Past Conferences
2007 Seventh Annual Conference/Concert Program
2006 Sixth Annual Conference/Concert Program
2005 Fifth Annual Conference/Concert Program
2004 Fourth Annual Conference/Concert Program
2007 Conference Report--Kim Schafer, Conference Chair
GAMMA-UT, the Graduate Association of Music and Musicians at UT, held their seventh annual conference on March 24th, 2007. Nine graduate students presented their research in the areas of musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and music education, creatively engaging with this year's theme "Sight and Sound: The Visual Imagination in Music". The three panels were "Gendered Musicology: the Confluence of Sound, Body, Text", "The National Imaginary: Sonic Readings of Popular Culture", and "Music and the Visual: Bridging Time, Space and Cognition". Dr. Richard Leppert from the University of Minnesota gave a thought-provoking presentation on the relationship of music and perspectives on time. A multi-media concert, performed by several local Austin instrumentalists, ended the GAMMA-UT conference. Participants of the conference came from University of Texas at Austin, City University of New York, University of Michigan, University of California at Santa Barbara, Boston University, Harvard University, West Virginia University, Duke University, University of Pittsburgh, Florida International University, Case Western Reserve, and Cleveland Institute of Music.
2006 Conference Report--Jennifer Iverson, Conference Chair
GAMMA-UT, the Graduate Association of Music and Musicians at UT, held its sixth annual conference at the University of Texas at Austin on Saturday, March 25, 2006. Graduate students in musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, and composition from University of Washington, Cornell, CUNY, Bowling Green State, University of Kentucky, Florida State, University of North Texas, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Michigan, and University of California-Berkeley met to share their research. The conference consisted of a Popular Music session, a Twentieth-century Music session, and a Latin American Music session, all of which engaged various methods for producing illuminating and interesting scholarship, and highlighted the interdisciplinary mission of GAMMA-UT. Lawrence Zbikowski of the University of Chicago gave an engaging keynote speech on the possibility of building a cognitive grammar of dance music using dance figures. The Tosca String Quartet, a professional string quartet based in Austin, performed the composers' works in an evening recital.
2005 Conference Report--Jenny Beavers, Conference Chair
GAMMA-UT, the Graduate Association of Music and Musicians at UT, held its fifth annual conference at the University of Texas at Austin on Saturday, April 9, 2005. True to the interdisciplinary foundation of GAMMA-UT, eight graduate students presented papers on topics relevant to ethnomusicology, musicology, and theory. The "Music and Culture" session included papers on the music of Ecuadorian modernist Luis Humberto Salgado, traditional music in Paraguay, and Jewishness in Shostakovich's String Quartets. The "Theory" session included analyses of interval cycles in Schoenberg, borrowing in Satie's piano suites, and the construction of fate in Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony. The "Popular Music" session offered readings of Ani DiFranco's feminist musical response to 9/11 and the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Our keynote speaker, Philip Rupprecht of CUNY, delivered an enlightening talk on the construction of a distinctly British modernist aesthetic in the music of post-war avant-gardists Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, and Peter Maxwell Davies. A compelling multimedia electroacoustic concert featuring compositions by student composers from all over the world closed the conference.
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