Meetings

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

9:30-11:30: 

Zoom Session (in-person audience with Zoom presenters).  PTY Recial Hall.  

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

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

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

Joint Session (B037) 11:15-12:15: 

(B037) 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

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