April 6, 2026
First Presbyterian Church, 704 Whitney Avenue, New Haven
Friday, April 10:
1:30 Welcoming Remarks (Patrick McCreless, Gundula Kreuzer, Steven Wilkinson)
1:45 - 3:15 Music Around the Globe [Chair: Danny Walden]
- Yonatan Malin, “Gurevich’s Greeting and the Analysis of Klezmer Music”
- Gurminder Bhogal, “Listening Beyond Music Through Sikh Music Theory”
- Cliff Callender, “Recomposition as Analysis in Late Works of György Ligeti”
3:15 - 3:45 Mid-afternoon break (coffee and lite snacks)
3:45 - 4:45 Meter and Dance [Chair: Peter Kaminsky]
- Kara Leaman, “Fascinating Rhythms: Some Techniques for Temporal Coordination Between Dance and Music in George Balanchine’s Ballets”
- Jeremy Tatar, “Metrical Scripts in Recent Electronic Dance Music”
Saturday, April 11
10:00-11:30 The Tonnetz [chair: Dan Harrison]
- Dmitri Tymoczko, “Who is Rick Cohn? And What is the Tonnetz?”
- David Clampitt, “Pairwise Well-Formed Scales and the Tonnetz”
- Carmel Raz, “A Tonnetz from 1812”
11:30-12:30 Catered lunch on site
12:30-2 Meter [chair: Giulia Accornero]
- Stephen Guerra, “Pitch Space Hemiola: Turning the Pitch-Time Analogy Around in an Analysis of Pixinguinha’s ‘Cuidado Colega’”
- Philippa Ovenden, “Making Sense of Mensural Notations Using Metric Theory”
- Jason Yust, “The One: Theorizing Groove”
2 - 2:30 Mid-afternoon break (coffee and lite snacks)
2:30-4:00 Appreciations [chair: Roger Grant]
- Scott Murphy, “Cohn’s Unfettered Patrimony, or another Complement Union Property”
- Steve Rings, “Sound and System; Or, What I Learned from Rick”
Joe Straus, “Rick and Me: An Appreciation”
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