
Schedule
April 9, 2022 – April 10, 2022
April 9, 2022
9:00-10:30 Session 1: “Sacred Sounds in Context”
(Abstracts&Bios, RSVP)
Moderation: Cody A Norling (University of Iowa)
Danielle Bridges*
The (Re)Maker of Spirituals: Pursuing “A Fairer Paradise” for All in Eva Jessye’s Paradise Lost and Regained
Michael Pekel*
Pitch Collections and Form in Jonathan Harvey’s Missa Brevis
Mitchell A Widmer*
“O Gott Vater, wir Loben dich: The Singing of the Old Order Amish in Johnson/Washington County”
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11:00-12:30 Session 2: “Reading Queerness and Gender”
(Abstracts&Bios, RSVP)
Moderation: Emily Masincup (Northwestern University)
Lara Balikci
Furniture Music as Boundary Object of Music Ontology
Jerika Hayes
Do Everything, Feel Nothing: Gender Politics in Dry Cleaning’s Post-Punk and Confronting the Shadow of Joy Division
Zane H Larson*
Hyperpop: An Unbridled Queer Sonic Space
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2:00-3:30 Session 3: “Operatic Scenes and Spaces”
(Abstracts&Bios, RSVP)
Moderation: Sylvie Tran (University of Michigan)
Gabrielle Choma
Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin: Sketches, Harmonic Fields, and Text-Painting
Seokyoung Kim
A Tipping Point of Breaking Down Versus Inheriting Orientalist Opera: In Case of Heartbeat Opera’s Butterfly (2017)
Molly B Hennig*
The Past and Present of Popular Music within the Wisconsin Opera House
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4:00-4:45 Keynote: Singing Statues and the Invention of Opera
Prof. Wendy Heller* (RSVP)

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5:00-6:30 Session 4: “Quotation and Representation”
(Abstract&Bios, RSVP)
Moderation: Andrew Barrett (Northwestern University)
Madison Archer
The People Behind the Music: How Collaboration in 21st Century Film Scores Creates Musical Spaces for Marginalized Communities
Ryne T Carlson*
Love and Loss: Schubert’s Borrowing from the “Little” A-Major Sonata for “Der Unglückliche”
Harry Lee Ward
“What we already are, what we have never been:” Uncanny Resemblances and Defamiliarization in the Musical Postmodern
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April 10, 2022
9:00-11:00 Session 5: “Contesting Categories in Music and Analysis” (Abstracts&Bios, RSVP)
Moderation: Anastasia Scholze (University of Iowa)
Elizabeth Frickey
Ecomusicologies & Environmentalisms: An Anti-Disciplinary Manifesto
Sarah Hansen
Schelomo: A Cultural and Musical Examination of Jewishness in Ernest Bloch’s
Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra
Scott Miller
Fluid Notes: Analogical Approaches to Pitch Ontology in the Music of Jacob Collier
Tori Tyler
Forms of Separation: An Analysis of Hispanic/Latinx Injustices Through an Instrumental Lens
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11:30-1:00 Session 6: “Representing Diaspora in America”
(Abstracts&Bios, RSVP)
Moderation: Mayna Tyrrell (University of Michigan)
Xuan He
Remapping Musical Narrative: Hybridized Storytelling in Tan Dun’s The Map: Concerto for Cello, Video, and Orchestra (2002)
Anna Lopez
“Of Our New Day Begun: The Importance of the American Wind Band and its Repertory in the Western Classical Music Canon”
Jiayi Xu
Thematic Transformation in The Godfather
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3:00-4:00 Concert (Details)

In Dialogue With The Past
MGMC 2022
Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)