Texas Society for Music Theory 32nd Annual Conference February 26 - 27, 2010 Baylor University Waco, Texas

Keynote speaker - Deborah Stein

The Texas Society for Music Theory will hold its 32nd annual meeting this spring at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Jana Millar is the local arrangements coordinator. The keynote address will be given by Deborah Stein, who is on the faculty at the New England Conservatory and author of Hugo Wolf's Lieder and Extensions of Tonality (1985). She has presented lectures at the annual meetings of the Society for Music Theory, the New England Conference of Music Theorists, and the Music Theory Society of New York State as well as a number of universities, including Boston University, Brandeis University, University of Victoria, the Hartt School of Music, and Indiana University. In 2004, Stein published a chapter in A Rebecca Clarke Reader and edited and contributed to a book, Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis, which received a Citation of Special Merit from the Society for Music Theory in 2007. Her book Poetry Into Song: Performance and Analysis of Lieder, coauthored with pianist Robert Spillman, was named an Outstanding Academic Book of 1996 by Choice. In June 2006, Stein lectured on chromaticism at Yale University for the prestigious Mannes Institute, a "professional think tank dedicated to communal inquiry at the highest level of scholarship."

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: theory and performance, analysis, methodology, cognition, history of theory, music theory pedagogy, 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 electronically submit a detailed proposal of three to five double-spaced pages as a single file in PDF format to matthew.santa@ttu.edu. Please include any examples within the single PDF specified above. 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 an e-mail that includes the title of the presentation, your name(s), mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address, technological or equipment requirements, and an indication, if applicable, of student status. In addition you must include, as a separate PDF, a one-page abstract for inclusion in the conference program. Only complete submissions will be considered.

These materials must be sent by November 15, 2009 to matthew.santa@ttu.edu. Any questions may be directed to Matthew Santa at the same email address.

Each submitter will be notified of the selection committee's decision in late December. Student presenters wishing to be considered for the TSMT Colvin Award must send a PDF of the complete paper to the above e-mail address on, or before, February 1, 2010. The program will be announced in early 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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