Society for Music Theory
39th Annual Meeting
#AMSMT16
Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel
Vancouver, BC
November 3–6
We look forward to seeing you next year in Arlington!
- Conference Information
- Business meeting
- Livestreamed Sessions
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Friday, November 7
(All times are PST)
9:00-12am - New Perspectives in the History of Music Theory
Susannah Clark (Harvard University), Chair
Maryam A. Moshaver (University of Alberta) Rameau, the Subjective Body, and the Forms of Theoretical Representation
August Sheehy (Stony Brook University) A. B. Marx and the Politics of Sonata Form
Rodney Garrison (SUNY Fredonia) Schenker’s Elucidations on Unfolding Compound Voices from Der Tonwille 6 (1923) to Der freie Satz (1935)
Áine Heneghan (University of Michigan) Rethinking Repetition: Schoenberg and the “endless reshaping of a basic shape”
2:00-5:00pm - Meters in Global Perspective
Noriko Manabe (Temple University), Chair
Chris Stover (The New School) Timeline Spaces: A Theory of Temporal Process in African Drum/Dance Music
Fernando Benadon (American University) Polymetric Phrasing in Rumba’s Quinto
Daniel Goldberg (Yale University) What’s the Meter of Elenino Horo? Rhythm and Timing in Drumming for a Bulgarian Folk Dance
Peter Selinsky (Yale University) Conceptualizing Meter in Early Indojazz
8:00–9:30pm - Analyzing Beethoven
Alexander Rehding (Harvard University), Chair
John Z. McKay (University of South Carolina) Formalizing the Eroica: The E Minor Theme and the Structure of Analytical Revolutions
Mark Evan Bonds (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Positively Ironic: Beethoven’s “Serioso” String Quartet in F minor, op. 95
9:30-11pm - Performance and Analysis
Alan Dodson (University of British Columbia), Chair
Andrew M. Friedman (Harvard University) Reimagining (Motivic) Analysis in Light of Performance
Su Yin Mak (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Communications about Musical Structure in Professional String Quartet Rehearsal