18th Annual Pacific Northwest Music Graduate Students Conference!

A huge thank you to all presenters, performers, and especially attendees who helped to make this conference possible! We appreciate it, and we'll see you next year in Vancouver.

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Submissions are now closed - thanks to all who sent in an abstract.

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Our keynote speaker is Cristle Collins Judd, Professor of Music and Dean for Academic Affairs, Bowdoin College. View her webpage here.

Her talk is entitled "Music in Dialogue: Conversational, Didactic, and Literary Discourse about Music in the Renaissance"

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• For a detailed program of events, including paper titles and presenters, click here.

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Schedule of Events (all times and locations subject to change, check with organizers)

Friday, January 11

3:30pm Keynote Speaker: Cristle Collins Judd, Bowdoin College

Room 213

"Music in Dialogue: Conversational, Didactic, and Literary Discourse about Music in the Renaissance"

Dr. Judd's talk is presented as part of the UW Music Theory Colloquium Series.

8:00pm Lecture-recital concert:

Brechemin "Choral Compositions from UW Composers"

Auditorium

Featuring works by Giselle Wyers, Assistant Professor of Choral Studies, Eric Barnum, DMA candidate in Choral Conducting, and Laurie A. Betts, DMA candidate in Choral Conducting.

Selections of published or unpublished compositions (TBA). Composers will offer brief comments regarding their works.

"Documenting the Present"

Experimental composers from SUNY-Buffalo.

"Things #3 for Michael Parsons (14.1.05)" by John Lely

"B318, 00:39, 05 April 2006: documentary music #2" by James Orsher

"A Few Silence (location, date, time of performance)" by G. Douglas Barrett

Saturday, January 12

8:00am Breakfast and check-in

Room 213 Bagels, pastries, coffee, and other beverages.

8:30am Session I – Popular Music

Room 213 Moderator/Session Chair: Kim Cannady

Analyzing the Rutles: The Music and Identity of the Pre-Fab Four

Christine Boone – University of Texas

In Parallel Seas: Conflicting (Hyper)Meter in Mew's song "Chinaberry Tree"

Brad Osborn – University of Washington

Adorno on the Radio: How Music Transforms Our Consciousness

Emily Isaacson – University of Oregon

10:30am Session II – Theory and Analysis

Room 213 Moderator/Session Chair: Peter Shelley

Fractal Geometry and Schenker's Theory of Organic Unity

Rich Pellegrin – University of Washington

All in the Family: A Transformational-Genealogical Theory of Musical Contour Relations

Rob Schultz – University of Washington

Improvisation sur Boulez

Christian Hebert – University of Victoria

12:00pm- Lunch

1:30pm Bring your own or join us on "the Ave" for a variety of options including pizza, Vietnamese, Thai, Middle Eastern, burritos, subs, burgers, etc.

Maps provided with restaurant locations.

1:30pm Session III – 20^th Century American Composers

Room 213 Moderator/Session Chair: Jacob A. Cohen

Cage and Assertiveness: On the Importance of Being Strict in Order to Let Anything Go

Magnus Andersson – The Norwegian Academy of Music

Reconsidering an "Un-American" Composer: Aaron Copland's Cultural Nationalism during the Depression and War

Myron Gray – University of Western Ontario

Come Sunday(s): Narrative Structure in Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige

Mark Samples – University of Oregon

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30 Session III – Performance in Opera and Other Vocal Forms

Room 213 Moderator/Session Chair: Emily Kojis

Rewriting "Joconde": The Development of an Eighteenth Century Timbre

Jessica Getman – Boston University

Lady Macbeth - Intention vs Practice

Emma Alvarez – University of Washington

The Cut-Circle: Theory Meets Performance

Jean-Marie Kent – University of Washington

Special thanks to the staff of the School of Music for all their

help in coordinating and scheduling this conference.

The Music Building at the University of Washington, site of this year's conference