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Alyssa Barna replied to the topic Popular Music Interest Group Examples Database in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHi David,
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I am looking into this and will get back to you as soon as I know more.
—Alyssa
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Alyssa Barna started the topic Election and by-law voting in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHello PMIG members!
Nominations are now closed for elections for PMIG positions. Please follow the link to vote for a new chair and secretary (there were no nominations for a new webmaster). You will also vote on the proposed by-laws.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1gvZz1srWhac4u2kEwRz6g0vyutq6lOblMbo18Y_GiJpsuw/viewform
Thank you!
—Alyssa
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David Falterman replied to the topic Popular Music Interest Group Examples Database in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDoes this not exist anymore? Is the link broken, or has the database itself been deleted or moved? If so, why?
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Brad Osborn uploaded the file: Osborn: Analyzing Popular Music (F2019) materials to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoContains syllabus, bibliography, schedule, assignments, and repertoire list
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Brad Osborn deleted the file: Analyzing Popular Music: Syllabus, Bibliography, Assignments from
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Megan Lavengood commented on the doc Working Draft — Proposed Bylaws in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoNathan Pell passed on the Performance and Analysis Interest Group bylaws in case it helped us. He also mentioned that quorum was an issue in their formation of bylaws. They seem to have decided on 10 people as constitutive of a quorum.
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Megan Lavengood commented on the doc Working Draft — Proposed Bylaws in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoI don’t have that data sadly.
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Alyssa Barna replied to the topic Nominations, proposed bylaws changes, and chair's report in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHi everyone!
Just commenting to remind folks that nominations for officers and proposed bylaw changes are due December 1st.
-Alyssa
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Stefanie Acevedo commented on the doc Working Draft — Proposed Bylaws in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoI like this! However, 5% seems a little low to pass amendments, no?
(If we have 50 members, that’s only 2.5 people…)Wikipedia on Quorum: “Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised states that the quorum set in an organization’s bylaws ‘should approximate the largest number that can be depended on to attend any meeting except in very bad…[Read more]
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Stefanie Acevedo uploaded the file: Acevedo – Music Technology Final Composition Project to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoFor a music technology course project but has spec ideas if you wish to do something more techy.
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Stefanie Acevedo uploaded the file: Acevedo – Theory IV Popular Song Composition Guidelines to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDesigned as part of a class that focuses on 20th/21st century styles and that included various previous composition projects.
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John Covach deposited Review of Edward Lippman, A History of Western Musical Aesthetics and John Rahn, ed., Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics, Music Theory Spectrum 17/2 (1995): 275-82. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of the Lippman and Rahn books, both devoted to music aeathetics.
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John Covach deposited Review of Allen Forte, The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950, College Music Symposium 36 (1996): 168-72. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of Forte’s book devoted to the analysis of Tin Pan Alley popular music.
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John Covach deposited Triple review of Edward Macan, Rockin’ the Classics: Progressive Rock and the Counterculture; Paul Stump, The Music’s All That Matters: A History of Progressive Rock; and Bill Martin, Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-78, MLA Notes (September 1998). in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of three books devoted to progressive rock snd its history.
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John Covach deposited Review of Robert Freeman, The Crisis of Classical Music: Lessons from a Life in the Education of Musicians, Music Theory Online 21/2 (June 2015). in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReviews Freeman/s book with special attention paid to the development of music school curricula.
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John Covach deposited Review of Alastair Borthwick, Music Theory and Analysis: The Limitations of Logic, MLA Notes (June 1996): 1192-94. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of Borthwick’s book, which approaches music theory from a point of view informed by philosophy.
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Mark Spicer deposited “(Per)Form in(g) Rock: A Response” in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe published version of my invited response to the special session on “(Per)Form in(g) in Rock” from SMT Indianapolis.
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Mark Spicer deposited “Fragile, Emergent, and Absent Tonics in Pop and Rock Songs.” in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article explores the sometimes tricky question of tonality in pop and rock songs by positing three tonal scenarios: 1) songs with a fragile tonic, in which the tonic chord is present but its hierarchical status is weakened, either by relegating the tonic to a more unstable chord in first or second inversion or by positioning the tonic…[Read more]
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