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Matthew Ferrandino replied to the topic PMIG Bylaws: Revisions and Updates in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAmendments have been added as comments to the above Google Doc. We’ll go through these briefly during our Friday session in Denver. We will post a voting form for each of the seven suggested amendments following our PMIG session, which will be open until Friday November 17th.
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited “Introduction” from Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSurround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been creating stereo and surround-sound effects for nearly a century, since the advent of talking pictures, and argues that their endurance owes primarily to…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Denver: Informal Post-Session Discussion Space in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoFollowing our formal PMIG session we will have an opportunity for an informal breakout discussion in Governer’s Square 10 regarding pop “theory” papers and conference options. Brad Osborn and Alyssa Barna will speak briefly about this at the end of our session, so this is a time and place to continue that conversation. We have the space on Friday…[Read more]
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John Peterson posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoWe are conducting research into the demographic statistics of scholars who author articles published in varied music theory periodicals, which will be reported to the music academic community to help the field better understand its publication representation.
If you published one or more articles in one or more of the following journals between…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Officer Nominations 2024 Open! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoWe are seeking nominations for the following officer positions for SMT’s Popular Music Interest Group. Self nominations are encouraged! Please email all nominations to pmigwebmaster@gmail.com. Nominations will close at 5:00 pm EST on Nov. 26, 2023.
CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting re…[Read more]
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William Ayers started the topic Soliciting Co-Chair Nominations for Post-1945 Music Analysis IG in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoHi all!
I’m very much looking forward to seeing all of you in Denver for our meeting! As previously announced, our planned session (Considering Electronic and Synthesized Sound) will include presentations by Kate Mancey, Noah Kahrs, and Jennifer Iverson. I hope you are all as excited as I am about these presentations, which will take place on…[Read more]
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William Ayers started the topic Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Meeting in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
We are excited to invite all of you to our upcoming Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group meeting at the SMT Annual Meeting in Denver this November! The meeting is scheduled for 12:30 PM on Friday, November 10. For this year’s meetup, we will be hosting a planned session: Considering Electronic and Synthesized Sound.
We are t…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Denver PMIG Session in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoWe are excited to have two amazingly wonderful scholars and pedagogues share their insights on popular music pedagogy at our session in Denver. Jennifer Snodgrass and Cora Palfy will offer their perspectives on backwards design in music theory curriculum. A schedule for our session and details on their presentations are below.
SMT PMIG, Friday…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood replied to the topic PMIG Bylaws: Revisions and Updates in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoI’ll suggest new language to clarify and specify what kinds of scholarship should be considered for the Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award, as follows (additions in bold):
The Chair will solicit nominations for the Interest Group’s two publication awards annually. Anyone may nominate a publication for an award. An Award C…
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783). Villancicos II (nº 48-58) in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoStudy and edition of the Complete Villancicos of Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783), Chapel Master of Escorial Monastery in Spain
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783). Villancicos I (nº 35-47) in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoStudy and edition of the Complete Villancicos of Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783), Chapel Master of Escorial Monastery in Spain
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Bernd Brabec deposited Auditive Wissenskulturen: Wissen, Macht und die Welt der Klänge in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn der Einleitung zum Sammelband Auditive Wissenskulturen – Das Wissen klanglicher Praxis stellen die Autoren zuerst die Diskrepanzen der jeweiligen Beziehungen des Visuellen und des Auditiven zu Wissen anhand einiger Beispiele vor. Sie exemplifzieren auch, wie sowohl auditive Praxis als auch die Hervorbringung und Vermittlung von Wissen in s…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic PMIG Bylaws: Revisions and Updates in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoOne item on the business meeting agenda for the PMIG meeting in Denver this year will be updating the group’s bylaws. We would like to begin this process by soliciting changes from group members in advance of the meeting.
The current bylaws are available to view and download from Google Drive. Interested parties should access this document,…[Read more]
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Jacob P. Cupps started the topic PMIG 2023 Awards Nominations are Open! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoNominations are officially open for the Popular 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 public…[Read more]
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Channan Willner posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoDear members of the list,
I just published my latest article, “The Split Anstieg: Initial Ascents Involving the Bass, and Their Consequences,” on my website, at . The article contains thorough tonal analyses of the Passepied from J.S. Bach G major Partita for Clavier, BWV 829, and of two movements attributed to Handel, from the keyboard Suite in…[Read more] -
William Ayers started the topic SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis IG / SMT Math IG Joint Virtual Meetup in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe Society for Music Theory’s Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and Mathematics of Music Interest Group will hold a joint virtual meetup on Tuesday, August 1st at 2:00 pm EDT. The program will consist of the following three presentations:
- “Combination Tones and Ring Models of Frequency” Noah Kahrs (Eastman School of Music)
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Synch Holes and Patchwork in Early Feature-Film Scores in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe aesthetics of early feature-film scores were shaped by narrational problems introduced by multi-reel features and their longer durations. Using The Patchwork Girl of Oz, I show how stylistic devices like silences and musical pun- ctuation were used to address the coherence and pacing of multi-reel storytelling.
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Tape Recording Hollywood: The Inaudibility of New Film Sound Technology in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThis article details the historical factors that shaped Hollywood’s adoption of magnetic recording during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It draws upon economic theories of technological change, archival correspondence, technical records, analyses of postproduction workflows, and delineations of the structural constraints that limited how the f…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Monocentrism, or Soundtracks in Space in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThis chapter investigates how the introduction of stereo complicated Hollywood’s vococentric practices. It also reveals how sound technicians developed mixing techniques that preserved the salience of dialogue in multi-channel soundscapes. The author refers to such techniques as monocentrism and illustrates monocentric norms by analyzing the c…[Read more]
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