The program for the 2023 SCSMT Conference held at the University of Southern Mississippi at the Gulf Park Campus can be found below. It can also be downloaded as a PDF here.
Registration for the conference is available online through Eventbrite.
*** Friday, March 24 ***
Registration/Coffee 8:00-8:55 (North Academic Building (NAB))
Poster Presentation Setup 8:00-8:30 (NAB 102)
Welcome, Opening Remarks 8:30-8:55
Location: NAB 103
All sessions EXCEPT the poster presentations will be in NAB 103. Graduate student workshop will be in NAB 104
Session 1: Video Game Music (9:00-10:30)
Chair: Wesley J. Bradford (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
- Adriana Ezekiel (University of Alabama), Seasonal Affect in the Music of Stardew Valley
- Pamela Mason-Nguyen (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Song of Memories”: Schematic Borrowing in Final Fantasy IX
- Morgan Weeks (Louisiana State University), Battling Bosses to the Rhythmically Informative Music of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Session 2: Pop/Film (10:45-12:15)
Chair: Lauren Wilson (University of Rochester)
- Ryan Galik (Michigan State University), Metadiegesis in Recorded Music and Film
- Matthew Oliver (University of North Texas), From a Musical to Political Resolution: The Tension of the Tonic Anticipation in Black Pop
- Stefanie Bilidas (University of Texas at Austin), Timbre and Generic Conventions in Cover Songs from Tribute Albums
12:15-2:00 – Lunch/Posters
Session 3: Poster Presentations (1:15 – 2:00)
Location: NAB 102
*Posters will be available for viewing throughout the day on Friday, with the presenters at their posters for discussion during the scheduled session time.
- Danny Beard (University of Southern Mississippi), Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs of Teaching Schenkerian Analytic Techniques in Sophomore Music Theory Classes
- Jenna Wolbers (Stetson University), Multimedia Effects on Audience Members with the Rite of Spring
- Bryan Pallotta (University of Memphis), Instrumentation, Timbre, and Semiotics in the Soundtrack Music of Lena Raine
Session 4: 20th Century (2:15-3:45)
Chair: Ivan Elezovic (Jackson State University)
- Alex Shannon (Indiana University), Chord-Member Space and Transformations
- John Heilig (Oberlin College and Conservatory/Indiana University), Musical Texture and Auditory Scene Analysis in Philip Glass’s Music in Similar Motion
- Rebecca Long (University of Louisville), Don’t (Do) Cross the Streams: Roberto Gerhard’s Harpsichord Concerto, Serialism, and Tonality
Session 5: Form & Meter (4:00-5:30)
Chair: Olivia Lucas (Louisiana State University)
- Xieyi (Abby) Zhang (Georgia State University), Cadential Rhetoric and Separate Agencies: Split-Voice PACs and their Impact on Formal Closure in the Music of Dvořák
- Matthew Bilik (Anderson University), Recontextualized Motives as Narrative in Debussy’s Études
- Emma Mehigan (University of Alabama), Form in C.P.E. Bach’s “Prussian” and “Württemberg” Piano Sonatas
*** Saturday, March 25***
Graduate Workshop: 9:00-10:30
Location: NAB 104
Dr. Ji Yeon Lee (University of Houston), “Theorizing Musical Climax” (prior registration required)
Session 6: Music & Text (9:00-10:30)
Chair: Rebecca Long (University of Louisville)
Location: NAB 103
- Erin Johnston (CUNY, Graduate Center), From Lied to Symphony: Evaluating Harmony’s Influence on Mahler’s Symphonic Manipulation of Song Material
- Stefanie Dickinson (University of Central Arkansas), Revision as Rereading: Liszt’s “Was Liebe Sei?”
- Will Waldroup (Tarrant County College, Northeast), The “Vasnier Vocalise” – Design and Structural Connections in Debussy’s Early Mélodies.
Keynote by Dr. Julianne Grasso: 11:00-12:30
Location: NAB 103
Business Meeting 12:30-1:00 (SCSMT Members)
Location: NAB 103