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Three faculty from the University of Massachusetts Department of Music and Dance presented work at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory (SMT), which took place November 1-4, 2018 in San Antonio, TX. The Society for Music Theory holds annual meetings which include the presentation of over two hundred papers, as well as study sessions, panel discussions, and forums on a variety of topics.

Lecturer Owen Belcher presented “The Riemannian Klangnetz, the Doppelklang, and Their Applications” with co-author Alan Reese (Cleveland Institute of Music) as part of a session dedicated to neo-Riemannian theory.

Senior Lecturer Jason Hooper presented “Private Correspondence, Public Influence: Heinrich Schenker in Dialogue with August Halm,” part of a special session titled "Schenker’s Traces and the History of Music Theory."

Professor Gary S. Karpinski presented “A Cognitive Basis for Choosing a Solmization System,” part of a session sponsored by the SMT Pedagogy Interest Group titled “Rethinking Aural Skills Instruction through Cognitive Research.”

The Department is also well represented in the fall issue of Music Theory Spectrum, with an article by Christopher Wm. White (“Chord Context and Harmonic Function in Tonal Music” with co-author Ian Quinn from Yale University) and a review by Jason Hooper ("Beethoven’s Last Piano Sonatas: An Edition with Elucidation," 4 vols., by Heinrich Schenker, trans. and ed. John Rothgeb).

For more news about the UMass Amherst Music Theory faculty and their research, please visit umass.edu/music/theory-news.