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8:30 – 9:00 REGISTRATION
Coffee or Tea
 
  
9:00 WELCOME
Joel Lester, Dean, Mannes College of Music
 
  
9:05 – 10:15 RHYTHM AND HYPERMETER
Carl Schachter, Mannes, moderator
 
 

9:05 – 9:40     Numeric Rhythmical Articulation: A Longy Legacy
                         
Christopher Stone, Mannes College of Music

 

 

9:40 – 10:15   It's About Time: Hypermeter in Aural Skills Training
                          Gary S. Karpinski, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
 

  

10:15 – 10:25 BREAK
 
 
10:25 – 12:10 PITCH AND SOLMIZATION
Elizabeth Aaron, Mannes, moderator

 
  10:25 – 11:00  What's the Use? Practical Applications of Fixed-do
                           Robert Fertitta, SUNY-Purchase
 
  11:00 – 11:35  The Thinking Ear
                           Drora Pershing, Queens College, CUNY
 
  11:35 – 12:10  Absolute and Relative Pitch: The Best of Both Worlds?
                           Donna Doyle, Graduate Center, CUNY
 
 
12:10 – 1:40 LUNCH BREAK

   
1:45 – 2:55 ADVANCED APPLICATIONS
David Gagné, Queens College, moderator

 
  1:45 – 2:20     Memory, Improvisation and Species Counterpoint:
                          Their Role in Advanced Ear Training
                          Ford Lallerstedt, Curtis Institute of Music
 
  2:20 – 2:55     Similarities and Continuities:
                          Stravinsky, Schoenberg and the Goals of Ear Training

                          Michael L. Friedmann, Yale University
 
3:00 – 4:30 ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION
Robert Cuckson, Mannes, moderator

Members of the Mannes Techniques of Music Department; Mary Anthony Cox, The Juilliard School; and others
 
WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION TO FOLLOW