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Brad Osborn deposited Content and Correlational Analysis of a Corpus of MTV-Promoted Music Videos Aired Between 1990 and 1999 in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoFrom 1990 to 1999 MTV promoted a series of 288 music videos called “Buzz Clips”, designed to highlight emerging artists and genres. Such promotion had a measurable impact on an artists’ earnings and record sales. To date, the kinds of musical and visual practices MTV promoted have not been quantitatively analyzed. Just what made some videos Buzzw…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood uploaded the file: Identifying Modes (Great British Bake Off themed worksheet) to
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIdentifying modes (.pdf, .mscx, .musicxml). Asks students to identify 20th-c. modes versus major/minor, circle inflected pitches, and explain how a pitch center is articulated. Music examples are transcribed from the TV show Great British Bake Off (music by Tom Howe). Designed for the still-in-development v. 2 of Open Music Theory.
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Brad Osborn deposited Risers, Drops, and a Fourteen-Foot Cube: A Transmedia Analysis of Emil Nava, Calvin Harris, and Rihanna’s “This is What You Came For” in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoA consideration of 14 collaborative music videos by Emil Nava and Calvin Harris, closing with a close analysis of their work on Rihanna’s “This is What You Came For” (2016).
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Brad Osborn deposited Risers, Drops, and a Fourteen-Foot Cube: A Transmedia Analysis of Emil Nava, Calvin Harris, and Rihanna’s “This is What You Came For” in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoA consideration of 14 collaborative music videos by Emil Nava and Calvin Harris, closing with a close analysis of their work on Rihanna’s “This is What You Came For” (2016).
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Ryan Taycher deposited De fundamento discanti: Structure and Elaboration in Fourteenth-Century Counterpoint in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe primary goal of this dissertation is to produce a rigorous methodology for distinguishing between the contrapunctus structure and its elaboration in performing structural analysis of fourteenth-century diminished counterpoint. This methodology is based on historical thought by carefully analyzing contemporaneous treatises and their musical…[Read more]
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Ben Geyer replied to the topic V in Rhythm Changes in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoGarrett,
Thanks for responding to this! I’m working on hierarchy within cyclical chord progressions (I do think at least some aspects are hierarchical) but certainly don’t want to be chasing windmills.
Ben
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Christine Boone started the topic PMIG Examples Database in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoGreetings, Popular Music Interest Group!
We write to you with bad news – the PMIG Examples Database Google Sheet has disappeared. Alyssa has been in touch with past officers and tried to recover it, but what appears to have happened is the owner of the sheet either deleted or closed the account associated with the database. But — we can…[Read more]
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Christine Boone replied to the topic Popular Music Interest Group Examples Database in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoHi Peter,
We’re going to send a message to the whole group, but I wanted to respond to you here first.
We write to you with bad news – the PMIG Examples Database Google Sheet has disappeared. Alyssa has been in touch with past officers and tried to recover it, but what appears to have happened is the owner of the sheet either deleted or closed…[Read more]
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Lodewijk Muns deposited Music, Language, and the Deceptive Charms of Recursive Grammars in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoRecursion may have an important place in cognitive processes. Recursive theoretical models may also seduce the theorist to false abstractions and pseudo-explanations. This is observed in some versions of musical and linguistic formalism, which share a common rationalist-idealist background; paradigmatically, in Chomsky’s controversial M…[Read more]
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Lodewijk Muns deposited The Inner Work of Music: Lerdahl and Jackendoff ‘s ‘Generative Theory’ in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoLerdahl and Jackendoff’s Generative Theory of Tonal Music (1983) is an attempt to transform music theory into a theory of musical understanding by adopting the formal method and psychological premises of Generative Grammar, along with some Schenkerian elements. It has failed to fulfil its promise mainly because, like Schenker theory, it is…[Read more]
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Adam Rosado started the topic ICJ Submission Deadline in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoHi all,
I’ve posted the CFP on SMT Announce a couple of times, but I wanted to give JIG folks specifically a reminder that the submission deadline for the Issues in Contemporary Jazz Conference is this Friday. I hope y’all submit any papers and/or scores you’ve been working on! Feel free to reach out with any questions.
Adam
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Megan Lavengood uploaded the file: Analysis of Popular Music Spring 2020 to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThis is just the syllabus but the entire course can be viewed at http://popclass.meganlavengood.com
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Mark Anson-Cartwright replied to the topic Analysis of the bridge in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThanks to all of you—Keith, Christine, and David—for pointing out this literature to me. I will look into these leads.
Best,
Mark
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Garrett Michaelsen replied to the topic V in Rhythm Changes in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoBen:
Sorry for the extremely slow reply! I don’t think that one can give a generic answer. The concept of a chord relating more to ones that come before or after seems to me to be wrapped up in so much additional context that making such a determination on the basis of chord changes alone doesn’t make sense. Think of Gershwin’s original: in this…[Read more]
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David Carson Berry replied to the topic Analysis of the bridge in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoHello Mark,
You might also check: John Graziano, Compositional Strategies in Popular Song Form of the Early Twentieth Century,” in A Music-Theoretical Matrix: Essays in Honor of Allen Forte (Part V), ed. David Carson Berry, Gamut 6/2 (2013): 95–131. It’s online.
As Graziano writes: “In this essay, I am interested in exploring the expansion of…[Read more]
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Christine Boone replied to the topic Analysis of the bridge in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoMark, there is a lot of stuff on form more generally, which may contain info about bridges within each article. (The only one I know entirely about the bridge is the one that Keith mentions above.) Check out the stuff on form in our bibliography: https://hcommons-staging.org/docs/popular-music-bibliography/
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Keith Salley replied to the topic Analysis of the bridge in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoHi Mark
The first thing that comes to mind is Steve Larson’s article “What Makes a Good Bridge,” from the Dutch Journal of Music Theory (8: 1–15). If memory serves, it explores ‘bridge’ as a metaphor, and uses Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm” as an example. Perhaps this isn’t the repertoire you’re really looking for, but it’s worth reading.
Best of luck.
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