Dear members of the SMT Community,

Our Humanities Commons site was created to allow music theorists to share their own work and to make announcements. There are no discussion threads and we do not have the volunteer resources to monitor discussions for relevance and for adherence to our policies on harassment and ethics.

Recently, Humanities…[Read more]

Dear SMT Community,

This week I learned that anyone may post an “update” on the SMT Humanities Commons page, as I am doing now, and the message will be sent to all group members. In this way, Scott Fruehwald emailed hundreds of SMT members with the unprovoked and, in my opinion, reprehensible assertion that Philip Ewell is an “academic fraud…[Read more]

I have been informed that the book the Wiener article is in is expensive, so here are some key quotes:

“By employing the language of race, Schenker adhered to the conventions of his day. Yet this did not reflect a belief in the strict doctrines of biological racism, as employed by racial theorists in Europe and America during the first third of t…[Read more]

New article on Heinrich Schenker’s Jewishness. The Georg Olms Verlag has just published Barry Wiener’s article “Race, Nation, and the Jewish Identity” in New Horizons in Schenkerian Research, edited by Allen Cadwallader, Karen M. Bottge, & Oliver Schwab-Felisch (2022). This article places Schenker’s thought in the context of a Jew in Austria…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:

We are conducting a research study on students’ mindset (their beliefs about their abilities), their learning behaviors, and the learning environment in music theory classes. We are seeking participants who are students currently enrolled in any level of undergraduate music theory course. Participants will complete a short o…[Read more]

Greetings!

Our research team in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, led by principal investigator Richard Ashley, are conducting a research study on ambiguous figure perception in musical contexts. We are inviting English speaking participants who have graduate-level training in music theory (e.g., current graduate students or…[Read more]

I have just published a new article on my website, entitled, “Borrowing for Contrast, I: Schütz, Bach, and Mozart,” at http://www.channanwillner.com/online.htm. The first of a two-part set, the article investigates how composers use borrowings from different sources (or different borrowings from the same source) to generate contrast, and what the…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

In What Do Musicologists Do All Day (WDMDAD) we are investigating the use of technology in the work of music researchers in the widest sense.

Researchers frequently make use of the possibilities that mobile phones, social media, digital libraries, search engines and computer software offer. But these technologies do not always…[Read more]

Dear 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]