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MTO 3.2 1997

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  1. New Discussion List for Analysis of Classical Music
  2. The Ethnic in Music
  3. American Bach Society Meeting
  4. Oberlin Conservatory of Music Workshops in Electronic and Computer Music
  5. First International Workshop on Computational Semiotics: Call for Papers
  6. Association for Technology in Music Instruction Annual Conference
  7. International Schubert Conference - France
  8. Society for Music Perception and Cognition
  9. Summer Sessions at CCRMA, Stanford University
  10. Institut fuer Musikgeschichte Wien
  11. Music Theory Society of New York State: Annual Meeting
  12. Lexikon-Sonate Online
  13. International Schubert Conference - Vienna 1997


New Discussion List for Analysis of Classical Music

I am introducing a new discussion list dedicated to the analysis of
classical music. The focus is on very practical analysis that aids in
understanding of the music for composers and improvising musicians.

This list is an offshoot of the discussion-L list at
http://www.justjazz.com

There will be specific music selections being discussed at any given
time , much as in a reading club, although list members may bring up
other pieces. Having particular selections being discussed allows
everyone to have the same music at hand.

The first selections will be the Chopin Waltzes.

It will be assumed that those in the discussion have the music
being discussed.

I will be posting the basic chord progressions and my analysis
as a kickoff for the various discsussions. 

The marked up music will be posted in PDF format.

For example, see http://www.justjazz.com/chopinw1.pdf.

To subscribe, send email to listserver@justjazz.com.  The body of the
message should be:

subscribe classical-theory-L

The website http://www.justjazz.com will be augmented to support
this new list.

To post to the list, send mail to classical-theory-L@justjazz.com.

I look forward to seeing you on the list.

The current discussion list at justjazz.com has already become very
popular in the few months it has been in existence. We already have
over 200 active members spread out across more than 25 countries. In
addition many non members read the archived mail at the website.

Reed Kotler
http://www.reedkotler.com

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The Ethnic in Music

a conference

race, culture, nationalism,
gender, class,
empire, post-coloniality

Department of Music
University of Leeds
in association with
Critical Musicology Journal

11th-12th July 1997

A Call for Papers

Proposals for 20-min. papers to:
Steve Sweeney-Turner
David Cooper
Department of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England;
e-mail: s.sweeney-turner@leeds.ac.uk; tel.: +44 (0)113-233-2582;
            d.g.cooper@leeds.ac.uk; tel.: +44 (0)113-233-2578.

Deadline for Proposals: 25th April 1997

Info. on: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/CMJ/Conf/ethnic.html
_________________________________________________________


Air do slainte,

Dr. Steve Sweeney-Turner
Research Fellow
Department of Music
University of Leeds
LS6 9JT
England.
Tel.: +44 (0)113-233-2582
Mob.: +44 (0)374-868415
Fax.: +44 (0)113-233-2586

Visit the preview page for the upcoming launch of
Critical Musicology Journal at:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/CMJ/cmj.html

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American Bach Society Meeting

The biennial meeting of the American Bach Society will take place at
Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, on April 24-26, 1998.  The
theme of the conference is "J. S. Bach and the musical instruments of
his time."

The Society invites proposals for papers.  A one-page, double-spaced
abstract should be sent by October 15, 1997, to Prof. Kerala
J. Snyder, Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs Street, Rochester, NY
14604.  Papers on all aspects of Bach research are welcome, although
special consideration will be given to those that deal with the theme
of the conference.

Daniel Melamed

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Oberlin Conservatory of Music Workshops in Electronic and Computer Music

The Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College invites you to
participate in the twelfth annual series of workshops in electronic
and computer music, June 15-29, 1997. The workshops are designed for
high school and college students, teachers, professional musicians,
and hobbyists. These workshops are for anyone who wants to enrich
their understanding of new music media.

The workshops are Macintosh based and the topics we cover 
include:

       sequencing (Vision, MusicShop, Performer) 
       music printing (Finale) 
       synthesizer programming (Galaxy) 
       sampling (Sound Designer, Alchemy, TurboSynth) 
       alternate MIDI controllers 
       algorithmic composition (MAX) 

For more information about the Workshops in Electronic and 
Computer Music, contact: 

       Office of Outreach Programs
       Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College
       Oberlin, OH 44074
       (216-775-8044)
       Email: anna.hoffmann@qmgate.cc.oberlin.edu 

or have a look at our web page at:

       http://timara.con.oberlin.edu/dept/wrkshp.htm

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First International Workshop on Computational Semiotics: Call for Papers

26th - 27th May, 1997
P�le Universitaire L�onard de Vinci
PARIS - LA DEFENSE - FRANCE

TOPICS

SEMIOTICS OF TEXT  : Suzanne Bertrand-Gastaldy, University of Montreal

Computers are increasingly used to assist text analysis for cognitive,
literary, anthropological, sociological, documentary,
etc. research. The workshop will focus on actual realisations, on the
possibilities and limits of methodologies and existing tools to take
into account the complex and multidimensional nature of texts,
allowing multiple points of views for a variety of user needs. Issues
such as desirable features of text analysis software, robustness and
conviviality of implantations, interaction between corpora and users,
constraints that actual tools put upon kinds of analyses and coding
choices, the ability to elaborate models of electronic analytical
tools suited to different semiotic theories, semiotical foundations of
markup languages are examples of possible debates.

SEMIOMETHODOLOGY : Claude Vogel, L�onard de Vinci University

Several genres are currently under investigation for semiotic studies
: electronic mail, news, corporate information, Web publishing. The
flood of full text is overflowing semantic analysis, and this major
paradigm break leads us to reconsider our approach of text
processing. The size of these new corpora, the lack of consistency of
information, the physical scattering of the basic units of texts, make
the classical documentary solutions very uncomfortable. Instead, the
semiotic based analysis seems to be a highly compelling
perspective. It is focused on chronology; it provides a way to build
transitive narratives throughout large amounts of data, and it does
not require the understanding of the details of each local grammatical
sentence in order for a global plot to be elaborated. This promising
trend may give a second wind to ethnomethodology. For this reason, it
is more appropriate to use the term "semiomethodology" when evoking
this attempt to rationalize the computational approach of the symbolic
dynamics which underlie collaborative production.

ORGANIZATIONAL SEMIOTICS : Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University

Organizational semiotics is the semiotics of organizations and
organizational dimensions of textual semiotics. The objective of this
workshop is to define the boundaries of this new
specialty. Specifically, we will address the issue of : "How can
semiotic analysis of interpersonal and corporate exchanges be used to
reveal, evaluate, and contrast the underlying organizational logics
and changes in these logics over time ?" Recent advances in textual
analysis are facilitating this endeavor and creating new opportunities
for understanding organizational behavior. Critical issues in the area
of organizational semiotics include : 1) how to quickly and reliably
analyze large quantities of texts, 2) how to reduce textual data to an
empirical form that can be combined with other types of data and
analyzed statistically, 3) how to identify corporate texts (those
representing the "view" of the organization as an entity) and address
issues of authorship, and 4) how to identify institutional constraints
on the production and maintenance of corporate texts. New and
innovative computational methods for empirically analyzing texts are
being developed to address these and related concerns. These
techniques have the potential to move textual analysis beyond counting
words or locating a few themes or concepts. This section will focus on
the issues involved in performing organizational semiotics with
particular attention to the new computationally based techniques for
facilitating organizational analysis that increase the ease, speed or
reliability of coding texts and generate information that can be
analyzed statistically.

BIOSEMIOTICS : Jean-Claude Heudin, L�onard de Vinci University

Recently, algorithms and architectures based on models derived from
biological systems have been receiving an increasing amount of
interest. This section will explore how such new approaches and
techniques could be used for managing large amount of information
exchanges on Internet or Intranet.  Topics of particular interest
include, but are not limited to, applications of agent-based systems,
autonomous and evolving agents, genetic algorithms and programming,
neural networks, cellular automata etc. to text stream analysis and in
the more general framework of semiotics analysis.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Send four copies of an abstract (approximately 500 words) in english
or email it to :

Ir�ne Ludman - IWCS'97
P�le Universitaire L�onard de Vinci
92916 PARIS-LA DEFENSE-CEDEX, FRANCE 
Phone: (33) 01 41 16 73 05 
Fax : (33) 01 41 16 73 35
Email : irene.ludmann@devinci.fr

DEADLINES

Submission of abstracts 
by 1st April 1997

Acceptance notification to authors
by 15th April 1997

Submission of full papers
by 12th May 1997

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Claude Vogel (chairman)
Suzanne Bertrand-Gastaldy
Kathleen Carley
Jean-Claude Heudin

PROGRAM COMMITTE

Pierre Boudon (canada)
Guillaume Deffuant (France)
Evelyne Lutton (France)
Joe Porac (USA)
Carl Roberts (USA)
J. Sebeok (Canada)
Peter Stockinger (France)
Bill Turner (France)

For more information please visit the following Web page : 
http://www.devinci.fr/home/actua.htm

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Association for Technology in Music Instruction Annual Conference

The Association for Technology in Music Instruction is pleased to announce
the 1997 Call for Participation for the annual conference in Cleveland. As
in the past, topics dealing with technological applications for music
theory and pedagogy are very welcome.

koozin@badlands.nodak.edu
ATMI Program Chair


CALL FOR PROGRAM PARTICIPATION
The National Conference of the
Association for Technology in Music Instruction

The Conference Committee of ATMI invites the submission of proposals for
papers, panels, software demonstrations, and an electronic poster session
to be presented at the 1997 ATMI Conference. This meeting will be held
jointly with the College Music Society and will take place November 13-16
in Cleveland, Ohio.

PAPERS, PANELS and WORKSHOPS: Topics dealing with all aspects of technology
in music instruction are welcome. Especially encouraged are papers and
presentations that focus on:

    1)  Music Instructional Applications of the Internet
    2)  Interactive Distance Learning
    3)  Multimedia: Integrating Video, Graphics, Text, and Music
    3)  Creative Pedagogies and Technological Tools for Music Learning and
Composition
    5)  Research on the Effectiveness of Music Technology
    6)  Using Technology in the Music Studio (Music Performance)

SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS: Also encouraged are presentations that focus on
newly authored software from all aspects of the music curriculum.
Especially welcomed are applications that take an innovative approach to
music teaching and learning. Proposals should include a complete
description of the software's design and its use in the teaching
environment.

ELECTRONIC POSTER SESSION: For the first time, the conference will host a
computer-based poster session, in which presenters show material
collectively in a large display area. Especially encouraged are "hands-on"
presentations of research, new interactive music lab software, work in
progress, and examples of student work. Proposals should include a complete
ydescription of the material to be presented. Graphic images or actual
software samples may be included with a proposal submission, but should be
clearly described in the text of the proposal. Poster session participants
should supply portable computers and any other devices needed to present
their material.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: All proposals will be submitted for blind review and
authors are encouraged to exclude references to individuals or institutions
that might compromise this process. Proposals for papers should include
clear statements of theoretical background, methodology, and conclusions.
Panel proposals should include a complete description of the content to be
covered, panelists and their affiliation, and confirmation of panelists'
participation. Proposals should be no more than 2,000 words in length and
should include a detailed listing of required equipment and operating
system(s).

Individuals whose proposals are accepted must be members of ATMI to present
at the 1997 conference. Abstracts for accepted proposals will be published
on the ATMI website, with links to other sites as desired.

Deadline for submission is April 25, 1997.

E-mail submissions are especially encouraged and can be sent to:
koozin@badlands.nodak.edu

Notification of receipt will be sent as soon as e-mail submissions are received.

To submit proposals by regular mail, send five copies of each proposal to:

Timothy Koozin
ATMI Program Chair
Department of Music
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND 58202

Dr. Tim Koozin
Department of Music
University of North Dakota
koozin@badlands.nodak.edu

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International Schubert Conference - France

HOST: French Schubert Society
University of Paris I (Panth'eon-Sorbonne)
University of Paris IV (Sorbonne)

DATE: 13-15 October 1997

DESCRIPTION:
The French Schubert Society, together with the Universities of Paris I
(Panth'eon-Sorbonne) and Paris IV (Sorbonne), with the support of the
Austrian Cultural Institute and the patronage of the International Music
Council (UNESCO), organizes an international conference for the
Bicentenary of Schubert in 1997. The conference will take place on 13-15
October in the Sorbonne, under the title

The Evolution in Schubert's Instrumental Style: from Sources to Analysis

Schubert's reputation as a composer was for a long time based on his
Lieder, the instrumental works suffering from the comparison with his
great contemporary, Beethoven. Over the last decades, however, a growing
number of musicologists have taken an interest in this important part of
Schubert's output, which evidences a striking originality of thought.

The conference will provide an opportunity to bring together researchers
from all over the world to present their work in this field, with
emphasis on Schubert's stylistic evolution and special reference to his
approach to form.

Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes, to be followed by 10 minutes
debate. The following topics of discussion are suggested:
1) Musical Analysis, including a comparison of analytical approaches.
2) Source Studes : history and analysis.
3) Forum : from sources to analysis, with reference to the *Reliquie*
Sonata in C major (D840).

Proposals for papers (in the form of a one-page abstract with a short
curriculum vitae) should be sent by 2 May to the Chairman of the
Advisory Borad, 

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 

PAPER/PROPOSAL DEADLINE: 2 May 1997

COST AND PAYMENT OPTIONS:

TRAVEL AND HOTEL INFORMATION:

CONTACT:
Xavier Hascher (Colloque international Schubert)
Institut d'esth'etique et des sciences de l'art
Universit'e de Paris I Panth'eon-Sorbonne
162 rue Saint-Charles, F-75740 PARIS cedex 15
Tel. & Fax +33 1 45 58 09 06

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Society for Music Perception and Cognition

                CFP, Conference announcement


The annual meeting of SMPC will be held in Cambridge July 31-August  
3 at MIT.    Thematic sessions will include the following topics  
(among others):  acoustics and psychoacoustics; pitch; timbre;  
structure; perception and cognition of melody, harmony, rhythm, and  
meter; encoding of musical expression; studies of performance and  
improvisation; music and neuropsychology; machine modeling;  
cross-cultural perception of music.  The Society also welcomes  
proposals for tutorial sessions on key topics.

The deadline for abstracts is April 1, 1997.  They should be mailed  
to Connie Van Rheenen, SMPC Conference Registrar, MIT Media  
Laboratory, Room E15-486, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139.  The  
conference phone number is 617-253-2727.  The e-mail address is  
cvr@media.mit.edu.  Other 
relevant information--hotels, dormitory rooms, registration fees, 
etc.--may be found on the web at http://sound.media.mit.edu.smpc.

Authors should plan presentations of 20 minutes, including the  
question-and-answer period.  Abstracts should be formatted in Times  
Roman font and submitted in both hard copy and diskette using either  
Micosoft Word or Word Perfect.  The title of the paper should  
appear in 16-point bold, centered on one or two lines, with the  
author's name following in 12-point bold, also centered.  The text  
of the abstract should be in normal type.  Abstracts should be one  
page only, single spaced, with one-inch margins all around.   
Paragraphs should be separated by one additional space, but not  
indented.  In the cover letter, authors should include their  
professional title (if any), institutional affiliation (if any),  
postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, and equipment  
needs.

Robert F. Judd

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Summer Sessions at CCRMA, Stanford University

Each summer, the Stanford University Center for Computer Research
in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA, pronounced "Karma") sponsors workshops on
various topics. This summer, we are pleased to offer the following workshop
which may be of interest to members of the SMT-list. Please pass this along
to students and colleagues who may also be interested.

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         Computers in Music Scholarship
(Music Theory, Analysis, History, Ethnomusicology)

       June 16 - June 27, 1997
       Two weeks instruction. Limited to 15 participants.
       Instructors:
              David Huron
              Andreas Kornstaedt

The workshop is offered in cooperation with the Center for Computer
Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) at Stanford University.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to
computer-assisted music research using the Humdrum Toolkit.
Participants will learn to manipulate computer-based scores,
tablatures, and other documents in order to solve a wide variety
of analytic problems.  By way of example, participants will learn
to characterize common patterns of orchestration in Beethoven
symphonies, examine harmony and voice-leading in Bach chorales,
and investigate text/melody relationships in Gregorian chant.

Thousands of full scores will be available for processing on-line
-- including repertoires from various cultures, periods, and genres. The
course will be of particular value to scholars contemplating graduate level
or advanced music research projects. The seminar staff will provide
individual advice on participants' own research projects.

All software and documentation from the workshop (including a
sizeable score database) are free to take. The software is available for
UNIX, DOS, OS/2 and Windows-95 (some restrictions apply). Familiarity with
the `emacs' or `vi' text editors is recommended; limited knowledge of UNIX
is helpful.

--------------------------

        For more information on this or other workshops available during
CCRMA's summer session, and for registration information, point your web
browser to:



or contact Alex Igoudin


Leigh VanHandel
CCRMA, Stanford University

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Institut fur Musikgeschichte Wien

         Call for papers

We invite you to submit proposals for

       
     Vienna 1897 - Cultural and Historical Profiles of 
                Early Viennese Modernism

which will take place in Vienna, November 13 - November 15 1997.

The meeting is intended to provide a varied approach to Viennese culture, as
exemplified by different events and phenomena, which took place in 1897.
This year shows impulses toward the development of early modernity (such as
the establishment of  the "Secession", Mahler's appointment to Vienna's
Hofoper) as well as manifestations of growing social and political decay in
Austrian society, which are connected to the rise of anti-liberal,
nationalist and  populist political and cultural concepts.
The meeting attempts to give a picture of those various and often
contradictory phenomena, combining and discussing results of current
historical, sociological and cultural research.

If you can contribute to following general issues, we would be very glad to
consider your proposal (note the enclosed format). The papers should be at
most 45 minutes in length, in order to allow for subsequent general
discussion. The papers will be published, therefore we need a computer-disc
contining Your paper (please give informations concerning Your software). If
Your paper is not in German or English, please send it by September, so that
a translation can be made and provided to the meeting's participants.


Deadline for submission of proposals: March 31, 1997
We will answer definitely by May 1, 1997

General issues:
- Viennese modernity in relation to international modernity
- anti-modernism in politics, society and the arts
- the public for Viennese modernity
- the financing of Viennese modernity: economic and structural backgrounds
- modernity in Vienna's popular culture
- the reception of modernity in documentary sources
- modernity in relation to Wagnerism
- modernity in daily life
- Austria's cultural bureaucracy in relation to modernity
- reforming religion
- reforming science
- the audiences: structures and interests
The meeting will take place at

1037 Wien, Rennweg 8, Abteilung Musikpadagogik, Konzertsaal

For further information please contact
e-mail: musikgeschichte@magnet.at
Institut fur Musikgeschichte
Schubertring 14
A-1010 Wien

Tel.      + 43 1 5137600/29 (Fax:/42)Institut fur Musikgeschichte Wien
Schubertring 14
A-1010 Wien

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Music Theory Society of New York State: Annual Meeting

                          25th Anniversary Meeting
                             April 12-13, 1997

                            PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Saturday, April 12

9:00-9:45	Registration (Cominsky Promenade   2nd floor main building)

9:45-10:00	Welcome and Announcements (Kilbourn Hall)
		     James Undercofler, Acting Director of the Eastman School of 
Music
		     Mary I. Arlin, President
		     Elizabeth West Marvin, Program Chair
		     Steve Laitz, Local Arrangements		

10:00-12:30	Session 1   PEDAGOGY (Kilbourn Hall)
		    Steve Laitz (Eastman School of Music), chair
		    Marie Rolf (Eastman School of Music), organizer
		    Bruce Benward (University of Wisconsin, Madison), respondent
			   "Teaching Music Theory: Past, Present, and Future" 
                    Mary H. Wennerstrom (Indiana University)

		   "Did you practice?" "Did you do your theory?" Learning Music
 	        	Through Analysis, 
                  John Buccheri (Northwestern University)

		   "The Eight-Stage Tonal Plan:  A Temporal Paradigm for
			 Teaching Tonal Forms" 
                  Michael Rogers (University of Oklahoma)

12:30-1:00	Main Hall Concert   The Eastman School of Music's Balinese 
              Gamelan Anklung, Lila Muni

12:30-1:45	 LUNCH

1:45-5:00	Sessions 2A and 2B (concurrent)
	     Session 2A   AMBIGUITY (Kilbourn Hall)
	         Joseph Dubiel (Columbia University), chair

	  "Oscillation and Undecidability in Mozart's Sonata in F Major (KV 
         280), Adagio: A Double Reading (Line Rhythm Motive)" 
                  Martin Scherzinger (Columbia University)

	  "The Ambiguity Principle: A New Paradigm for Tonality" 
                  Deborah Stein (New England Conservtory of Music)

3:15-3:30	Coffee Break (Cominsky Promenade)

	  "Poetic and Musical Permutation in Mallarm�, Debussy and Boulez" 
                  Marianne Wheeldon (Yale University)

	  "The Play Behind the Scenes: On Segmentation and Instrumental 
         Interaction in Elliott Carter's String Quartet No. 2" 
                  Dora A. Hanninen (University of Michigan)

1:45-3:15	Session 2B   SHORT SESSIONS I & II (Howard Hanson Hall)
		   Short Session I (1:45-3:15)  ANALYTICAL INTERPRETATION
	      Mark Anson-Cartwright (City University of New York), chair

		   "Inter-Movement Parody in Beethoven," 
                  L. Poundie Burstein (Mannes College of Music and Hunter 
                  College/Cuny)

		 "Schubert's Allusions to the Descending Tetrachord" 
                 Su Yin Mak (Eastman School of Music)

3:15-3:30	Coffee Break (Cominsky Promenade)

3:30-5:00 Short Session II (3:15-4:45) TRANSFORMATIONS & EXTENSIONS
	       Robert Wason (Eastman School of Music), chair

   	"Modeling Melodic Transformations in Balinese Angklung Gamelan 
          Music" 
                  Kristin Taavola (University of Colorado at Boulder)

	   "A Little Bird Swang It in My Ear: A Counterpoint Lesson from 
          Charlie Parker" 
                  Richard Hermann (University of New Mexico)

5:00-5:30	 Business Meeting (Kilbourn Hall)

5:30 		Cocktails (cash bar)

6:00		Banquet (L'Operta at the Brasserie)
	       John Hanson, "Be Apt; Tap Your Resources; Stand Pat"
	      (Musics on the 25th Anniversary:  Past, Present, and Future) 

8:00 		Opera: Verdi, "Falstaff" (Eastman Theatre)   $9.00
      Chamber Music:  Eastman Virtuosi (Kilbourn Hall)   Admission free

Sunday, April 13

8:00-8:30	Coffee & Bagels (Kilbourn Lobby)

	 	8:45-10:45	Sessions 3A and 3B (concurrent)
	     Session 3A   OPERA (Kilbourn Hall)
	        Elizabeth West Marvin, (Eastman School of Music) chair

	  	 "Isolde's Transfiguration and Wagner's Second Thoughts" 
                   Robert Gauldin (Eastman School of Music)

	    "Urlinie and Urziel: Tonal and Dramatic Closure in Britten's Peter 
         Grimes" 
                   Edward D. Latham (Yale University)

					   "I's, V7's and Expressive 
Modulations:  
Stravinsky's Use of Tonal 
         Conventions to Project Theatrical Distance" 
                  Chandler Carter (Mannes College and Hofstra University)
			
8:45-10:45 Session 3B   SPACES & PARTITIONING (Howard Hanson Hall)
		        Neil Minturn (Eastman School of Music), chair

	  	"Graphic Representation of Trichord-Partition Symmetries in 
	        Hexachords" 
                  Jocelyn Neal (Eastman School of Music

	  	"Cross-partitions and voice-leading in twelve-tone music" 
                 Brian Alegant (Oberlin Conservatory of Music)

	  	"Pitch-Space Ordering Types in the Recent Solo Music of Elliott 
        	Carter" 
                Guy Capuzzo (Eastman School of Music)

10:30-10:45 	Coffee & Bagel Break

10:45-11:20	Mini-Concert (Kilbourn Hall
		         Bart�k, Violin Sonata No. 1
			            Sylvia Rosenberg, violin
			            Barry Snyder, piano

11:30-1:30 	Sessions 4A and 4B (concurrent)
		Session 4A   ANALYSIS SYMPOSIUM: Bart�k, Violin Sonata No. 1 
(Howard 
                  Hanson Hall)
	        	Marie Rolf (Eastman School of Music), chair

	  "Formal and Structural Functions in the First Movement of Bart�k's 
	        Violin Sonata No.1" 
                  Charles Morrison (Wilfred Laurier University)

 	"Modified-Dominants in Bart�k's First Violin Sonata: Compositional 
	        and Historical Evidence" 
                  Paul Buechler (Yale University)

	"Bart�k's Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano: An Intertextual 
        Reading" 
                  Michael Klein (University of Texas, Austin)

	Session 4B   SIMILARITY RELATIONS (Howard Hanson Hall)
	        Robert Morris (Eastman School of Music), chair

	  "A Cycle-based System for Relating Pitch-class Sets" 
             Michael Buchler (University of Iowa)

 	"The Interval Angle: A Similarity Measure for Pitch Class Sets" 
             Damon Scott (Eastman School of Music, presenter) and Eric
             Isaacson (Indiana University)

  	"Evolution a Forte-Iori:  On Similarity, Relations, Similarity 
        Relations, and the Taxonomy of the Harmonci Menagerie" 
             Ian Quinn (Eastman School of Music)

1:30-3:15	Executive Board Luncheon Meeting (Faculty Lounge)

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                     REGISTRATION --  BANQUET -- HOTEL

REGISTRATION
      Individual  $20 ($23 after 8 March)
      Student     $15 ($18 after 8 March)
      Banquet     $27.50

   Make checks payable in US dollars to MTSNYS and remit to 
                   George Fisher
                   MTSNTS Treasurer
                   22 Watson Lane
                   Setauket, NY 11733

BANQUET
    The banquet on Saturday evening will begin at 6:00 pm at L'Operta at  
the Brasserie, just across the street from the Eastman School of Music. 
Dinner will include salad, choice of entr�e (vegetarian, chicken, or fish), 
and dessert.  Price, including all taxes and gratuity, is $27.50.  There  
will be an open bar beginning 1t 5:30 and continuing through dinner.  
Dinner will conclude at 7:45 so that people may attend the chamber music  
concert or *Falstaff.*

HOTEL
   The Hyatt Regency Rochester, 125 Main Street, a five-minute walk from  
the Eastman School of Music.  The special rate secured for the conference 
is $79 for either a single or a double.  To receive the conference rate,  
you must identify yourself as a member of MTSNYS.  Room reservations should 
be made by 31 March.

Submitted by 
Mary I. Arlin, MTSNYS President
School of Music
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY 14850

e-mail: arlin@ithaca.edu

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Lexikon-Sonate Online

LEXIKON-SONATE, an infinite interactive realtime composition for
computer-controlled piano, was originally implemented as a computer program
(written in MAX) which used to run only on Apple Macintosh computers:

     http://www.ping.at/users/essl/works/Lexikon-Sonate.html

Since recently, this piece is also available on the Web and you can listen
to its completely unforeseeable music online. Please point your browser to:

     http://www.ping.at/users/essl/works/lexson-online.html

There are existing two different versions:

* an interactive, form-based CGI-script where you can combine the various
musical structure generators at will;

* a non-interactive Javascript implementation which will play a new version
every time you reload the page (be surprised!);


System Requirements:

A Web browser which is capable of playing different MIDI-files at the same
time; a Javascript-savy browser is obligatory for the Javascript version.
Best results have been obtained with Netscape 3.0 (with installed
LiveAudio-PlugIn) on an Apple Macintosh computer with Quicktime 2.5.


Dr. Karlheinz Essl
SAMT - Studio for Advanced Music & Media Technology
Bruckner-Konservatorium Linz / Austria
www:   http://www.ping.at/users/essl/index.html
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     Visit the MindShipMind - an interactive multimedial Web Oracle
          http://www.ping.at/users/essl/works/mindshipmind.html
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International Schuber Converence - Vienna 1997

Organizing Institutions:
Society for research on music performance practice
and
Supporting Committee of the museum "Schubert and his Friends" at Atzenbrugg
  Castle

in Collaboration with
Institute for Musicology at the University of Vienna
Institute for Music Analysis at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts
Institute for Austrian Music Documentation
International Franz Schubert Institute
Vienna Festival

Patronage:
Federal Chancellor Mag. Viktor Klima
Federal Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs, Elisabeth Gehrer
Federal Minister of Science and Transport, Dr. Caspar Einem
Head of the Government of Lower Austria, Dipl.Ing. Dr. Erwin Proell
Vienna's City Councillor for Cultural Affairs, Dr. Peter Marboe
Rector Prof. Erwin Ortner of the University of Music and Dramatic Arts

Lectures by
W. Aderhold, E. Badura-Skoda, D. Berke, O. Biba, P. Branscombe,
G. Busch, Th. A. Denny, M.-A. Dittrich, I. Duerhammer, W. Duerr,
D. Gramit, G. Gruber, G. W. Gruber, P. Guelke, C. Hoeslinger,
H.-D. Klein, M. Kohlhaeufl, W.  Koschatzky, A. Krause,
H. J. Kreutzer, W. Litschauer, E. N. McKay, C. Noedl, W. Obermaier,
C. Ottner, G. Scholz, M. Solvik, R. Steblin, W. Steinbeck, T.
G. Waidelich, R. Witzmann, E. Worgull, S. Youens

Organizing Team:
Eva Badura-Skoda, Walburga Litschauer, Carmen Ottner, Gerold W. Gruber

Contents of the Lectures:
In comparison with other great composers Schubert's life and work was
not influenced by exterior events, but primarily by the circle of his
friends, that consisted of different artists such as poets, painters
and musicians.  Schubert regarded himself as a member of a community,
the aim of which was the "pure aspiration for the art"
(E. v. Bauernfeld). Looking through the literature, which was
published during the last few decades, it must however be stated that
this particular aspect and its importance for Schubert's development
as an artist has only found little attention. On the occasion of the
bicentenary of Schubert's birthday the topic of the INTERNATIONAL
SCHUBERT CONFERENCE - VIENNA 1997 therefore will be "SCHUBERT AND HIS
FRIENDS". Papers and statements will deal with the political, social,
literary, philosophical, musical and artistic atmosphere of the period
and the manner in which it may have surrounded, influenced and
inspired Schubert.

Program:
22 May 1997: 6 p.m. final rehearsal of the Opera by Schubert "Des Teufels
   Lustschloss"
23 May 1997: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., 2.30 - 6 p.m. lectures (Bank Austria,
   Festsaal, 1010 Vienna, Renngasse 2)
24 May 1997: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. lectures (Schottenstift, Praelatensaal, 1010
   Vienna, Freyung 6), in the afternoon: First Schubertiade (Concert) at
   Atzenbrugg Castle, "Heuriger"
25 May 1997: 9 a.m. Schubert-Mass at the Emperor's Chapel, Vienna; 10.30
   a.m. Round Table (Schottenstift, Praelatensaal); in the afternoon: Schubert
   Exhibition at the Historic Museum in Vienna; in the evening: Second
   Schubertiade at the Theater an der Wien
26 May 1997: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. lectures (Schottenstift, Praelatensaal), in
   the afternoon: Round Table and final discussion, "Heuriger"

For more information please contact:

Asst. Prof. Dr. Gerold W. Gruber
Institute for Music Analysis
Univerity of Music and Dramatic Arts
Lothringerstr. 18
A-1030 Vienna
Tel: +43/1/58806153
FAX: +43/1/58806113
e-mail: t0061dab@vm.univie.ac.at

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