Session: Hearling/Listening/Signing
Timothy Chenette (PhD ’13, Utah State University), Beyond Gestalt Listening: Interdisciplinary Models for Harmonic Dictation
Session: Linear Approaches
Trevor Hofelich (MM ’19, Florida State Univeristy), Contextualizing Triadic Post-Tonality in Three Preludes from Dmitri Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87
12:45–2:15
Session: Compositional Uses of Space
Prof. Orit Hilewicz (Eastman School of Music), Experiencing Spaces through Musical Subjects in Caroline Shaw’s Plan and Elevation (2015) and Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel (1971)
Zachary Zinser (PhD ’20), Playing with Perspective in Billie Eilish’s “Party Favor” (2017)
2:30–4:00
Session: Gender Studies
Prof. Michèle Duguay, The Sonic Construction of White Femininity in the Music of Taylor Swift
Gabriel Lubell (DM 13), Experiencing Album Forms and Dialetics of Gender through Sleater-Kinney’s The Woods
Session: Corpus Approaches to Popular Music Analysis
Jinny Park, Meta Corpus Study of Chord-loop Syntax in Twenty-First-Centruy Popular Music
Week of November 8-12
The week following SMT, our faculty will be happy to meet one-on-one with prospective students to discuss the program. Please email them individually to set up Zoom appointments.
- Kyle Adams: kyadams@indiana.edu
- Michèle Duguay: mduguay@iu.edu
- Andrew Goldman: angoldm@iu.edu
- Orit Hilewicz (Jan 2022): ohilewic@iu.edu
- Julian Hook: juhook@indiana.edu
- Eric Isaacson: isaacso@indiana.edu
- Roman Ivanovitch: rivanovi@indiana.edu
- Marianne Kielian-Gilbert: kielian@indiana.edu
- Andrew Mead: awmead@indiana.edu
- Toru Momii: tmomii@iu.edu
- Frank Samarotto: fsamarot@indiana.edu
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