Yale Graduate Music Symposium 2008 - program
Saturday, 29 March 2008
Location: Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall (130 Wall Street)
*PLEASE NOTE: If you are arriving after 10 am, use the High Street entrance to the library*
| 8:00-8:50 |
Registration & Breakfast |
| 8:50-9:00 |
Opening remarks by the Chair of the Department of Music, Professor Daniel Harrison |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Session 1: Modernism Reconsidered
Anna Gawboy, Chair
- Seth Monahan (Yale University)
'I have tried to capture you...': Rethinking the Alma Theme from Mahler's Sixth Symphony
- John Z. McKay (Harvard University)
Musical Analysis and the 'Radical Empiricism' of William James: Perceived
Structures in Webern's Fifth Bagatelle
- Stephen Smith (New York University)
'Two will become only one': Angelic Erotics and Schoenberg's 'Seraphita,' Op. 22,
no. 1
|
| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45-11:45 |
Session 2: Rhythm & Function
Joseph Salem, Chair
- Gabriel Miller (Ohio State University)
The Death and Resurrection of Function
- Martin Küster (Cornell University)
Marpurg's Meters and the Problem of the Solution |
| 11:45-1:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 1:30-2:30 |
Session 3: Music as Language & Language as Music
Esther Morgan-Ellis, Chair
- Julie Strand (Wesleyan University)
Speech Surrogate in the Sambla Baan: Communication in Rhythmic and Modal
Context
- Justin Schell (University of Minnesota)
The Rhyming of History: Verbal Sampling in Hip-Hop |
| 2:30-2:45 |
Break |
| 2:45-3:45 |
Session 4: Analysis of Popular Music
Christopher White, Chair
- Eric Smialek (McGill University)
Necroversive Semiosis: Towards a Form-Functional Analytical Model for Extreme
Metal
- Christine E. Boone (University of Texas)
Analyzing the Rutles: The Music and Identity of the Pre-Fab Four |
| 4:00-5:30 |
YGMS Reception |
| 8:30-late |
Gamelan Klenengan (Hendrie Hall, 165 Elm Street)
featuring the Gamelan Suprabanggo, Yale University Javanese Gamelan Ensemble and the New England Gamelan Consortium |
Sunday, 30 March 2008
Location: Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium (53 Wall Street)
| 8:15-9:00 |
Registration & Breakfast |
| 9:00-11:00 |
Sonata Theory Workshop led by Professor James Hepokoski
Beethoven, Symphony No. 2, first movement - please bring a score |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Break |
| 11:15-12:15 |
Session 5: Looking Beyond the Surface
Christopher Brody, Chair
- Eunjin Lee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Harmonic Illusion in Ligeti's Second Book of Piano Etudes: Galamb Borong, Der
Zauberlehrling, En Suspens, Entrelacs
- Mark Seto (Columbia University)
Intertextuality and Identity in Vincent d'Indy's Istar
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| 12:15-12:30 |
Break |
| 12:30-1:30 |
Session 6: Cultures within Cultures
Karen Jones, Chair
- Meera Varghese (University of Alberta)
Becoming the Goddess: Dance and the Embodiment of Feminine Identity in the
Indian Diaspora
- Rebecca Cypess (Yale University)
The Community as Ethnographer: Views of the Classical Canon among Orthodox
Jews
|
| 1:30 |
YGMS Luncheon (optional, location TBA) |
