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Megan Lavengood started the topic Nominations, proposed bylaws changes, and chair's report in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoOur 2019 meeting was very successful (if somewhat dry)!
Please note that nominations for officers are now open, and you may nominate by filling out this form. Please also review the proposed bylaws again, and if you have any suggestions for changes, please bring it up in the comments of that collaborative document.
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Megan Lavengood commented on the doc Working Draft — Proposed Bylaws in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHi all, I have made a few changes to reflect what we discussed in our meeting. I have also attempted to resolve the quorum issue we were struggling with. Quorum will only really matter for voting. Based on a suggestion from another interest group, I have added language that states that voting will remain open until 5% of the membership (based on…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited Beyond Verse and Chorus: Experimental Song Forms in Post-Millennial Rock Music in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBrad Osborn. 2010. “Beyond Verse and Chorus: Experimental Song Forms in Post-Millennial Rock Music.” PhD Dissertation, University of Washington.
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Sean Atkinson deposited Deceptive love and denied endings: tropes in the music of Billy Joel in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe music of Billy Joel is long overdue for prolonged attention from the scholarly field. As Walter Everett has acknowledged (2000), Joel’s music is often more in line with common-practice systems than with popular genres, and when combined with his intuitive understanding of numerous popular styles, makes for a rich trove of harmonic interest. O…[Read more]
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Bryn Hughes deposited Musical Style Affects the Strength of Harmonic Expectancy. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoResearch in music perception has typically focused on common-practice music (tonal music from the Western European tradition, ca. 1750–1900) as a model of Western musical structure. However, recent research indicates that different styles within Western tonal music may follow distinct harmonic syntaxes. The current study investigated whether l…[Read more]
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Robert Komaniecki deposited Analyzing the Parameters of Flow in Rap Music in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoA dissertation describing analytical methods for engaging with “flow,” i.e. a rapper’s delivery of the lyrics.
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Sara Bowden deposited Narrative Transformation and Music in Mediatized Moral Space in Charlie Brooker’s Bandersnatch in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBlack Mirror’s Bandersnatch has brought interactive film to the forefront of ludo-entertainment discourse. Released through the Netflix entertainment platform in December 2018, the film features a non-linear script that the viewer guides through a series of choices. By virtue of design, Bandersnatch places a larger emphasis on narratological e…[Read more]
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Stefanie Acevedo uploaded the file: Pop progression Scavenger Hunt Assignment (Theory II) to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAssignment for theory II (diatonic harmony) to find pop progressions and annotate with timestamps, lyrics, formal markings.
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Stefanie Acevedo uploaded the file: Acevedo – Theory II Song Writing Final Project to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoFinal project assignment for theory II (diatonic harmony) course.
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Drew Nobile uploaded the file: Nobile Blues Progressions Handout to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agov shrt handout on blues progressions
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Megan Lavengood replied to the topic PMIG Meeting Reminder in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoI’ve just made a Google form for submitting new sources for the bibliography—click here to submit an entry [CORRECTED LINK]
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Megan Lavengood deposited What Makes It Sound ’80s? in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoPopular music of the 1980s is remembered today as having a “sound” that is somehow unified and generalizable. The ’80s sound is tied to the electric piano preset of the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. Not only was this preset (E. PIANO 1) astonishingly prevalent—heard in up to 61% of #1 hits on the pop, country, and R&B Billboard charts in 1986—bu…[Read more]
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