Fifth Annual UA Graduate Student Music Conference
Special Event
Guest Speaker: Michael Buchler Room 146, $Free
February 28-29, Friday-Saturday
This student-run conference will feature presentations by student scholars from around the country on topics related to contemporary music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology and music education. Michael Buchler, associate professor of music theory at Florida State University, will present the keynote address and facilitate a workshop for this annual graduate student music conference. For more information please contact Dr. Matthew Mugmon, mugmon@email.arizona.edu.
Friday, February 28, Room 146
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. WORKSHOP, LED BY DR. MICHAEL BUCHLER: “Why Can’t We Have Passing Tones (and Other Familiar “Tonal” Categories) in Atonal Music?”
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. SESSION 1: MUSIC AND IDENTITY
Spirituals and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement – LeeLee Hunter, University of Arizona
Expressing Mongolian Identity through Piano Performance – Shuree Enkhbold, University of Arizona
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. SESSION 2: SOUND AND FUNCTION
Sound Object (Per)Mutation in Wishart’s Imago and Hurel’s Leçon de Choses – Elizabeth Hambleton, University of California, Santa Barbara
Standing Rock and The Role of Music in Activism – Matthew Conrad, University of Arizona
Saturday, February 29, Room 146
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. SESSION 3: COLLABORATIONS
Enhancing Music Education by Connecting Improvisation and Composition – Jakub Rojek, University of Arizona
The Faun and the Rite: Collaborations that Shocked – Eleni Stavrianou, University of Arizona
“Leaders Need to Do What Jazz Musicians Do”: On the Imperfections of the Jazz Metaphor in Corporate Management – Mike Ford, Columbia University
1:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. SESSION 4: RHYTHM, METER, AND FORM
Unraveling the form of Zappa’s Peaches en Regalia – Felipe Villas Boas, Michigan State University
Metric Stability and Instability in Maurice Ravel’s Piano Music – Hanisha Kulothparan, Michigan State University
Rhythm as Function: Labeling the other progression – Ian Guthrie, Florida State University
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS – DR. MICHAEL BUCHLER
“A New Deal for the Broadway Stage: Musical Depictions of Labor and Trade Unionism during the Depression”
6:00 p.m. SOCIAL HOUR: GENTLE BEN’S
This project has been made possible by a grant from the College of Fine Arts Bank One Visiting Artist Professorship Awards and the Robidoux Master Teacher Fund in the Fred Fox School of Music.
Conference Coordinators:
Olman Alfaro (olman@email.arizona.edu),
Donte Ford (donteaford@email.arizona.edu)
Harry Ward (harryward@email.arizona.edu)
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