Society for Music Research
Last week, music theorists from across the country and around the world gathered in Milwaukee for the 49th annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory.
The conference had an impressive showing of papers by SMR members:
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Killian Grider (PhD third year) presented “When the Afterparty’s Over: Epilogic Function of After-Chorus Modules in 2020s Dance Pop.”
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Tom Ingram (PhD fourth year) presented “Palestrina’s embedded ninths.”
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Lilly Korkontzelos (PhD first year) presented “Is Everything Romantic?: Sonic Expressions of Gender in Hyperpop Vocal Production.”
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Luis Armando Rivera (PhD fourth year) presented “Form As Heard: Kurt Westphal’s Verlaufskurve.”
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Jonah Stemen (PhD second year) presented “Sonata as Topic: Timbral Structure in the Late Work of Richard Strauss (1942–1948).”
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Sarah Tobin (PhD second year) presented “Examining Marked Vocal Expressions in Katie Gavin of MUNA (2013–).”
In addition, the conference featured presentations by Michigan faculty members Marc Hannaford, John Knoedler, Stefano Mengozzi, Marie-Ève Piché, and René Rusch, and by recent Michigan alumni Kája Lill (University of Missouri, Kansas City) Carlos Perez Tabares (Oberlin College and Conservatory) and Sylvie Tran (Michigan State University). In total, the University of Michigan sent 11 presenters to the conference, a larger contingent than any other school.
Congratulations to all presenters, and we look forward to meeting again next year in Baltimore.