Musicology and Music Theory Presentations, November 2025

Members of the Musicology and Music Theory Departments presented at the joint annual meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN, November 6-9, 2025.

Representatives and papers from the Musicology Department:

• Professor Michael Alan Anderson: “Symbolism and Intermediality in Early Music: New Work Inspired by the Research of Anne Walters Robertson.”
• PhD Candidate Bethany Brinson: “Singing a Song of Survival: How Recent Sound Art Installations Promote Empathetic Attunement to Avian Sonic Ecologies.”
• PhD Candidate Paul David Flood: “White and Black Blues: The 1990 Eurovision Song Contest and the Prospect of European (Racial) Integration.”
• PhD Student Sven Joseph: “Mazowsze and the Moderation of Polish Culture: Folk Music, Socialist Realism, and Postwar Reconstruction.”
• Assistant Professor John Kapusta: “How Broadway Got Its ‘Belt’: Ethel Merman Belting, and Cold War American Identity.”
• Professor Honey Meconi: “Mons superat saltus and Hildegard’s Song Texts.”
• Professor and Chair Holly Watkins: “Wild Hermeneutics.”
• PhD Candidate Sheridan Zahl: “An Ecology of Water and Orchestra: Deleuzian Becomings in Tan Dun’s Water Concerto.”

Representatives and papers from the Music Theory Department:

• Professors Hanisha Kulothparan and David Temperley: “Contrasting Verses in Indian Popular Music.”
• Evan Martschenko: “Uncovering Howard Hanson’s Proto-Set Theory Pedagogy.”
• Professor Nathan Lam: “Unified Solfège Equations.”
• Ash Mach: “Effort and Tension in Rebecca Saunders’s Dialoguefor Viola and Percussion.”
• Professor John Covach: panel on “Methods and Ethics in Music Copyright Analysis.”
• Sam Falotico: “Coloring Sound: Intertextual Expressions of Music, Meaning, and Identity in Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s Music Videos” and “From End Credits to Endless Loops: Intermedial Palimpsests of Momoiro Clover Z’s “Nippon Egao Hyakkei.”
• Professor Landon Morrison: “Listening to ‘Machine Listening’: Resistance and Reification in Contemporary Music Practice.”
• Maeve Gillen: “… and my (trans?) gender analysis.”
• Ryan Jones: “Imagining Posthumanist Musical Agency with George Crumb’s Music for a Summer Evening.”
• Ruixue Hu: Lightning talk at “Bad Instructions? Anarchy, Excess, and Scarcity in Music Notation.”
• Lauren Irschick: “First Time Hearing: YouTube Reaction Videos and the Commodification of the Inexpert Listener.”
• Professor Ben Baker: “Participatory Covers, Audience Choirs, and Jacob Collier’s Public Music Theory.”
• Professor Zack Bernstein: “Playing with the Net Down: Formalism and Dialectics in Helmut Lachenmann’s Music and Thought.”