Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide
Author: Hammond, Susan Lewis and Acuña, Maria Virginia Publication details: Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. Weblink: https://www.routledge.com Abstract: Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography that navigates the vast scholarly resources on the composer with the most updated compilation since 1989. Claudio Monteverdi transformed […]
Post-Tonal Solmization for Post-Tonal Aural Skills: Implementing Ordered Pitch-Class Intervals
Author: Robert Komaniecki with David Geary Publication details:Music Theory Pedagogy Online, Volume 31 Weblink: jmtp.appstate.edu Abstract: Scholarship regarding solmization systems is largely limited to tonal methods. The present article extends the discussion to post-tonal aural skills, citing the need for a separate, interval-based methodology that fulfills the same functional role for atonal repertoire as scale-degree […]
Analyzing Collaborative Flow in Rap Music
Author: Robert Komaniecki Publication details: Society for Music Theory, Volume 23, Number 4, December 2017 Weblink: mtosmt.org Abstract: This article is a study of the ways in which collaboration is signaled in the delivery of rap lyrics. I begin by describing the importance and prevalence of unified flow in music released by rap groups during […]
Top Ten Most Wanted Orchestra Harp Parts
Author: Volpé Bligh, Elizabeth Publication details: Harp Column, 31 October 2017 Link
Shine! shine! shine! from A Song of Joys
Composer: Stephen Chatman Text author: Walt Whitman Publisher: Galaxy Music Corporation Purchase
O Clap Your Hands
Composer: Stephen Chatman Publisher: Galaxy Music Corporation Purchase
Forever, Remember Me
Composer: Stephen Chatman Text author: Tara Wohlberg Publisher: Galaxy Music Corporation Purchase
Dawn of Night
Composer: Stephen Chatman Text author: Tara Wohlberg Publisher: Galaxy Music Corporation Purchase
Interactions of Folk Melody and Transformational (Dis)continuities in Chen Yi’s Ba Ban
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at the Society for Music Theory 40th Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia, 3 November 2017 Weblink: https://societymusictheory.org Abstract: Chen Yi’s Ba Ban (1999) for solo piano, like many works of Western-trained Chinese composers, situates fragments of evocative traditional folk melody within a post-tonal discourse that is well described by […]
How to Create Meter and Why
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at the Society for Music Theory 40th Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia, 3 November 2017 Weblink: https://societymusictheory.org