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David Neumeyer deposited Register and Cadence Gesture (2): Gershwin’s “Embraceable You” in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis is a companion piece to an essay on Jerome Kern’s “All the Things You Are,” where an alternative ending with a rising melodic gesture is written into the published sheet music. The survey of Gershwin’s “Embraceable You” here was inspired by a similar figure in an early recorded performance by Sarah Vaughan.
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David Neumeyer deposited Register and Cadence Gesture (1): Jerome Kern’s “All the Things You Are” in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoSome cadences in European and European-influenced tonal music show a contradiction in direction between registral stasis and linear movement, the example being alternative endings written into a song by Jerome Kern. The topic is explored through analysis of 51 recorded performances.
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David Neumeyer deposited Text and Music in Two Songs by Charles K. Harris in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 4 years agoIn 2021, SMT-V, an online journal of the Society for Music Theory, published a video essay by Michael Buchler, Professor of Music in the College of Music, Florida State University. It’s titled “I Don’t Care if I Never Get Back: Optimism and Ascent in ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’.” In this essay I examine similar songs from the era: Charles K. Ha…[Read more]
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Lodewijk Muns deposited Who’s ‘I’ in Music?: Unmasking the Musical Persona in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoAccording to conventional literary theory, when we interpret the text of a poem or work of fiction as a condensed or represented speech act, this implies a hypothetical speaker. The speaker may be a well-defined narrator who may also be a participant in the action. Often, however, the text offers few or no clues as to who is ‘speaking’. In suc…[Read more]
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Channan Willner posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
I have just added a paper entitled “On Parsing Mozart, 1782-84,” to the Online Publications on my website at .Taking as its point of departure Edward Lowinsky’s landmark “On Mozart’s Rhythm” (1956), the article revisits Mozart’s C minor Serenade, K. 388 (in its string quintet version, K. 406),from the fluid perspective of…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic New PMIG Officers! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoCongratulations and welcome to our new PMIG leadership!
Chair: Matt Ferrandino
Secretary Emily Milius
Webmaster: Jacob Cupps
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Christine Boone started the topic Vote for PMIG officers! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoPlease click here to vote for new PMIG officers!
Voting will close at 5:00 pm EST on Thursday, Dec. 9.
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Christine Boone started the topic Seeking Officer Nominations! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 4 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 ferr1407@fredonia.edu. Nominations will close at 5:00 pm EST on Dec. 1, 2021.
CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic Seeking Officer Nominations! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 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 ferr1407@fredonia.edu. Nominations will close at 5:00 pm EST on Dec. 1, 2021.
CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic 2021 PMIG Award Winners! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Adam Krims Awards was established in 2013 to give a junior scholar recognition for an outstanding publication. This year’s Adam Krims award goes to Edwin K. C. Li for his article “Cantopop and Speech-Melody Complex,” AND to Anabel Maler & Robert Komaniecki for their article “Rhythmic Techniques in Deaf Hip Hop.” Li investigates native Ca…[Read more]
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic Joseph Kraus presentation from SMT-Rus 2021 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear SMT-Rus members,
Joe Kraus asked me to post his presentation from our group’s meeting at SMT 2021, so here it is. Thanks Joe for sharing your work with us!
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic Festival: Stravinsky in America in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoStravinsky in America: Registration is Now Open! Stravinsky in America, 17–19 February 2022 @ LSU
Please join us in celebrating Igor Stravinsky’s life and work. The festival will welcome several distinguished keynote speakers and performers from across the globe, including Stephanie Jordan, Emeritus Research Professor at the University…[Read more]
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic SMT-Rus and Pedagogy 2021 joint meeting program in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoApologies for a last minute announcement: We are happy to announce the joint meeting of the Russian Music Theory (SMT-Rus) and Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Groups on Friday November 5, 6 to 7:30 pm Eastern time, in “room 4” of the virtual SMT meeting. You are encouraged to join about 10 minutes prior to the beginning. The program features four…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic SMT PMIG Virtual Reception in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoPlease join us for our PMIG SMT Virtual Reception! We’ll be in Room 1 on Saturday, Nov. 6 from 6:00 – 7:30 pm EST!
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Christine Boone started the topic SMT 2021 PMIG Session! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoPlease join us for our 2021 virtual SMT meeting! We’ll meet on Friday, November 5 from 9:30 – 10:45 EST to discuss Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On at 50, with invited speaker Andy Flory! To register for the conference, please visit the SMT website.
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Larisa Mann deposited Booming at the Margins: Ethnic Radio, Intimacy, and Nonlinear Innovation in Media in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoPirate radio still flourishes in dense, multiethnic cities such as Brooklyn, New York, despite the rise of Web radio. For immigrants in particular, radio sounds mark identity and community and (re)claim social spaces of work, commutes, and the home. It is not only lack of access to digital technologies or broadband that shapes radio’s relevance, b…[Read more]
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Larisa Mann deposited White Faces in Intimate Spaces: Jamaican Popular Music in Global Circulation in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis study explores Jamaican popular music’s changing engagement with globally networked media technologies. It combines ethnographic analysis of the street dance as a site of urban poor and Black resistance to colonial institutions with an analysis of song lyrics about video cameras at street dances. Newly networked technologies for circulating…[Read more]
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Alyssa Barna replied to the topic CFP – International Association for the Study of Popular Music–US Chapter. in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoHi all,
A note and reminder that IASPM-US conference proposal acceptance has been extended until November 1. Proposals can be submitted through the website: https://www.iaspm.net/cfp-iaspm-us-2022/
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Marcello Messina deposited Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Ubiquitous Music (UbiMus 2021) in the group
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe 11th UbiMus — Ubiquitous Music Workshop (https://dei.fe.up.pt/ubimus/) was held at the Center for High Artistic Performance, the house of the Orquestra Jazz Matosinhos (OJM) in Portugal, during September 6–8, 2021. It was organized by the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Group of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto and INESC TEC…[Read more]
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