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
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