This year, we present a special session titled, "Soviet Music and Politics" featuring four guest speakers:

Inessa Bazayev, "Collage, Nostalgia,…[Read more]

We invite you to our upcoming Russian and Soviet Music Interest Group meeting at the SMT Annual Meeting in Jacksonville. The meeting is scheduled for 12:30-2:00 pm on Friday, November 8 (River Terrace 2).

This year, our session will present four lightning talks in a variety of formats, including guided listenings and group…[Read more]

Dear SMT-Rus members,The Russian Music Theory Interest Group (SMT-Rus) is inviting proposals for its meeting at the 2024 SMT Annual Meeting in Jacksonville, Florida (November 7–10). We are looking for short presentations; a ten-minute lightning talk followed by ten minutes of g…[Read more]

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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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]

All best,

-Ellen

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]

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]

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]

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]

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!

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]

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]

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

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]

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 hope you all had a good summer and will have a good semester, these unusual times notwithstanding!  I’m very excited to announce the upcoming meeting of our interest group, to take place in November. The meeting will consist of four lightning talks:

“Ivan Wyschnegradsky and the Enigma of Modern Music,” Lee Cannon-…[Read more]

I hope you all are surviving in this crazy time! Below is a CFP for the upcoming SMT-Rus meeting at SMT 2020.

The Russian Music Theory Interest Group (SMT-Rus) invites proposals for lightning talks for the meeting at SMT 2020. The topics may include

• Theoretical/analytical materials originally written in the Russian language,…

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Also, my interview with, and essay on, Tatiana Bershadskaya and the Leningrad School of Music Theory<http://gnesinsjournal.ru/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/5.-Ewell-article-2019-4.pdf&gt; should…[Read more]

“On Rimsky-Korsakov’s False (Hexatonic) Progressions Outside the Limits of a Tonality,” in Music Theory Spectrum, Fall 2019 https://academic.oup.com/mts/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mts/mtz020/5688659

“On the Russian Concept of Lad, 1830–1945…[Read more]

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]

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]

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]