2012 Music Research Symposium

The 2012 UGA Music Research Symposium, sponsored by the Musicology/Ethnomusicology area of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will take place on 22 March 2012 in Edge Recital Hall at the University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music. The Symposium’s program features student research on a wide range of topics related to musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music traditions, world music cultures, and music theory and analysis. Presentations begin at 9:30 a.m. and conclude at 4:30 p.m.

Schedule:

9:30-10:45 - Performance and Interpretation

Florestan, Eusebius and Oboe: Musical Representations of Robert Schumann’s Characters in Three Romances for Oboe and Piano, Op. 94

--Whitney Holley

The “Enlightened” Oboe in Mozart’s Quartet, K. 370

--Cassandra Comp

Speaking India: The Saxophone’s Contemplation of a Displaced Identity

--Stan Flanders

Critical Pedagogy and Social Constructivism: A New Paradigm for the Choral Rehearsal

--Jason Vodicka

11-12:15 - Quotation and Appropriation:

Free Ride: Use of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” in Popular Culture

--Theresa Chafin

Gustav Holst, Stonewall Jackson, and Tyrannosaurus Rex

--Elizabeth Whittenburg Ozment

'We Long for a Home': Post-Holocaust Music in the Jewish Identity

--Kara Stewart

An Abbey Road Gospel?

--Tamika Sakayi Sterrs

2-3:15 - Representation and Tonal Ambiguity:

Abstract Representation of Jews in Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony

--Joshua Bedford

Charles Valentin Alkan: How Faith Stymied His Career and His Legacy

--Kate Robson

Tonality in Spite of Itself in the Songs of Emmanuel Chabrier

--Mary Helen Still

Chromatic Voice Leading in the Music of Scott Joplin

--David Peyton

3:30-4:30 American Music:

How Otis Got His Swagger Back:Projections of Modern Hip-Hop Practice on the Music of Otis Redding

--Benjamin DuPriest

“Bloodied but Unbowed”: Bloodshot Records and Insurgent Chicago Country Music

--Nancy Riley

A New Place for Classical Music: Classical Music Found Among Popular Genre

--KC Commander