This year's conferences and Lewin's TMSPS

Scott Murphy

I've reviewed (and have enjoyed reviewing) many music-theory conference programs that have been released this calendar year. I seem to recall seeing a title that referenced a time-span GIS from David Lewin's GMIT, but now I can't seem to relocate it. I'd like to know who it is and of which conference it is a part, so I can at least reference the talk in an upcoming talk of my own that also harkens back to this slice of Lewin's output. Could someone who knows tell me?

Thanks!

-Scott

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Scott Murphy

Professor, Music Theory

Director, Music Theory and Composition Division

Editor, SMT-V: Videocast Journal of the Society for Music Theory

University of Kansas

smurphy@ku.edu

Andrew Aziz

Hi, Scott--might it be Robert Wells' work on GIS's? in 2013, he gave an SMT talk concerning Liszt; last year, he gave one on Indian carnatic music. 

Regards,

Andrew

Jason Yust

Scott,

I don't have anything to add to Andrew's answer, but am interested in what you're doing with the time-span GIS because I've presented on this in the past and have also written about it in some not-yet-published work. One of the points I make is that the time-span GIS is unjustly neglected! I did as thorough a search as possible of existing things and could not find it referenced anywhere, despite the amount of interest in GMIT generally. Even one dissertation on a GIS-based metric theory that is similar to the time-span GIS does not actually cite that part of GMIT or the earlier Music Perception article.

Just to be clear, the paper you are thinking of was not one of mine, though.

--Jason

Brent Yorgason

Mark Wells's dissertation on this topic ("A Generalized Intervallic Approach to Metric Conflict") was recently listed on MTO here: http://www.mtosmt.org/docs/diss-index.php?id=492

Poundie Burstein

Brent, you meant Robert Wells (not Mark--a typo, I assume). Here is a link to the abstract of his SMT talk last year: http://guide.societymusictheory.org/sessions/fri/evening/temporalities.html#abs_3

Aaron Grant

Hi everyone, 

Sam Bivens also presented a paper at MTSNYS this year using Lewin's time-span GIS to analyze Wagner's Todesverkündigung. Here's a link to the abstract: http://www.mtsnys.org/2016mtg/abstracts/dualism.html

Cheers!

Aaron 

 

Scott Murphy

Thanks, all. It was Sam's that I saw.

I concur with Jason -- I had also noticed, in my bibliographic rummaging, that Lewin's time-span GIS hadn't sparked a series of studies like some other parts of GMIT had -- but no time like the present.

Best,

-Scott