November 9-12, 2023
2023 Joint Annual Meeting Website
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel | Denver, Colorado
Conference Schedule
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Thursday, November 9
2:15 – 4:15 pm | Denver
Session: Perspectives on Rhythm and Meter
4:00 – 5:30 pm | Governor’s Sq. 11
Session: Spaces and Transformations
- Alexander Michael Shannon, “Chord-Member Space and Transformations”
- Leah Frederick (PhD 2020; University of Michigan), “Geometry and Fingerboard Shapes: Voice Leading in the Instrumental Space of the Violin”
- Rachel H. Rosenman (MM 2019; Harvard University), “Transcendent Triadic Chromaticism in Songs by Mel Bonis”
4:30 – 5:30 pm | Governor’s Sq. 15
Session: Harmony in Popular Music
- Matthew Allan Bilik (MM 2015; Anderson University), “Pivot Sonority Markedness as Bass-Chord Disjunction in Pop and Rock”
7:30 – 9:00 pm | Governor’s Sq. 15
Session: SMT Mathematics of Music Interest Group Meeting, discussion on Julian Hook’s Exploring Musical Spaces: A Synthesis of Mathematical Approaches (Oxford University Press, 2023)
- 7:30–7:45 pm Business Meeting
- 7:45–8:30 pm Short Presentations on Exploring Musical Spaces
- 8:30–8:45 pm Response from Julian Hook
- 8:45–9:00 pm Q&A Discussion with all panelists
Friday, November 10
8:00 – 9:30 am | Columbine
SMT Poster Session
- Thomas Charles Collison, “Metric Irregularity as Characterization in Death Note (2006)”
- Lizhou Wang, “Computational Analysis of Melodic Contour Based on CSIM and Clustering Techniques: A Model Tested by J. S. Bach’s Preludes in Cello Suites No.2 and 3”
9:00 am – 12:15 pm | Governor’s Sq. 17
Session: Microtonal Listenings
- Jack Bussert, “Sonic Shadings in Two Versions of BWV 21/3, ‘Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not’”
9:00 am – 12:15 pm | Governor’s Sq. 11
Session: A Survey of the Sources of Serialism at its Centenary
-
University of Missouri-Kansas City), “Walter Piston’s Serial Journey: What Archival Documents Reveal about the Composer and Pedagogue”
10:15 am – 12:15 pm | Grand Ballroom I
Session: The Popular Singing Voice
- Mitchell Ohriner (PhD 2011; University of Denver), “Excess Inhalations in Taylor Swift’s Midnights (2022)”
10:45 am – 12:15 pm | Silver
Workshop: Rethinking Aural Skills Through Backwards Design
- (PhD 2013; Utah State University), organizer and chair
2:15 – 3:45 pm | Denver
Session: Analyzing Hip-Hop
- Noriko Manabe, chair
2:15 – 3:45 pm | Governor’s Sq. 15
Session: Hearing Hybridity
- Bruno Alcalde (MM 2012; University of South Carolina), Chair
2:15 – 5:30 pm | Grand Ballroom I
Session: Professional Ins and Outs: Practicing/Performing Public Music Theory
- Abigail Shupe (MM 2009; Colorado State University), “Public Music Theory Within the Academy” panelist
4:00 – 5:30 pm | Denver
Session: Metric Modulations, Patterns, and Schemas
- Nathaniel D. Mitchell (MM 2015; University of North Carolina Greensboro), “Cue Schemas”
Saturday, November 11
10:45 AM | Majesty Ballroom
Session: Music for White America
9:30 – 11:30 pm | Tower Court C
Networking Reception: Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Hosted by the departments of Music Theory and Musicology
Sunday, November 12
10:45 am – 12:15 pm | Plaza Court 1
Session: Music and Dance
- Mítia Ganade D’Acol, “Krump Meets Rameau: Affect, Bodies, and the Communication of Emotions”
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