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Paul Michael Kurtz deposited A Historical, Critical Retrospective on Historical Criticism in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis chapter examines how historical and critical modalities of reading sacred scripture became central to modern biblical studies. It examines what “criticism” was, whence it came, what it did, and which critiques it sustained, before considering its prospects for future historical and literary analysis of the Bible.
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Joel Edelman deposited Voice Based Affinity; A Recipe for Auditory Cheesecake in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe age-old search for an understanding of “consonance” has been hobbled from the beginning by the expectation that a silver bullet can be found. In this section from a book-in-progress, the historical searches are analyzed for their failings and a new approach is suggested based on observing the effects of tonal sounds within the context of…[Read more]
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William Ayers started the topic Post-1945 Music Analysis IG Events at SMT 2022 Annual Meeting in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
The Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group has a couple exciting activities at this year’s annual meeting, and we hope that you will attend and support the authors and organizers that have been working to put things together.
The interest group is sponsoring a special session that will take place on Saturday morning of the c…[Read more]
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Devin Chaloux deposited Tonality and Tonal Structures in the Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria: A Case Study for Analyzing Tonal Phenomenology in Renaissance Polyphony in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis dissertation develops a methodology for understanding tonality and tonal structures in Renaissance polyphony by exploring the ways that the modern-day analyst and listener experience tonal phenomena in this music through a historically-informed lens. Regarded as one of the most important composers of the late-sixteenth century, Tomás Luis de…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak deposited Teaching Music and Disability Through Disclosure-Oriented Pedagogy in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn this paper, presented at the 2022 H-Net Teaching Conference, I describe how I teach undergraduate students about disability in music through what I call disclosure-oriented pedagogy. This practice involves demonstrating cross-historical comparisons between my lived experiences of disability and the representations of disability in 19th-century…[Read more]
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Michael Buchler posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoDear members of the SMT Community,
Our Humanities Commons site was created to allow music theorists to share their own work and to make announcements. There are no discussion threads and we do not have the volunteer resources to monitor discussions for relevance and for adherence to our policies on harassment and ethics.
Recently, Humanities…[Read more]
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Chris Segall posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoDear SMT Community,
This week I learned that anyone may post an “update” on the SMT Humanities Commons page, as I am doing now, and the message will be sent to all group members. In this way, Scott Fruehwald emailed hundreds of SMT members with the unprovoked and, in my opinion, reprehensible assertion that Philip Ewell is an “academic fraud…[Read more]
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Scott Fruehwald posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoI have been informed that the book the Wiener article is in is expensive, so here are some key quotes:
“By employing the language of race, Schenker adhered to the conventions of his day. Yet this did not reflect a belief in the strict doctrines of biological racism, as employed by racial theorists in Europe and America during the first third of t…[Read more]
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William Ayers started the topic Two Quick Things in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoHello Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group!
This is a brief message to ask you about two things. First, as you may have seen recently from SMT-Announce, the society is soliciting volunteers to video-record conference sessions and interest group meetings. We need a volunteer to record our meeting (early Saturday afternoon). If you are able to…[Read more]
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Scott Fruehwald posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoNew article on Heinrich Schenker’s Jewishness. The Georg Olms Verlag has just published Barry Wiener’s article “Race, Nation, and the Jewish Identity” in New Horizons in Schenkerian Research, edited by Allen Cadwallader, Karen M. Bottge, & Oliver Schwab-Felisch (2022). This article places Schenker’s thought in the context of a Jew in Austria…[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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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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Stephen Beall deposited Christi Praecones: Advice for Latin Teachers from the First Jesuit Schools in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoA summary and contemporary application of the pedagogical handbook of Joseph Jouvancy, S.J. (1643-1719)
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Elizabeth Hambleton started the topic CFP: Xenakis Centenary @ mega-conference November 2022 in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoCfP: SMT Post-1945 interest group: Xenakis Centenary
The SMT Post-1945 Music Interest Group will celebrate the centenary of Iannis Xenakis at SMT New Orleans (November 10-13, 2022). We invite 250-word abstracts for lightning talks that explore topics related to all things by or about Xenakis, including his compositions, designs, notation,…[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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William Ayers started the topic Publication Award Reminder in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoHi everyone! As many of your are wrapping up or preparing to wrap up your semesters, this is just a quick reminder to submit eligible articles and chapters to william.ayers@ucf.edu for the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award by May 16. The original call follows. Please feel free to circulate it as you see fit ahead of that…[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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William Ayers started the topic Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award Call for Nominations in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoDear scholars of post-1945 music,
Please consider submitting your published articles or book chapters for consideration for the SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award.
Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published between January 2019 and December 2021 on analysis of post-1945 music within modernist, experimental,…[Read more]
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