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2025
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Autumn semester
October 8th
Rosa García, "Transformational Theory and Rhythm Analysis of Flamenco Palos in Chano Domínguez’s solos"
October 22nd
Kenneth Smith, "Demonstrating new Harmonic Drive Analyzer programme." https://chromatic-harmony.com/resources.html
November 5th
Dickie Lee, "Mapping Intertextuality with the Music of Ween"
November 12th
Ardi Echevarria, "Formal Automata and Sonata Cyborgs"
November 19th
Chris Williams, "Parsimony and Intercardinality through the DFT"
December 3rd
Frank Lehman, Star Wars / John Williams themed session
December 17th
Holiday season party. Everyone analyses their favourite festive song and thereby ruins it for themselves and the rest of us.
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5th February
Roberta Vidic (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg)“An explicative example of “Palestrinian practice” from the 1720s: analysis,
partimento, or something else?”
19th February
Riachrd Worth(Liverpool)“Wrong note music.”
March 5th
Douggie Ashby (Liverpool), “Prolongation and Schema Theory: Towards a Unification through Hyper-graphs”
March 19th
Dickie Lee (UGA), “Force Image Schemata, Conceptual Metaphor, and Narrative in Rage Against the Machine’s Self-Titled Debut Album (1992)”
April 2nd
Ardi Echevarria (Durham), “Mendelssohn’s New Development Themes and their Reappearances"
April 23rd
Matthew Holmes (RNCM), “Analysing Interval Wedge Structures in the Late Works of Robert Simpson"
2024
9th October
Kenneth Smith (Liverpool) Gilbert Simondon's Transduction & Individuation in musical form. Arthur Lourie - forms in the air.
23rd October
Dickie Lee (UGA): "Image Schema Theory and Popular Music Analysis"
6th November
Mark Johnson (Manchester) Appoggiaturas, tendencies and Schumann’s prophetic bird
20th November
Rosa García (Complutense University of Madrid). A transformational approach to Tete Montoliu’s solos
4th December
Bruckner Double Bill: Florian Walch (Chicago), Michael Spitzer (Liverpool)
18th December
Tom McConnell (Liverpool). The Beatles Major II Schema
Summer Colloquium
Tuesday, May 21st
0930 (UGA)/ 1500 (UK): Mark Johnson - The Social Field of Music: Topology, Movement and Closure in Haydn C-major piano Sonata Hob VI/50 1030 (UGA) / 1630 (UK): Richard Worth. Title coming soon. |
Wednesday, May 22nd
0930 (UGA) / 1430 (UK): Kenneth Smith (Liverpool), Joan Tower’s “Silver Ladders” and Peter Sloterdijk’s “Spheres” 1000 (UGA)/ 1500 (UK): David Haas (UGA): Toward a Theory of Symphonic Interpretation 1100 (UGA) / 1600 (UK): Mikey Cottom (UoL): Drumbeats in pop
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2023 Programme
8th February - Dickie Lee (UGA), “Intertextual Rhetoric in Recent Popular Music”
15th February - Adrian Childs (UGA), “How I taught post-tonal theory (almost) without using music by white men”
22nd February - Kenneth Smith (Liverpool), “Autopoiesis and Form ”
1st March - Michael Spitzer (Liverpool), “Cells and Sounds”
8th March - Mark Johnson (Manchester), “Triads and Noise”
15th March (12pm US) - Michelle Phillips (RNCM), “Music and the golden section: evidence for and against perception”
22nd March (12pm US)- Inessa Bazayev (Louisiana State University), “Harmonic Function in Prokofiev’s Music”
29th March (12pm US, 5pm UK) - John Covach (Rochester), “Positional Analysis/Positional Listening: Performers, Analysts, and Audience.” (Participants requested to prepare by checking out this paper: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:32221/
April 19th - Ardi Echevarria (Durham): "Wagner's Formal Gift: Siegfried Idyll and the New Formenlehre"
May 17th - Richard Worth (Liverpool) - "Alma Deutscher and the Politics of Beauty"
May 24th (5pm BST/12 pm EST ) - Lawrence Davies (Liverpool): “You get words[,] you play the blues”: Blues analysis and blues poetics in the work of pianist Mercy Dee Walton
May 31st - Kenneth Smith (Liverpool) Karlowicz & Nietzsche’s “Eternal Return”
2022 Programme
14th December - Dickie Lee (UGA)
30th November - Dao Pham (Anglia Ruskin)- Piano sonatas of Kapustin
16th November - Richard Worth (Liverpool) "Something"
9th November - Mark Johnson (Manchester)"Epigenetics of Music"
2nd November - Open discussion - Theory Curriculum [NB: 3pm this week for UK]
19th October - Kenneth Smith (Liverpool) "Positive feedback as formal accelerator, or, the Romantic-virtuosic sentence in Liszt’s B Minor Sonata."
2nd Feb - Marta Riccardi (Liverpool) - Transformation theory
9th Feb - Richard Worth (Liverpool) - Comparative analysis
16th Feb - James Shufflebotham (Keele) - ‘Gravitonicity’
23rd Feb - Stephen Valdez (UGA) Beatles Themed Session
2nd March - Kenneth Smith (Liverpool) Scriabin colours and harmonic strength.
9th March - Dickie Lee (UGA) - Agency in 'Rent'
16th March (12 noon for Athens) - John Moore and Matthew Burke (Liverpool) - ‘Tuplets for Toddlers’: music theory, collaboration and digital marketing
23rd March - Kenneth Smith & Richard Worth (12 noon for Athens) - "Chord Pathfinder"
30th March (11:15 for Athens: 4:15pm UK) - David Haas (UGA) - "Four Short Poster Presentations on the Leitmotiv"
6th April - Adrian Childs (UGA) - TBC
11th May - James Shufflebotham - “Gravitonicity: Functionality and Modularity”.
25th May - Alison Gilbert (UGA)- "Settings of Housman's A Shropshire Lad"
2021 Programme
13th Oct - Dickie Lee (UGA): "Analyzing Play in Bit Brigade"
20th Oct - Jenn LaRue (UGA): "Akin Euba’s Wakar Duru: Approaching Intercultural Music"
27th Oct - Richard Worth / Kenneth Smith (Liverpool): "Thundercat,and parsimony in extended harmony"
3rd Nov - Federico Favalli (Liverpool): "Beyond the Clouds: On some Affinities between some Ideas of Karl Popper and the Music of György Ligeti"
10th Nov - Stephen Turner (UGA): Theme: The Music of Twin Peaks
17th Nov - Alison Gilbert (UGA): Poetry and meaning in English art song - Ralph Vaughan Williams and Liza Lehmann
24th Nov - Joseph Coughlan-Allen (Liverpool): “How many bars was that?: Minimalistic rhythms and hypermetric irregularity in Suicide’s ‘Rocket USA’”
1st Dec - Dmitri Tymoczko(Princeton): "The Ludwig Schema"
8th Dec - Mark Johnson (Copenhagen): "Improvising energy"
15th Dec - Marta Riccardi / Federico Favalli: Theme: "Modelling Tonal Tension"