The aim of the Russian Music Theory Interest Group (SMT-Rus) is to discuss, promote, and engage with Russian theoretical traditions, which offer new approaches to musical meaning, harmony, voice leading, and form, with a special emphasis on topics little studied by Western scholars, including functional modality and tonal mutability. This interest group was inaugurated at the 2013 meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Charlotte, NC.

SMT-Rus meeting 2020

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    • 30 August 2020 at 12:12 am EDT #36826

      Ellen Bakulina
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      @ellenbakulina

      Dear SMT-Rus members,

      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-Brown, Harvard University

      “Musical Forces in the Serial Music of Igor Stravinsky,” Adam Moffett

      “Twelve-Tone Technique as a Formal Device in the Works of Shostakovich,” Jacy Pedersen, University of Cincinnati

      “Attingent Harmonic Function in Zara Levina’s Poem for Viola and Piano,” Christopher Segall, University of Cincinnati

      Thanks go to Inessa Bazayev and Simon Prosser, who reviewed the paper proposals together with me, and to all applicants. We reviewed seven proposals, four of which have been accepted.

      Due to the unusual format of the upcoming SMT meeting, our group’s meeting will also be unusual. Each paper will be pre-recorded and posted prior to the IG meeting. The meeting itself will be devoted to synchronous Q&A period, approximately 10 minutes for each paper, followed by a short business meeting. Instructions on how and where to upload the recorded presentations will follow in September. SMT-Rus meeting will be hosted on the SMT Zoom platform.

      -Ellen

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