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Sean Atkinson uploaded the file: Atkinson: Graduate Seminar – The Music of Billy Joel to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThis is a class designed for MM and DMA students (most are not music theory or composition majors) on the analysis of popular music with a focus on the music of Billy Joel. Most students will not have engaged in any popular music analysis before this course.
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Gavin Lee deposited Postcolonial Affect: Ambiguous Relationality in Robert Casteels’s L’(autre) fille aux cheveux de Bali in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years agoJournal of the Royal Musical Association 140.2 (2015): 417-443 (published by the UK musicology society). Robert Casteels (b. 1958, Belgium), Singapore citizen, migrated in 1995, L’(autre) fille aux cheveux de Bali (2002).
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Gavin Lee deposited Postcolonial Bifurcation: On John Sharpley’s Emptiness in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years agoMusic Analysis 38.3 (2019): 316-357 (published by the UK Society for Music Analysis)
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Dimitris Papageorgiou deposited Repurposing ‘com-provisation’ (script/pre-print of conference paper) in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years agoAs Anne Sauvagnargues suggests, in Gilles Deleuze thought “every[-thing] is defined as an assemblage of movements and affective vibrations.” Interestingly, Sauvagnargues’ proposition aligns neatly with Tim Ingold’s idea of correspondence, where things perdure, “carry on together, and answer to one another,” and where the additive ‘and…and.…[Read more]
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John Covach deposited “The Schönberg Analytical Legacy: Rudolph Reti and Thematic Transformation,” Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center 16 (2019): 99-111. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThis paper considers Rudolf Reti’s The Thematic Process in Music in the context of Arnold Schoenberg theoretical writing.
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Ben Geyer replied to the topic V in Rhythm Changes in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoTo clarify (because of the font change): that progression is I-V-I-V, with one chord per bar.
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Ben Geyer started the topic V in Rhythm Changes in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDear SMT JIG,
I wonder if any of you would give me your opinion on a question that’s been bugging me for ages. Let’s say we agree that you can reduce rhythm changes to |I|V|I|V| in the first four measures. Do you hear those Vs as back-related? Front-related? Depends on comping vs. soloing? Depends on the line being played? Depends on something…[Read more]
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Dustin Chau started the topic Possible SMT integrated special session proposal in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHi all! I hope all has been well since our meeting in Columbus last month, and you all are surviving the end of the school year grading piles. I have been spending this year (taking a break from academia) in the Kansas City area, which is such a rich geographic location in relation to jazz history’s roots in blues and proto-bebop. Something my…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood started the topic New officers: Christine Boone, Chair; Matt Ferrandino, Secretary in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe results of our voting are in, and I’m very pleased to announce the results.
Our group approved the bylaws as they were drafted at the time of voting. I’ve attached a .pdf here, but you can also view and comment on the bylaws in the Docs tab. By no means are these bylaws perfect, and I highly encourage members and leadership alike to propose…[Read more]
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Alyssa Barna replied to the topic Popular Music Interest Group Examples Database in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHi David,
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I am looking into this and will get back to you as soon as I know more.
—Alyssa
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Alyssa Barna started the topic Election and by-law voting in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHello PMIG members!
Nominations are now closed for elections for PMIG positions. Please follow the link to vote for a new chair and secretary (there were no nominations for a new webmaster). You will also vote on the proposed by-laws.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1gvZz1srWhac4u2kEwRz6g0vyutq6lOblMbo18Y_GiJpsuw/viewform
Thank you!
—Alyssa
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David Falterman replied to the topic Popular Music Interest Group Examples Database in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDoes this not exist anymore? Is the link broken, or has the database itself been deleted or moved? If so, why?
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Brad Osborn uploaded the file: Osborn: Analyzing Popular Music (F2019) materials to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoContains syllabus, bibliography, schedule, assignments, and repertoire list
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Brad Osborn deleted the file: Analyzing Popular Music: Syllabus, Bibliography, Assignments from
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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 agoNathan Pell passed on the Performance and Analysis Interest Group bylaws in case it helped us. He also mentioned that quorum was an issue in their formation of bylaws. They seem to have decided on 10 people as constitutive of a quorum.
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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 agoI don’t have that data sadly.
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Alyssa Barna replied to 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 agoHi everyone!
Just commenting to remind folks that nominations for officers and proposed bylaw changes are due December 1st.
-Alyssa
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Garrett Michaelsen started the topic 2019 Meeting Report in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDear SMT Jazz Interest Group members,
We conducted our 25th annual meeting in Columbus. Twenty-seven individuals attended. After my opening welcome—in which I hoped to convey that our group is open to everyone interested in jazz theory and analysis at any career stage—Janna Saslaw announced the winner of the Steve Larson Award for Jazz Sch…[Read more]
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