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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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Frederic Kiernan started the topic CFP: Music as a Profession: Status, Careers, and Organizations (18th–20th Centuries) in the discussion
MSA Forum via email on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoDear MSA Forum members,
On behalf of IMS member Cristina Fernandes I would like to bring to your attention the CFP for the international conference Music as a Profession: Status, Careers, and Organizations (18th–20th Centuries), which is organized by the research project PROFMUS (NOVA University Lisbon) and will take place in Lisbon (PT) from J…[Read more]
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Frederic Kiernan started the topic Call for nominations: 2022 Dent Medal in the discussion
MSA Forum via email on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoDear MSA Forum members,
The Royal Musical Association (RMA) is seeking nominations for the 2022 Dent Medal award. The Dent Medal, struck in memory of the distinguished scholar and musician Edward J. Dent (1876–1957), is awarded annually to recipients selected for their outstanding contribution to musicology. The award holder is invited to r…[Read more]
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Frederic Kiernan started the topic SYMP: “Perpetual Encounter: Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, and Acculturation in Music” in the discussion
MSA Forum via email on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoDear MSA Forum members
On behalf of IMS member Bianca Ţiplea Temeş I would like to bring to your attention the program for the international symposium Perpetual Encounter: Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, and Acculturation in Music, which will be held online on April 7, 2022.
See the attached PDF for more details.
Best wishes,
FK
Frederic K…[Read more]
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Frederic Kiernan started the topic CFP: “The ‘Traité de l’harmonie’ by Jean-Philippe Rameau in Its Time” in the discussion
MSA Forum via email on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoDear MSA forum members
On behalf of IMS member Theodora Psychoyou I would like to bring to your attention the CFP for the conference “The ‘Traité de l’harmonie’ by Jean-Philippe Rameau in Its Time: Theoretical and Pedagogical Discourse, Composition, and Musical Practices around 1722,” which will be held in Paris (FR) from October 13 to 15, 2022.…[Read more]
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John Gabriel started the topic Working Group on Asian German Studies in Music: Call for Participation in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoWe are excited to announce a new—largely online-based—working group on Asian German Studies in Music within the International Musicological Society (IMS) Global Music History Study Group. Building on the emerging field of Asian German Studies, this working group focuses on the study of musics from a global history perspective. We define ‘As…[Read more]
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Michael Hooper started the topic IMS in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
John Griffiths has brought to my attention the upcoming IMS Directorium meeting. Country representatives are determined by the number of members; Australia currently has 28 members, 2 short of a seat. I’d like to encourage those members of the MSA who are considering joining the IMS to do so before the end of this month (the…[Read more]
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Frederic Kiernan started the topic CFP: 21st International Conference of Association RIdIM in the discussion
MSA Forum via email on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoDear MSA Forum members,
On behalf of Association RIdIM I would like to bring to your attention the call for papers for the 21st International Conference of Association RIdIM, Looking Popular: Representations of the Popular in Music Visual Culture, which will take place in Prague (CZ) from July 29 to 31, 2022. The submission deadline is February…[Read more]
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Joshua Banks Mailman started the topic New non-technical articles on Milton Babbitt’s compositions in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThough not focused specifically on analysis, this new article of mine on cross-stylistic adaptation and re-composition of Milton Babbitt’s music might be of interest to members of this group. Besides my article, there are also new articles by Andrew Mead, Zachary Bernstein, Daphne Leong, Joseph Dubiel and several others. (These are part of an up…[Read more]
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Frederic Kiernan started the topic IMS2022 Registration Now Open in the discussion
MSA Forum via email on Humanities Commons 4 years agoDear Musicological Society of Australia,
We are pleased to announce that registration for the 21st Quinquennial IMS Congress (IMS2022), Athens, Greece, August 22 to 26, 2022, is now open<https://pcoconvin.eventsair.com/ims22/on-line-form>! The early bird deadline is February 28, 2022.
IMS2022…[Read more]
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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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Frederic Kiernan started the topic CFP: “Women’s Agency in Schubert’s Vienna” in the discussion
MSA Forum via email on Humanities Commons 4 years ago[IMS Logo]<https://musicology.org>
Dear Musicological Society of Australia,
On behalf of IMS Vice President Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl we would like to bring to your attention the CFP for “Women’s Agency in Schubert’s Vienna,” the Second Conference of the Schubert Research Center at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which will be held in Vienna…[Read more]
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Judd Danby replied to the topic Font for Indexing Chords in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years agoI found a commercially available font that encloses letters and/or digits inside shapes, Typodermic Fonts’ Numbers with Rings. I share a link here in case any other members are looking for such a resource.
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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, 1 month 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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Frederic Kiernan started the topic CFP: AMS Annual Meeting, due 15 Feb in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoWe would like to bring to your attention the call for proposals and performances for the AMS’s 88th Annual Meeting, which will be held jointly with the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) and the Society for Music Theory (SMT) in New Orleans, Louisiana, from November 10 to 13, 2022.
The call is available at nola2022.ams-sem-smt.org/calls.
Submissio…[Read more]
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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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Aleisha Ward started the topic CFP AJIRN 2022 in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoKia ora koutou,
With the usual apologies for cross posting, and please note that we warmly welcome non-jazz improvisation research and performance:
<p style=”text-align: center;”>AJIRN5 2022 Conference</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>https://www.ajirn.com/
Space is the Place: ‘Real’ and ‘Virtual’ Localities</p>
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Peck Jin Gan started the topic CFP: Journal of Music Research Online (JMRO) in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoDear MSA Forum members,
The Journal of Music Research Online (JMRO) is a freely accessible, peer-reviewed journal for the publication of scholarly research in music published by The University of Adelaide. It has a distinguished international editorial board, a broad scope of music research and only publishes research which is of the highest…[Read more]
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Jonathan Paget started the topic Recent monograph on composer Meta Overman in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoDear members,
I wished to draw your attention to this recent publication by long-time WA MSA member Patricia Thorpe concerning Meta Overman, a composer of particular significance to Western Australia. I thought this might be of great interest to some of you.
Kind regards
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