GSS Conference: Schedule

Forms of Music

Friday, June 7

9a-12p – Analysis Workshop:  Processual Approaches to Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music: The Case of Mendelssohn and the First Movement of his Violin Concerto, Op. 64
            Janet Schmalfeldt, Tufts University

Participants: Carly Barnes (CCM), Hannah Benoit (BostonU), Thomas Croke (CCM), Michael Dekovich (Oregon), Thomas Ingram (McGill), Emily Kenyon (UMass Amherst), Kasey Lynch (Tufts), Bryce Newcomer (CCM), Emily Schwitzgebel (UMass Amherst), Blake Taylor (UConn)

12-1p – Lunch Break

2-3p – Session 1
            Christina Dioguardi, chair

Texture and Compositional Schemata as Semiotic Signs in Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories
            Devin Chaloux, Indiana University

A Logical Paradigm for “Imitating the Words” in Music: The View from the Poetics Commentary Tradition
            Russell O'Rourke, Columbia University

Coffee Break

3:15-4:15p – Session 2
            Christina Dioguardi, chair

“Forms” of Susanna: Lukács, Lacan, and Phallic Essence in Weimar Opera
            Blake Taylor, University of Connecticut

A 'Chinese Bel Canto': Hybrid Vocality and Constructing the Syncretic Nation in Huang Ruo’s Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
            Edward Wang, Wesleyan University

Coffee Break

4:45p – Faculty Keynote: “Philippe de Vitry's da da da dum”
            Anna Zayaruznaya, Yale University

Saturday, June 8

9:30-11a – Session 3
            Eric Hollander, chair

Forkel's Listening Subject
            Thomas Ingram, McGill University

Analyzing centrifugal/centripetal trajectories in Schubert using Schoenberg's chart of regions
            Stephen Whale, CUNY Graduate Center

Chopin Listens: The Formation of the Etudes Through Historical Dialogue
            Thomas Croke, University of Cincinnati – College Conservatory of Music

Coffee Break

11:15a-12:15p – Session 4
            Matthew Heck, chair

Formal Functions in Early Death Metal: Chuck Schuldiner’s Ternary Songs
            Michael Dekovich, University of Oregon

Form and the Jam: Defining Improvisation in the Music of Dave Matthews Band
            Micheal Sebulsky, University of Oregon

12:15-2:15p – Lunch Break

2:30-4p – Session 5
            Eric Elder, chair

Kabalevsky and Sonata Form: Three Innovative Procedures
            Tyler Secor, University of Cincinnati – College Conservatory of Music

Thematic Narrative in Fanny Hensel's Sonata Forms
            Tyler Osborne, University of Oregon

Comparing Inner and Outer Form in the Third Movement of Mozart's Concerto in G, K. 313
            Carly Barnes, University of Cincinnati - College Conservatory of Music

Coffee Break

4:15 – Faculty Keynote: (Per)forming music in the future
            Jonathan Kregor, University of Cincinnati – College Conservatory of Music