Congratulations and welcome to our new PMIG leadership!

Chair: Matt Ferrandino

Secretary Emily Milius

Webmaster: Jacob Cupps

Dear MSA Forum members,

The Journal of Music Research Online (JMRO) is a freely accessible, peer-reviewed journal for the publication of scholarly research in music published by The University of Adelaide. It has a distinguished international editorial board, a broad scope of music research and only publishes research which is of the highest…[Read more]

Please click here to vote for new PMIG officers!

Voting will close at 5:00 pm EST on Thursday, Dec. 9.

Dear members,

I wished to draw your attention to this recent publication by long-time WA MSA member Patricia Thorpe concerning Meta Overman, a composer of particular significance to Western Australia. I thought this might be of great interest to some of you.

Kind regards
Jonathan…[Read more]

Greetings, Post-’45ers,

Does anyone know of a font that includes alphanumeric characters (including double-digit numbers) enclosed in geometric shapes for labeling chords a là John Link?

Best regards,

Judd

Dear MSA Forum members,

On behalf of IMS Member Angelo Martingo I would like to bring to your attention the international conference, “Music and the University: History, Models, Prospects,” which will be held at City, University of London, from July 7 to 9, 2022. Delegates may present remotely if desired but are encouraged to present in per…[Read more]

Dear Post-1945 community,

For those of you that missed the announcement at our recent SMT, please join me in congratulating the winners of our 2021 publication award, Sumanth Gopinath and Drake Andersen! Please see below for the full announcement from the award committee. Drake’s article is freely available in MTO, and Sumanth has kindly shared a…[Read more]

We 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]

We 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]

The 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]

Dear all

On behalf of IMS member Humberto Galindo Palma I would like to bring to your attention the webinar “Etnomusicología, música académica e innovación: diálogos disciplinares para Latinoamérica / Ethnomusicology, Academic Music and Innovation: Disciplinary Dialogues for Latin America,” which is taking place on November 12, 2021.

Pl…[Read more]

Dear IG members,

I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at tomorrow’s meeting!

Here is a direct link to SMT’s page with Zoom and Slack links for our session: https://guide.societymusictheory.org/sessions/nov4/early/post-1945-music-analysis-ig

Please note, if you access the meeting through the SMT schedule, you have to click on the name of…[Read more]

On behalf of IMS member Bella Brover Lubovsky we would like to bring to your attention the following announcement: The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position (open rank) in the Department of Music Theory, Composition & Conducting and welcomes applications from candidates who specialize in…[Read more]

Please 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!

Please 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.

Members of this group ought to be interested in the SMT poster session 20th/21st-Century Compositional Strategies taking place this coming Thurs, Nov. 4 at 2:30 EST. There are presentations on Guoping Jia, Ligeti, Stockhausen, Messiaen, Lutoslowski etc. Accessible here.

Besides the SMT access, I have also made my own presentation (a 33-minute…[Read more]