Texas Society for Music Theory 30th Annual Conference February 22 - 23, 2008 Texas State University San Marcos, TX

Keynote speaker - James Hepokoski

The Texas Society for Music Theory will hold its 30th annual meeting this spring at Texas State University in San Marcos, which is located south of Austin in the heart of the central Texas Hill Country. Nico Schüler will coordinate local arrangements. Our keynote address will be given by James Hepokoski, who is a faculty member at Yale University. Professor Hepokoski's research addresses music from 1750 to the present and he is co-author of the much anticipated Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata. His articles have appeared in numerous books and journals including Music Theory Spectrum, 19th-Century Music, and the Journal of the American Musicological Society.

The Society invites the submission of proposals for scholarly papers and panel discussions on any aspect of music theory, and music of any style, period, or region. Topics may include, but are not limited to: analysis, methodology, cognition, history of theory, music theory pedagogy, theory and performance, and interdisciplinary research. Special sessions may also be proposed. Presentations within special sessions may be in the form of demonstrations, panel discussions, lecture-recitals, or traditional papers.

Please submit FIVE COPIES of a detailed proposal of 3 to 5 double-spaced typed pages. A program committee will review the proposals. As individual proposals will be reviewed anonymously, do not include your name on these proposals. Panel discussion proposals, however, must include the names of all participants.

Your submission must be accompanied by a separate cover letter including title of the presentation, your name(s), telephone number, e-mail address, technological or equipment requirements, and an indication, if applicable, of student status. In addition you must include, on a separate sheet, a one-page abstract for inclusion in the conference program. Only complete submissions will be considered.

These materials must be mailed (POSTMARK DEADLINE) by December 1, 2007. Please send them to:

Each submitter will be notified of the selection committee's decision by mid-January. Student presenters wishing to be considered for the TSMT Colvin Award must send two copies of the complete paper to the above address postmarked on, or before, February 1, 2008. To be considered, please indicate student status in the cover letter. The program will be announced in mid-January along with full registration and travel information. Abstracts of those papers chosen for presentation will be published on the TSMT website.

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