

Amy Bauer, President
Andrew Aziz, Vice President
Russell Knight, Secretary and Treasurer
30th Annual Meeting, May 27–28, 2022
Department of Music, Claire Trevor School of the Arts,
University of California, Irvine
Registration and coffee, 12:30 a.m.–1:00, CAC 1st floor Colloquium Room;
all sessions CAC Colloquium Room
Friday, May 27
Pedagogy 1: Diversifying the Canon
1:00 p.m.- 2:30 p.m.
Amy Bauer, chair, University of California, Irvine
“To Accommodate To Western Taste”: Teaching Style Topics of the Exotic
Ian Gerg, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Toward an Anti-Racist Post-Tonal Pedagogy: George Walker’s Lilacs in Theory IV
Evan Ware, California State Polytechnic University
Identity Through Learning: Diversifying Gender Representation in Music Theory Textbooks
Tori Vilches, Texas Christian University
Coffee break 2:30–2:45 p.m.
Pedagogy 2: New Post-tonal Approaches
2:45 p.m.- 4:15 p.m.
Jack Boss, chair, University of Oregon
Pc-set Relationships: Connecting Theory to Practice in the Post-Tonal Classroom
John King, University of Oregon
Reframing Leong’s “Wissen, Können, Kennen” for the Post-Tonal Theory Classroom
Ben Duinker, University of Toronto
Pokémon Pedagogy: The Hidden Curriculum in the Post-Tonal Classroom
Blaire Ziegenhagel, University of Oregon
Coffee break 4:15 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Session 3, Post-tonal Pitch Organization
4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Jack Boss, chair, University of Oregon
Pitch Fields as Background Structures in Pieces by Lilburn, Rabb, and Ho
Robert Gross
Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin: Sketches, Harmonic Fields, and Text-Painting
Gabrielle Choma, University of Oregon
Linkage of the Generated Chords in the Aggregates from the First Movement of Charles Wuorinen’s Third Piano Sonata
Lydia Lee, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Dinner break 6:00 p.m.
UCI Symphony Orchestra, 8:00 p.m., Irvine Barclay Theatre
Saturday, May 28
Coffee and pastries 9:00–9:15
Session 4, Nineteenth-Century Music
9:15 a.m.- 11:15 p.m.
Dr Joe Davies, chair, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, UCI & Maynooth University
Ableist Histories of Modal Theory: A.B. Marx and Heinrich Schenker as Case Studies
Tekla Babyak, Independent Scholar, Davis, CA
Musical Sehnsucht: Linear and Rhythmic Strategies in Brahms’s Vocal Quartets
Jason Lee, University of British Columbia
Analyzing Deception in Opera and Lieder
Edward Klorman, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
“Rough Jointing” (Die harte Fügung) as an Organizational Principle in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana
Ji Yeon Lee, Moores School of Music, University of Houston
Coffee break 11:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Session 5, Heavy Metal Music
11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
Andrew Aziz, chair, San Diego State University
Functions and Characteristics of Heavy Metal Supersections
Michael Dekovich, University of Oregon
What is a riff? A Structural Definition and its Analytical Consequences for Process and Form in Heavy Metal
Ciro Scotto, Ohio University
Lunch break 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m
Business meeting 2:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
Session 6, Music on Film
2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
Evan Ware, chair, California State Polytechnic University
Tension, Text, and Timbre at the Climax: An Analysis of Burlesque (2010)
Madison Stepherson, University of Oregon
Sounding Out Dystopia: Timbre and Ecological Recovery in Thom Yorke’s ANIMA (2019)
Nathan Cobb, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tonal Rumble: (Bi-)Tonality and Transformation in West Side Story
Andrew Aziz, San Diego State University
Coffee break 3:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Keynote lecture 4:00 p.m.
Canonic Upheavals: Clara Schumann Then and Now
Dr Joe Davies, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow
University of California, Irvine & Maynooth University