2025 ANNUAL MEETING

Joint Meeting Featuring the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis with the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society

 

hosted by the University of Victoria

26-27 April 2025

 

SATURDAY 26 APRIL

9:00-9:30: Arrival and Welcome

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9:30-11:30: 

Zoom Session

 

Theorizing the Broadway Overture: A Formal and Cognitive Investigation

Hunter Hoyle

 

The BRECVEMAC Framework and Negatively Valanced Emotions in Super Mario Bros. Music

Austin Wilson

 

Percussion Patterns, Rhyming Poetry, and the Expectation of Recurring Timbres: Case Studies from South Asia

Eshantha Peiris

 

A Flat Consideration: Microtonal Affordances of the Trombone Interface as Blues Signification

Collin Felter

 

12:00-1:30 : Lunch

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1:30-3:00 

Session A (B016): Parametric Considerations

 

Pentatonicism, Serialism, Hindemithian “Harmonic Fluctuation,” and Referential Collection Patterns in Zhongrong Luo’s “Picking Lotus Flowers at the Riverside”

Jack Boss

 

Ngoncang: Theorizing and Analysing Improvisation in North Balinese Ceremonial Gamelan Music

Oscar Smith

 

A/semanticity and Plastic Constraint: Anthony Braxton’s New Notations

Isaac Otto 

 

Session B (B037): Jazzy Inflections

 

Thelonious Monk’s Wrong (…but Right) Notes

Anna Peloso

 

Minstrelsy Stereotypes and Black Blueswomen

Anaise Labonte

 

Melodic Primacy in Jazz Ontology as a Reaction to Copyright Law

Joshua Brooks

 

3:00-3:15: Comfort Break

 

3:15-4:45: 

Session A (B016): Russian Themes

 

“All Will be Permitted”: Adorno’s Faustus and Premature Late Style in the Music of Alfred Schnittke

Nathan Friedman

 

Folk Songs, Notation, and Semiotics: The Composer’s Interpretive Role

Lev Roshal

 

Aleksandr Skryabin, Wilhelm Wundt, and Early Experimental Psychology

Lindsey Macchiarella

 

Session B (B037): Soundtracks and Soundscapes

 

Cyberpunk 2077: Nostalgia and Retrofuturism

Hannah Pena-Ruiz

 

Rising Heat, Saturated Listening: Reimagining Ecology in the Climate Crisis with Kate Carr’s Heatwave

Nick Miskey

 

Persuasive Sounds: Selling a “Good Life” in Roughnecks: The Story of Oil Drillers

Jamie Meyers-Riczu

 

4:45-5:40: Business Meetings

 

SUNDAY 27 APRIL

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9:00-11:00

Session A (B016): Work-Based Thematic Modularity and Formal Design 

 

Sonata Deformation and Thematic Transgression in Afterlight for Soprano Saxophone and Piano by Dorothy Chang

Courtney Long

 

Irony and the Subversion of Narrative in the Finale of Brahms's Piano Quintet, Op. 34

Hui Shan (Sharon) How

 

Temporal Contour & Metric Dissonance in Thomas Adès’ Piano Quintet

Gabriella Vici

 

Timbral Form and Narrative in George Enescu's Vox Maris

Edwin Sheard 

 

Session B (B037): Opera Topics

 

Opera, Patronage, and the Politics of Artistic Change in Early Eighteenth-Century Madrid

Maria Virginia Acuña

 

Intermediality in the Production, Performance, and Perception of Re:Naissance Opera’s Live from the Underworld

Cinny Wang

 

Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen, and The Women’s Movement

Victoria R. Parrott

 

Enduring Echoes: Grief, Guilt, and Collective Healing in Innocence(2021)

Gabrielle Choma

 

11:00-11:15: Comfort Break

 

11:15-12:15: 

Voice, Text, Themes

 

A Munich Maiden Makes her Mark: Josephine Lang’s Early Songs for Men’s Chorus

Harald Krebs

 

Imagining Modernity: Britten’s Musical Depiction of Railways in Winter Words, op. 52 (1953)

Steven Jeon