Samantha Waddell

After MSU: Ph.D. student in music theory, Indiana University

In the music theory Master’s program at MSU: 2019 to 2021

Before MSU: B.M. in Music Performance (Piano), University of Evansville

Conference Presentations:

“Expresssive Implications of Buildup Introductions in Recent Pop Music”

Music Theory Forum (Tallahassee, FL, 2021)

“Metric Disruption as a Text-Expressive Device in Three Songs by The Beatles”

THEMUS Conference (Philadelphia, PA, 2020)
Music Theory Southeast (Boone, NC, 2020)
Symposium of Research in Music Theory (Bloomington, IN, 2020)
Music Theory Forum (Tallahassee, FL, 2020)

Workshop Participation:

“Music and the Musicalized Moving Image,” with Dr. Anna Gawboy, Society for Music Theory National Conference (Virtual, 2020)

“Presumptions, Limitations, and Misrepresentations in Roman Numeral Analyses of Popular Music Harmony,” with Dr. Trevor DeClercq, Music Theory Southeast Regional Conference (Boone, NC, 2020)

“Perceptual Effects of Orchestration Related to Auditory Grouping Principles,” with Dr. Stephen McAdams, Symposium of Research in Music Theory Conference (Bloomington, IN, 2020)

“Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance: Contexts and Experiments,” with Daphne Leong, Society for Music Theory National Conference (Columbus, OH, 2019)

Awards:

Mary Wennerstrom Scholar, Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music

Graduate Student Research Funding, Michigan State University

Michigan State University AAGA Fellowship Award