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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic 2022 PMIG Session Schedule in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago2022 SMT PMIG Schedule
Friday, Nov. 11, 12:30–2:00pm
Chair: Matthew Ferrandino; Secretary: Emily Milius; Webmaster: Jacob Cupps
12:30–35 – Intro/Welcome
12:35–1:35 – Presentations (details below)
1:35–1:50 – Q&A
1:50–1:55 – Trevor de Clercq, PMIG “Splinter Groups”
1:55–2:00 – AK and OP award recipients [Read more]
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Joel Edelman deposited Voice Based Affinity; A Recipe for Auditory Cheesecake in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe age-old search for an understanding of “consonance” has been hobbled from the beginning by the expectation that a silver bullet can be found. In this section from a book-in-progress, the historical searches are analyzed for their failings and a new approach is suggested based on observing the effects of tonal sounds within the context of…[Read more]
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic Chair nominations in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe Russian Music Interest Group will elect a new chair in November 2022, soon after the SMT annual meeting. Nominations and self-nominations are welcome at this time! If you have published or presented on topics relevant to Russian music or music scholarship, and if you are invested in the future of the group, you might be a good candidate. If…[Read more]
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic SMT-Rus 2022 meeting, Thursday Oct 10, 7:30 pm in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoDear SMT-Rus members,
I am happy to announce The Russian Theory Interest Group meeting, on Thursday November 10 at 7:30 pm (Jackson room) during the annual SMT conference. Our meeting will include three papers dedicated to issues of microtonality in Russian, Russian émigré, and Soviet theory and composition. It will be great to see all you t…[Read more]
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William Ayers started the topic Post-1945 Music Analysis IG Events at SMT 2022 Annual Meeting in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
The Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group has a couple exciting activities at this year’s annual meeting, and we hope that you will attend and support the authors and organizers that have been working to put things together.
The interest group is sponsoring a special session that will take place on Saturday morning of the c…[Read more]
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Ryan Lynus Revoredo Chocano started the topic Investigation of perceptual structuring in Latin American popular music in the discussion
Society for Music Theory Analysis of World Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoHello, I would like to share a research work from 2006 (in Spanish) that is the product of research on perception in popular and academic music. In this article I focus on examples of popular music that include some folk expressions and other examples of commercial music. In general terms, it is proposed that an optimized combination of structures…[Read more]
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Devin Chaloux deposited Tonality and Tonal Structures in the Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria: A Case Study for Analyzing Tonal Phenomenology in Renaissance Polyphony in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis dissertation develops a methodology for understanding tonality and tonal structures in Renaissance polyphony by exploring the ways that the modern-day analyst and listener experience tonal phenomena in this music through a historically-informed lens. Regarded as one of the most important composers of the late-sixteenth century, Tomás Luis de…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak deposited Teaching Music and Disability Through Disclosure-Oriented Pedagogy in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn this paper, presented at the 2022 H-Net Teaching Conference, I describe how I teach undergraduate students about disability in music through what I call disclosure-oriented pedagogy. This practice involves demonstrating cross-historical comparisons between my lived experiences of disability and the representations of disability in 19th-century…[Read more]
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Michael Buchler posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoDear members of the SMT Community,
Our Humanities Commons site was created to allow music theorists to share their own work and to make announcements. There are no discussion threads and we do not have the volunteer resources to monitor discussions for relevance and for adherence to our policies on harassment and ethics.
Recently, Humanities…[Read more]
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Chris Segall posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoDear SMT Community,
This week I learned that anyone may post an “update” on the SMT Humanities Commons page, as I am doing now, and the message will be sent to all group members. In this way, Scott Fruehwald emailed hundreds of SMT members with the unprovoked and, in my opinion, reprehensible assertion that Philip Ewell is an “academic fraud…[Read more]
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Trevor deClercq created the group
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Scott Fruehwald posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoI have been informed that the book the Wiener article is in is expensive, so here are some key quotes:
“By employing the language of race, Schenker adhered to the conventions of his day. Yet this did not reflect a belief in the strict doctrines of biological racism, as employed by racial theorists in Europe and America during the first third of t…[Read more]
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William Ayers started the topic Two Quick Things in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoHello Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group!
This is a brief message to ask you about two things. First, as you may have seen recently from SMT-Announce, the society is soliciting volunteers to video-record conference sessions and interest group meetings. We need a volunteer to record our meeting (early Saturday afternoon). If you are able to…[Read more]
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Scott Fruehwald posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoNew article on Heinrich Schenker’s Jewishness. The Georg Olms Verlag has just published Barry Wiener’s article “Race, Nation, and the Jewish Identity” in New Horizons in Schenkerian Research, edited by Allen Cadwallader, Karen M. Bottge, & Oliver Schwab-Felisch (2022). This article places Schenker’s thought in the context of a Jew in Austria…[Read more]
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic Volunteer needed for November meeting in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoDear SMT-Rus members,
SMT plans to video-record all sessions this year, including interest groups. They will provide tripod and recording equipment in each room, with a rotating cast of volunteers to operate the cameras. We need to find a volunteer, a member of SMT-Rus who will attend the IG meeting (scheduled for Thursday 7:30 pm) and record it.…[Read more]
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Arun Luthra started the topic Songs of the India independence movement in the Carnatic music tradition in the discussion
Society for Music Theory Analysis of World Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoHello, Everyone–
My video file is too large to attach to this post, so here is the link to my social media post: https://twitter.com/ArunLuthra/status/1559252306738049026.
Can anyone point me in the direction of recordings, oral histories, writing, etc. on the type of songs which V. Sriram is talking about in this interview? The video is an ex…[Read more]
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Benjamin Dobbs posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoDear Colleagues:
We are conducting a research study on students’ mindset (their beliefs about their abilities), their learning behaviors, and the learning environment in music theory classes. We are seeking participants who are students currently enrolled in any level of undergraduate music theory course. Participants will complete a short o…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic PMIG 2022 Awards Nominations are Open! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoNominations are officially open for the Popular 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 pub…[Read more]
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Joseph Straus deposited STRAVINSKY’S RITE OF SPRING–EIGHTEEN ANALYTICAL VIDEOS in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoI’ve written and produced a series of 18 analytical videos about the Rite of Spring (roughly twelve hours of video) and posted them on a YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChmyFZItS6HNVYyFwOUZo4Q
The first five videos deal with aspects of the work as a whole (meaning, form, melody, harmony, rhythm). The last thirteen videos a…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak deposited Contemplation, Heroism, and Gender in Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17, Third Movement (1846) in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoI’m a disability activist and musicologist with multiple sclerosis (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014). I’m unaffiliated due to discrimination against my disabilities. However, I often give guest lectures, both virtually and in person. My speaking engagements help to advance diversity and representation in academia: I offer students the opportunity…[Read more]
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