The Yale Department of Music presents:
Dan Fest: A Conference Celebrating the Career of Daniel Harrison
Stoeckel Hall 106
10:15a welcome - Gundula Kreuzer
10:30-12:00 Session 1 – Pedagogies of Music Theory
Chair: A. Zayaruznaya
Anna Gawboy
“Music Theory as Rejected Knowledge, or, What A Music Theorist Can Learn From Esotericism Studies?”
Renée Barbre
“Musica Obscura: Cryptic Music Notation in Early Modern Pedagogies of Music Theory”
Deborah Rifkin
“Rating Grading: Berating and Debating.”
1:15-2:45 Session 2: Counterpoints and Dualisms
Chair: Rick Cohn
Megan Long
“Capita et Caude: Heads and Tails in Imitative Polyphony”
Scott Murphy
“An Intersection between Harmonic Dualism and Corpus Tendencies in the Music of Rachmaninoff”
Steven Rings
“Harrison’s Heterodoxy”
3:15-4:45 Session 3: Music, Sound, Image
Chair: Ian Quinn
Shelby Arias-Runyan
“On Harmonography: Visualizing Consonance in Public Music Theory”
Elizabeth Medina-Gray
“Musical Effects of Pitch Correction in the Speech Sounds of Two Video Game Characters”
Táhirih Motazedian
“Contemporary Tonality Goes to the Movies”