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Graduate Theory Association
Indiana University
Jacobs School of Music
1201 East Third St
Bloomington, IN 47405

Sixteenth Biennial Symposium of
Research in Music Theory

sponsored by The Graduate Theory Association


Home Roster of Participants Program of Activities Travel & Accommodations

 

20-21 February, 2009

2009 Special Symposium on Performance and Analysis Schedule of Events

(all events take place in Ford-Crawford Hall)


Friday
2:00-3:00pm Symposium Registration (Ford-Crawford Hall Lobby)
3:00-3:15pm Opening Remarks, Dean Gwyn Richards
3:15-4:15pm 

“Dividing Time, Across Time”
Session chair: John Reef, Indiana University
Timothy Chenette, Indiana University. “The Analysis of Rhythm and Meter in Early
Music.”
Kyle Fyr, Indiana University. “Conveying Proportion and Other Performance Issues in
John Adams’s China Gates.”

4:15-4:30pm Break
4:30-5:30pm “Under the Microscope”
Session chair: Alissa Guntren, Indiana University
Brent Yorgason, Marietta College. "Expressive Asynchrony in Romantic Piano
Performance."
Johanna Devaney, McGill University. “Intonational Tendencies in Solo A Cappella Vocal
Performances.”
5:30-7:30pm Break for Dinner (at area restaurants)
7:30-9:30pm Keynote Session One
Session chair: Mitch Ohriner, Indiana University
Susan McClary, University of California, Los Angeles, “Adorno Plays the WTC: On
Political Theory and Performance.”
David Huron, Ohio State University, “Why is Rubato So Important?”
9:30-11:00pm Social Hour, Irish Lion (just west of Kirkwood and College Aves.)
   
Saturday
8:00-9:00am Continental Breakfast (Ford-Crawford Hall Lobby)
9:00-10:30 Session chair: Andreas Metz, Indiana University
Gordon Sly, Michigan State University, and Sheryl Iott, Grand Rapids Community College
and Interlochen Arts Camp. “Performance Questions and Analysis in Haydn’s Late
F-minor Piano Variations.”
Jennifer Sadoff Auerbach, University of Texas at Arlington. “The Urlinie and Fugue
Analysis and Performance: An Omitted Passage from Der freie Satz.”
Mike Lee, Cornell University. "How metrical shifts shape large-scale formal narrative and
encroach on the concept of tempo unity in the performance and analysis of
Schubert's sonata in A-minor, Op. 42."
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 “Performance as Identity”
Session chair: Trina Thompson, Indiana University
Victoria Tzotzkova, Columbia University. “Identifying with a Piece of Music in
Performance and in Analysis; or, In Search of the Interpretation.”
John Pippen, University of Tennessee. “Performing Innovation: New Music Ensembles
and the Production of Culture.”
Timothy Best, Indiana University. "On the Relationship between Analysis and Performance
in Atonal Music."
12:30-1:45 Break for Lunch (at area restaurants)
1:45-2:45 “Real and Impossible Geometries”
Session chair: Garrett Michaelsen, Indiana University
Anna Gawboy, Yale University. “The Wheatstone Concertina and Symmetrical
Arrangements of Tonal Space.”
Ivan Jimenez, University of Pittsburgh. “A Comparison of Different Performances of
Ligeti’s Piano Concerto Through the Lenses of Escher’s Works.”
2:45-3:45 Panel Discussion
Moderator: Roman Ivanovitch, Indiana University
3:45-4:15 Reception (Ford-Crawford Hall Lobby)
4:15-6:15 Keynote Session Two
Session chair: William Guerin, Indiana University
Daphne Leong, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Between Structure and Sound:
Realizing Rhythm at the Center of Bartók's Fifth String Quartet."
Carl Schachter, Mannes College of Music “Making Music Speak Clearly: The Analysis of
Phrase Structure and Phrase Rhythm as a Guide to Performance.”
6:15-8:00 Break for Dinner (at area restaurants)
8:00-9:00 Symposium Concert

If you would like more information about the Graduate Theory Association, send an e-mail to our president, Mitch Ohriner (mohriner @ indiana.edu)or directly to the Graduate Theory Association (gta @ indiana.edu). Website comments: (mustheor @ indiana.edu)



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