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Pre-Conference Events
The Formal Theory Study Group regularly hosts pre-conference study days before the SMA's annual MAC, in which leading scholars of musical form lead workshops with students and early-career scholars.
Robert Gjerdingen taught students about the partimento & solfeggio traditions, and how they provided clues for realization and performance practice.
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Lauri Surpää led a session on phrase structure and cadence in Mozart's chamber music, showing how a historically-informed understanding of cadential closure provides insight into thematic organization.
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Yoel Greenberg demonstrated the applicability of quantitative methods to musical analysis by leading students in a sample corpus study. Students analyzed a selection of 18C works to identify changes in formal strategies over time.
Áine Heneghan led students in a workshop on Arnold Schoenberg's analytical and theoretical writings, situating modern concepts such as tight- and looseness within their broader contexts.
James Hepokoski analyzed Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, exploring how a type-5 concerto model is adapted into a late-Romantic style.
