I want to inform everyone about EuroMAC9. I met Xavier Hascher. He was the Chair of the Organizing Committee for EuroMAC9 (the 9th European Music Analysis Conference). EuroMAC9 was all about “the unrestricted pursuit of intellectual curiosity and search for knowledge.” The wide variety of themes gave attendees a much clearer view of the current state of the analytical-theoretical field. EuroMAC9 went well beyond addressing only Western European researchers to become a worldwide affair, and took place from 28 June to 1 July, 2017. I still have not come down from the experience, and am still floating in orbit, so to speak. The conference featured many parallel sessions having to do with such topics as the Second Viennese School, Stravinsky, Varèse, and Boulez, the cadence, Lewinian spaces and transformations, popular music analysis, and tonality, to which my own session was dedicated. The concerts associated with the lectures and talks also broadened our horizons. For example, the performance of Hugues Dufourt's Burning Bright by the city’s famous Les Percussions de Strasbourg. The art-science of music is six thousand years old and is global. Thus, as author, composer, and head of New England Conservatory’s departments of Theory and Composition Robert Cogan said in one of the conference’s plenary lectures, it is important for us as musicians, theorists, analysts, and teachers to understand that we are the custodians of this heritage. Please follow this link to watch excerpts from my presentation. Thanks!
Le IXe Congrès européen d’Analyse musicale
ZANE GILLESPIE
After six years as Minister of Music at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church (UMC) in Holly Springs, MS, I was recently called to continue to work to address public engagement in music participation as Director of Music Ministries at First UMC in Water Valley, MS. I am a Composer, Theorist, and member of both The College Music Society as well as The Poe Studies Association (PSA). I am also an active pianist and vocalist, specializing primarily in church music. My paper entitled ““Mesmeric Revelation”: Art as Hypnosis” has been published by the international, peer-reviewed journal Humanities. In addition, another paper of mine entitled “A Model of Triadic Post-Tonality for a Neoconservative Postmodern String Quartet by Sky Macklay” has been submitted to the peer-reviewed Music Theory journal Perspectives of New Music. At the end of February 2015, I served as Chair for the session entitled “Aesthetics and Philosophy” at The Fourth International PSA Conference in New York City. On June 21, 2014, my Quartet for Alto Saxophone and Strings, a commission from concert saxophonist Walter Hoehn, was performed as part of Concert V of the Eighth Annual Belvedere Chamber Music Festival held at Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Memphis, TN. Characteristically neo-romantic (in the original sense of the word), my music earned me the Nancy Van de Vate Award for Composition three times from the University of Mississippi Department of Music. A native of Pontotoc, MS, I hold degrees from the University of Mississippi (BM; MM), and the University of Memphis (DMA) where I was the 2011 recipient of the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music's Smit Composition Award. I live in Memphis, TN.