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Garrett Michaelsen's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
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Megan Lavengood started the topic PMIG Award Winners 2018 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe SMT Popular Music Interest Group has two awards to recognize recent research in pop music. The Outstanding Publication Award was established in 2012, and exists to acknowledge the best article, essay, or book involving the theory and/or analysis of popular music by a senior scholar. Since 2013, the PMIG also grants the Adam Krims Award to a j…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood replied to the topic keywords for your research? in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoFor those of you who are curious, these are the group ideas I’ve (tentatively) settled on:
- lyrics
- timbre
- cognition
- performance
- tonality/modality
- topic theory
- corpus study
- rhythm/meter
Let me know if you have any thoughts!
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Andrew Berish's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
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Megan Lavengood replied to the topic keywords for your research? in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHi again! This is a reminder to please fill out this form if you have not yet already done so. I will soon begin analysis of the responses and determine a more specific plan for our small group discussion.
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Megan Lavengood started the topic keywords for your research? in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHello! At our next PMIG meeting, which is Saturday, Nov 3 at 12:30PM in San Antonio, we will spend the majority of our time in small group discussion. We will break our increasingly massive interest group up into smaller groups based on common interests, and the groups will use that time to network, share ideas, and so on.
To determine what…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
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Megan Lavengood started the topic Call for nominations: PMIG Awards 2018 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe interest group is currently soliciting nominations for two publication awards, given annually by the PMIG.
Information about each awards, including previous winners and restrictions on what is eligible, can be found on our new website.
Edit, September 3, 2018: Nominations are now closed.
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Andrew Berish's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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Megan Lavengood edited the doc test in the group
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Megan Lavengood deposited A New Approach to the Analysis of Timbre on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
Two distinct approaches to timbre analysis exist, each with complementary strengths and limitations. First, music theorists from the 1980s adopt a positivist mindset and look for ways to quantify timbral phenomena, often using spectrograms, while avoiding any cultural dimensions in their work. Second, writings of the past five years focus on the…[Read more]
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Andrew Berish's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Megan Lavengood's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Joon Park deposited Reflections on (and in) Strunk’s Tonnetz in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 9 years agoABSTRACT Joon Park takes a closer look at Steven Strunk’s innovative application of the neo-Riemannian Tonnetz to jazz. Strunk reinterprets neo-Riemannian transformations as geometric reflections—as opposed to more conventional group theory operations—showing his understanding of jazz performance practice. Park clarifies the difference between con…[Read more]
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ABSTRACT
Joon Park takes a closer look at Steven Strunk’s innovative application of the neo-Riemannian Tonnetz to jazz. Strunk reinterprets neo-Riemannian transformations as geometric reflections—as opposed to more conventional group theory operations—showing his understanding of jazz performance practice. Park clarifies the difference bet…[Read more]