All Episodes

Swan Lake: How the Classical Ballet Became a Political Mosh - Sasha Drozzina

One Block to Rule Them All: The Single-Block Form in African Music - Alice (Bai) Xue

Is It Over? How Silence Frames Musical Beginnings and Endings in Arvo Pärt’s “Ludus” - Hang Ki Choi

Gender and the Death Trope in Judith Weir’s The Black Spider - Luis Matos-Tovar

Texture, Timbre, and Instrumentation in Laura Kaminsky’s As One: A Trans Narrative - Brandon D. Scribner

Power and Captivity in Thea Musgrave’s Mary, Queen of Scots - Zachary Simonds

The Two Harriets in Thea Musgrave’s Harriet, The Woman Called Moses - Isabel Milbourn

Trauma and Vocal Utterances in Ellen Reid’s p r i s m (2018) - Aaron D'Zurilla

SMT-Pod Student Seminar Series: Gender and Contemporary Opera (Introduction)

Episode 5 - Idiomatic Improvisation: Where Theory Meets Aural Skills - Alexandrea Jonker and Peter Schubert

Episode 4 - Idiomatic Improvisation: Where Theory Meets Aural Skills - Alexandrea Jonker and Peter Schubert

Episode 3 - Idiomatic Improvisation: Where Theory Meets Aural Skills - Alexandrea Jonker and Peter Schubert

Episode 2 - Idiomatic Improvisation: Where Theory Meets Aural Skills - Alexandrea Jonker and Peter Schubert

Episode 1 - Idiomatic Improvisation: Where Theory Meets Aural Skills - Alexandrea Jonker and Peter Schubert

From the Sidelines: an in game look at Johanna Beyer’s Music of the Spheres - Craig Peaslee

Nicole Mitchell’s Mandorla Awakening II and the Sounds of Afrofuturist Theory - Audrey Slote

Reimagine the Sound: Or, How to Improvise a Cecil Taylor Improvisation - Mark Micchelli

Fuguing Essential Voices: An Informance of J. S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue, BWV 1011 - Daniel Ketter

“In the Days of Auld Lang Syne”: Stability and Bagpipe Music in Hong Kong (1997-2024) - Samantha Sasaki

Dual Leading Tone Loops in Post-Millennial Pop/Rock - Brad Osborn

Voice and Agency in Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 - Jason Jedlička

Playing Dress-Up: Co-Performance in Mozart’s Abendempfindung K. 523 - Lydia Bangura

Teaching Rhythm and Meter through Rap and Hip Hop: An Interview with Mazbou Q - Olivia Lucas & Mazbou Q

I will not tell you: Disconnection, Reticence, and Ambivalence in Heyman's “Tortie-Tortue” - Anna Stephan-Robinson

Terminal Openings: Interpreting Songs that Begin by Ending - Joon Park

Formal and Textural Processes in Contemporary Worship Music - Leah Amarosa

The Role of Reprise and Revision in 'Shrek the Musical' (2008, 2024) - Zachary Lloyd & John Combs

The Impact of Timbre on Perceptions of Genre in Recorded Popular Music - Stefanie Bilidas & Grace Gollmar

Agency and Practical Model Composition in the Music Theory Classroom - Brent Ferguson, Alani Pranzo, Carter Falkenstein, and Nykia Osborne

Three’s a crowd: Understanding the rise of two-chorus form in recent popular music - Jeremy Orosz

“¿Somos la resistencia, no?”: Memory and Manipulation in Netflix’s La Casa de Papel - Tori Vilches

“How do you color a sound?”: Hearing Afrofuturism in The 5th Dimension’s “Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” (1969) - Alejandro Cueto

Playing With Ghosts: Timbre and the Chiptuning of Canon in the Bardcore Video Game Project - Brent Ferguson, George Reid, and Matthew Ferrandino

What if Octaves Aren’t Equivalent? A Composer’s Guide to Non-Octave-Repeating Scales - Thomas B. Yee

Interrelating Concepts of Texture and Rhythm in Massive Textures and Beatless Rhythms - Nariá Assis Ribeiro & Luís Raimundo

Listening a Page at a Time - Stephen Rodgers

Muito Beleza – Ana’s Hands: Postcolonial Gendered Legacies of the Viola da Terra - Abigail Lindo

Analyzing Stravinsky - Introduction to Stravinsky’s 1911 Petrushka - Joseph Straus

Season 3 - Teaser Trailer

Season 3 - Call for Proposals

Theorizing African American Music: Black Women in Academic Music, and Final Thoughts (5) - Phil Ewell (with appearances by Louise Toppin, Teresa Reed, Jewel Thompson, and Chris Jenkins)

Theorizing African American Music: The Participants (4) - Phil Ewell (with appearances by Marvin McNeil, Stephanie Doktor, Alan Reese, and Maya Cunningham)

Theorizing African American Music: The Keynote (3) - Phil Ewell (with an appearance by Dwight Andrews)

Theorizing African American Music: The Concert (2) - Christopher Jenkins (with appearances by Phil Ewell, Lydia Bangura, Khari Joyner, and Theron Brown)

Theorizing African American Music: Beginnings (1) - Philip Ewell (with appearances by Christopher Jenkins, Lydia Bangura, and Susan McClary)

What Green Book Got Wrong About Black Music - Rami Stucky

The Emotional Impact of the Double Upbeat - Jenine Brown

Counterpoint Expanded - Melissa Hoag

A Gender-Analysis Approach to Settings of Chamisso’s Frauenliebe und -leben - Kimberly Soby

Tonal Polymodality in Tool’s Aenima - Matthew Ferrandino & Frank Nawrot

From Piece to Music: Analyzing Your Own Listening - Katrina Roush

Season 2 - Call for Proposals

Musicking While Old - 5. Old Listeners - Joseph Straus

Journeys Through Middleground: Holding Space Between Academic Analysis and YouTube Entertainment - Jennifer Campbell

Making Orchestras Speak/Making Machines Listen - Landon Morrison

Musicking While Old - 4. Old Performers - Joseph Straus

Analytical Frameworks for Post(-Millennial) Punk Episode 2: We still [speak/sing/yell] these songs well - Matthew Chiu and Tyler Howie

Analytical Frameworks for Post(-Millennial) Punk Episode 1: The “Twinkle” Schema in the Emo Revival - Matthew Chiu and Tyler Howie

Women Composers in Fin-de-siècle Paris: Marie Jaëll, Cécile Chaminade, and Augusta Holmès - Lucia Pasini

Facilitating Musical Discussions on Reddit: An Interdisciplinary Conversation - Nathaniel Mitchell, Sarah A. Gilbert, Timothy Byron, and Justice Srisuk

Musicking While Old - 3. Old Composers - Joseph Straus

Is Key Real? - Christopher Doll

Part 2 - The Inside of the Tune: Analyzing the Bridge in Pop - Elizabeth Newton and Franklin Bruno

Part 1 - The Inside of the Tune: Analyzing the Bridge in Pop - Elizabeth Newton and Franklin Bruno

Sonic Identity, Imitation, and Critical Listening in Popular Music - Matthew Ferrandino

Musicking While Old - 2. Operatic Representations of Old Age - Joseph Straus

The Teardrop Chord: Analyzing the Enigmatic Minor IV Chord in Pop and Film Music - John Baxter

Musicking While Old - 1. Old Age as Culture - Joseph Straus

Buxtehude Beats Bach? Qualifying a Canonic Claim - Scott Murphy

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