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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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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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J. Daniel Jenkins started the topic Field Trip in NOLA? in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues,We hope you are having a wonderful summer. Danny Jenkins and I have been making plans for the Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Group (AADIG) meeting this fall in New Orleans. On the morning of Thursday, November 10 we are considering a field trip to Tulane University to visit the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New…[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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Matthew Ferrandino replied to the topic SMT PMIG 2022 Session in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThank you all for your input, our topic will be on timbre and production! Below is the CFP:
AMS/SEM/SMT New Orleans 2022:
Call for Papers hosted by the Society for Music Theory’s Popular Music Interest GroupInterpreting and Analyzing Timbre and Production in Popular MusicIn recent years, scholars such as Victoria Maleway, Megan Lavengood, and…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino replied to the topic SMT PMIG 2022 Session in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoHi All!
We’ve narrowed down our choices for our 2022 session to three topics! Please fill out this Google Form by Monday, June 13.
https://docs.google.com/forms/<wbr />d/e/<wbr />1FAIpQLSc4J6vWy6sqkaUMtRUjUFSQ<wbr />MiAQ5Lnl6INjpEJMVD0wbtbwIQ/<wbr />viewform?usp=pp_url
Thanks!
-Matt
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic Call for Lightning Talks on Microtonality in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThe Russian Music Theory Interest Group (SMT-Rus) invites proposals for lightning talks on microtonality.
Russia and, later, the Soviet Union have rich histories of the development of microtonality (or quarter tonality). Ivan Wyschnegradsky’s treatise on quarter tonality (1932) has been instrumental in the development of quarter-tonal c…[Read more]
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Sarah Gates posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoGreetings!
Our research team in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, led by principal investigator Richard Ashley, are conducting a research study on ambiguous figure perception in musical contexts. We are inviting English speaking participants who have graduate-level training in music theory (e.g., current graduate students or…[Read more]
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Sean Lorre started the topic CFP: Journal of Jazz Studies in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoGreetings!
Have a paper, speculative essay, media review or creative work in need of an outlet? Looking for a fast and efficient editorial process? The Journal of Jazz Studies is actively seeking submissions for issues to be published in 2022 (and beyond) and would love to work with you!
The Institute of Jazz Studies seeks manuscript s…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic SMT PMIG 2022 Session in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoHi Everyone!
We are currently accepting informal proposals and ideas for the topic and format of our Fall meeting. We will be back in person for SMT in November, which is being held jointly with AMS and SEM. In the past, formats that included some element of interactivity with attendees beyond the typical Q&A have been particularly successful, so…[Read more]
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Channan Willner posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoI have just published a new article on my website, entitled, “Borrowing for Contrast, I: Schütz, Bach, and Mozart,” at http://www.channanwillner.com/online.htm. The first of a two-part set, the article investigates how composers use borrowings from different sources (or different borrowings from the same source) to generate contrast, and what the…[Read more]
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Frans Wiering posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
In What Do Musicologists Do All Day (WDMDAD) we are investigating the use of technology in the work of music researchers in the widest sense.
Researchers frequently make use of the possibilities that mobile phones, social media, digital libraries, search engines and computer software offer. But these technologies do not always…[Read more]
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David Neumeyer deposited Register and Cadence Gesture (2): Gershwin’s “Embraceable You” in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis is a companion piece to an essay on Jerome Kern’s “All the Things You Are,” where an alternative ending with a rising melodic gesture is written into the published sheet music. The survey of Gershwin’s “Embraceable You” here was inspired by a similar figure in an early recorded performance by Sarah Vaughan.
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David Neumeyer deposited Register and Cadence Gesture (1): Jerome Kern’s “All the Things You Are” in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoSome cadences in European and European-influenced tonal music show a contradiction in direction between registral stasis and linear movement, the example being alternative endings written into a song by Jerome Kern. The topic is explored through analysis of 51 recorded performances.
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David Neumeyer deposited Text and Music in Two Songs by Charles K. Harris in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 4 years agoIn 2021, SMT-V, an online journal of the Society for Music Theory, published a video essay by Michael Buchler, Professor of Music in the College of Music, Florida State University. It’s titled “I Don’t Care if I Never Get Back: Optimism and Ascent in ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’.” In this essay I examine similar songs from the era: Charles K. Ha…[Read more]
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Lodewijk Muns deposited Who’s ‘I’ in Music?: Unmasking the Musical Persona in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 4 years agoAccording to conventional literary theory, when we interpret the text of a poem or work of fiction as a condensed or represented speech act, this implies a hypothetical speaker. The speaker may be a well-defined narrator who may also be a participant in the action. Often, however, the text offers few or no clues as to who is ‘speaking’. In suc…[Read more]
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