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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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Ellen Bakulina started the topic New publication: Analytical Approaches to Twentieth-Century Russian Music in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoI’m happy to announce the publication of Analytical Approaches to Twentieth-Century Russian Music: Tonality, Modernity, Serialism (Routledge 2020), edited by Inessa Bazayev and Chris Segall. The book includes essays by Ellen Bakulina, Scott Murphy, Rebecca Perry, Patrick McCreless, Knar Abrahamian, Inessa Bazayev, Daniil Zavlunov, Klara Moricz,…[Read more]
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic New publication: special issue of Music and Politics, summer 2020 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPlease have a look at the current issue (14/2) of the journal Music and Politics. This is a special issue: The Politics of Musical Knowledge in the Soviet Union and Beyond (1930s to 1980s). This includes articles by Olga Panteleeva, Daniil Zavlunov, Inessa Bazayev, Chris Segall, Matthew Honegger, and Anicia Timberlake. Congratulations to all the…[Read more]
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Mariusz Kozak deposited Review of Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking by Arnie Cox (2016) in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months ago.
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Kendra Leonard deposited Using Your “Research Pantry” in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoWhat’s in your research “pantry”? What topics, materials, and data are already on
your shelves or in your files, just waiting to become papers, presentations, or articles? The pandemic may have stopped many of us from some of our usual research, library, and archival work, but there is still a lot we can do using materials and information we have…[Read more] -
Ellen Bakulina started the topic SMT-Rus meeting November 7, 1 pm in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoUPDATE: The SMT-Rus 2020 meeting is scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 7, at 1 pm, Orange room. Please join us for this virtual meeting, if time permits!
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Christine Boone started the topic PMIG Awards – Nominations due TOMORROW! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoNominations DUE TOMORROW for the Pop 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 publica…[Read more]
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic SMT-Rus meeting 2020 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDear SMT-Rus members,
I hope you all had a good summer and will have a good semester, these unusual times notwithstanding! I’m very excited to announce the upcoming meeting of our interest group, to take place in November. The meeting will consist of four lightning talks:
“Ivan Wyschnegradsky and the Enigma of Modern Music,” Lee Cannon-…[Read more]
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Michael Dekovich deleted the file: George Walker, “Spatials” (1961) from
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Beth Harpaz started the topic Racism and Music Theory: A Professor Speaks Out in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoProfessor Philip Ewell (City University of New York Graduate Center, Hunter College) spoke last fall at an SMT meeting about racism in the field of music theory and also recently published an article in SMT’s online journal on the topic. The Graduate Center this week published a piece about his talk, his paper, and the controversy surrounding it,…[Read more]
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Mitchell Ohriner uploaded the file: Chinquinha Gonzaga, Sospiro to
Composers of Color Resource Project on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA tango with a habanero accompanimental rhythm published in 1881
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John Covach deposited “The Performer’s Experience: Positional Listening and Positional Analysis,” in G. Borio, G. Gioriani, A. Cecchi, and M. Lutzu, eds. Investigating Music Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections (Routledge, 2020), 56-68. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThis chapter presents an approach to musical listening and analysis that privileges the individual perspectives of performers in a rock ensemble. Using passages from Yes’s “And You And I,” this study examines how each musician hears the texture in different ways while each of these “positions” differs from the Ideal Listening Position, which is…[Read more]
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John Covach deposited “Popular Music in the Theory Classroom,” in The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, edited by Leigh VanHandel (Routledge, 2020), pp. 331-339. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThis chapter considers the role of popular music in the undergraduate music theory curriculum, proposing three models for integrating pop into theory teaching.
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John Covach deposited “Jimmy Miller, the Rolling Stones, and Beggars Banquet,” in “They Call My Name Disturbance”: Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Revolution, edited by Russell Reising (Routledge, 2020), pp. 19-25. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThis paper surveys the career of Jimmy Miller and explores his role as producer for the Rolling Stones, with particular emphasis on Beggars Banquet.
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Christine Boone started the topic PMIG 2020 Publication Awards – Nominations Sought! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoNominations are officially open for the Pop 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 publi…[Read more]
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