The Society for Music Theory promotes the development of and engagement with music theory as a scholarly and pedagogical discipline. We construe this discipline broadly as embracing all approaches, from conceptual to practical, and all perspectives, including those of the scholar, listener, composer, performer, teacher, and student. The Society is committed to fostering diversity, inclusivity, and gender equity in the field.
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Devin Chaloux deposited Tonality and Tonal Structures in the Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria: A Case Study for Analyzing Tonal Phenomenology in Renaissance Polyphony in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day agoThis dissertation develops a methodology for understanding tonality and tonal structures in Renaissance polyphony by exploring the ways that the modern-day analyst and listener experience tonal phenomena in this music through a historically-informed lens. Regarded as one of the most important composers of the late-sixteenth century, Tomás Luis de…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak deposited Teaching Music and Disability Through Disclosure-Oriented Pedagogy in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 6 days agoIn this paper, presented at the 2022 H-Net Teaching Conference, I describe how I teach undergraduate students about disability in music through what I call disclosure-oriented pedagogy. This practice involves demonstrating cross-historical comparisons between my lived experiences of disability and the representations of disability in 19th-century…[Read more]
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Michael Buchler posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 4 weeks agoDear 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]
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Chris Segall posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 1 month agoDear 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]
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Scott Fruehwald posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 1 month agoI 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]
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Scott Fruehwald posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoNew 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]
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Benjamin Dobbs posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoDear 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]
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Joseph Straus deposited STRAVINSKY’S RITE OF SPRING–EIGHTEEN ANALYTICAL VIDEOS in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoI’ve written and produced a series of 18 analytical videos about the Rite of Spring (roughly twelve hours of video) and posted them on a YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChmyFZItS6HNVYyFwOUZo4Q
The first five videos deal with aspects of the work as a whole (meaning, form, melody, harmony, rhythm). The last thirteen videos a…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak deposited Contemplation, Heroism, and Gender in Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17, Third Movement (1846) in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoI’m a disability activist and musicologist with multiple sclerosis (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014). I’m unaffiliated due to discrimination against my disabilities. However, I often give guest lectures, both virtually and in person. My speaking engagements help to advance diversity and representation in academia: I offer students the opportunity…[Read more]
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Joel Edelman deposited Overtone Invariants are the Framework for Musical Consonance; An Illustrated Overview in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoThis document is a companion document to the paper with similar title, located online at
Humanities Commons: https://doi.org/10.17613/xhqa-dk29. This companion document is comprised primarily of illustrative graphics and is an outgrowth of presentation materials gathered with the parent document as topic. -
Sarah Gates posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoGreetings!
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]
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Sébastien Noël edited the doc Resources for Online Music Theory Teaching in the group
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Channan Willner posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoI 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]
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Frans Wiering posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 months agoDear 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]
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David Neumeyer deposited Register and Cadence Gesture (2): Gershwin’s “Embraceable You” in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week agoThis is a companion piece to an essay on Jerome Kern’s “All the Things You Are,” where an alternative ending with a rising melodic gesture is written into the published sheet music. The survey of Gershwin’s “Embraceable You” here was inspired by a similar figure in an early recorded performance by Sarah Vaughan.
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David Neumeyer deposited Register and Cadence Gesture (1): Jerome Kern’s “All the Things You Are” in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week agoSome cadences in European and European-influenced tonal music show a contradiction in direction between registral stasis and linear movement, the example being alternative endings written into a song by Jerome Kern. The topic is explored through analysis of 51 recorded performances.
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David Neumeyer deposited Text and Music in Two Songs by Charles K. Harris in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoIn 2021, SMT-V, an online journal of the Society for Music Theory, published a video essay by Michael Buchler, Professor of Music in the College of Music, Florida State University. It’s titled “I Don’t Care if I Never Get Back: Optimism and Ascent in ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’.” In this essay I examine similar songs from the era: Charles K. Ha…[Read more]
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Lodewijk Muns deposited Who’s ‘I’ in Music?: Unmasking the Musical Persona in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 9 months, 1 week agoAccording to conventional literary theory, when we interpret the text of a poem or work of fiction as a condensed or represented speech act, this implies a hypothetical speaker. The speaker may be a well-defined narrator who may also be a participant in the action. Often, however, the text offers few or no clues as to who is ‘speaking’. In suc…[Read more]
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Channan Willner posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoDear 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]
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Christine Boone started the topic Seeking Officer Nominations! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoWe are seeking nominations for the following officer positions for SMT’s Popular Music Interest Group. Self nominations are encouraged! Please email all nominations to ferr1407@fredonia.edu. Nominations will close at 5:00 pm EST on Dec. 1, 2021.
CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting…[Read more]
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