Society for Music Theory
40th Annual Meeting
#SMT2017
Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel
Arlington, VA
November 2–5
These photos were taken at the plenary session of the 40th annual meeting of the Society Music Theory, on Saturday, November 4.
All photos © Geoff Sheil, used by permission.
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- Conference Information
- Business meeting
- Livestreamed Sessions
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Tonality in Rock (9:00am—12:00pm)
Nicole Biamonte (McGill University), Chair- Matthew E. Ferrandino (University of Kansas) Multi-Centric Complexes in Rock
- Drew Nobile (University of Oregon) Double-Tonic Complexes in Rock Music
- Mark Richards (Florida State University) Multimodality and Tonal Ambiguity in Rock's Aeolian Progression
- Brian D. Hoffman (Cincinnati, OH) Mapping the Modulation Zone: A Formal and Stylistic Study of Stepwise Modulation in Pop-Rock
Special Invited Session: Models in Improvisation, Performance, and Composition (2:00–5:00pm)
Daphne Leong (University of Colorado-Boulder), ChairThis session consisted of three short position papers, followed by a panel discussion.
- Philippe Canguilhem (Université de Toulouse) The Teaching and Practice of Improvised Counterpoint in the Renaissance
- Giorgio Sanguinetti (University of Rome–Tor Vergata) Who Invented Partimenti? Newly Discovered Evidences of Partimento Practices in Rome and Naples
- Elaine Chew (Queen Mary University of London) Notating the Performed and (usually) Unseen
The Music of Chen Yi (7:30–10:30pm)
Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University), Chair Chen Yi (University of Missouri-Kansas City), RespondentThis session consisted of three short analyses and group discussion: Video, part one Video, part two
- John Roeder (University of British Columbia) Interactions of Folk Melody and Transformational (Dis)continuities in Chen Yi’s Ba Ban
- Marianne Kielian-Gilbert (Indiana University) Experiencing Chen Yi’s Music // Alternate Lines of Connection, Aesthetic Practice, and Sexual Difference
- Nancy Rao (Rutgers University) “Shi” and Temporality: A Reading of Gestures in Happy Rain on A Spring Night