South Central Society for Music Theory
March 27 – 28, 2015
Loyola University
New Orleans, Louisiana
Conference Program
Friday Morning Sessions
Monroe Hall, Nunemaker Auditorium
Coffee and Registration: (8:00am – 9:00am)
Welcome: (9:00am)
Dr. Anthony Decuir, Dean, College of Music and Fine Arts
Session I: (9:15am – 10:15am)
“The Tonal-Chromatic Scale and Mahler’s Piano Quartet”
Andrew Nicolette (Louisiana State University)
“Blurring into the Distance: Harmonic Overlaps in Schumann and Brahms”
Diego Cubero (University of North Texas)
Break: (10:15pm – 10:30pm)
Session II: (10:30am – 12:00pm)
“Topical Transformation in Liszt’s Transcriptions”
Melissa Murphy (Northwestern University)
“Sound as subjectivity, a reconsideration of Gibsonian affordances”
Cora Palfy (Northwestern University)
“’Home I’ll Never Be’: Sense of Location, Musical Settings, and Authenticity in Popular Song Lyrics”
Jake Arthur (University of Minnesota)
Lunch 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Friday Afternoon Sessions
Monroe Hall, Nunemaker Auditorium
Keynote: (2:00pm – 3:00pm)
“Tonics Phenomenological, Empirical, and Theoretical”
Steven Rings (University of Chicago)
Break: (3:00pm – 3:15pm)
Session III: (3:15pm – 4:45pm)
“Imagined, Supplemental Sound as a Source of Agency in Musical Embodiment”
Hamish J. Robb (Princeton University)
“Music Imitating Machines, Machines Imitating Humans: Industrialization and the Three Categories of Mechanical Music”
Allison Went (University of Texas at Austin)
“Formal and Temporal Multiplicity in Beethoven’s String Quartet in C#-minor, Op. 131: What Sonata Theory Can Tell Us About Late Beethoven”
Jonathan Mitchell (Baton Rouge Community College)
Saturday Morning Sessions
Monroe Hall, Nunemaker Auditorium
Session IV: (9:00am – 10:30am)
“Boulez the Classicist: Phrase structure in Anthèmes I, Incises and Une page d’éphéméride”
Sean Clarke (University of Montreal)
“Pathways to Compositional Autonomy: Emancipation of the Triad in Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 6”
Mark Parker (Bob Jones University)
“‘Modern Harmonic Tendencies’ in Ferruccio Busoni’s Fantasia Contrappuntistica”
Colin Davis (Sam Houston State University)
Break: (10:30am – 10:45am)
Session V: (10:45am – 12:15am)
“Connecting the Blocks: Formal Continuity in Stravinsky’s Sérénade en La”
Peter Mueller (University of Arizona)
“Extended Tonal Procedures in the Music of Edward Elgar: an inquiry into Elgar’s chromatic realm”
Higo Henrique (St. Catharine College)
“The Soloist as Form-Functional Agent in Rachmaninov’s D-minor Piano Concerto”
James DiNardo (University of Michigan)
Break: (12:15pm – 12:30pm)
SCSMT Business Meeting: (12:30 – 1:00)