Fifteenth Biennial Symposium of
Research in Music Theory

sponsored by The Graduate Theory Association

15-16 February, 2008

Program of Activities

(all events take place in Ford Hall)

Friday, February 15

4:00pm: Registration

5:00pm: Keynote Address
Harald Krebs, University of Victoria, "Fancy Footwork:  Distortions of Poetic Rhythm in the Late Songs of Robert Schumann"
Session chair:  Kyle Fyr

6:00pm: Dinner at area restaurants

7:45pm: Invited Speakers:

Frank Samarotto, Indiana University, "'Phantasia Subitanea':  Temporal Caprice in Brahms's Op. 116, No. 1"

Gretchen Horlacher, Indiana University, "The Fullness of Time:  Stravinsky, Reich, and Praise"

Julian Hook, Indiana University, "How to Perform Impossible Rhythms"

Session chair:  Garrett Michaelsen

9:30pm: Reception

Saturday, February 16

8:00am: Continental breakfast (Ford-Crawford Hall foyer)

9:00: Paper Session #1, "Interactions With Cognition and Perception

Philip Duker, University of Michigan, "Resulting Patterns, Palimpsests, and 'Pointing Out' the Role of the Listener in Reich's Drumming"

John Paul Ito, Lawrence University, "Hypermetrical Schemas, Conflicting Theories, and Idealized Cognitive Models"

Ives Chor, Northwestern University, "Representing Repetition and Variation in Groove-Based Music"

Session chair:  John Reef

10:45am: Paper Session #2, "Interactions With Performance"

Peter Martens, Texas Tech University, "Can Performers Dictate Tactus?"

Paul Lombardi, University of New Mexico, "Feathered Beams Decomposed"

Sara Bakker, Indiana University, "Parsing Time With Harmony"

Session chair:  Mitch Ohriner

12:15pm: Break for lunch (area restaurants)

2:00pm: Paper Session #3, "Romanticism"

Anna Gawboy, Yale University, "Aksak Meter and the Hungarian Style of Brahms's Variations on a Hungarian Theme, Op. 21, No. 2"

Yonatan Malin, Wesleyan University, "From Poetic Meter to Musical Rhythm: Declamatory Schemas in the Lied"

Michael Vidmar-McEwen, Indiana University, "Franz Schubert and the Etherealized Mechanical"

Session chair:  Danny Arthurs

3:45: Panel Discussion
Moderator:  Roman Ivanovitch

5:00pm: Keynote Address
Justin London, Carleton College, "Cognitive and Aesthetic Aspects of Metrical Ambiguity"
Session chair:  Kyle Fyr

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