The Spring 2021 meeting of the South-Central Society for Music Theory will be held entirely online from February 19 – 20, 2021.
Tentative Program, SCSMT 2021
*** All times listed are Central Time Zone (CST) ***
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2021
2:00 pm, Session 1: Timbre and Genre
Chair: Olivia Lucas, Louisiana State University
- Sammy Gardner (Ohio State University), “The Sincerity of a Gesture”
- Emily Milius (University of Oregon), “Voice as Trauma Recovery: Vocal Timbre in Kesha’s ‘Praying’”
- Madison Stepherson (University of Minnesota), “Talking Timbre: Vocal Timbre and Narrative in Florence + the Machine’sCeremonials”
3:00 pm, Session 2: Analysis and Meta-Analysis
Chair: Ivan Elezovic, Jackson State University
- Chelsea Wright (University of Oregon), “Expositional Structures in the Type 2 Keyboard Sonatas of J.C. Bach”
- Hanisha Kulothparan (Michigan State University), “Webern’s Influence on Barbara Pentland’s Serialism in Symphony for TenParts”
- J. Wesley Flinn (University of Minnesota Morris), “Looking at Music Theory through the Overton Window”
4:00 pm, Session 3: Critical Approaches
Chair: Wesley Bradford, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Matt Chiu (Eastman School of Music), “Contextual Chord Embeddings for Stylistic Analysis”
- Varun Chandrasekhar (University of Minnesota), “Jazz and Imagination: A Sartrean Approach to Jazz Ontology”
- Aubrey Leaman (Northwestern University), “Empathic Identification: A Theory of Subjective Agency in Western Art Music” [Video] [Slides] [Abstract]
5:00 pm, Music Theory Hangout and Happy Hour
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2021
11:00 am, Keynote Presentation
• Lori Burns (University of Ottawa), “Sharing Sonic Space in Metal Duets: Floor Jansen’s Vocal Collaborations”
Noon – 1:00 pm, Lunch Break
1:00 pm, Session 4: Undergraduate Research Forum
Chair: Janna Saslaw (Loyola University)
- Joseph Grunkemeyer (Kennesaw State University), “Narrative Ambiguity in Brahms Op. 38: An Argument for Multi- Movement Analysis”
- Kaleb Brown (University of Memphis), “Interpreting Religious Symbolism in Sofia Gubaidulina’s in croce for violoncello and organ”
- Alex Pipkins (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), “Observations on Modern Techniques of Philip Sparke”
2:00 pm, Session 5: Harmony and Structure
Chair, TBA
- Ellen Bakulina (University of North Texas), “Rachmaninoff’s Subdominant”
- Benjamin K. Wadsworth and Meghan O’Harra (Kennesaw State University), “The Submerged Urlinie and Musical Narrative”
- Kyle Hutchinson (Toronto, Ontario), “Black Narratives in the White Racial Frame: Dialogue, Persistence, andStructure in Florence Price’s Piano Sonata in E Minor”
3:00 pm, Session 6: Folk Music
Chair, TBA
- Robert McCormac (Appalachian State University), “Old-Time Participatory Music Traditions as a Contemporary Pedagogical Model”
- Andrew Brinkman (Midwestern State University), “Analyses on the History, Organization, and Use of the Essen Folksong Collection”
4:00 pm, Business Meeting
5:00 pm, Music Theory Hangout and Happy Hour