Reading Schedule

 

January 20th – Historical Context

  • Blasius, L. Mapping the terrain. In T. Christensen (Ed.) The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 25–45.
  • Cook, N. Epistemologies of music theory. In T. Christensen (Ed.) The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 78–106.

January 27th – Structuralist approaches: Forte-Taruskin Debate

  • Taruskin, R. Allen Forte – “The Harmonic Organization of” The Rite of Spring (Book Review) Current Musicology 114-29. (Respondent: Dana)
  • Forte, A. 1985. Pitch-class set analysis today. Music analysis 29-58. (Respondent: Lissa)
  • Taruskin, R. 1986. Letter to the Editor from Richard Taruskin. Music Analysis, 5(2/3), 313-20. (Respondent: Lindsay)
  • Forte, A. 1986. Letter to the editor in reply to Richard Taruskin from Allen Forte. Music Analysis 321-37. (Respondent: Hubert)

February 3rd – Structuralist approaches:  Other responses and debates 1

  • Fournier, Karen. 2001. Toward an epistemological model for music theory.Journal of Musicological Research 20(4): 391-412.
  • Maus, Fred Everett. 2004. The disciplined subject of Musical Analysis.” Beyond Structural Listening? Postmodern Modes of Hearing. 13-43.  (Respondent: Lindsay)

February 10th – Structuralist approaches:  Other responses and debates 2 

  • Guck, Marion A. 2006. Analysis as interpretation: Interaction, intentionality, invention.” Music Theory Spectrum 28(2): 191-209. (Respondent: Dana)
  • Lochhead, Judy. 2006. How Does It Work?”: Challenges to Analytic Explanation.”Music Theory Spectrum 28(2): 233-254.

February 17th – Performance and Analysis

  • SMT Performance and Analysis Interest Group
  • Barolsky, Daniel. 2007. The performer as analyst. Music Theory Online 13(1).
  • Schmalfeldt, Janet. 2002. On Performance, Analysis, and Schubert‘s Piano Sonata in A Minor, Op. 42, D. 845. Per Musi:Revista de Performance Musical, 5-6: 38-54. (Respondent: Hubert)

February 24th – Music and Philosophy

  • SMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group
  • Goehr, Lydia. 1992. “Chapter Two: A nominalist theory of musical works” in The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music. Clarendon Press, 1992. (Respondent: Lindsay)
  • Kane, Brian. 2011. Excavating Lewin’s “Phenomenology”. Music Theory Spectrum 33(1): 27-36.
  • Lewin, David. 1986. Music theory, phenomenology, and modes of perception. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3(4): 327-92.

March 2nd – Identity and Music 

  • SMT Music and Disability Interest Group
  • Maus, Fred. 1993. Masculine discourse in music theory. Perspectives of New Music (31)2: 264–93. (Respondent: Lissa)
  • Straus, Joseph. 2006. Normalizing the abnormal: Disability in music and music theory. Journal of the American Musicological Society 59(1): 113–84.

March 9th – Journal Synopsis presentations

March 23rd – Jazz and Improvisation 

March 30th – Popular Music 

  • SMT Popular Music Interest Group
  • Biamonte, Nicole. 2010. Triadic modal and pentatonic patterns in rock music. Music Theory Spectrum 32(2): 95–110. (Respondent: Hubert)
  • Capuzzo, Guy. 2004. Neo-Riemannian theory and the analysis of pop-rock music. Music Theory Spectrum 26(2): 177-199.

April 6th – Film and Multimedia 

  • SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group
  • Brame, Jason.2011. Thematic Unity Across a Video Game Series. Act-Zeitschrift für Musik & Performance. 2: 2-16.
  • Lehman, Frank. 2013. Hollywood cadences: Music and the structure of cinematic expectation. Music Theory Online 19(4). (Respondent: Dana)

April 13th Project Presentations

  • Hubert
  • Lissa

April 20th – Project Presentations

  • Dana
  • Lindsay

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