Joint Meeting

Music Theory Southeast
and the
South Central Society for Music Theory

Friday, February 27- Saturday, February 28
Emory University, Atlanta

Preliminary Program

Friday 12:30-1 p.m.  Registration

Friday 1-2:45 p.m. Recent Analytical Approaches

Matthew Shaftel, Chair

From Landfill Management and Wastewater Treatment to Mozart:
Using Multiple Regression to Model Musical Contour (Abstract)

Danny Beard, Florida State University

About Triple Hypermeter (Abstract)

David Smyth, Louisiana State University

Night Phantoms Begone! Pervasive Fluency in Wolf's "In Der Frühe" (Abstract)

Evan Jones, Florida State University

Friday 3:00-6:00 p.m.  Popular Music

Don Traut, Chair

Every Love but True Love: Unstable Relationships in Cole Porter's "Love for Sale" (Abstract)

Michael Buchler, Florida State University

Working From 8 to 5: Interpreting the Interrupted 8-line in American Song (Abstract)

Edward Latham, Temple University

A Day in the Life: A Close Look at the Conclusion to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (Abstract)

Pandel Collaros, Bethany College

On Tonal Closure in Pop-Rock Music (Abstract)

Guy Capuzzo, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Mapping the Soundscape: Variation Form in Electronic Dance Music (Abstract)
 Rob Keller, Florida State University

Friday  6:30 p.m. Group Dinner

Saturday 8:30-10:15 a.m.  Opera and Art Song

Mark McFarland, Chair

Hearing an Old Story in a New Way:  An Analysis of Loewe's "Erlkönig" (Abstract)

Nancy Rogers, Florida State University

Prolongation of Agony: A Reductive Analysis of the Amfortas' Prayer Scene from Wagner's Parsifal

Scott Baker, University of Southern Mississippi

The Drama in the Music: A Theoretical Interpretation of Samuel Barber's A Hand of Bridge (Abstract)

Beth Smith, Florida State University

Saturday 10:30-12:15 p.m.  Schenkerian Approaches

Irna Priore, Chair

Transpositional Parallels in Uninterrupted Sonata Types: Schubert and Beyond (Abstract)

Boyd Pomeroy, Georgia State University

Schenkerian Analysis and the Imperfect: A Case for Interruption at ^3 (Abstract)

Michael Baker

The Role of Non-Tonic-Key Variations in the Large-Scale Organization of
Brahms's Variations for Four Hands on a Theme Robert Schumann, Op. 23 (Abstract)

Hiu-Wah Au, Elizabethtown College

Saturday 12:30-2:20 p.m. Lunch/Business Meetings: Everybody's Pizza

Saturday 2:30-4:15 p.m.  Early Twentieth- Century Music

Philip  Ewell, Chair

Harmonic Refraction, Flat Primary Triads, and the Harmonic Idiom of Shostakovich and Prokofiev (Abstract)

Gabe Fankhauser, Appalachian State University

"Angefangen Cannes": Schoenberg's Unfinished 1927 Work for Violin and Piano

Stephen Peles, University of Alabama

Tonal Entropy as Rhetorical Strategy in Webern's Op. 7, No. 3 (Abstract)

Steven Harper, Georgia State University

Saturday 4:30-5:30 p.m. Keynote Address

Rhythmic Topoi in African Music

V. Kofi Agawu, Princeton University

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