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TAGS is a special event in the SMA's calendar. It is the Society's principal opportunity to support young scholars in the fields of music theory and analysis. It allows graduate students a platform for disseminating their work
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Saturday, 18th February
14:00 Vice-President’s Welcome
14:15 Session A: Romantic Music
- Maddie Kavanagh Clarke (Durham University): ‘Exposition and Recapitulation Correspondence in Mendelssohn’s String Quartets’
- Frankie Perry (Royal Holloway): ‘Analysing the Afterlife of Schubert’s Symphonic Sketch Fragments D.936a’
- Oliver Chandler (Royal Holloway): ‘Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro: Brief Thoughts on Musical In-between-ness’
15:45 Coffee Break
16:00 Session B: Musical Diversity
- Juliano Abramovay & Michalis Cholevas (Codarts, University of the Arts, Rotterdam: ‘Unveiling Taksim: Analytical Procedures Regarding Improvisational Forms on Makam Music’
- Karishmeh Crawford (N.N.): ‘Pop to Rave: Embodiment in Musical Analysis’
- Liam Maloney (University of York): ‘House Music: Reconstructing a Secular Christianity for the Gay Diaspora’
- Daniela Daniela & Bernd Willimek (University of Music, Karlsruhe): ‘Music and Emotions: Research on the Theory of Musical Equilibration’
18:00 Conference Reception, Foyer of the School of Music
19:30 Optional Concert: The Towers of Silence (Fidelio Trio)
Bangor Music Festival, Theatr Bryn Terfel, Pontio, Bangor LL57 2TQ
Sunday, 19th February
09:00 Morning Coffee
09:30 - 11:30 Session C: 20th Century Music
- Jean-Baptiste Masson (Institute of Psychoacoustic and Electronic Music IPEM – University of Gent / Conservatory of Reims): ‘To Weave Time: The Late Music of Feldman Through the Example of Violin and String Quartet’
- James Savage-Hanford (Royal Holloway): ‘Intuiting Form: Memory and Discontinuity in Enescu’s Piano Quintet, Op. 29’
- Özlem Yıldırım (Istanbul Technical University): ‘The Place of Cengiz Tanc (1933–1997) in European Modernism’
- Clare Wilson (Ulster University): ‘André Caplet’s Mélodie: Interpretation of a Blurred Language’
11:30 Coffee Break
11:45 SMA Workshop
Writing Reviews: Grasping the Essence
12:15 Keynote lecture Professor John Rink (University of Cambridge)
‘Playing with Structure: The Performance of Musical Analysis’
13:15 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 Workshop Performance: Shades of Pierrot
Bangor Music Festival, Prichard-Jones Hall, Bangor University: Chamber Choir Cantamu, directed by Matthias Wurz (Bangor University). The performance also includes Soprano Organ Prawang, Chris Atherton (violin), Yanmi Au (piano), Ellie Lighton (flute) and Sioned Roberts (clarinet).
15:00 - 16:00 Session D: Early Music & Historically Informed Performance
- Rob Luke Jones (Bangor University): ‘Is it Possible, in a Historically Informed Manner, to Perform Classical French Organ Repertoire on a British Instrument, and if so how?’
- Adam Behan (Trinity College, University of Dublin): ‘Gould’s Variations on the Goldberg Variations: An Analysis of Glenn Gould’s two Recordings of the Goldberg Variations BWV 988’
16:00 Break
16:15 - 17:15 Session E: Opera
- Charlotte Danford (Bangor University): ‘Chinese Influences in 1987 Operas’
- Christopher Kimbell (Royal Holloway): ‘Hans Sachs and the Concrete Universal in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’
- Emily Tan (University of Oxford): ‘Transcendence as Pleasure in Ariadne auf Naxos’
17:45 Group Discussion with Tea & Coffee
‘The Relevance of Analysis for Musical Performance’, chaired by Kenneth Smith.