Tenth Annual Meeting

Friday, March 16

6:00-7:00 Registration

Session 1: Twentieth-Century Music

7:00-7:40 "The Piano Suite, Op. 25/1: The Contrapuntal Combination as a Mode of Presentation in a Twelve-Tone Context."

John Brackett, UNC at Chapel Hill. Abstract

 

7:40-8:20 "A Heterogeneous Analysis of the Eighth Piano Sonata, Op. 66 of Alexander Scriabin."

Scott Baker, Florida State University Abstract

 

8:20-9:00 "Control and Chaos in the Player Piano Studies of Conlon Nancarrow."

Eric Drott, Yale University Abstract

BREAK (20 minutes)

9:20-10:00 "From Craft to Art: Formal Structure in the Music of the Beatles."

John Covach, UNC at Chapel Hill Abstract

Saturday, March 17

8:30-9:00 Registration

Session 2: Schenkerian Analysis

9:00-9:40 "Displacement and its Role in Schenkerian Theory."

Donald Traut, Eastman School of Music Abstract (Winner, Best Student Paper Award)

 

9:40-10:20 "Analysis and Performance as they Relate to J.S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543."

Scott Roberts, Florida State University Abstract

BREAK (20 minutes)

Session 3: Mozart and Beethoven

10:40-11:20 "Mozart's Transcendental Tendencies: Opening with a Closing in K. 311."

Craig Harwood, Yale University Abstract

 

11.20-12:00 "Musical Borrowing from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier in Beethoven's Op. 131."

Amy Carr-Richardson, East Carolina University Abstract

12:00-2:00 LUNCH AND BUSINESS MEETINGS

Session 3: Debussy's Prelude a L'Apres midi d'un faune

2:00-2:40 "A Pitch-Class Set Analysis of Chromatic Harmony and Voice Leading in Debussy's Prelude a l'Apres midi d'un faune."

Michael Baker, University of Kentucky Abstract

 

2:40-3:20 "Mallarme's L'Apres midi d'un faune and Debussy's Musical Analogue: a Study in Poetical-Musical Intertextuality."

John E. Crotty, West Virginia University Abstract

BREAK (25 minutes)

3:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS "Nonconformist Keynotes: A Study in Late Nineteenth-Century Musical Structure"

Daniel Harrison, University of Rochester and the Eastman School of Music Abstract

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