The SMT Music Cognition Group and the SMT Interest Group
on Music and Disability will co-host a session of lightening talks at the
Society for Music Theory’s 42nd Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio. The
meeting will take place from 12:30pm-2pm on Saturday, November 9 in
Nationwide A. Please join us!
The theme of our joint session will be “Intersections of Music, Disability,
and Cognition.” The lightening talks include:
-Leigh VanHandel, “Working Memory Burdens and Music Theory Pedagogy”
-Michael Vitalino, “Aural Skills Pedagogy for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
(DHH) Students”
-Justin London, “Music Instruments as Cognitive Extensions, Domain
Specificity in Motor Tasks, and the Implications for the Music Theory
Classroom” OR “Why is it that Very Good Musicians suck at Aural Skills?”
-Mark Saccomano, “Dangerous Music: Analysis, Criticism, and the Aesthetic
Object”
-Evan Jones, “Metric Disability in David Lang’s Stuttered Chang (2011)”
