* = Invited Talk
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2024). “Historical Shifts in the Rhythmic Organization of Popular Music: A Corpus Study of Meter in R&B.” Music and Discourse Series. Belmont University: Nashville, TN (March 13). [Text] [Slides]
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2023). “Music Theory for Students Studying Popular Music.” Music Department Colloquium. University of Iowa: Iowa City, IA (December 8).
de Clercq, Trevor. (2023). “The History of Swing Grooves in R&B Music: A Corpus Study of Meter in Motown Albums, 1961 to 2005.” Groove Workshop. Virtual (January 26).
de Clercq, Trevor. (2022). “Historical Shifts in the Metric Organization of R&B Music: A Case Study of Motown Albums, 1961–2005.” Music Informatics Interest Group Meeting. Society for Music Theory Conference. New Orleans, LA (November 11).
de Clercq, Trevor. (2022). “Tools for Teaching Popular Music Without Staff Notation.” Music Notation and Visualization Interest Group Meeting. Society for Music Theory Conference. New Orleans, LA (November 11). [Text] [Slides]
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2022). “A Tidy Approach to Organizing and Analyzing Musical Corpora.” Workshop on New Methods and New Challenges in Empirical Musicology, organized by CNRS-IRCAM-Sorbonne Université. Virtual (October 28).
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2022). “Why and How Should We Study and Teach Popular Music?” Graduate Colloquium Series. University of Toronto: Toronto, ON (October 20).
de Clercq, Trevor. (2022). “Historical Shifts in the Metric Organization of R&B Music: A Case Study of Motown Albums, 1961–2005.” International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US) Conference. University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI (May 26). [Text] [Slides]
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2022). “What Does a Relevant Graduate Program in Music Theory Look Like?” Pop Pedagogy Symposium. Eastman School of Music: Rochester, NY (April 15).
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2021). “A Corpus Analysis of Harmony in Country Music.” Music Informatics Interest Group Meeting, Society for Music Theory Conference. Virtual (November 6). [Text] [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2021). “The Logic of Six-Based Minor for Harmonic Analyses of Popular Music.” Society for Music Theory Conference. Virtual (November 3). [Text] [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2021). “Tempo Versus Average Rates of Harmonic Rhythm in Popular Music: A Study of Three Corpora.” International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition 16. Virtual (July 28–31).
de Clercq, Trevor. (2021). “The Logic of Six-Based Minor for Harmonic Analyses of Popular Music.” Music Theory Midwest Conference. Virtual (June 12). [Text]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2021). “How Should Corpus Studies of Harmony in Popular Music Handle the Minor Tonic?” Future Directions of Music Cognition Conference. Virtual (March 6–7).
de Clercq, Trevor. (2020). “The Musicians Behind the Monsters.” Popular Music Interest Group Meeting (PMIG), Society for Music Theory Conference. Virtual (November 14). [Text] [Slides]
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2020). “Presumptions, Limitations, and Misrepresentations in Roman Numeral Analyses of Popular Music Harmony.” Graduate Student Workshop Leader. Music Theory Southeast Conference (July 28).
de Clercq, Trevor. (2020). “Lobbying for a La-Based Approach to the Minor Tonic in Popular Music Harmony.” South Central Society for Music Theory Conference. Vanderbilt University: Nashville, TN (February 28). [Text] [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2019). “A Devil’s Advocate Approach to the Imposter Syndrome in Computational Music Research.” Music Informatics Interest Group Meeting, Society for Music Theory Conference. Columbus, OH (November 7). [Text]
Jenkins, Daniel and Trevor de Clercq. (2019). “Fluency Without Literacy: Teaching Music Theory to Students Who Cannot Read Music.” Campfire Discussion. College Music Society Conference. Louisville, KY (October 25). [Text] [Slides]
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2019). “Attending to Ambiguity in the Analysis of Anglo-American Popular Music.” Scholar’s Week Presentation. Middle Tennessee State University: Murfreesboro, TN (March 20). [Text] [Slides]
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2019). “The Certain Uncertainty in Popular Music Analysis.” Plenary Presentation. South Central Society for Music Theory Conference. Louisiana State University: Baton Rouge, LA (March 16). [Text] [Slides]
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2019). “Tonal and Harmonic Ambiguity in the Analysis of Popular Music.” Peer Learning Workshop Organizer. South Central Society for Music Theory Conference. Louisiana State University: Baton Rouge, LA (March 16). [Materials]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2018). “Do Chords Last Longer as Songs Get Slower?: Tempo Versus Harmonic Rhythm in Four Corpora of Popular Music.” Music Informatics Interest Group Meeting. Society for Music Theory Conference. San Antonio, TX (November 3). [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2018). “The Harmonic-Bass Divorce in Rock.” Society for Music Theory Conference. San Antonio, TX (November 2). [Text] [Slides]
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2018). “Teaching Rhythmic Organization and Meter in Popular Music.” Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University: Murfreesboro, TN (September 20).
de Clercq, Trevor. (2018). “Some Reharmonization Techniques for Popular Music: Melodic Skeletons, the Melodic-Harmonic Divorce, and Meta-Schemas.” Association for Popular Music Education Conference. Middle Tennessee State University: Murfreesboro, TN (June 25). [Text] [Slides] [Audio]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2018). “‘Three Chords and the Truth’?: A Corpus Analysis of Harmony in Country Music.” International Country Music Conference. Belmont University: Nashville, TN (May 31). [Text] [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2018). “A Corpus Analysis of Harmony in Country Music.” South Central Society for Music Theory. University of Southern Mississippi: Hattiesburg, MS (March 23). [Text] [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2018). “‘Three Chords and the Truth’?: A Corpus Analysis of Harmony in Country Music.” International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US) Conference. Vanderbilt University: Nashville, TN (March 9). [Text] [Slides]
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2017). “The Nashville Number System: A Pop(ular) Alternative to Roman Numerals and Figured Bass.” University of Tennessee: Knoxville, TN (November 29). [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2017). “Pitfalls and Windfalls in Corpus Studies of Pop/Rock Music.” The Ninth European Music Analysis Conference (EuroMAC 9). University of Strasbourg: Strasbourg, France (June 30). [Text] [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2017). “The Nashville Number System: A Pop(ular) Alternative to Roman Numerals and Figured Bass.” Pedagogy into Practice: Teaching Music Theory in the Twenty-First Century. Lee University: Cleveland, TN (June 2). [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2017). “Swing, Shuffle, Half-Time, Double: Beyond Traditional Time Signatures in Meter Classification for Pop/Rock Music.” Pedagogy into Practice: Teaching Music Theory in the Twenty-First Century. Lee University: Cleveland, TN (June 1). [Poster]
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2017). “Swing, Shuffle, Half-Time, Double: Beyond Traditional Time Signatures in Meter Classification for Pop/Rock Music.” Bates College: Lewiston, ME (April 28). [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2017). “‘Is She Weird’: Subverting Cultural and (Hyper)Metric Norms in the Music of the Pixies.” International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US) Conference. Case Western Reserve University: Cleveland, OH (February 24). [Text] [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2016). “Tempo Versus Harmonic and Melodic Pacing in a Corpus of Rock Music.” Science of Song Symposium. Vanderbilt University: Nashville, TN (September 12). [Poster]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2016). “Tempo Versus Harmonic and Melodic Pacing in a Corpus of Rock Music.” Cognitively Based Music Informatics Research (CogMIR) Seminar, International Society for Music Informatics Research (ISMIR) Conference. Columbia University: New York, NY (August 12). [Poster] [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2016). “The Harmonic-Bass Divorce in Rock: A Method for Conceptualizing the Organization of Chord Extensions.” Music Theory Midwest Conference. University of Arkansas: Fayetteville, AR (May 6). [Slides] [Text]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2016). “Measuring a Measure: Absolute Time as a Factor in Meter Classification for Pop/Rock Music.” Joint Conference of Music Theory Southeast and the South Central Society for Music Theory. Kennesaw State University: Kennesaw, GA (April 2). [Slides] [Text]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2015). “Measuring a Measure: Absolute Time as a Factor in Meter Classification for Pop/Rock Music.” Ann Arbor Symposium IV: Teaching and Learning Popular Music. University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI (November 20). [Slides] [Text]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2015). “The Nashville Number System: A Method for Notating Harmony and Form.” Popular Music Interest Group Meeting. Society for Music Theory Conference. St. Louis, MO (November 1). [Handout]
Temperley, David, Trevor de Clercq, & Adam Waller. (2015). “Changes in Rock Melody, 1954-2009.” Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference. Vanderbilt University: Nashville, TN (August 4). [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2014). “A Model for Scale-Degree Reinterpretation: How Melodic Structure, Modulation, and Cadence Choice Interact in the Chorale Harmonizations of J. S. Bach.” Society for Music Theory Conference. Milwaukee, WI (November 7). [Poster]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2014). “Typical Chords in Typical Song Sections: How Harmony and Form Interact in a Corpus of Rock Music.” The Eighth European Music Analysis Conference (EuroMAC 8). Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: Leuven, Belgium (September 19). [Slides] [Text]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2014). “Ionian Tonic Arrivals as Generators of Chorus Quality in Pop/Rock Songs.” Music Theory Midwest Annual Conference. Lawrence University: Appleton, WI (April 25). [Slides] [Text]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2014). “Ionian Tonic Arrivals as Generators of Chorus Quality in Pop/Rock Songs.” South Central Society for Music Theory Annual Conference. University of Mississippi: Oxford, MS (March 28). [Slides] [Text]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2013). “How Melody Engenders Cadence in the Chorales of J. S. Bach: A Corpus Study.” Midwestern Music Cognition Symposium. Ohio State University: Columbus, OH (May 25). [Slides] [Text]
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2013). “The RS 200 Corpus of Rock Songs and its Potential for Music Information Retrieval Projects.” Music and Audio Research Lab graduate colloquium series. New York University: New York, NY (May 10). [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2013). “How Melody Engenders Cadence in the Chorales of J. S. Bach: A Corpus Study.” Northeastern Music Cognition Group Meeting. New York University: New York, NY (April 27). [Slides] [Text]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2013). “How Melody Engenders Cadence in the Chorales of J. S. Bach: A Corpus Study.” Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic Annual Conference. Temple University: Philadelphia, PA (March 15). [Slides] [Text]
* de Clercq, Trevor. (2012). “Corpus Analysis of Rock Music.” BIOL 22020: Honors Seminar in Biology, The Neurobiology and Mathematics of Music. Ithaca College: Ithaca, NY (December 11). [Slides]
Temperley, David & Trevor de Clercq. (2012). “A Corpus of Melodic Transcriptions for Rock Songs.” Northeast Music Cognition Group Meeting. Yale University: New Haven, CT (April 28). [Slides]
de Clercq, Trevor. (2012). “A Taxing of the Taxonomy in the Beatles’ ‘Taxman’: Beyond the AAB Phrase Model of the 12-bar Blues.” Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic Annual Conference. University of Delaware: Newark, DE (March 31). [Slides] [Text]
Temperley, David & Trevor de Clercq. (2012). “A Corpus of Melodic Transcriptions for Rock Songs.” ESM/UR/Cornell Music Cognition Symposium. Eastman School of Music: Rochester, NY (February 13).
Temperley, David & Trevor de Clercq. (2011). “Key-finding Algorithms for Popular Music.” Society for Music Perception and Cognition Annual Conference. Eastman School of Music: Rochester, NY (August 13).
* de Clercq, Trevor & David Temperley. (2011). “Harmony and Key in Rock: A Corpus Study.” CIRMMT and CRLMB research workshop. McGill University: Montreal, PQ (February 18).
de Clercq, Trevor & David Temperley. (2010). “A Corpus Analysis of Rock Harmony.” Northeast Music Cognition Group Meeting. Berklee School of Music: Boston, MA (October 23). [Slides]
Temperley, David & Trevor de Clercq. (2010). “A Corpus Analysis of Rock Harmony.” International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition. Seattle, WA (August 25).