We are pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of Music Theory Online.
The editorial and production staff is proud to note that this is a much larger publication than is typical. Appearing first are four articles and a book review that, as a group, treat the theory and analysis of common-practice, post-tonal, pop, and theater musics. Along with these, there is a timely and highly important report on Covid-19, which documents in detail the experiences of a large number of theorists striving to maintain their research, teaching, and careers during a period of intense personal, familial, and financial difficulty.
We are extremely pleased to offer, in addition, a full guest issue on global music theory titled Music Theory in the Plural. This project, proposed and expertly stewarded by Edwin Li, Chris Stover, and Anna Yu Wang, seeks to fill a notable gap in global music studies by making a greater number of theoretical source documents from other cultures available to Western scholars. The extended table of contents below indicates a further noteworthy aspect of their work: to foster dialog and further enliven interest, the editors have invited authors who research in related conceptual areas to write companion commentaries on all of the translations.
We, the Editorial Board and Staff of MTO wish to thank all members of the Society for Music Theory for their patience and for their generous, sustained support. We hope you enjoy this “double issue,” and look forward to bringing you more scholarship in the spring!
Best Regards,
Brent Auerbach
Editor, Music Theory Online
Articles
Vocal Production, Mimesis, and Social Media in Bedroom Pop
Alyssa Barna (University of Minnesota)
Caroline McLaughlin (Minneapolis, MN)
“Feel the Emptiness”: Micro-Schemata in the Music of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Evan Martschenko (Eastman School of Music)
Performing Meter: Toward a Motive-Oriented Performance Practice for Post-Tonal Music
James Sullivan (Michigan State University)
Who is Allowed to Be a Music Theorist? Sarah Mary Fitton and Conversations on Harmony (1855)
Stephanie Venturino (Yale School of Music)
A Survey of the Impact of COVID-19 on Music Theorists
Janet Bourne (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Rachel Lumsden (Florida State University)
Inessa Bazayev (Louisiana State University)
Review
Review of Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater, ed. Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker
John Y. Lawrence (University of Chicago)
Special Issue: Music Theory in the Plural
Edited by Edwin K. C. Li, Chris Stover, and Anna Yu Wang
Introduction: Music Theory in the Plural
Edwin K. C. Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Chris Stover (Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University)
Anna Yu Wang (Princeton University)
On the Ubọ-Aka of the Igbo: An Interview with Gerald Eze
Quintina Carter-Ényì (University of Georgia)
Commentary
Sheryl Man-Ying Chow (The University of Hong Kong)
Translation of Dobri Hristov’s “Metric and Rhythmic Fundamentals of Bulgarian Folk Music”
Daniel Goldberg (University of Connecticut)
Commentary: Music Theory, Nationalism, and the “Invention” of Bulgarian Rhythm
Clifton Boyd (New York University)
Koizumi Fumio on Nuclear Tones
Liam Hynes-Tawa (Harvard University)
Commentary
Sami Abu Shumays (Queens, New York)
Translation of Shin Eun-Joo’s “Two Theories of Ujo and Pyeongjo in Pansori: Comparing Baek Daewoong’s and Lee Bohyeong’s Theories of Pansori” (2018)
Seokyoung Kim (The University of Texas at Austin)
Commentary
Ji Yeon Lee (University of Houston)
Music as Language of the Upper Realm: A Translation of Li Tsing-chu’s A General Treatise on Music (1930/1933)
Edwin K. C. Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Commentary
Nathan John Martin (University of Michigan)
“At One End of the Endless Universe”: Akira Nishimura’s Interview with Isang Yun
Joon Park (University of Illinois Chicago)
Commentary
Chris Stover (Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University)
Embedded Music Theory: Oral Poetry, Rhythmic Language, and Drumming in Sri Lanka
Eshantha Peiris (University of British Columbia)
Commentary
Amanda Villepastour (Cardiff University)
Report: My Footsteps and Related Thoughts on the Systematic Construction of Linguistics of Music in the 21st Century
Qian Rong (Central Conservatory of Music)
Commentary
Aaron Carter-Ényì (Morehouse College)
Translation of Martha Ulhôa de Tupinamba’s “Métrica derramada: Musical Prosody in Brazilian Popular Song”
Chris Stover (Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University)
Commentary
Anne Danielsen (University of Oslo)
Gusti Putu Madé Geria’s Theory for Balinese Gamelan
Michael Tenzer (University of British Columbia)
Commentary: Reversed Images
Dan Wang (University of Pittsburgh)
Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought
Lee Cannon-Brown (Harvard University)
Commentary
Amy Bauer (University of California, Irvine)
The Origins of Syncopation in Brazilian Music: An Unpublished Manuscript by Mário de Andrade
Enrique Valarelli Menezes (Universidade de São Paulo)
Carlos Eduardo de Barros Moreira Pires (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Commentary
Nicole Biamonte (McGill University)