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Lodewijk Muns deposited Music, Language, and the Deceptive Charms of Recursive Grammars in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years agoRecursion may have an important place in cognitive processes. Recursive theoretical models may also seduce the theorist to false abstractions and pseudo-explanations. This is observed in some versions of musical and linguistic formalism, which share a common rationalist-idealist background; paradigmatically, in Chomsky’s controversial M…[Read more]
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Lodewijk Muns deposited The Inner Work of Music: Lerdahl and Jackendoff ‘s ‘Generative Theory’ in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years agoLerdahl and Jackendoff’s Generative Theory of Tonal Music (1983) is an attempt to transform music theory into a theory of musical understanding by adopting the formal method and psychological premises of Generative Grammar, along with some Schenkerian elements. It has failed to fulfil its promise mainly because, like Schenker theory, it is…[Read more]
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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 Affect: Ambiguous Relationality in Robert Casteels’s L’(autre) fille aux cheveux de Bali in the group
SMT Analysis of World Music Interest Group 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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Gavin Lee deposited Postcolonial Bifurcation: On John Sharpley’s Emptiness in the group
SMT Analysis of World Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoMusic Analysis 38.3 (2019): 316-357 (published by the UK Society for Music Analysis)
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Ellen Bakulina replied to the topic Phrase terminology in Russian textbooks on form in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoHi Yosef, indeed this is the first discussion, thanks for posting!
I recently explored the Mazel/Zuckerman textbook _Analiz muzykal’nykh proizvedeniy_ (Analysis of musical works), Moscow 1967, so I’ll give you some things from there. One good place to start is the section titled “Period,” which begins on p. 550 of the edition I have. For details,…[Read more]
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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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Yosef Goldenberg started the topic Phrase terminology in Russian textbooks on form in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoHello everyone. Is this the first discussion on the new site?
I teach forms and analysis for beginners. The teacher of a parallel group uses Russian terminology and theory, and I see that we are not at all matching, e.g. what he teaches as “phrase” is more-or-less equivalent to Caplin’s “basic idea”; and for him “period” need not have a structure…[Read more]
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic Welcome / Добро пожаловать in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoDear SMT-Rus members,
Welcome to the SMT Russian Music Theory Interest Group! This is our group’s official web page starting January 2020, and I am Ellen Bakulina, chair of the group for the 2020-2022 term. All information pertaining to the group’s activity will be available here. Please note that the RMTIG Google group will no longer be used for…[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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Anna Wang started the topic Notes from the 2019 AWMIG Meeting in the discussion
Society for Music Theory Analysis of World Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAt the 2019 meeting of the SMT in Columbus, Ohio, the Analysis of World Music Interest Group hosted a workshop to discuss how music theorists can meaningfully represent diverse global and vernacular musics in our classrooms. The first part of the workshop consisted of pedagogical demonstrations given by Jane Clendinning, Richard Cohn, Daniel…[Read more]
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John Covach deposited Review essay: “Dahlhaus, Schoenberg, and the New Music,” In Theory Only 12 (1991): 19 42. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of a collection of essays by Carl Dahlhaus, translated by Derrick Puffett and Alfred Clayton and entitled Schoenberg and the New Music.
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John Covach deposited Review of Edward Lippman, A History of Western Musical Aesthetics and John Rahn, ed., Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics, Music Theory Spectrum 17/2 (1995): 275-82. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of the Lippman and Rahn books, both devoted to music aeathetics.
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John Covach deposited Review of Allen Forte, The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950, College Music Symposium 36 (1996): 168-72. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of Forte’s book devoted to the analysis of Tin Pan Alley popular music.
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John Covach deposited Triple review of Edward Macan, Rockin’ the Classics: Progressive Rock and the Counterculture; Paul Stump, The Music’s All That Matters: A History of Progressive Rock; and Bill Martin, Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-78, MLA Notes (September 1998). in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of three books devoted to progressive rock snd its history.
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John Covach deposited Review of Robert Freeman, The Crisis of Classical Music: Lessons from a Life in the Education of Musicians, Music Theory Online 21/2 (June 2015). in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReviews Freeman/s book with special attention paid to the development of music school curricula.
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