On Friday and Saturday, February 21–22, 2025, the Graduate Theory Association (GTA) and Graduate Musicology Association (GMA) will host the Thirty-First Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The symposium will feature student presentations with panels on diverse topics.
Prof. L. Poundie Burstein from the CUNY Graduate Center will be our keynote speaker, and we will also feature talks and workshops from several newly appointed faculty members at Indiana University: Profs. Lina Tabak and Amy Tai (Music Theory), and Profs. Jacquelyn Sholes and Jennifer Saltzstein (Musicology).
All events are FREE.
All students and professors from the departments of music theory and musicology—and all presenters—will be automatically registered.
Registration is not necessary for non-departmental attendees.
Workshops are available to music theory/musicology students and presenters; sign-up occurred in advance.
Click here for a downloadable program with abstracts and bios!
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Friday, February 21st, 2025
Registration (11:00AM–12:30PM)
Ford-Crawford Hall Lobby
Opening Remarks (12:30PM–12:45PM)
Ford-Crawford Hall
IU Departments of Music Theory and Musicology
IU Faculty Presentation (12:45PM–1:45PM)
Ford-Crawford Hall
John M. Cowan, chair
Prof. Jacquelyn Sholes (musicology), “Atonality and Meaning in Selected Songs of Leonard Bernstein”
Session 1: Americana, Identity, and Race (2:00PM–3:30PM)
Ford-Crawford Hall
Jacqueline Fortier, chair
Jess Forgione (Michigan State University), “Race, Bias, and Musical Identity in Burleigh’s ‘Ethiopia Saluting the Colors’”
Kellin Tasber (Michigan State University), “Our Delusion in the Face of Institutional Racism: How Timbre and Texture Create Conflict in Coldplay’s ‘Trouble in Town’”
Matt Anderson (University of Kansas), “Howard Hanson and the Pitfalls of American National Identity”
Keynote Workshop (3:45PM–5:15PM)
Simon Music Center (SM) Room 350
Prof. L. Poundie Burstein (CUNY), “Bottom-up, Historically Informed Analysis of Classical Sonata-form Layouts”
Session 2: Pop-pourri (5:30PM–7:00PM)
Ford-Crawford Hall
Tori Vilches, chair
Lucy Rissmeyer (Indiana University–Bloomington), “‘Do the Russians Want War?’: Pacifism and Solidarity in Rolando Alarcón Sings to Soviet Poets”
Jack Etchegary (University of Western Ontario), “Exploring Music Categorization, Consumption & Creation Through Genre in the Age of AI”
Camilo Lozano (Case Western Reserve University), “‘It’s she who holds her tongue who gets a man’: Performativity, music, gender, and sexuality in a selection of animated Disney films”
Student Dinner and Trivia (7:00PM–9:00PM)
Simon Music Center (SM) Room 242
Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
Breakfast (8:00AM–9:30AM)
Ford-Crawford Hall Lobby
Session 3: Canonical Kaleidoscope (9:30AM–11:00AM)
Ford-Crawford Hall
Travis Whaley, chair
Marcelo Rebuffi (Case Western Reserve University), “Singular Episodes: Hearing Hidden Voices in Bach’s Solo Violin Fugues”
Peyson Weekley (Indiana University–Bloomington), “Nikolaus the Listener: A Discussion of Patronage and Haydn’s ‘Esterházy’ Sonatas”
Jonathon Crompton (Columbia University), “Hearing Hybridity: Jason Moran’s version of Brahms’s intermezzo Op. 118, no. 2”
IU Faculty Workshops (11:30AM–1:00PM)
Prof. Saltzstein: Simon Music Center (SM) Room 242
Prof. Tabak: Simon Music Center (SM) Room 340
Prof. Jennifer Saltzstein (musicology), “Musicology and Animal Studies”
Prof. Lina Tabak (music theory), “Why is that the Beat? Metric Perception and (Un)familiar Repertoires”
IU Faculty Presentation (1:15PM–2:15PM)
Ford-Crawford Hall
Drake Eshleman, chair
Prof. Amy Tai (music theory), “An Embodied Understanding of Bach’s Musical Forms Through Choreography”
Session 4: Narrative, Transformation, and Form in Popular Music (2:30PM–4:00PM)
Ford-Crawford Hall
Alex Shannon, chair
Ryan Krell (University of Cincinnati), “Transformation, Narrative, and Cyclical Form in the Arcadian Wild’s Principium“
Lilly Korkontzelos (Michigan State University), “Who Does The Night Belong To?: Timbre, Texture, Recording Techniques, and Narrative in Two Songs by Sleep Token”
Aaron D’Zurilla (Florida State University), “Guess Who’s Back: Narrative Subversions in The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)“
Keynote Lecture (4:30PM–5:30PM)
Ford-Crawford Hall
Lev Roshal, chair
Prof. L. Poundie Burstein (CUNY), “Music Analysis, Sharing, and Long-Distance Relationships.”
Closing Remarks (5:30PM)
Ford-Crawford Hall
GTA and GMA Leadership
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.
2024–2025 GTA Officers
Lev Roshal, President
Joey Grunkemeyer, Vice-President
Jack Bussert, Secretary
Wade Voris, Treasurer
Allyson Starr, Publicity Chair
Thomas Collison and Tori Vilches, Events Coordinators
Jacob Wilkinson, GPSG Representative
2024–2025 GMA OFFICERS
John Matthew Cowan and Yishai Rubin, Presidents
Elizabeth Hile and Kristin Shaffer, Vice Presidents
Lucy Rissmeyer, IU Graduate and Professional Student Organization Representative
Peyson Weekley, JSoM Student Representative Committee
LODGING
IMU Biddle Hotel
(812) 856-6381
Hyatt Place Bloomington
(812) 339-5950
Grant Street Inn
(800) 328-4350
PARKING
The East Parking Garage near the Jacobs School (150 N. Eagleson, formerly Jordan Garage/Jordan Ave) offers Park Mobile or kiosk payment in the garage. Rates are $3/hour during the day and $1/hour after 5pm. Maximum daily rate is $30.
- Upper Deck: EM-S zoned and paid visitor parking
- Lower Deck: EMP zoned parking and follows enforcement hours of all zoned lots
- Payment Options: Cash, coin, credit card, CrimsonCard, or ParkMobile
For City of Bloomington Parking Information
AIR TRAVEL
Fly into Indianapolis International Airport (IND).
GROUND TRAVEL
In addition to car rental, Uber, etc., GO Express Travel provides shuttle service between IND and Bloomington.
GOOD EATS
Check our Restaurant Guide for a list of some of our favorite Bloomington and at IU eateries.
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