We are pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of Music Theory Online.
Dear List Members,
We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 31, no. 2 of Music Theory Online. The seven articles appearing in this quarterly installment are compelling and wide-ranging, as always.
Come on by to learn about scale systems in both Persian Art Music and in the jazz-based explorations of Eric Dolphy and Yusef Lateef, and about the origins (technical and cultural) of the first theory of rhythm and meter for Bulgarian music. Alternatively, you may wish to partake of entries shedding light on form in the music of Henry Threadgill, on form in pop tunes with highly texturally contrasting final sections, on the complex origins of a centrally important Baroque harmonic progression, and on "imaginary folk" idioms and cross-cultural interplay in the music of Unsuk Chin.
Whatever path(s) you take through this issue, we are sure you'll find intellectual stimulation and inspiration around many a bend in the road.
Best Regards,
Brent Auerbach
Editor, Music Theory Online
Articles
Texture, Rhythmic Synchrony, and Tonal Fusion in Henry Threadgill's In for a Penny, In for a Pound
Guy Capuzzo (University of North Carolina Greensboro)
Switch Up the Groove: Idiosyncratic Approaches to Form and Texture in Recent Popular Music
Nathan Cobb (Emory University)
Music Theory as an Instrument of Nationalism: Notation, Identity, and Systemization in Dobri Hristov's Conception of Bulgarian Meter
Daniel Goldberg (University of Connecticut)
Eric Dolphy's and Yusef Lateef's Synthetic Formations
Marc E. Hannaford (University of Michigan)
Imaginary Folk Music: Investigating Unsuk Chin's Gougalōn (2009/2012) through Cumulative Intercultural Analysis
Gui Hwan Lee (James Madison University)
The Semantic Evolution of Chromatic Mediants: A Baroque Origin of M8M Progressions
Jason Yin Hei Lee (McGill University)
Historical Examination and Theoretical Analysis of Maqām Iṣfahān in Persian Art Music
Kioumars Poorhaydari (University of Alberta)