Friday, March 9Th - Clara Lichtenstein Recital Hall (C209)

McGill Music Graduate Symposium,

March 9-11, 2007

Friday, March 9th - Clara Lichtenstein Recital Hall (C209)
16:00 / Welcome and Opening Remarks
Classical Connections – Session Chair: Jean-Philippe Soucy
16:00 / Meghan Goodchild, McGill
Developing the Development: The Evolution of Formal Functions in J.C. Bach
16:30 / Jennifer Roemer and Katie Womack, Southern MethodistUniversity
Lecture-Recital: The Clementi Connection
17:30 / ~Wine and Cheese Reception~
Saturday, March 10th - Clara Lichtenstein Recital Hall (C209)
Processing Music – Chair: Session Chair: Michel Vallières
9:30 / Bruno Gingras, McGill
Improved Score-performance Matching Using Both Structural and Temporal Information from MIDI Recordings
10:00 / Jason Ray, University of Ottawa
A Content Analysis of Musical Notation in Ten Contemporary North American Piano Method Book Primers
10:30 / Alison Conard, TempleUniversity
The Instant We Hear: A Microgenetic Approach to the Study of Music
11:00 / ~Break~
Two to Tango – Chair: Session Chair: Dana Gorzelany-Mostak
11:15 / Emily J. McManus, Minnesota
Embodying Modernity: Intersections of Nostalgia, Tradition and Innovation in the Twin Cities Tango Community
11:45 / Jamshed Turel, McGill
Stylizing a Tango: Intertextuality and Audio-Visual Relationships in Chaplin’s City Lights
12:15 / ~Lunch~
Keynote Presentation – Session Chair: Prof. Jonathan Wild
13:30 / Pierre Daniel Rheault, President of SOCAN
Multimedia Music:A Genre Asking for Immediate Help
14:30 / ~Break~
Religion, Politics, and Music – Session Chair: Jane Hatter
15:00 / Patrice Nicolas, Université de Montréal
Jacotin (c.1495-c.1556) and the Cult of St. Michael
15:30 / Jeremy Leong, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A Musical Reflection: Jewish Exiles in Republican China
16:00 / Xenia Pestov, McGill
Lecture-Recital: Form and Notation: The Piano Miniature of the Russian Avant-garde
Sunday, March 11th – Room C201
Analyzing Off the Canon – Session Chair: Steven Cannon
10:00 / Daphne Tan, McGill
Symmetry and Tonal Design: Structural Planning in the Finale of Nielsen’s
Second Violin Sonata
10:30 / Inessa Bazayev, CUNYGraduateCenter
Voice-leading Symmetries in the Late Works of Alexander Scriabin
11:00 / Sebastiano Bisciglia, McGill
Interaction of Style, Aesthetic, and Method in Dallapiccola's Tre liriche greche (1942-45)
11:30 / ~Break~
Seeing Music, Hearing Art – Session Chair: Michael Ethen
11:45 / Stephen Thursby, FloridaStateUniversity
“Lichtmusik” and “Orgies of Darkness”: Balancing the Aural and the Visual in the 1903 Mahler-Roller Tristan
12:15 / Alexa Woloshyn, University of WesternOntario
Constructs of Emotional Continuity in Björk’s Music: Multiple Analyses of Homogenic and Medulla
12:45 / Emily Adamowicz, University of WesternOntario
Impossible Structures: Self-Reflexivity in the Works of Escher, Rea, and Velasquez