Congratulations to @burnschelsea.bsky.social on the publication of her new book, The Exotic Self: Mexican and Brazilian Modernists Abroad and at Home! See it in person at AMS/SMT at the OUP booth. @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
Philip Stoecker
@stoecker.bsky.social
Professor at Hofstra University. Adès, Berg, Perle, Schönberg. All about cycles. Buckeye ('95) in the B1G Apple; U. of Ottawa ('97); GC CUNY ('03)
“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
I do not like how physical NBA finals get. To my untrained eye it looks like a foul on every play. And it drives me crazy that the announcers say “suffocating defense.” Really? 😳
New SMT-V!! I learned so much from this fabulous video by Daphne Tan and several of her students. There's something for everyone here: theory pedagogy, history of theory, embodied musical learning. Check it out! youtu.be/kZTLg2WkUyU?...
SMT-V 11.3 "Tessellated Tonics: Zuckerkandl's Toy for Music Fundamentals" by Daphne Tan
YouTube video by SMT-V: The Society for Music Theory Video Journal
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The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) refers to the scenario as the “swoop-and-squat.” https://nbc4i.co/3XxJ9Z1?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
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Wherever possible please buy your books directly from authors and/or publishers. Even ebooks (then Amazon can't delete them either). We make a better cut and you get the same thing or better, plus Bezos and ilk don't get richer. Win win win.
This past summer I read The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith. Now that 47 is making himself the chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts history is repeating itself. I never thought I would see this but here we are.
Today, 75 years ago, José Limón, one of the leading exponents of modern dance at the time, asked Schönberg for permission to use the Chamber Symphony op. 38 for a #ballet.
Today, 85 years ago, Schönberg speaks at a meeting of the Pomona Valley Musicians' Club on the subject of “New musical organisms”.
On the occasion of #InternationalLegoDay, we would like to remind you of a very special way of communicating new music, initiated by the Facebook group #ContemporaryClassicalMusic.
My article, "Protest Chants as Public Music Theory," has been published in Music Theory Spectrum as part of a colloquy. It discusses my work on transcribing protest chants, the blog I started in 2017, and ethical and analytical issues involved in this work. academic.oup.com/mts/advance-...
Protest Chants as Public Music Theory
Abstract. This article recounts a music theorist’s experience with transcribing and analyzing protest chants as a form of public music theory, drawing from
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The archive of Belmont Music Publishers, was completely destroyed in the fires in L. A. In order to preserve for posterity the scores and parts of Schönberg's works released since Belmont's founding in 1964, the Arnold Schönberg Center started a digital reconstruction of the publisher's editions.
The Buckeyes are up 34-23. They will win the national championship.