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.
Sarah Gates posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 1 week, 1 day 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]
Channan Willner posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week 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]
Frans Wiering posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks 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]
David Neumeyer deposited Register and Cadence Gesture (2): Gershwin’s “Embraceable You” in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 months 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.
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 3 months 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.
David Neumeyer deposited Text and Music in Two Songs by Charles K. Harris in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week 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]
Lodewijk Muns deposited Who’s ‘I’ in Music?: Unmasking the Musical Persona in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 4 months, 4 weeks 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 5 months, 1 week 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]
Christine Boone started the topic Seeking Officer Nominations! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week 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]
Mariusz Kozak deposited Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Violin Phase and the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work? in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week agoReich’s Violin Phase has been mired in questions of time since its inception. In this article I present a theory of time in process music based on the notion of kinesthetic knowledge, and the synthesis of musical temporality through the generative (chronopoietic) and transformational (chronopraxial) acts of the body. I illustrate this theory w…[Read more]
Brad Osborn deposited The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis. Edited by Lori A. Burns and Stan Hawkins. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. 464 pp. ISBN 9781501342332. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoReview of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis.
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Brad Osborn deposited Resistance Gazes in Recent Music Videos in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 1 year agoA number of recent music videos by women subvert the male gaze (Mulvey) through a number of techniques I construe as “resistance gazes.” These videos subvert the hypersexualization, infantilization, objectification, and victimi- zation regularly seen in music videos using imagery that resonates with broader cultural movements such as #metoo and #timesup.
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Channan Willner replied to the topic New two-part Mozart study on my website in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoApologies for posting several times. There was no confirmation when I clicked “Submit,” so I clicked again….
Sigh,
Channan
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Channan Willner started the topic New two-part Mozart study on my website in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
I should like to alert you to the publication of a new two-part study on my website, entitled “Mozart’s Delayed Dominants” athttp://www.channanwillner.<wbr />com/online.htm. Part I demonstrates that in Mozart’s (and in other late 18th-century) sonata form, the arrival of the structural dominant is often delayed almost to the e…[Read more]
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Channan Willner started the topic New two-part Mozart study on my website in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
I should like to alert you to the publication of a new two-part study on my website, entitled “Mozart’s Delayed Dominants” athttp://www.channanwillner.<wbr />com/online.htm. Part I demonstrates that in Mozart’s (and in other late 18th-century) sonata form, the arrival of the structural dominant is often delayed almost to the e…[Read more]
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Channan Willner started the topic New two-part Mozart study on my website in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
I should like to alert you to the publication of a new two-part study on my website, entitled “Mozart’s Delayed Dominants” athttp://www.channanwillner.<wbr />com/online.htm. Part I demonstrates that in Mozart’s (and in other late 18th-century) sonata form, the arrival of the structural dominant is often delayed almost to the e…[Read more]
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Channan Willner started the topic New two-part Mozart study on my website in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
I should like to alert you to the publication of a new two-part study on my website, entitled “Mozart’s Delayed Dominants” athttp://www.channanwillner.<wbr />com/online.htm. Part I demonstrates that in Mozart’s (and in other late 18th-century) sonata form, the arrival of the structural dominant is often delayed almost to the e…[Read more]
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Channan Willner started the topic New two-part Mozart study on my website in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
I should like to alert you to the publication of a new two-part study on my website, entitled “Mozart’s Delayed Dominants” athttp://www.channanwillner.<wbr />com/online.htm. Part I demonstrates that in Mozart’s (and in other late 18th-century) sonata form, the arrival of the structural dominant is often delayed almost to the e…[Read more]
Jeremy Coleman deposited ‘In ein fernes Land’: The Politics of Translation in Wagner’s Arrangement of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoArticle on Wagner’s 1847 arrangement of Gluck’s _Iphigénie en Aulide_; adapted from, and may be read in conjunction with, Chapter 3 of Jeremy Coleman, _Richard Wagner in Paris: Translation, Identity, Modernity_ (The Boydell Press, 2019).
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