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February 26-27, 2010  
 
 

Schedule

Friday, February 26th, 2010
250 Baird Hall
University at Buffalo, North Campus

Registration
12:30pm - 1:30pm

Opening Remarks
1:30pm
Daniel Robinson, University at Buffalo Music Graduate Student Association President

Discussing Music/Musical Discussions
1:30pm - 3:00pm
David Clem, Chair

  • "Schoenbergian Analysis and Beethoven Scholarship: Composer as Commentator"
    Tamika Sterrs, University of Georgia
  • "Confronting Method and Material in Musical Historiography"
    Andrew Burgard, New York University
  • "A Reading of Silence: Anarchy and Zen Buddhism in John Cage's Lecture on the Weather"
    Yuji Sota, University at Buffalo

-Break-

Analysis and Interpretation
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Daniel Wu, Chair

  • "Semiotics and Story: A Narrative Reading of the First Movement from Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, op. 16"
    Joel Mott, University of Texas at Austin
  • "The process of 'becoming' in Roger Redgate's 'Genoi Hoios Essi'"
    Stuart Paul Duncan, Cornell University
  • "Classifications and Designations of Metric Modulation in the Music of Elliott Carter"
    Jason Hobert, University of Southern Mississippi
  • "Transformation in 'Asie' from Maurice Ravel's Sheherazade"
    Aaron Grant, Pennsylvania State University

 

Saturday, February 27th, 2010
250 Baird Hall
University at Buffalo, North Campus

Registration and Breakfast
9:00am - 10:00am

Late Modernism/Postmodernism
10:30am - 12:00pm
Sarah Louden, Chair

  • "An Analysis and Interpretation of Musical and Visual Structures in Stan Brakhage's I...dreaming"
    Christopher Lynch, University at Buffalo
  • "Of Sound and Light Beyond Narratology: The Performance in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema"
    Mark Durrand, University at Buffalo
  • "Scelsi's Imaginary Folksongs"
    Tyler Cassidy-Heacock, Eastman School of Music

Lunch
12:00pm - 1:30pm

Keynote Address
1:30pm

"The Amateur in the Age of Mechanical Music"
Professor Mark Katz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

-Break-

Historical Contexts
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Rodney Garrison, Chair

  • "The Concert for Ancient Music Series and the Development of an English National Identity"
    Jacinta A. Meyers, University at Buffalo
  • "Screaming Women, Singing Men: Images of Prophecy and Femininity in Rolande Lassus' Prophetiae Sibyllarum"
    Melody Marchman, University at Buffalo
  • "Prussia's Pathetique: Historical and Political Influences on the First Movement of Beethoven's Op. 13 Piano Sonata"
    Edward Knoeckel, University of Southern Florida