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Gavin Lee deposited Postcolonial Bifurcation: On John Sharpley’s Emptiness in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years agoMusic Analysis 38.3 (2019): 316-357 (published by the UK Society for Music Analysis)
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Ellen Bakulina replied to the topic Phrase terminology in Russian textbooks on form in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHi Yosef, indeed this is the first discussion, thanks for posting!
I recently explored the Mazel/Zuckerman textbook _Analiz muzykal’nykh proizvedeniy_ (Analysis of musical works), Moscow 1967, so I’ll give you some things from there. One good place to start is the section titled “Period,” which begins on p. 550 of the edition I have. For details,…[Read more]
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Dimitris Papageorgiou deposited Repurposing ‘com-provisation’ (script/pre-print of conference paper) in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoAs Anne Sauvagnargues suggests, in Gilles Deleuze thought “every[-thing] is defined as an assemblage of movements and affective vibrations.” Interestingly, Sauvagnargues’ proposition aligns neatly with Tim Ingold’s idea of correspondence, where things perdure, “carry on together, and answer to one another,” and where the additive ‘and…and.…[Read more]
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Dimitris Papageorgiou deposited Repurposing ‘com-provisation’ (script/pre-print of conference paper) in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoAs Anne Sauvagnargues suggests, in Gilles Deleuze thought “every[-thing] is defined as an assemblage of movements and affective vibrations.” Interestingly, Sauvagnargues’ proposition aligns neatly with Tim Ingold’s idea of correspondence, where things perdure, “carry on together, and answer to one another,” and where the additive ‘and…and.…[Read more]
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Yosef Goldenberg started the topic Phrase terminology in Russian textbooks on form in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHello everyone. Is this the first discussion on the new site?
I teach forms and analysis for beginners. The teacher of a parallel group uses Russian terminology and theory, and I see that we are not at all matching, e.g. what he teaches as “phrase” is more-or-less equivalent to Caplin’s “basic idea”; and for him “period” need not have a structure…[Read more]
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic Welcome / Добро пожаловать in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDear SMT-Rus members,
Welcome to the SMT Russian Music Theory Interest Group! This is our group’s official web page starting January 2020, and I am Ellen Bakulina, chair of the group for the 2020-2022 term. All information pertaining to the group’s activity will be available here. Please note that the RMTIG Google group will no longer be used for…[Read more]
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John Covach deposited “The Schönberg Analytical Legacy: Rudolph Reti and Thematic Transformation,” Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center 16 (2019): 99-111. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThis paper considers Rudolf Reti’s The Thematic Process in Music in the context of Arnold Schoenberg theoretical writing.
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Luís Henriques deposited A antífona Recordare, Virgo Mater: Prática musical mariana na Sé de Évora no final do século XVII e século XVIII in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoÉvora tem sido um importante centro de culto mariano desde a Idade Média, com a dedicação do altar-mor da Catedral a Nossa Senhora da Assunção como ponto central. Foi também um importante centro musical e a antífona Recordare, Virgo Mater é uma das obras musicais associada à festa mariana conhecida como o Milagre da Cera. Um dos mestres de capela…[Read more]
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John Covach deposited Review essay: “Dahlhaus, Schoenberg, and the New Music,” In Theory Only 12 (1991): 19 42. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of a collection of essays by Carl Dahlhaus, translated by Derrick Puffett and Alfred Clayton and entitled Schoenberg and the New Music.
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John Covach deposited Review of Edward Lippman, A History of Western Musical Aesthetics and John Rahn, ed., Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics, Music Theory Spectrum 17/2 (1995): 275-82. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of the Lippman and Rahn books, both devoted to music aeathetics.
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John Covach deposited Review of Allen Forte, The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950, College Music Symposium 36 (1996): 168-72. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of Forte’s book devoted to the analysis of Tin Pan Alley popular music.
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John Covach deposited Triple review of Edward Macan, Rockin’ the Classics: Progressive Rock and the Counterculture; Paul Stump, The Music’s All That Matters: A History of Progressive Rock; and Bill Martin, Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-78, MLA Notes (September 1998). in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of three books devoted to progressive rock snd its history.
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John Covach deposited Review of Robert Freeman, The Crisis of Classical Music: Lessons from a Life in the Education of Musicians, Music Theory Online 21/2 (June 2015). in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReviews Freeman/s book with special attention paid to the development of music school curricula.
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John Covach deposited Review of Alastair Borthwick, Music Theory and Analysis: The Limitations of Logic, MLA Notes (June 1996): 1192-94. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of Borthwick’s book, which approaches music theory from a point of view informed by philosophy.
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Sam Reenan deposited Types and Applications of P3,0 Seventh-Chord Transformations in Late Nineteenth-Century Music in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe expression P3,0 refers to one class of parsimonious voice-leading transformations between seventh chords introduced in a 1998 article by Jack Douthett and Peter Steinbach as Pm,n (Journal of Music Theory 42 (2): 241–63). In addition to tones that may be held in common, the subscripts indicate the number of voices that move by half step (m) o…[Read more]
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John Covach deposited “The Zwölftonspiel of Josef Matthias Hauer,” Journal of Music Theory 36.1 (1992): 149-84. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article provides a detailed examination of Hauer’s late 12-tone compositions, identifying the practices and procedures employed across a body of more than 100 pieces.
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John Covach deposited “Schoenberg and the Occult: Some Reflections on the Musical Idea,” Theory and Practice 17 (1992): 103-18. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article explores the influence of sources outside the institutional framework of organized religion (“occult” sources) on Schoenberg’s aesthetic thinking and writing, especially with regard to the musical idea..
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John Covach deposited “The Quest of the Absolute: Schoenberg, Hauer, and the Twelve-Tone Idea,” in Jon Michael Spencer, ed., Theomusicology, special issue of Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology 8/1 (Duke University Press, 1994): 158-77. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article examines the spiritual dimension of early twelve-tone theoretical writing, with a focus on the writing and music of Arnold Schoenberg and Josef Matthias Hauer.
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John Covach deposited “Balzacian Mysticism, Palindromic Design, and Heavenly Time in Berg’s Music,” in Encryted Messages in Alban Berg’s Music, ed. Siglind Bruhn (Garland Publishing, 1998), 5-29. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article explores the influence of mysticism in early 20th-century Vienna on the palindromic designs that can found n Berg’s music.
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