Hi everyone! As many of your are wrapping up or preparing to wrap up your semesters, this is just a quick reminder to submit eligible articles and chapters to william.ayers@ucf.edu for the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award by May 16. The original call follows. Please feel free to circulate it as you see fit ahead of that…[Read more]

Dear scholars of post-1945 music,

Please consider submitting your published articles or book chapters for consideration for the SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award.

Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published between January 2019 and December 2021 on analysis of post-1945 music within modernist, experimental,…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

I am super happy to announce the publication of Contemporary Music Review vol. 40, issue 5–6, on the topic of Serbian Musical Avant-gardes: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcmr20/40/5-6?nav=tocList

This publication covers the period of post-WW2 communist Serbia/Yugoslavia under the imposed doctrine of Socialist Realism through t…[Read more]

Hello members of the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group!

As your new co-chairs, we wanted to send a quick message to tell you about our current projects, and we also wanted to see if you would like to be involved in these activities. We are working on two things that might be of interest to you.

We are putting together the call for…[Read more]

The whole enchilada is out of the oven now: We guest co-editors, Joshua Banks Mailman, Andrew Mead, and Zachary Bernstein, are pleased to announce a publication that celebrates a shining example of artistic creative agency, in the past and present:
  Playing (with) Babbitt in the 21st Century   
a double issue of Contemporary Music Review, 40 (2…[Read more]

Though not focused specifically on analysis, this new article of mine on cross-stylistic adaptation and re-composition of Milton Babbitt’s music might be of interest to members of this group.  Besides my article, there are also new articles by Andrew Mead, Zachary Bernstein, Daphne Leong, Joseph Dubiel and several others. (These are part of an up…[Read more]

Greetings, Post-’45ers,

Does anyone know of a font that includes alphanumeric characters (including double-digit numbers) enclosed in geometric shapes for labeling chords a là John Link?

Best regards,

Judd

Dear Post-1945 community,

For those of you that missed the announcement at our recent SMT, please join me in congratulating the winners of our 2021 publication award, Sumanth Gopinath and Drake Andersen! Please see below for the full announcement from the award committee. Drake’s article is freely available in MTO, and Sumanth has kindly shared a…[Read more]

Dear IG members,

I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at tomorrow’s meeting!

Here is a direct link to SMT’s page with Zoom and Slack links for our session: https://guide.societymusictheory.org/sessions/nov4/early/post-1945-music-analysis-ig

Please note, if you access the meeting through the SMT schedule, you have to click on the name of…[Read more]

Members of this group ought to be interested in the SMT poster session 20th/21st-Century Compositional Strategies taking place this coming Thurs, Nov. 4 at 2:30 EST. There are presentations on Guoping Jia, Ligeti, Stockhausen, Messiaen, Lutoslowski etc. Accessible here.

Besides the SMT access, I have also made my own presentation (a 33-minute…[Read more]

Here is the link to the ballot to elect new co-chairs: https://forms.gle/5jbNeGySpcF9LcKU7

Please vote by October 31, so that the results can be announced at our SMT meeting.

Noah Kahrs has agreed to continue serving in the role of webmaster for one additional year, after which we will have an election for a new two-year webmaster term. Thank…[Read more]