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Thank you, Trevor, for bringing up a difficult topic. Similar to your story, I haven't had a paper accepted for SMT in several years (7? 8? -- I've lost count), although virtually everything I've proposed for SMT has made its way into print (and one…
In Chopin's later Paris years, he was in the habit of sending several fair copies of his pieces to two or three publishers within a few days of each other. This habit countered the lack of international copyright law. Often when Chopin sent a second…
One of our Associate Deans handed this report to the department chairs just before the end of the semester. I note that the lead author is Ed Sarath, who is (was?) at U Michigan, and who has developed his own methods for improvisation. I don't belie…