2021 Program

The Spring 2021 meeting of the South-Central Society for Music Theory will be held entirely online from February 19 – 20, 2021. To attend the conference (via Zoom) and participate in any of the sessions below, you must REGISTER for the conference. An e-mail will then be sent to you with the corresponding Zoom links.

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” (Abstract, Slides, Text)
• Emily Milius (University of Oregon)
  • “Voice as Trauma Recovery: Vocal Timbre in Kesha’s ‘Praying’” (Abstract, Text)
• Madison Stepherson (University of Minnesota)
  • “Talking Timbre: Vocal Timbre and Narrative in Florence + the Machine’s Ceremonials” (Abstract, Text, Handout)

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” (Abstract)
• Hanisha Kulothparan (Michigan State University)
  • “Webern’s Influence on Barbara Pentland’s Serialism in Symphony for TenParts” (Abstract, Text, Slides)
• J. Wesley Flinn (University of Minnesota Morris)
  • “Looking at Music Theory through the Overton Window” (Abstract, Slides)

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” (Abstract, Handout, Text)
• Varun Chandrasekhar (University of Minnesota)
  • “Jazz and Imagination: A Sartrean Approach to Jazz Ontology” (Abstract, Slides, Text)
• Aubrey Leaman (Northwestern University)
  • “Empathic Identification: A Theory of Subjective Agency in Western Art Music” (Abstract, Slides)

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” (Abstract, Slides, Text)
• Kaleb Brown (University of Memphis)
  • “Interpreting Religious Symbolism in Sofia Gubaidulina’s in croce for violoncello and organ” (Abstract)
• Alex Pipkins (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
  • “Observations on Modern Techniques of Philip Sparke” (Abstract, Slides, Text)

2:00 pm, Session 5: Harmony and Structure
Chair: Stefanie Dickinson (University of Central Arkansas)

• Ellen Bakulina (University of North Texas)
  • “Rachmaninoff’s Subdominant” (Abstract, Slides)
• Benjamin K. Wadsworth and Meghan O’Harra (Kennesaw State University)
  • “The Submerged Urlinie and Musical Narrative” (Abstract, Slides, Text)
• Kyle Hutchinson (Toronto, Ontario)
  • “Black Narratives in the White Racial Frame: Dialogue, Persistence, andStructure in Florence Price’s Piano Sonata in E Minor” (Abstract, Text, Examples)

3:00 pm, Session 6: Folk Music
Chair: Trevor de Clercq (Middle Tennessee State University)

• Robert McCormac (Appalachian State University)
  • “Old-Time Participatory Music Traditions as a Contemporary Pedagogical Model” (Abstract, Text)
• Andrew Brinkman (Midwestern State University)
  • “Analyses on the History, Organization, and Use of the Essen Folksong Collection” (Abstract, Text, Slides)

4:00 pm, Business Meeting

5:00 pm, Music Theory Hangout and Happy Hour