The complete program, including abstracts and concert details, for the joint conference of SCSMT with CMS-South, to be held February 28 – March 1, 2020 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN can be downloaded as a PDF here.
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Friday, February 28, 2020
10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration in Lobby
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Sessions
CMS: Paper Presentations
Location: Room 2175
Session Chair: Ann L. Silverberg (Austin Peay State University)
• A Holistic Approach to Undergraduate Research in Music: Insights and Applications from CMS, CUR, and the Classroom, Kerry Ginger (Sewanee: The University of the South)
• The Legacy of Gerre Hancock: Master Organ Improviser, Terry McRoberts (Union University)
SCSMT: The Voice in Popular Music (1): Improvisation and Pedagogy
Location: 1167
Session Chair: Rebecca Long (University of Louisville)
• Lobbying for a La-Based Approach to the Minor Tonic in Popular Music Harmony, [Handout], Trevor de Clercq (Middle Tennessee State University)
• Improvised metric flexibility in early recordings of self-accompanied “hillbilly” songs: Clarence Ashley’s “The House Carpenter” (1930) and Buell Kazee’s “The Butcher Boy” (1928), [Handout], Tobias Tschiedl (McGill University)
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch on your own
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Plenary Session: Welcome and Dariusz Terefenko Address,
• Practical Music Theory – Improvisation in the Classroom, [Handout], [Slides]
Location: Turner Hall
Session Chairs: Brendan McConville (The University of Tennessee), Benjamin Wadsworth (Kennesaw State University)
2:20 – 3:20 p.m. Sessions
CMS: Paper Presentations
Location: Room 1109
Session Chair: Mark Lackey (Samford University)
• John Zorn’s Game Piece Cobra as a Tool for Teaching Improvisation, Holland Hopson (New College, The University of Alabama)
• Tapping Student Potential: Applying Concepts of the Growth Mindset to the College Music Studio, Carolyn Sanders (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
SCSMT: Music and Drama
Location: Room 1167
Session Chair: Wesley Bradford (University of Louisiana-Lafayette)
• Form and Intertextuality in Movie Music Videos, [Handout], Brent Ferguson (University of Kansas)
• The Dramatic Potential of Auxiliary Cadences in Cole Porter Songs with Minor-to-Major Choruses, Morgan Markel (Eastman School of Music)
SCSMT: Gesture in 20th-Century Music
Location: Room 2175
Session Chair: Nathan Fleshner (University of Tennessee)
• Pivot-Notes in André Jolivet’s Style Incantatoire, [Handout], Stephanie Venturino (Eastman School of Music)
• Interpreting Harmony through Gesture in the Chromatic Music of Anton Webern, [Handout], John Heilig (Indiana University)
3:35 – 4:35 p.m. Sessions
CMS: Paper Presentations
Location: Room 1109
Session Chair: Zane Gillespie (Music Ministry International)
• Virtuosi Women Pianists, Julia Mortyakova (Mississippi University for Women)
• Don Wilkerson and the Texas Tenor Tradition of Improvisation, David Detweiler (Florida State University)
SCSMT: Percussion in Recent Musics
Location: Room 1167
Session Chair: Bill Shaltis (University of Memphis)
• The Problem Posed by Elliot Carter’s “Saëta” to Cyclic Form as Closure, [Handout], Clare Sher Ling Eng (Belmont University)
• Analyzing Drum Patterns and Drum Pattern Changes in Twenty-First Century Mainstream Pop, [Handout], David Geary (Wake Forest University)
SCSMT: 20th Century Histories
Location: Room 2175
Session Chair: Joy Calico (Vanderbilt University)
• David Kraehenbuehl’s Vision of Music Theory, Stephen Lett (Virginia Commonwealth University)
• Transformed Desire: Scriabin’s Transition from Functional Tonality, Jeff Yunek (Kennesaw State University)
4:50 – 5:50 p.m. Sessions
CMS: Lecture Recital and Performance Session
Location: Turner Hall
Session Chair: Kerry Ginger (Sewanee: The University of the South)
• Art Songs of Female Impressionist Composers, Lynn Worcester Jones (The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) and Andrew White (The University of Nebraska at Kearney)
• Impromptu and Autumn by Cecile Chaminade, Julia Mortyakova (Mississippi University for Women)
CMS: Paper Presentations
Location: Room 1109
Session Chair: Terry McRoberts (Union University)
• A Prolegomena for a Theory of Implausibility in Music Composition, Zane Gillespie (Music Ministry International)
• Circus of Dreams: Creating New Sounds for Flute with Extended Techniques, Ginny Tutton, (Centre College) and Jonathan McNair (University of Tennessee-Chattanooga)
CMS: Paper Presentations
Location: Room 2175
Session Chair: Douglas Mark (Delta State University)
• Minuet Makeovers: Improvising New Pieces Inspired By Classical Works, Monique Arar (Independent Scholar)
• Teach Them Believe: 12 Strategies for Promoting Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Piano Students, Lynn Worcester Jones, (The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
SCSMT: Workshop with Andrew Goldman
Location: Room 1167
• The Neuroscience of improvisation: Theories, Methods, and Philosophical Critiques, Andrew Goldman (University of Western Ontario)
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Dinner on your own
CMS Executive Board Meeting (TBD)
8:00 p.m. CMS Composers Concert I
Location: Turner Hall
Session Chair: Valentin Bogdan (Mississippi University for Women)
• Golus I, Alan Goldspiel (University of Montevallo)
• Of something, Michael Boyd (Chatham University)
• Monologue, William Price (University of Alabama – Birmingham)
• Creatures from the Black Bassoon, Kyle Vanderburg (North Dakota State University)
• Wanderings, Daniel Morel (Avila University)
• Vantage Points, Valentin M. Bogdan (Mississippi University for Women)
• Lines After Neruda and Gismonti, Traci Mendel (Troy University)
• Preludes for Piano (2019), Hyowon Bong (University of Tennessee)
• Three Walt Whitman Songs, Darleen Mitchell (University of Nebraska-Kearney)
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Saturday, February 29, 2020
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration in Lobby
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Sessions
CMS: Lecture Recital
Location: Turner Hall
Session Chair: Zane Gillespie (Music Ministry International)
• Three Works for Solo Drum, Christopher Wilson (Southeast Missouri State University)
CMS: Paper Presentation
Location: Room 1167
Session Chair: Fred Sienkiewicz (Vanderbilt University)
• The Creativity of One: A Core-Course Model for Music Theory, Courtenay L. Harter (Rhodes College)
CMS: Paper Presentation
Location: Room 2175
Session Chair: Brendan McConville (The University of Tennessee)
• Affect Effects: Improvised Avataristic Perceptions and Music Theory, Michael C. Gardiner (University of Mississippi)
CMS: Lecture Recital
Location: Room 1109
Session Chair: Kerry Ginger (Sewanee: The University of the South)
• Concert With Words: An Improvised Journey, Joe Montelione (Florida Tech University)
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Sessions
CMS: Student Paper Session
Location: Room 1167
Session Chair: Mark Lackey (Samford University)
• Multi-Narrativity in Music: An Analysis of John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1, “Apologue: Of Rage and Remembrance” and Its Use of Intertextuality, Aaron Hunt (The University of Tennessee)
• African Opera: Africanisms, Improvisation, and Creative Ethnomusicology, Jennifer LaRue (University of Georgia)
CMS: Lecture Recitals
Location: Turner Hall
Session Chair: Kyle Vanderburg (North Dakota State University)
• Uncommon Sounds: Extended Possibilities for Percussion and Electronics, Bill Shaltis (University of Memphis)
• From Old Creole Days: Sampling the Afro-Creole Folk Song of Louisiana of the Late Nineteenth through the Mid-Twentieth Centuries, Phyllis Lewis-Hale (Jackson State University), Dr. Karen Laubengayer (Jacksonville State University)
CMS: Lecture Recitals
Location: Room 1109
Session Chair: Kerry Ginger (Sewanee: The University of the South)
• Limited Possibilities: Exploring “Guided” Improvisation in Contemporary Music, Brendan Jacklin (Martin Methodist College)
• Trumpet and Fixed Media, Scott Hagarty (Tennessee Tech University)
SCSMT: Dariusz Terefenko Workshop
Location: Room 2175
• The Rule of the Octave: Strategies for Teaching Improvisation in the Classroom, Dariusz Terefenko (Eastman School of Music)
9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Sessions
CMS: Student Paper Session (cont.) / General Session
Location: Room 1167
Session Chair: Brendan McConville (The University of Tennessee)
• Metacognition in the Music Theory Classroom, Jillian Vogel (The University of Tennessee)
• Inspiration/Perspiration: Creating a Map of the Music Composition Creative Process, Kyle Vanderburg (North Dakota State University)
CMS: Lecture Recitals
Location: Turner Hall
Session Chair: Stephanie Tingler (University of Georgia)
• Two Piano Music by Women Composers From Around the World, Julia Mortyakova (Mississippi University for Women) and Valentin Bogdan (Mississippi University for Women)
• An Exploration of Keyboard Improvisation in Selected Works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann, Tony Lu (Austin Peay State University)
CMS: Lecture Recitals
Location: Room 1109
Session Chair: Douglas Mark (Delta State University)
• Expanding Middle School Piano Students Repertoire through Contemporary Music, Estibaliz Gastesi (BAK MSOA)
• 2010-2019: Celebrating a Decade of Innovations for Reed Trio, Michael Adduci (Tennessee Tech University)
SCSMT: The Romantic Lied
Location: Room 2175
Session Chair: Matthew Boyle (University of Alabama)
• Dreamscape Depictions in Clara Schumann’s “Ihr Bildnis”, [Handout], Alexander Martin (Stetson University)
• The Problem with Line 3: Richard Strauss’s Settings of Four-Line Stanzas, [Handout], Joshua Tanis (Indiana University)
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Plenary Session: Andrew Goldman Presentation, A Science of Musical
Improvisation: Theoretical Challenges, Empirical Contributions
Location: Turner Hall
Session Chair: Benjamin Wadsworth (Kennesaw State University)
12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch on your own
1:15 – 2:15 p.m. CMS Plenary Session: Dennis Thurmond Presentation
Location: Turner Hall
Session Chair: Kristian Klefstad (Belmont University)
SCSMT: Form in Tonal Music
Location: Room 2175
Session Chair: Courtenay Harter (Rhodes College)
• The Sonata-Fugue Hybrid in Haydn’s Early Symphonies, Carl Burdick (University of Cincinnati)
• Formal Process as Reanimation of the Past in Enriqe Granados’s “Epílogo: Serenate del Espectro,” Audrey Slote (University of Chicago)
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Sessions
CMS Session: Martin Norgaard Presentation
Location: Turner Hall
Session Chair: Kristian Klefstad (Belmont University)
• Cognition behind improvisation: A summary of over 10 years of research using qualitative, quantitative, corpus analysis, and brain imaging methods.
SCSMT: Philosophical Approaches
Location: Room 1167
Session Chair: Michael Gardiner (University of Mississippi)
• The Role of the “Agential Listener” in Hierarchies of Virtual Musical Agency, Aubrey Leaman (Northwestern University)
• Music Analysis as an Ethico-onto-epistem-ology, Vivian Luong (University of Virginia)
SCSMT: Mathematical Models
Location:Session Chair: Jennifer Amox (Henderson State University)
• Spectral Fission in Barbershop Harmony, Jordan Lenchitz (Florida State University)
• Putting the Math in Math Rock, [Handout], Matt Chiu (Eastman School of Music)
3:45 – 4:45 p.m. Sessions
CMS Session: Martin Norgaard Improvisation Workshop
Guest Performers: The University of Tennessee Electroacoustic Ensemble
Jorge Variego (Director), Cullen Burke, and Dakota Johnson
Location: Turner Hall
Session Chair: Kristian Klefstad (Belmont University)
SCSMT: Lightning Talks
Location: Room 1167
Session Chair: Adam Hudlow (Northwestern State University of Louisiana)
• Identifying Multimeter in Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint, Jonathon Pan (University of Louisville)
• Comic Attrition: A New Discursive Strategy in Schumann’s Drei Fantasiestücke, Sarah Mendes (University of Texas at Austin)
• Beheaded: Motivic Analysis of Power Complexes in Libby Larsen’s Try Me Good King, Kayla Shaeffer (Florida State University)
• Emergent Formal Functions and Indistinct Edges of Sonata Movements in Schubert’s “Beethoven’s Project”, [Handout], Yiqing Ma (Louisiana State University)
SCSMT: Form in Pop Music
Location: Room 2175
Session Chair: John Lawrence (University of Notre Dame)
• Bridges to Free-Standing Bridges—or—the Mutable Modular Model of Metal Music, [Handout], Michael Dekovich (University of Oregon)
• Form and the Jam: Defining Improvisation in the Music of Dave Matthews Band, Micheal Sebulsky (University of Oregon)
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Sessions
SCSMT: The Voice in Pop Music (2): Accent and Text
Location: Room 2175
Session Chair: Jeremy Orosz (University of Memphis)
• Prosodic Dissonance in Pop Music, [Handout], Eron Smith (Eastman School of Music)
• Phenomenal Accents, Meter, and the Vocal Backbeat in Country Music from 2000-2019, Kristi Hardman (CUNY Graduate Center)
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Dinner on your own
8:00 p.m. Dennis Thurmond in Concert
Location: Turner Hall
Session Chair: Kristian Klefstad (Belmont University)
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SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2020
8:00 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. Registration in Lobby
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. CMS Annual Business Meeting
Location: Room 1167
Session Chair: Brendan McConville (The University of Tennessee)
8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Poster Sessions – Continental Breakfast
CMS and SCSMT Joint Poster Session
Location: Lobby
• You Want Me to Sing? Bridging the Gap Between High School Ensemble Playing and College Musicianship,
Adrian Hartsough (The University of Tennessee)
• Gilded China, Gilded U.S.: Pianism in a Gilded Age, Zhong Bei Lin (Valdosta State University)
• A Theory of Music as Distraction in Video Games, William Ayers (University of Central Florida)
• Chris Potter and the Principle of Developing Variations, Ryan Raziano (University of Southern Mississippi)
• Tonic and Topic: A Study of Key Selection in American Hymnody, Jennifer Shafer (University of Delaware)
• CEFR L2 Acquisition Model for Jazz Improvisation, Shelley Vekasy (University of Southern Mississippi)
• Impressionism in Jennifer Higdon’s Secret & Glass Gardens, Julianna Willson (University of Memphis)
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Sessions
CMS: Paper Session
Location: Room 1167
Session Chair: Mark Lackey (Samford University)
• Visually Impaired Students: Equitable Inclusion and Access in a Traditional Music Degree Curriculum, Stacie Lee Rossow (Florida Atlantic University)
• The Arts Entrepreneurship Profile: A New Resource for Collegiate Music Educators, Josef Hanson (University of Memphis)
SCSMT: Tonal Voice Leading
Location: Room 2175
Session Chair: Joseph Brubeloe (University of Southern Mississippi)
• O V, Where Art Thou? Notre Dame Polyphony, “Dominant” Sonorities, and a New Approach to Diatonic Set Theory, Jessica Fulkerson (Tufts University)
• Schubert, Schoenberg, and Some Extensions to Cohn’s SUM-Class System, David Orvek (Indiana University)
10:15 – 11:15 a.m. Sessions
CMS Paper Session
Location: Room 1167
Session Chair: Zane Gillespie (Music Ministry International)
• Timbre and Transformation, John Latartara (The University of Mississippi)
• Dou Wun and Chen Lei-shi: Contrasting Chinese Traditional Music Practices in Hong Kong, Ann L. Silverberg (Austin Peay State University)
CMS Paper Session
Location: Room 1109
Session Chair: Kerry Ginger (Sewanee: The University of the South)
• “Tracking, naming, and improvisation… oh my!”: Innovative pedagogical approaches to developing stronger pitch-space cognition in the classroom and studio, Fred Sienkiewicz (Vanderbilt University)
• Connecting the Dots: A Framework for Understanding the Commonalities between Baroque-Era and Contemporary Improvisation, Carolyn Sanders (University of Alabama-Huntsville) and Joshua Burel (University of Alabama-Huntsville)
CMS Performance Session
Location: Turner Hall
Session Chair: Julia Mortyakova (Mississippi University for Women)
• The Bass Clarinet Liberated: the Expanded Textural Universe of Eric Mandat’s “Chips Off the Ol’ Block,” Taylor Barlow (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
• Performance of Flammes by Janos Komives for Solo Clarinet, Lucas Gianini (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
• The Mariko Suite by Catherine McMichael, Amy Yeung (University of Tennessee-Martin), soprano, with Trio Sonoritas (with Sandra Cox, flute & Chan Mi Jean, piano)
SCSMT: Annual Business Meeting
Location: Room 2175
Session Chair: Ben Wadsworth (Kennesaw State University)
11:30 a.m. –1:00 p.m. Lunch Break – CMS/SCSMT Banquet Luncheon
Maggiano’s Restaurant (3106 West End Ave, Nashville)
Informal address by conference clinician Martin Norgaard
Banquet luncheon is $25/person
Reserve a spot at conference check-in with a payment of $25 cash or check, payable to Kristian Klefstad
1:15 p.m. CMS Composers Concert II
Location: Turner Hall
Session Chair: Valentin Bogdan (Mississippi University for Women)
• R E L I Q U I A E, Zane Gillespie (Music Ministry International)
• If it Bends, It Breaks, Aaron L. Hunt (University of Tennessee – Knoxville)>
• Particles II, Mark Lackey (Samford University)
• Piano Variations, Paul Osterfield (Middle Tennessee State University)
• Cinco pour Fünf: Partita #8 for unaccompanied cello, Joe L. Alexander (Mississippi University for Women)
• Quartet in C, Olga Harris (Tennessee State University)
• Journey, Biraj Adhikari (Mississippi University for Women)
• The Summoning, Caleb Cannon (University of Tennessee – Knoxville)
• Scenes – Short and Sweet, Allen Molineux (Dothan, AL)
End of Conference