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SMT-V
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SMT-V is a peer-reviewed video journal showcasing original research in music theory.
Episodes
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SMT-V 5.3 Joshua Banks Mailman, "Babbitt’s Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside; Part III: Opportunities"
Babbitt’s relatively early composition _Semi-Simple Variations_ (1956) presents intriguing surface patterns that are not determined by its pre-compositional plan, but rather result from subsequent “improvised” decisions that are strategic. This video (the third of a three-part video essay)...
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SMT-V 5.2 Joshua Banks Mailman, "Babbitt’s Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside; Part II: Diversities"
Babbitt’s pre-compositional structures (partial orderings) serve as a series of game-like rules affecting the composition of surface details we hear. Especially in Babbitt’s late works (post-1980) these partial ordering rules vary drastically in terms of how much freedom they allow. This variance...
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SMT-V 5.1 Joshua Banks Mailman, “Babbitt’s Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside; Part I: Freedoms"
Milton Babbitt has been a controversial and iconic figure, which has indirectly led to fallacious assumptions about how his music is made, and therefore to fundamental misconceptions about how it might be heard and appreciated. This video (the first of a three-part video essay) reconsiders his...
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SMT-V 4.3 Carmel Raz, "Anne Young's Introduction to Music (1803)_ Pedagogical, Speculative, and Ludic Music Theory"
Though ostensibly designed to explain a set of pedagogical games geared toward children, An Introduction to Music (1803)—a treatise by the Scottish music theorist Anne Young (1756-1827)—advances some intriguing ideas that touch on advanced music theoretic concepts. This video explores these...
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MT-V 4.1- Christopher Doll, “Was it Diegetic, or Just a Dream? Music's Paradoxical Place in the Film Inception"
Between "diegetic" film music (heard by the characters) and "nondiegetic" film music (heard only by the audience) is a paradoxical space called the "fantastical gap." A film such as Inception (2010) makes traversal of this gap into an overt theme, obscuring our sense of place to such a degree…
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SMTV 3.3. Stephen Rodgers, "Music, Poetry, and Performance in a Song by Maria Schneider"
In this video I explore the way song composers respond not just to the meanings of words but also to their sounds. Using a song from Maria Schneider’s 2013 song cycle Winter Morning Walks as a case study, I consider how a particular performance of a song and a particular performance of a poem can...
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SMT-V: 3.2-J. Daniel Jenkins, “Schoenberg’s ‘Advice for Beginners in Composition with Twelve Tones’”
In 1951, Schoenberg received a letter from composer Humphrey Searle asking Schoenberg to record a lecture for the BBC radio program “Music Magazine.” Schoenberg immediately proposed a subject, “Advice for Beginners in Composition with Twelve-Tones,” and requested to use television rather than…
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SMT-V 3.1: L. Poundie Burstein, with Quynh Nguyen (piano), "Parenthetic Aside in a 1789 Analysis of Mozart’s K. 284"
In a 1789 treatise, the Darmstadt musician J.G. Portmann presents what amounts to a multi-level harmonic analysis of Mozart’s Sonata for Piano in D, K. 284, I. Portmann’s interpretation of the movement's exposition is in line with concepts expressed by other eighteenth-century theorists, but...
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SMT-V 2.3: Steven Reale, “Variations on a Theme by a Rogue A.I.: Music, Gameplay, and Storytelling in Portal 2” (Part 2 of 2)
This two-video series explores how the scoring to the video game Portal 2, published by Valve Corporation, not only helps tell the game’s story, but also comments on the game developers’ philosophy of puzzle design. The first video explores how the game’s title theme 9999999, including its…
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SMT-V 2.2: Steven B. Reale, “Variations on a Theme by a Rogue A.I.: Music, Gameplay, and Storytelling in Portal 2” (Part 1 of 2)
This two-video series explores how the scoring to the video game Portal 2, published by Valve Corporation, not only helps tell the game’s story, but also comments on the game developers’ philosophy of puzzle design. The first video explores how the game’s title theme 9999999, including its…
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SMT-V is a peer-reviewed video journal showcasing original research in music theory.
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