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Ellen Bakulina started the topic New dissertation on Russian music: Aleksandra Drozzina in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoCongratulations to Aleksandra (Sasha) Drozzina, who recently defended her dissertation “Schnittke, Gubaidulina, and Pärt: Religion and Spirituality during the Late Thaw and Early Perestroika.” This was written at Louisiana State University, under the supervision of Inessa Bazayev. Looking forward to reading Sasha’s work!
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Philip Ewell replied to the topic New publications on Russian theory: Philip Ewell in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group via email on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThanks for this Ellen. The link below for Russian Lād doesn’t seem to work. Try this one<https://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.19.25.4/mto.19.25.4.ewell.html>.
Also, my interview with, and essay on, Tatiana Bershadskaya and the Leningrad School of Music Theory<http://gnesinsjournal.ru/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/5.-Ewell-article-2019-4.pdf> should…[Read more]
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic New publications on Russian theory: Philip Ewell in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoCheck out some of Philip Ewell’s recent publications on Russian-language music theory:
“On Rimsky-Korsakov’s False (Hexatonic) Progressions Outside the Limits of a Tonality,” in Music Theory Spectrum, Fall 2019 https://academic.oup.com/mts/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mts/mtz020/5688659
“On the Russian Concept of Lad, 1830–1945…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited Content and Correlational Analysis of a Corpus of MTV-Promoted Music Videos Aired Between 1990 and 1999 in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoFrom 1990 to 1999 MTV promoted a series of 288 music videos called “Buzz Clips”, designed to highlight emerging artists and genres. Such promotion had a measurable impact on an artists’ earnings and record sales. To date, the kinds of musical and visual practices MTV promoted have not been quantitatively analyzed. Just what made some videos Buzzw…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood uploaded the file: Identifying Modes (Great British Bake Off themed worksheet) to
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIdentifying modes (.pdf, .mscx, .musicxml). Asks students to identify 20th-c. modes versus major/minor, circle inflected pitches, and explain how a pitch center is articulated. Music examples are transcribed from the TV show Great British Bake Off (music by Tom Howe). Designed for the still-in-development v. 2 of Open Music Theory.
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Brad Osborn deposited Risers, Drops, and a Fourteen-Foot Cube: A Transmedia Analysis of Emil Nava, Calvin Harris, and Rihanna’s “This is What You Came For” in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoA consideration of 14 collaborative music videos by Emil Nava and Calvin Harris, closing with a close analysis of their work on Rihanna’s “This is What You Came For” (2016).
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Ryan Taycher deposited De fundamento discanti: Structure and Elaboration in Fourteenth-Century Counterpoint in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe primary goal of this dissertation is to produce a rigorous methodology for distinguishing between the contrapunctus structure and its elaboration in performing structural analysis of fourteenth-century diminished counterpoint. This methodology is based on historical thought by carefully analyzing contemporaneous treatises and their musical…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic PMIG Examples Database in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoGreetings, Popular Music Interest Group!
We write to you with bad news – the PMIG Examples Database Google Sheet has disappeared. Alyssa has been in touch with past officers and tried to recover it, but what appears to have happened is the owner of the sheet either deleted or closed the account associated with the database. But — we can…[Read more]
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Lodewijk Muns deposited Music, Language, and the Deceptive Charms of Recursive Grammars in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoRecursion may have an important place in cognitive processes. Recursive theoretical models may also seduce the theorist to false abstractions and pseudo-explanations. This is observed in some versions of musical and linguistic formalism, which share a common rationalist-idealist background; paradigmatically, in Chomsky’s controversial M…[Read more]
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Lodewijk Muns deposited The Inner Work of Music: Lerdahl and Jackendoff ‘s ‘Generative Theory’ in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoLerdahl and Jackendoff’s Generative Theory of Tonal Music (1983) is an attempt to transform music theory into a theory of musical understanding by adopting the formal method and psychological premises of Generative Grammar, along with some Schenkerian elements. It has failed to fulfil its promise mainly because, like Schenker theory, it is…[Read more]
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Gavin Lee deposited Postcolonial Affect: Ambiguous Relationality in Robert Casteels’s L’(autre) fille aux cheveux de Bali in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years agoJournal of the Royal Musical Association 140.2 (2015): 417-443 (published by the UK musicology society). Robert Casteels (b. 1958, Belgium), Singapore citizen, migrated in 1995, L’(autre) fille aux cheveux de Bali (2002).
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Gavin Lee deposited Postcolonial Bifurcation: On John Sharpley’s Emptiness in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years agoMusic Analysis 38.3 (2019): 316-357 (published by the UK Society for Music Analysis)
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Ellen Bakulina replied to the topic Phrase terminology in Russian textbooks on form in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoHi Yosef, indeed this is the first discussion, thanks for posting!
I recently explored the Mazel/Zuckerman textbook _Analiz muzykal’nykh proizvedeniy_ (Analysis of musical works), Moscow 1967, so I’ll give you some things from there. One good place to start is the section titled “Period,” which begins on p. 550 of the edition I have. For details,…[Read more]
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Dimitris Papageorgiou deposited Repurposing ‘com-provisation’ (script/pre-print of conference paper) in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years agoAs Anne Sauvagnargues suggests, in Gilles Deleuze thought “every[-thing] is defined as an assemblage of movements and affective vibrations.” Interestingly, Sauvagnargues’ proposition aligns neatly with Tim Ingold’s idea of correspondence, where things perdure, “carry on together, and answer to one another,” and where the additive ‘and…and.…[Read more]
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