The Musical Ear Conference
Indiana University
September 26, 2009
The Musical Ear
Conference Program
September 26, 2009
8:00-8:15 a.m.: Opening remarks
8:15-9:00 a.m.: Nancy Rogers (Florida State University)
- "Assembling the Nuts and Bolts: Building Musical Skills through Improvisation"
9:00-9:15 a.m.: Break
9:15-10:45 a.m.: Extending the Curriculum (Sarah Wangberg, chair)
- Michael Callahan (Eastman School of Music): “Feeling your Way: Thoroughbass Improvisation as an Aural-Kinesthetic Pedagogy of Counterpoint”
- Keith Salley (Shenandoah Conservatory): “Hearing Form: On the Integration of Aural Skills and Formal Analysis”
- J. Daniel Jenkins (University of South Carolina): “Metric Modulation: A Listener’s Guide”
10:45-11:00 a.m.: Break
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Guides and Pathways (Timothy Best, chair)
- William E. Lake (Bowling Green State University): “Anchor Pitch Classes: A Practical Strategy for Post tonal Aural Skills”
- Daniel B. Stevens (University of Delaware): “How to Understand a Harmonic Progression in Fewer than Ten Hearings: Implementing and Extending the Guide-Tone Method Using the ‘Do-Ti Test’”
- Deborah Rifkin (Ithaca College) and Philip Stoecker (Hofstra University): “The Post-Tonal Quick Switch in the Aural-Skills Classroom”
12:30-1:45 p.m.: Lunch
1:45-2:30 p.m.: Elizabeth Aaron (Mannes College)
- “One Conservatory Approach to the Development of the Ear: Schubert’s Des Müller’s Blumen”
2:30-2:45 p.m.: Break
2:45-4:15 p.m.: Charting Old and New Territory (Garrett Michaelsen, chair)
- Marjorie L. Yankeelov (Belmont University): "Component Skills of Sightsinging: Preliminary Findings."
- Jenine Lawson Brown (Eastman School of Music): “The Perceptual Attraction of Predominant Chords.”
- Richard Hoffman and Todd Kemp (Belmont University): “Removing Melodic Dictation from Aural Skills I”
4:15-4:30 p.m.: Break
4:30-5:15 p.m.: Gary S. Karpinski (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- “Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo”
5:15-5:30 p.m.: Break
5:30-6:30 p.m.: Panel discussion (Kyle Adams, moderator)
- Elizabeth Aaron (Mannes College)
- Gary Karpinski (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- Nancy Rogers (Florida State University)
- Mary Wennerstrom (Indiana University)
Other events:
12:30-4:30 p.m.: Poster
- Christopher Raphael and Kyung Ae Lim (School of Informatics, Indiana University), and Allen and Helga Winold (School of Music, Indiana University): “The 'InTune' Program for Instrumental Intonation Practice”
All day: There will be a “free-exchange table” where two presenters have agreed to provide complimentary handouts featuring non-standard repertoire that they have successfully integrated into the aural skills classroom. Conference attendees will be invited to read brief descriptions of how these repertoires are used, and listen to select examples. Presenters are:
- Victoria Malawey (Kenyon College): “Ear Training with Radiohead”
- Timothy Edwards (Columbia College Chicago Music Department): “A New Repertoire for Moveable-Do Solfège”
8:00 p.m.: The Indiana University Opera Theater will be performing Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri in the Musical Arts Center. Tickets will go on sale starting September 8. For information and tickets, please visit the Opera and Ballet website.
If you would like more information about The Musical Ear conference, contact:
Kyle Adams, program chair (kyadams @ indiana.edu)
The Musical Ear conference
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
1201 E. Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405 |
