Music Theory Online Volume 12, Number 3

ISSN 1067-3040

Volume 12 Number 3, October 2006
Copyright © 2006 Society for Music Theory

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

Articles

Ross W. Duffin
(Case Western University)

Just Intonation in Renaissance Theory and Practice
[With Frames] [Without Frames]

James William Sobaskie
(Hofstra University)

Contextual Drama in Bach
[With Frames] [Without Frames]

Commmentary

Maureen A. Carr
(The Pennsylvania State University)

"Who's on First?": Response to David H. Smyth's review of Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat: A Facsimile of the Sketches, edited by Maureen A. Carr (Middleton, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, 2005)

Employment Opportunities

Arizona State University, Assistant Professor
Baylor University, Assistant Professor
Brooklyn College, Assistant Professor (Composition/Theory)
Carleton College, Assistant Professor
Cleveland Institute of Music, Music Theory
Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, Music Theorists-- two open positions, rank negotiable
Marshall University, Chair of the Department of Music
McGill University, Assistant or Associate Professor
New York University, Visiting Assistant Professor
Northeastern University, Assistant Professor
Northern Arizona University, Assistant Professor
Northwestern University, Assistant Professor (1 or 2 positions)
Ohio University, Visiting Assistant Professor (one year)
Peabody Conservatory of Music of The Johns Hopkins University, Teacher of Music Theory
SUNY Fredonia, Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University, Assistant Professor
The University of Southern Mississippi, Assistant Professor
The University of Western Ontario, Assistant Professor
University of Manitoba, Eligable to be appointed at the rank of Full Professor
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Assistant Professor, tenure track or Associate Professor tenure track/tenured
University of Ottowa, Assistant Professor (Music Theory)
University of South Carolina School of Music, Assistant / Associate Professor
University of Vermont, Assistant / Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Assistant Professor
Wheaton College, Assistant Professor
Winthrop University, Assistant Professor
Yale University, Assistant Professor

New Dissertations

Crownfield, Elizabeth E., "The Intellectual Backgrounds of Morley's Plaine and Easie Introduction." New York University, January 2000.
Joichi, Janet M., "Closure, Context, and Hierarchical Grouping in Music: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation." Northwestern University, June 2006.
Kleppinger, Stanley V, "Tonal Coherence in Copland's Music of the 1940s." Indiana University, May 2006.
Letts, Marianne Tatom, ""How to Disappear Completely": Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album." University of Texas at Austin, December 2005.
MacKay, James S., "Motivic Structure and Tonal Organization in Selected Motets of William Byrd." McGill University, August 1999.
McGowan, James J, "Dynamic Consonance in Selected Piano Performances of Tonal Jazz." University of Rochester, February 2005.
Ng, Samuel, "A Grundgestalt Interpretation of Metric Dissonance in the Music of Johannes Brahms." Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, July 2005.
Randall, Richard R., "A General Theory of Comparative Music Analysis." University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, May 2006.
Schuijer, Michiel, "Pitch-Class Set Theory and the Construction of Musical Competence." University of Utrecht, September 2005.
Silberman, Peter S., "Neighbor Spaces: A Theory of Harmonic Embellishment for Twentieth-Century Neotonal Music." Eastman School of Music, May 2006.

New Books

Abravaya, Ido, On Bach's Rhythm and Tempo
Franck Jedrzejewski, Mathematical Theory of Music

Book Reviews

Tim S. Pack
(University of Oregon)

Review of Syntagma musicum III, by Michael Praetorius, translated and edited by Jeffery T. Kite-Powell
(New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)

Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith
(Nicholls State University)

Review of Tim J. Anderson, Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording, Commerce and Mass Culture Series
(Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006)

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