Florida State Music Theory Forum

The Music Theory Society at Florida State University will host its 24th Annual Music Theory Forum on January 27, 2007, in Dohnányi Recital Hall. The forum co-chairs cordially invite you to attend. The schedule of events is as follows:

Session 1
Greg Decker, Chair

9:00 Michael Baker (Western Carolina University)--"Mendelssohn's "Allnächtlich im Traume,' Op. 86 no. 4: Music, Text, and Meaning in a Nineteenth-Century Song"
9:30 Danny Arthurs (Indiana University)--"Irony and Illusion in the Second Movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 101"
10:00 Richard Randall (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)--"Understanding Hybridity: Comparing Geometric Models of Tonal Hierarchy"

10:30-10:45 Break

Session 2
Sarah Sarver, Chair

10:45 Sean Atkinson (Florida State University)--"Process and Intuition: Narration in Three Tales by Steve Reich"
11:15 Alan Theisen (Florida State University)--"With Pipes, Drums, and French Horns: Pitch (Space) Amid Stylistic Conflict in György Ligeti's Hamburg Concerto"
11:45 Shannon Groskreutz and Crystal Peebles (Florida State University)--"Spiral Form: Reconceptualizing Thematic Returns in Developing Variation"

12:15-2:15 Lunch

Session 3
Chris Endrinal, Chair

2:15 Meghann Wilhoite (Columbia University)--"Getting Close To NARC"
2:45 Bryn Hughes (Florida State University)--"Rock's Compositional Space"
3:15 Rob Bennett (Florida State University)--"Dramatic Formal Dichotomies in Indie Rock of the 1990s"

3:45-4:00 Break

Keynote Address
4:00 L. Poundie Burstein (Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York)--"Schenkerian Analysis and the Long Range"