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Channan Willner posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
I have just added a paper entitled “On Parsing Mozart, 1782-84,” to the Online Publications on my website at .Taking as its point of departure Edward Lowinsky’s landmark “On Mozart’s Rhythm” (1956), the article revisits Mozart’s C minor Serenade, K. 388 (in its string quintet version, K. 406),from the fluid perspective of…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic Seeking Officer Nominations! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoWe are seeking nominations for the following officer positions for SMT’s Popular Music Interest Group. Self nominations are encouraged! Please email all nominations to ferr1407@fredonia.edu. Nominations will close at 5:00 pm EST on Dec. 1, 2021.
CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting…[Read more]
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Mariusz Kozak deposited Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Violin Phase and the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work? in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoReich’s Violin Phase has been mired in questions of time since its inception. In this article I present a theory of time in process music based on the notion of kinesthetic knowledge, and the synthesis of musical temporality through the generative (chronopoietic) and transformational (chronopraxial) acts of the body. I illustrate this theory w…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis. Edited by Lori A. Burns and Stan Hawkins. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. 464 pp. ISBN 9781501342332. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoReview of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis.
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Brad Osborn deposited Resistance Gazes in Recent Music Videos in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoA number of recent music videos by women subvert the male gaze (Mulvey) through a number of techniques I construe as “resistance gazes.” These videos subvert the hypersexualization, infantilization, objectification, and victimi- zation regularly seen in music videos using imagery that resonates with broader cultural movements such as #metoo and #timesup.
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Channan Willner replied to the topic New two-part Mozart study on my website in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoApologies for posting several times. There was no confirmation when I clicked “Submit,” so I clicked again….
Sigh,
Channan
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Channan Willner started the topic New two-part Mozart study on my website in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
I should like to alert you to the publication of a new two-part study on my website, entitled “Mozart’s Delayed Dominants” athttp://www.channanwillner.<wbr />com/online.htm. Part I demonstrates that in Mozart’s (and in other late 18th-century) sonata form, the arrival of the structural dominant is often delayed almost to the e…[Read more]
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Channan Willner started the topic New two-part Mozart study on my website in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
I should like to alert you to the publication of a new two-part study on my website, entitled “Mozart’s Delayed Dominants” athttp://www.channanwillner.<wbr />com/online.htm. Part I demonstrates that in Mozart’s (and in other late 18th-century) sonata form, the arrival of the structural dominant is often delayed almost to the e…[Read more]
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Channan Willner started the topic New two-part Mozart study on my website in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
I should like to alert you to the publication of a new two-part study on my website, entitled “Mozart’s Delayed Dominants” athttp://www.channanwillner.<wbr />com/online.htm. Part I demonstrates that in Mozart’s (and in other late 18th-century) sonata form, the arrival of the structural dominant is often delayed almost to the e…[Read more]
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Channan Willner started the topic New two-part Mozart study on my website in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
I should like to alert you to the publication of a new two-part study on my website, entitled “Mozart’s Delayed Dominants” athttp://www.channanwillner.<wbr />com/online.htm. Part I demonstrates that in Mozart’s (and in other late 18th-century) sonata form, the arrival of the structural dominant is often delayed almost to the e…[Read more]
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Channan Willner started the topic New two-part Mozart study on my website in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
I should like to alert you to the publication of a new two-part study on my website, entitled “Mozart’s Delayed Dominants” athttp://www.channanwillner.<wbr />com/online.htm. Part I demonstrates that in Mozart’s (and in other late 18th-century) sonata form, the arrival of the structural dominant is often delayed almost to the e…[Read more]
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Jeremy Coleman deposited ‘In ein fernes Land’: The Politics of Translation in Wagner’s Arrangement of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoArticle on Wagner’s 1847 arrangement of Gluck’s _Iphigénie en Aulide_; adapted from, and may be read in conjunction with, Chapter 3 of Jeremy Coleman, _Richard Wagner in Paris: Translation, Identity, Modernity_ (The Boydell Press, 2019).
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Mariusz Kozak deposited Kinesthesis, Affectivity, and Music’s Temporal (Re-/Dis-)Orientations in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIn this talk, presented at the Plenary Session of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, I examine the relationship between time, embodiment, and affectivity in music. I argue that music is temporal not because it unfolds in time, or because it takes time as its vector, or even because it has the capacity to alter our sense of…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Cultural Diversity and the Musical Representation of California in Regional 1970s Television in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIn 1970, a television-show dance contest in a small California town ended abruptly when the studio was briefly plunged into darkness because of an apparent power failure. The media coverage of the event eventually helped uncover criminal activity at the studio; over the course of this reporting, the narrative was accompanied by select genres of…[Read more]
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Devin Chaloux deposited Review of Analyzing Schubert by Suzannah Clark in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoReview of _Analyzing Schubert_ by Suzannah Clark. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. x, 290 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-84867-1.
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Nathaniel Mitchell deposited The Volta: A Galant Gesture of Culmination in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article presents an overview of a new pre-cadential schema in the galant style: the Volta. The Volta is a two-part schema featuring a prominent chromatic reversal: stage one charges up the dominant with a ♯4–5 melodic string, while stage two releases to the tonic using a ♮4–3 string. The schema sheds light on many aspects of galant music-m…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic Popular Music Interest Group Award Winners 2020 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThe SMT Popular Music Interest Group has two awards to recognize recent research in pop music. The Outstanding Publication Award was established in 2012, and exists to acknowledge the best article, essay, or book involving the theory and/or analysis of popular music by a senior scholar. Since 2013, the PMIG also grants the Adam Krims Award to a j…[Read more]
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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 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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