Dear SMT-Rus members,

This year’s group’s meeting at the SMT/AMS in Denver, Colorado is scheduled for Friday, November 10, 12:30-2:00pm (in Governor’s Sq. 11).We will be holding a series of four lightning talks on the subject, “Russian and Soviet Music in Times of Military Aggression,” followed by a brief discussion.

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Dear colleagues, please see our group’s CFP:

Call for Lighting Talks: “Russian and Soviet Music in Times of Military Aggression”

The Russian Music Theory Interest Group (SMT-Rus) is inviting proposals for its meeting at the 2023 AMS/SMT Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado (November 9–12) on the subject, “Russian and Soviet Music in Times of Milit…[Read more]

Dear SMT-Rus members, I am happpy to report that Sasha Drozzina has won the chair election! She got 14 votes out of 20. Thanks very much to all who voted and made sure that our group is healthily moving forward! Today, I will report to Aine Heneghan about the change of leadership in our IG.

All best,

-Ellen

Dear SMT-Rus members,

I am inviting you to participate in the election of a new chair, who will lead the group in 2023-25. Please click the link below and respond ONCE by Monday, December 5, 2022. The quorum for this will be 10 voters, and this is half of the last two years’ attendance average.

[LINK REMOVED AS ELECTION PERIOD HAS…[Read more]

The Russian Music Interest Group will elect a new chair in November 2022, soon after the SMT annual meeting. Nominations and self-nominations are welcome at this time! If you have published or presented on topics relevant to Russian music or music scholarship, and if you are invested in the future of the group, you might be a good candidate. If…[Read more]

Dear SMT-Rus members,

I am happy to announce The Russian Theory Interest Group meeting, on Thursday November 10 at 7:30 pm (Jackson room) during the annual SMT conference. Our meeting will include three papers dedicated to issues of microtonality in Russian, Russian émigré, and Soviet theory and composition. It will be great to see all you t…[Read more]

Dear SMT-Rus members,

SMT plans to video-record all sessions this year, including interest groups. They will provide tripod and recording equipment in each room, with a rotating cast of volunteers to operate the cameras. We need to find a volunteer, a member of SMT-Rus who will attend the IG meeting (scheduled for Thursday 7:30 pm) and record it.…[Read more]

The Russian Music Theory Interest Group (SMT-Rus) invites proposals for lightning talks on microtonality.

Russia and, later, the Soviet Union have rich histories of the development of microtonality (or quarter tonality). Ivan Wyschnegradsky’s treatise on quarter tonality (1932) has been instrumental in the development of quarter-tonal c…[Read more]

Dear 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!

Stravinsky 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]

Apologies 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]

Dear SMT-Rus members,

I hope that you are staying safe, and that you enjoyed a nice and refreshing summer! I am excited to announce that this year, SMT-Rus will meet jointly with the Pedagogy Interest Group, chaired by Leigh VanHandel. The topic is “Russian Pedagogy of Music Theory.” We are now seeking presenters to fill the roughly hour-long tim…[Read more]

Dear SMT-Rus members,

I’m looking for published analyses of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3, third movement. Does anyone know of any sources, or even potential sources, to consult? I’m particularly curious about sources in Russian, but any language is okay!

Best,
Chris

Dear SMT-Rus members,

Deep thanks to all who attended yesterday’s meeting, to the presenters and the question-posers! It was quite a lively discussion. Also, thanks to Amy Hatch for maintaining the Facebook page for our group (I forgot to mention this at the meeting).

I look forward to seeing you at the next year’s meeting (let’s hope it will b…[Read more]

Dear SMT-Rus members,

Here is the plan for our meeting on Saturday, November 7, at 1 pm:

Go to this page, shortly before 1 pm: https://guide.societymusictheory.org/sessions/nov7/midday/russian-music-theory-ig . Please also explore the materials that our presenters have posted, on the same page, and listen to the pre-recorded presentations…[Read more]

I’m happy to announce the publication of Analytical Approaches to Twentieth-Century Russian Music: Tonality, Modernity, Serialism (Routledge 2020), edited by Inessa Bazayev and Chris Segall. The book includes essays by Ellen Bakulina, Scott Murphy, Rebecca Perry, Patrick McCreless, Knar Abrahamian, Inessa Bazayev, Daniil Zavlunov, Klara Moricz,…[Read more]

Please have a look at the current issue (14/2) of the journal Music and Politics. This is a special issue: The Politics of Musical Knowledge in the Soviet Union and Beyond (1930s to 1980s). This includes articles by Olga Panteleeva, Daniil Zavlunov, Inessa Bazayev, Chris Segall, Matthew Honegger, and Anicia Timberlake. Congratulations to all the…[Read more]

UPDATE: The SMT-Rus 2020 meeting is scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 7, at 1 pm, Orange room. Please join us for this virtual meeting, if time permits!