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Good question!
Having been a submitter and an editor, I understand both sides. My bottom line: it’s the editor’s responsibility to deal with a tardy reader. If a reader doesn’t respond to editorial prodding, the editor should find another reader w…
I’d welcome a more detailed sense of what people are finding worse about the new OMO interface. I just re-submitted in the OMO “search box” a query I had put in when the old interface was there (the name of a minor 18th-century composer). I don’t …
Thanks, Rick, for posting the use of the term “hypermeter” referring to poetry prior to Ed Cone’s 1968 “Musical Form and Musical Performance.” A Google search of “hypermeter,” “hypermetric,” and closely related terms comes up with a wide range of u…
In the recitative "Erbarm es Gott!" from Bach's St. Matthew Passion, the diminished seventh chord on the downbeat of m. 11 enters as vii7 of V in F# minor (a B# diminished seventh chord, which is equivalent to an F# diminished seventh chord), and re…