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I would strongly urge the SMT executive committee & entire board, outgoing & incoming, at their business meeting this coming week, to revisit the SMT bylaws re discrimination - especially the brief toss-off mention of bullying. (It states th…
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Since Scott Fruehwald & I have received an identical message from the moderator preventing us from starting any new discussion, and since this message hasn't been posted publicly that I know of, and since it affects anyone wanting to start a new…
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On second thought, while I will certainly be leaving as I promised (the air around here is bad for my health), I forgot about the brief essay I had meant to share that's still sitting in my briefcase nearly finished. The one titled "The Gathering S…
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Dear SMT, and the kids who are sitting around at the cattle call for the role of Jack Merridew in the remake of Lord of the Flies: You will be pleased to know — I quit. I know my total withdrawal of support will be devastating, but the only thing th…
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Thank you, Scott. I think I'll continue to stay away from Donald Trump's old playground. It's not pleasant watching the next generation flush itself down the toilet. But I am pleased to learn I'm on my way to be the next influencer.
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Sorry. I'll try to remember. Out here I tend to forget there's a hierarchy that everyone is super sensitive to and often, not knowing a person or their position, I tend to go with a flat but respectful "Mr." or "Ms". There's a flip side to this. Usu…
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Mr. Lehman has evidently bought into the myth that has grown up around Godwin's Law. Let me state the myth version of Godwin by giving the brief version the way Bart Simpson might shout it: "Ha Ha! You said Hitler! You lose, man!" So, is Godwin an a…
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Writing from my privileged position outside the academy: Re my reference to Pace's article & Fruehwald's latest comment referencing the firing of 121 docents at AIC: This is one of the loudest & longest G.P.'s I've ever heard. Here's anoth…
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"But who did we think we were? "My answer is that theory rests on analysis based on intellectual power, not just description. A theorist is a master analyst—certainly of tonal music, preferably also of 20th century music, and preferably of some oth…
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not atonality.
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One more suggestion to add to those already given. It's more of a reminder, since I assume many here are aware of the W.W. Norton Critical Scores series. As an example of how the volumes in the series are structured, the volume before me right now i…
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I think of 'planing' as an a-functional harmonic technique (not anti-functional since 'tendencies'/'resolutions' still might be respected, but in odd (non-traditional') ways. Jazz practice certainly provides a playground for planing, but I also thin…
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@Nicolas, I suppose I should have preceded my comments with the warning, 'sarcasm ahead'. I in NO way believe that 'theory should not busy itself with anything more than half a century old, nor with any "cultural tradition" other than ours.' But in …
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John, I told you I was going to say what I believe 'The Problem' is. Why don't you just sit on it until I actually say what I indicated I was going to say? The urgency of your reply to nothing – based on your assumptions of what you believe I will s…
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John, Are you really trying to make an argumentum ad populum? Seriously??
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Both @Nicolas & @jzmckay made reference to semiotic systems as somehow distinguishing music theory & 'human science' from physics & 'hard/inhuman science'. So far this has only been proffered as opinion and needs to be fleshed out (I tru…
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There is one more relevant quote from Lewin that more succinctly addresses 'what is music theory'. In 1990 he wrote the following blurb for the Harvard Graduate Program in Theory, again using a tripartite division that reflects the three hats descri…
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The following (whether anyone agrees or not) is relevant personal background, previously published in my blog. It was a slap to me delivered by a (pardon the expression) great man. Consider it a basis for further comments that I may make here on the…
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@Nicolas et al – Below is my attempt to summarize in outline Crease's take on three philosophical traditions for approaching scientific theories with 'scientific' replaced by 'music' & 'scientist' replaced by 'musicologist' (in the broader Europ…
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