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Megan Lavengood deposited Bespoke Music Theory: A Modular Core Curriculum Designed for Audio Engineers, Classical Violinists, and Everyone in Between in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoTraditional music theory curricula are increasingly scrutinized. Students regularly misunderstand the scope of epistemology and scope of theory, find theory intimidating and difficult, and fail to see its relevance to their career goals. In this essay, I outline a modular music theory curriculum, which works to address these negative perceptions…[Read more]
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Kim Loeffert started the topic Survey on pedagogical use of music by composers from marginalized groups… in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoYou are invited to participate in an online survey on the pedagogical use of music by composers from marginalized groups and/or from outside the western canon in music theory. Your participation in this survey is completely voluntary, and you may opt out of any question in the survey. The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.…[Read more]
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Claire Arthur started the topic Survey about techniques and approaches to pop music analysis in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA graduate student of mine has been working on building a website for assisting pop music analysis. We have created a survey intended to garner some feedback about how different pop music scholars approach analysis so that we can gain some insights as to what would be valuable to the greatest number of individuals. The survey should take 5-15…[Read more]
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Claire Arthur started the topic Survey about techniques and approaches to pop music analysis in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA graduate student of mine has been working on building a website for assisting pop music analysis. We have created a survey intended to garner some feedback about how different pop music scholars approach analysis so that we can gain some insights as to what would be valuable to the greatest number of individuals. The survey should take 5-15…[Read more]
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Mariusz Kozak deposited Review of Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking by Arnie Cox (2016) in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago.
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Candace Bailey deposited Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord in the group
Archives on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoReview of Charleston Belles Abroad in Journal of American History
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Kendra Leonard deposited Using Your “Research Pantry” in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoWhat’s in your research “pantry”? What topics, materials, and data are already on
your shelves or in your files, just waiting to become papers, presentations, or articles? The pandemic may have stopped many of us from some of our usual research, library, and archival work, but there is still a lot we can do using materials and information we have…[Read more] -
Ceyda Elgul deposited Lives in Turkish: A Database of Biography in the group
Archives on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago“Lives in Turkish” is an ongoing research project held at Boğaziçi University Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies. We trace the journey of life-writing in Turkish, collect metadata and visuals about biographical publications and biography subjects introduced to the Turkish reader since the early 1800s. Our aim is to propose a c…[Read more]
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Claire Arthur started the topic Prototype of web-based tool for pop music analysis – feedback requested! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoA graduate student of mine has been working on building a website for assisting pop music analysis. We have created a survey intended to garner some feedback about how different pop music scholars approach analysis so that we can gain some insights as to what would be valuable to the greatest number of individuals. The survey should take 5-15…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic PMIG Awards – Nominations due TOMORROW! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoNominations DUE TOMORROW for the Pop Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award—click on these links to nominate. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively impacted you. Self-nominations are especially encouraged! Note that to be eligible for an award, the publica…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic PMIG Awards – Nominations due TOMORROW! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoNominations DUE TOMORROW for the Pop Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award—click on these links to nominate. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively impacted you. Self-nominations are especially encouraged! Note that to be eligible for an award, the publica…[Read more]
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Michael Dekovich deleted the file: George Walker, “Spatials” (1961) from
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Beth Harpaz started the topic Racism and Music Theory: A Professor Speaks Out in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoProfessor Philip Ewell (City University of New York Graduate Center, Hunter College) spoke last fall at an SMT meeting about racism in the field of music theory and also recently published an article in SMT’s online journal on the topic. The Graduate Center this week published a piece about his talk, his paper, and the controversy surrounding it,…[Read more]
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Keith Salley replied to the topic Whole-tone and Octatonic in pop and rock in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group via email on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThanks, Walt!
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Walt Everett replied to the topic Readings in the Analysis of African-American Popular Music in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThanks to those with suggestions for my African American pop music course. I’ve finished drafting a 73-page syllabus with lengthy bib and tracklist that’s too large to attach here. Please email me at weverett at umich.edu [with @ for ” at “] and I’ll be happy to send you a copy.
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Walt Everett replied to the topic Whole-tone and Octatonic in pop and rock in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoKeith, my favorite rock octatonic passage is the guitars/bass trio in the transition of “You Never Give Me Your Money.”
There are a number of equal divisions of the octave, such as in the Fifth Dimension’s “Up—Up and Away,” the Doors’ “Touch Me” and Lorraine Feather’s “The Girl with the Lazy Eye.” I may list others in Foundations of Rock. Have fu…[Read more]
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Keith Salley started the topic Whole-tone and Octatonic in pop and rock in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoHi everyone,
Hope you’re all well and reasonably rested.
Was wondering about rock or general pop tunes that feature symmetrical/synthetic scales like WT and OCT. I don’t mind fleeting surface occurrences where the scales are just run through, like those WT scales in the intro to Stevie Wonder’s ‘You Are the Sunshine . . .’ or the recurring OCT…[Read more]
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