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Program and Abstracts of Papers Read at the Society for Music Theory Fortieth Annual Meeting November 2-5, 2017 Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel Arlington, Virginia ii SMT 2017 Annual Meeting Program Committee Alan Gosman, Chair, Clifton Callender, Maureen Carr, Roman Ivanovitch, Panayotis Mavromatis, René Rusch, Benjamin Steege and Dora Hanninen, ex officio Program book abstracts edited by Alan Gosman Executive Board Dora Hanninen, President Robert Hatten, President-Elect Daphne Leong, Vice President Philip Stoecker, Secretary Jan Miyake, Treasurer Suzannah Clark Steven Rings C. Catherine Losada Deborah Rifkin Yonatan Malin Maryam Moshaver Executive Director Victoria L. Long Local Arrangements Eugene Montague and Daniel Zimmerman 40th Anniversary Celebration Committee Joseph Straus, Chair, Judy Lochhead and Mary Wennerstrom Upcoming Annual Meetings 2018: San Antonio, Texas, Grand Hyatt San Antonio Hotel, November 1–4 2019: Columbus, Ohio, Hyatt Regency Columbus, November 7–10 2020: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, November 5–8 Copyright © 2017 by the Society for Music Theory, Inc. All rights reserved. iii Contents v Fortieth Anniversary and Special Events 1 Program 21 Abstracts Thursday afternoon, 2 November 21 Notation and Performance: Influence, Intersection, and Interpretation 25 Russian Music 28 Revisiting Prolongation and Dissonance in Jazz 30 Transformations 31 Instruments and Transformations 33 Reconsidering Genre Thursday evening, 2 November 34 Musical Topics in Opera and Ballet 39 History of Theory 42 Preparing Articles for Publication 43 Rhythm and Meter in Popular Genres Friday morning, 3 November 46 Tonality in Rock 48 Genesis, Transformations, and Mutations 51 Mentorship and Diversity 52 Music and Body 54 Empirical Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Music Friday afternoon, 3 November 55 Models in Improvisation, Performance, and Composition 58 What Does Music Theory Want? The Ethics of Musical Hermeneutics 63 Topics in Geometrical Music Theory 66 Harmony and Voice Leading in Popular Music 67 Interpreting Metal Music iv Friday evening, 3 November 69 The Music of Chen Yi 72 Topic and Schema in the Long Eighteenth Century 75 Considering Coltrane: Analytical Perspectives after Fifty Years 80 Irony and Topics 81 Music Analysis in Comparative Perspective Saturday morning, 4 November 83 Harmony and Voice-Leading in Nineteenth Century Music 86 Poster Session 90 Form and Sound Quality 92 Metrical Templates and Distributions 94 Time, Form, and Affect 95 Theorizing Musicality 97 Words and Music 98 The Music of Georg Friedrich Haas Saturday afternoon, 4 November 100 Chase, Dance, Enchant: Music’s Partnerships Sunday morning, 5 November 103 Dialogic Form 106 Computational and Corpus-Based Approaches to Music 108 Twentieth-Century Analytical Methods 110 Screening the Sounds of Copland 111 Foundational Concepts in the Nineteenth Century 113 Copland and Bernstein 115 Exhibitors and Advertisers 116 Advertisements 125 Index of Participants 129 Hotel Map 130 Key to Cover v SMT Arlington 2017 Program th 40 Anniversary “The Society for Music Theory is thus underway…and its potential contributions unlimited…” Wallace Berry, reporting on the November 1977 vote to create SMT This year’s conference celebrates the 40th anniversary of SMT with an impressive collection of session presentations and workshops, many special events created for the occasion, a plenary session titled “Chase, Dance, Enchant: Music’s Partnerships,” and an invited special session titled “Models in Improvisation, Performance, and Composition.” The program offers an opportunity to reflect on the society’s past and its growth, be inspired by the tremendous range of perspectives and interests, and engage with exciting new ideas. Forty years ago, the National Conference on Music Theory offered just seven music theory sessions. Of these, only two sessions were presented concurrently, forcing participants to make one choice—whether to spend Saturday morning listening to “Aspects of Atonal Theory” or “Biographical Material from the Estate of Heinrich Schenker.” This year’s meeting—with its 120 session presentations, special sessions, nearly 25 interest group meetings, 4 workshops, and a wide variety of other meetings and events—will take more planning to navigate, but we hope that you will find what you are looking for as well as enjoy exploring corners of the Society that are less familiar. vi Calendar of Special Events: Thursday Morning Field Trip to the Library of Congress, Music Division Registration required and limited to 20 people. See conference website for information. 5:15–6:00 SMT 40th Anniversary Celebration (Salons 1 & 2) Remarks and Reminiscences 6:00–7:30 SMT 40th Anniversary Opening Reception - Cash Bar (Salon 4) Friday 9:00–10:00 Interest Group Fair (Salons 5–7) Representatives of all 24 interest groups will be on hand to share information about their group and its activities. 12:15–1:45 Post-PhD: Career Opportunities Outside the Professorate (Salons 1 & 2) Refer to “Friday Lunchtime Sessions” in the program for information about the speakers who represent arts management, library science, music publishing, software design, broadcasting, academic administration, and nonprofit organizations. 2:00–5:00 Special Invited Session of European Scholars: Models in Improvisation, Performance, and Composition (Salons 1 & 2) Philippe Canguilhem, “The Teaching and Practice of Improvised Counterpoint in the Renaissance” Giorgio Sanguinetti, “Who Invented Partimenti? Newly Discovered Evidences of Partimento Practices in Rome and Naples Elaine Chew, “Notating the Performed and (usually) Unseen” Saturday 2:00–3:45 Business Meeting and Awards Presentation 4:00–5:30 Plenary Session - Chase, Dance, Enchant: Music’s Partnerships Michael Tenzer, “Chasing the Phantom: Features of a Supracultural New Music” Gretchen Horlacher, “Stepping Out: Hearing Balanchine” Steven Rings, “Music’s Stubborn Enchantments (and Music Theory’s)” SMT Arlington 2017 Program Sessions and meetings are open to all attendees, except where noted. ________________________________________________________ WEDNESDAY, 1 NOVEMBER 2:00–6:00 Executive Board Meeting (Studio C) ‡ 6:00–7:30 Dinner for Executive Board, Publications Committee, Awards Committee, and Networking Committee (Studio F) ‡ 7:30–11:00 Networking Committee Meeting (Studio D) ‡ 7:30–11:00 Publication Awards Committee Meeting (Studio A) ‡ 7:30–11:00 Publications Committee Meeting (Studio B) ‡ ‡ denotes closed meeting ________________________________________________________ THURSDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 8:00–12:00 Executive Board Meeting (Studio C) ‡ 9:00–12:00 Peer Learning Program Workshop I: Music Analysis: what can it do? Judy Lochhead (Stony Brook University), leader (Studio F) ‡ 9:00–12:00 Peer Learning Program Workshop II: Pitch Structure in Indian Classical Music Robert Morris (Eastman School of Music), leader (Studio A) ‡ 9:00–6:00 Registration (2nd Floor Registration Area) 1:00–5:30 Exhibits (Salons 5–7) ‡ denotes closed meeting ________________________________________________________ THURSDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 2:00–5:00 NOTATION AND PERFORMANCE: INFLUENCE, INTERSECTION, AND INTERPRETATION (STUDIO D) Karen Cook (University of Hartford), Chair 2 Solomon Guhl-Miller (Temple University) The Early History of Modal Rhythm: What Theory Tells us about Practice Heather J. Holmquest (Buena Vista University) Choosing Musica Ficta: The Modern Tradition of Historically Informed Performance Practice Carolann Buff (Indiana University) In Search of the Ars Magis Subtiliter Adam Knight Gilbert (University of Southern California) Juxta artem conficiendi: Notating and Performing Polyphony in Solmization Megan Kaes Long (Oberlin College Conservatory) The Mensural Ambivalence of Repeat Signs Karen Cook (University of Hartford), Loren Ludwig (Independent Scholar), Valerie Horst (Independent Scholar) Respondent Panel RUSSIAN MUSIC (STUDIO E) Inessa Bazayev (Louisiana State University), Chair Kirill Zikanov (Yale University) Glinka’s Three Models of Instrumental Music Matthew Bell (University of Missouri, Kansas City) Danses Fantastiques: Metrical Dissonance in the Ballet Music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Joel Mott (University of Texas at Austin) Linearity and Compensatory Coherence in Prokofiev’s War Symphonies Scott C. Schumann (Central Michigan University) Tropological Interactions and Expressive Interpretation in Stravinsky’s Neoclassical Works THURSDAY AFTERNOON SHORT SESSIONS 2:00–3:30 REVISITING PROLONGATION AND DISSONANCE IN JAZZ (SALONS 1 & 2) Keith Salley (Shenandoah Conservatory), Chair 3 Henry Martin (Rutgers University-Newark) and Keith Waters (University of Colorado-Boulder) Hierarchy vs. Heterarchy in Two Compositions by Wayne Shorter Joon Park (University of Arkansas) Theorizing Outside Playing in the Improvised Jazz Solo TRANSFORMATIONS (STUDIO B) Ed Gollin (Williams College), Chair Robert Wells (University of Mary Washington) David Lewin and the “GIS that Wasn’t”: Interactions Between Musical and Mathematical Thought in GMIT Nathan Lam (Indiana University) Modal Spelled Pitch Classes 3:30–5:00 INSTRUMENTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS (SALONS 1 & 2) Mark Janello (Peabody Conservatory), chair Jonathan De Souza (University of Western Ontario) Instrumental Transformations in Heinrich Biber’s Mystery Sonatas Toru Momii (Columbia University) Sounds of the Cosmos: A Transformational Approach to Gesture in Shō Performance RECONSIDERING GENRE (STUDIO B) Eric Drott (University of Texas at Austin), Chair Thomas Johnson (The Graduate Center,