The call for papers for OxMAC23 will be posted shortly, with dates for submission, and further details regarding the conference.
7th July Zoom : Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability
Join us at 6.30pm (UK Time) here. Joseph Straus (Graduate Center, City University of New York) Abstract. Modernist music is centrally concerned with bodies and minds that deviate from normative standards for appearance and function. The musical features that make music modern are precisely those that can be understood to represent disability. Modernist musical representations […]
“Together in Performance: Examining (the) Pitch-Based Bonding in Ensemble Playing”
Dr Cecilia Oinas (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki) SMA ZOOM Colloquium, 9th June 2022, 6.30pm UK Time Abstract: In this presentation, I discuss the ways in which sharing the same musical lines, such as unisons or pitch repetitions, may increase and intensify the sense of bonding between performers. While in traditional music theory, joint pitches and parallel lines […]
“Times-A-Changin’: Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter music”
Dr Nancy Murphy (Houston) SMA ZOOM Colloquium, 5th May 2022, 6.30pm UK Time Abstract: In 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter music, some artists used malleable metric settings alongside other features of self-expression in performance. This resulted in songs with extremes of self-expressive timing flexibility that cannot be accounted for by using a single conception of meter. […]
Zoom: Prof Nicole Biamonte (McGill) “Current Issues in Popular-Music Analysis”
7th April 2022, 6.30 pm (UK time) Log in to Zoom. Abstract In this paper I survey the state of the field of popular-music analysis. I begin with an overview of some problems that need to be addressed. The most pressing among these are the global social problems of racial, gender, and class inequity, which […]
Philip Lambert, Music Analysis article on open access
The SMA and the editors of Music Analysis were sorry to learn of the passing of Philip Lambert. Through his work on Charles Ives, transformation theory, as well as music theatre and popular music, Lambert has left a profound mark on our discipline. Adding to his important catalogue of books and articles, he recently published […]
Society for Music Analysis Annual Conference (NewMAC), Newcastle University, 11–13 July 2022
For full details and registration please visit https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/newmac/ Call for Papers:Newcastle Music Analysis Conference (NewMAC 2022)11–13 July 2022, Newcastle University The SMA is pleased to confirm dates for the Newcastle Music Analysis Conference (NewMAC 2022), which will take place on Monday 11 to Wednesday 13 July 2022 at the International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University. […]
Music Studies in Crisis? Notes and Queries on Reframing Music Theory
Kofi Agawu (The Graduate Center, CUNY) 31st March 2022, Zoom Colloquium, 6.30 UK Time Some version of the claim that music studies are in crisis today has been circulating in the academy recently. The latest issue of Music Theory Spectrum (2021), for example, features articles from a 2019 SMT plenary noting deficits in the ways […]
Naming, Understanding, and Playing with Metaphors in Music
Naming, Understanding, and Playing with Metaphors in Music A Virtual Symposium organized by Nina Eidsheim (UCLA) and Daniel Walden (Durham) with the UCLA PEER Lab & Durham University Music Department Date: April 29-30, 2022 Session Keynotes: – Jessica Bissett Perea, Dena’ina (Native American Studies, UC Davis) – Philip Ewell (Music Theory, Hunter College, CUNY) – J. Martin Daughtry (Music, NYU) […]
Rethinking Late Webern
Sebastian Wedler Entering into Anton Webern’s twelve-tone music and its complex reception history is like entering into a combat with the Hydra: cleave off one head of the Webern myth, and two more grow in its place, often swinging at you from opposite directions. Understandings of late Webern range widely, from that of an intrepid […]