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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Channan Willner posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Dear members of the list,
I recently completed the second of two pairs of studies on my website, at . The first pair, “Mozart’s Delayed Dominants,” targets long-range dominants that arrive much later than the subordinate theme, near the end of the exposition: through exposition-long voice exchanges (part 1), and through delays in returning to the…[Read more] -
Eric Isaacson posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
I am pleased to announce the publication on May 2, 2023, of my book, Visualizing Music, which is about the art of communicating about music through images. Is it available in hard cover, paperback, and e-book/Kindle editions. Scholars at all experience levels should find it useful.
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La capilla musical de la colegiata de Talavera de la Reina en la primera mitad del siglo XIX in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
After the period of splendour experienced by the musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina during the 18th century, we witnessed a period of decline, which was part of the crisis experienced by Spanish religious music during the 19th century. The effects of the War of Independence, the successive…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Música de tecla en la España del siglo XVIII: Domenico Scarlatti y el padre Antonio Soler in the group
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This article focuses on Spanish music in the 18th century, which experienced one of the most brilliant periods in its history. This was undoubtedly due to the splendour achieved by keyboard music, which reached an extraordinary level of development after the arrival in Spain of the Neapolitan composer Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), harpsichord…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited El Patrimonio musical de Talavera de la Reina in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
The musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina is a significant case of how an ecclesiastical institution articulates the musical life of a city: in this sense, it can be stated that the main musical activity in the aforementioned Toledan city has revolved around the chapel of the Collegiate Church…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La recepción cervantina en el Romanticismo: la ópera Don Chisciotte de Manuel García (1826) [The reception of Cervantes in Romanticism: the opera Don Chisciotte by Manuel García] in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
The publication of Cervantes’ Don Quixote served as inspiration from the very moment of its creation for a whole series of artistic manifestations, among which those related to the art of sound stand out. Among the famous Spanish composers of Romanticism, the Sevillian composer Manuel del Pópulo García shines and stands out with his own light. H…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La transición al siglo XIX en la Catedral de Jaén: el maestro de capilla Ramón Garay (1761-1823) [The transition to the 19th century in Jaén Cathedral: the maestro de capilla Ramón Garay (1761-1823)] in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
This article focuses on the personal and artistic career of one of the most representative composers of Spain in the second half of the 18th century and the first third of the 19th century. Ramón Garay, born in 1761 in Asturias, held the post of Chapel Master of Jaén Cathedral for 36 fruitful years, which saw the birth of an extraordinary p…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Decadencia e intentos de reforma de la música eclesiástica española en el siglo XIX [Decline and reform attempts of Spanish church music in the 19th century] in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
This article focuses on the decline of Spanish ecclesiastical music from the beginning of the 19th century, coinciding with the outbreak of the War of Independence. This decline worsened as a result of the application of successive disentailments by the various liberal governments and the signing of the Concordat of 1851. To remedy this situation,…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La capilla musical de la Catedral de Segorbe en los siglos XVI y XVII [The chapel music at the Segorbe Cathedral in 16th and 18th centuries] in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
The music chapel of the Cathedral of Segorbe has historically played a primordial role in the history of Spanish music, constituting a focus of musical activity that attracted a numerous group of singers, instrumentalists, organists and chapel masters who formed part of the aforementioned chapel, whose antecedents date back to the mid-13th…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited Triangulating Timbre in Sigur Rós’s Iceland in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Osborn, Brad and D.K. Blake. 2019. “Triangulating Timbre in Sigur Rós’s Iceland.” In *Sounds Icelandic*, edited by Thorbjörg Daphne Hall, N. Dibben, Á.H. Ingólfsson, and T. Mitchell. Equinox Press, 208–219.
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Paulino Capdepon deposited El “Año Beethoven” (1927): la Orquesta Filarmónica de Madrid y Bartolomé Pérez Casas [The Beethoven Year (1927): The Madrid Philarmonic Orchestra and Bartolomé Pérez Casas] in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The celebration of the “Beethoven Year” in Madrid in 1927 resulted in a whole series of celebrations of all kinds that extended throughout that emblematic year to honour the German composer. This resulted in the public performance of numerous concerts by Madrid’s leading orchestral and choral groups, including the Orquesta Filarmónica de Madrid,…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Historia de la música y Edad Moderna: estado de la cuestión [Music History and Modern Age: State of the art] in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
This article focuses on the study of the different musical periods that make up the Modern Age in Europe, taking into account from a critical point of view the current state of the art in bibliography. Each period is previously defined according to the chronological problem and according to its technical, aesthetic and stylistic characteristics.
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Josquin Des Prez: Un legado culminante del Renacimiento in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The biographical trajectory of the Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez can be described as exciting and his musical contribution as transcendent in an era of sublime creativity that coincided with the artistic and intellectual rediscovery of the values of classical Greco-Latin antiquity. A contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo,…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Domenico Scarlatti, in Diccionario Biográfico Electrónico in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Article about the biography and musical output of the Italian composer Doomenico Scarlatti
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Nuevos datos en torno al Compositor leridano José Cortasa Rives († 1796) [New information about the composer José Cortasa Rives († 1796)] in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Study on the personal and artistic career of the master from Lleida, José Cortasa Rives, chapel master of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor de Talaveta de la Reina.
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La música en la Real Capilla de Madrid (Siglo XVIII) in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The importance of this publication lies in the recovery and study of a musical heritage of extraordinary quality: unpublished musical works by the masters of the Royal Chapel of Madrid, the most important centre in Spain at the time, which until now had slept the sleep of oblivion. In addition to the musical transcriptions, this contribution is…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Articles ‘Carreño, Teresa’, ‘Colbrán, Isabella’ y ‘Viardot Garcia, Pauline’, in Lexikon Musik und Gender in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Dictionary articles in Lexicon about women musicians
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La música en Irún en el siglo XIX: La capilla de música de la Iglesia parroquial de Santa María del Junca in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
This book was the result of the Prize ‘X Premio-Beca Serapio Múgica’, awarded in 2008 on a competitive basis by the City Council of Irún to develop the research project ‘La música en Irún en el siglo XIX: La capilla de música de la Iglesia de Santa María del Juncal’ (Music in Irún in the 19th century: The music chapel of the Church of Santa María…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheric resonance: Sonic motion and the question of religious mediation in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Because of its material characteristics, the sonic poses a challenge to the influential paradigm of religion as mediation. This article makes a case for a neo-phenomenological analytic of atmospheres in order to do justice to the sonic in anthropological approaches to religion. Approaching the sonic as atmospheric half-things, I propose a…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Anton Bruckner y Constantin Floros in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Research about Bruckner and the relation of Greek-German musicologist Constanton Floros and Anton Bruckner
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