We are pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of Music Theory Online. 

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Fall is in the air and a new issue of Music Theory Online has arrived. Besides a speedy end to the ongoing global pandemic, what could be finer? We at MTO are proud to present our new issue, 27.3 (September 2021).

Enjoy!

Mitch Ohriner, editor
Brent Auerbach, associate editor
Inessa Bazayev, associate editor
Jenine Brown, associate editor
Brad Osborn, associate editor
Music Theory Online


Editor’s Message

Articles

Matt Chiu – Macroharmonic Progressions through the Discrete Fourier Transform: An Analysis from Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem

Caitlin Martinkus – Schubert’s Large-Scale Sentences: Exploring the Function of Repetition in Schubert’s First-Movement Sonata Forms

Loretta Terrigno – Emergent Modality: Minor-to-Major Progressions as “Tragic-to-Transcendent” Narratives in Brahms’s Solo Songs

Archival Research in Music: New Materials, Methods, and Arguments

Benjamin R. Levy & Laura Emmery – Introduction

Richard Beaudoin – The Pen as Camera: Finnissy and Overexposure

Jeff Perry – Cage’s Imitation Game: Cheap Imitation and Song Books through the Sketches

Benjamin R. Levy – Material Connections: Music and Modernism Across the Arts in the Bruce Goff Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago

Kevin C. Karnes – Disco Culture and the Ritual Journey in the Soviet 1980s

Patricia Hall – Giving Voice to a Foxtrot from Auschwitz-Birkenau

Landon Morrison – Encoding Post-Spectral Sound: Kaija Saariaho’s Early Electronic Works at IRCAM, 1982–87

Laura Emmery – Gender Identity and Gestural Representations in Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet No. 2

Reviews

Jonathan De Souza – Review of John Paul Ito, Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body (Indiana University Press, 2020)

SMT Jacksonville 2024

The Society for Music Theory celebrates its forty-seventh Annual Meeting at the Hyatt Regency Riverfront Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida, November 7–10, 2024.

ABOUT JACKSONVILLE

Visit Jacksonville built a microsite for our attendees to use. Visit the site to learn more about Jacksonville, including where to eat, what to do, and how to get there.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION

Information about the conference can be found on the SMT website

Hotel Reservations 

The Hyatt Regency Riverfront Hotel (225 E Coastline Drive) has reserved a block of rooms for conference attendees. The rates are $169/night for single and double occupancy; $194/night for triple occupancy; $219/night for quadruple occupancy; and $169 for student quadruple occupancy (limited rooms available). Hotel reservations for non-students may be made online.  SMT student members should have received an email with a code to reserve at the student rate; please email Jennifer Diaz at smt@societymusictheory.org if you did not receive the email. 

Using the conference room block at this hotel helps us meet our contractual obligations and keeps you close to all conference activities.

Conference Registration

Conference registration is open and available on our website. The rates are as follows:

Rate Category Early (6/01–9/27/2024) Regular (9/28–11/1/2024)
Student or low-income $70.00 $95.00
Emeritus/Retired $100.00 $135.00
Standard $130.00 $175.00
Student Helpers

We are in need of student volunteers to assist during the conference. Volunteers will receive a registration fee waiver in exchange for 6.5 hours of service. The deadline to apply is September 6

Hotel Accessibility

Every effort will be made to meet the unique requirements of all attendees. For specific needs or questions please contact Jennifer Diaz, Executive Director, at smt@societymusictheory.org.  

Sponsorships

The Society provides several sponsorship opportunities for organizations at our Annual Meeting. 

Exhibits 

The deadline to reserve an exhibit booth is September 6

Program Guide Advertisements 

The final deadline to reserve a program guide ad is September 6