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At the climactic conclusion of Act I from Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme, a B major chord leads into an A duet between Rudolfo and Mimi that begins in A major; see 9:10 of this clip: https://youtu.be/sAk07qVLoRg?t=549 Poundie Burstein
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The practice of "playing through analyses" is indeed something that is well known among Schenker’s grand-students. As William O’Hara suggests, this strategy is perhaps too rarely discussed in print. However, I do mention this strategy in my review …
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Having been on three separate SMT Program Committees (in 2000, 2015, and 2015--I won't be on any more!) I have some insights into how things work with the SMT Program Committee, which I discuss in various posts on my blog. http://president72.wixsite…
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Since the nineteenth century there has been a tradition of regarding the second theme of a sonata-form movement as forming a vital part of the dialectic that frames the movement. Remove the second theme, and the resulting opposition that seems to se…
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Oops, in the above I meant to say "Quintabsatz," not "Grundabsatz."
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Naturally I disagree with Jonathan’s assertion. To be sure, anyone schooled in the post-1800 views of sonata form, which tends to view a second theme serves as a vital counterpoise to the main theme, would no doubt recognize how gauche and unviable…
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I have not noticed that students today respond less well to the "experience-first" approach, and thus I do not think it is part of a larger trend. The strategy I rely on most is to introduce a concept through listening or playing at least a week or…
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Ildar Khannanov's post reminds me of a story that might (or might not!) relate to this discussion. After an AMS-SMT meeting a number of years ago, I was riding home on the train when an elderly woman sitting across from me struck up a conversation. …
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Brent, you meant Robert Wells (not Mark--a typo, I assume). Here is a link to the abstract of his SMT talk last year: http://guide.societymusictheory.org/sessions/fri/evening/temporalities.html#abs_3
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You might be interested in checking out the Online Chopin Variorum Edition (OCVE) at http://www.chopinonline.ac.uk/ocve/ . As explained on this page, the OCVE eventually "will provide digital images of all the available primary sources of Chopin’…
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40-50 years is a long time. It would be nice to think that computers should be on every desk--but what happens in 40-50 years when all students come to class with computerized glasses that project 3-D holograms, thereby making computers (as we know …
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Thanks for sharing!
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I note that Greg Sandow talks specifically about conservatory music theory training. His view might well be colored by the fact that he teaches at Juilliard. He notes that many of his Juilliard students have never heard of Charlie Parker. But is th…
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"What texts or materials do you use for an 18th century counterpoint course?" Regarding "recent MT-article-based scholarship," teachers well might consider assigning Peter Schubert's "Contrapuntal Thinking in Haydn," SMT-V 1.2 (2015), an extraordin…
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Would "We WIsh you a Merry Xmas" be considered to follow this pattern?
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Thanks for sharing; this is a very enlightening blog entry.
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I should clarify that the SMT metablog mentioned above is still in development; it has not yet been officially approved by the SMT Board (which is why it has not yet been publicized).
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Good question, Linda. Community colleges serve a wide variety of students. Some of the students are those who can't afford or cannot travel to other colleges, as well as those who are not quite ready to enter 4-year college, including some who are s…
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Here are some benefits that I feel may accrue from teaching figured bass: As some others have already suggested, there are certain sonorities--such as those involving passing tones, suspensions, and the like--that can more easily be shown with fig…
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Re: Mark Doran's blog entry: I wonder if the reasons we feel that the music entries in Wikipedia are weaker than others is simply because we know more about music than we do about other subjects. When I view Wikipedia entries in other fields, I ofte…
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