Saturday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Room 303

MUSIC AND DRAMA

Robert Cuckson (Mannes College of Music), Chair

• Harmonic Deception, Nested Bass Descent, and the Apparent Dominant: The Hymns to Venus from Tannhäuser
  Evan Jones (Eastman School of Music)
  
• Thematic Irony in Wagner's Ring: Vorspiel to a Study of Thematic Development and Dramatic Association in Der Ring des Nibelungen
  Matthew Bribitzer-Stull (Eastman School of Music)
  
• Chromatic Neighbor-Note Motions, Absolute Progressions, and an Assessment of One Dialect from the Polygot of Recent American Film Music
  Scott Murphy (Eastman School of Music)
  
• Lines and Circles . . . Strange Figures: Musical Dialectics and Dramatic Ambivalence in Wozzeck
  Wayne Alpern (Mannes College of Music)