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There’s nothing little about Alanis Morissette’s voice on *Jagged Little Pill*. Drew Nobile’s new article analyzes her vocal timbre, album persona, and form, with plenty of colorful images and sound clips. You oughta check it out. Don’t ya think? #smtchat https://t.co/KHYYTfzBWV
Bet you never read about eschatology, parousia, phrase-rhythmic space, and sea shanties all in the same article on MTO. Now you can in Samuel Ng’s “Musical Eschatology in Contemporary Christian Worship Songs.”
#worshipleader #CCM #smtchat https://t.co/Tc5eV9gE66
Rite of Spring’s harmony and rhythm have gotten most of the attention, but its melodies are fascinating also, and combine to tell the ballet’s dramatic story. https://t.co/IsqpHevKB4
For the complete story, see Straus's video series: https://t.co/tiADxO0oIG
#smtchat #stravinsky
A new issue of MTO means a new series of tweets from the article authors! Look out for teaser tweets next week. https://t.co/tNxOnE0xsg #smtchat
Prechoruses make choruses more fun. Except for when they don’t. See why songwriters from Bob Dylan to Boyz II Men to Billie Eilish keep returning to the prechorus, and how the approaches have changed over time. https://t.co/yMaJQeT7kG #smtchat
Have you ever wondered how our bodies might shape musical understanding? @sammy_in_motion and @shdocea ask how physical gestures enrich our perception of music in their new MTO article: https://t.co/tUIzgDTNOb #smtchat
Quiz: the final of this mass movement is:
A
D
E
All of the above?
Check out @theorymeg's latest contribution to MTO to find out why each of these was a good answer (but also to find out which answer was best!).
https://t.co/JQOjutlbHR #smtchat
Do you ever wonder how complex timbres are formed perceptually from blending instruments and how they are used to structure music through orchestration? Check out the new Music Theory Online article on a Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects. https://t.co/M2qJycuoha #smtchat
"Well, you know, I think Western musicians, fine art musicians, what they call fine art musicians—European fine art—they’re the only ones who don’t dance… I always get great enjoyment watching great musicians dance when they play." –Cecil Taylor
https://t.co/uJboG3khpd #smtchat
New issue of MTO is up! For the next few nights, we'll post tweets from article authors with tantalizing tidbits of their work. https://t.co/uEUV3hXWRq #smtchat
Turns out spelling counts, even in rock music... https://t.co/h6pAxNWryQ #smtchat
A new issue of MTO is out, so that means we'll be featuring teasers from the authors over the coming days! Tweets go out in the evenings. https://t.co/XmPLin3wOA #smtchat
Retweet if you've nominated your favorite new music theory publications for SMT's awards, it's for a thing
https://t.co/YsmdWusP4S #smtchat
What better way to show appreciation for your favorite scholars than to nominate them for one of SMT's publication awards?! Nominations are now open! https://t.co/YsmdWubedk #smtchat
Musical structure that is not based on pitch or rhythm, but inner bodily feelings. Check out how J. Ho feels out musical structure in Takemitsu. #performanceanalysis #musicalstructure #smtchat
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Why learn terms like "quadruple hypermeter" or "asymmetrical grouping structure" when you could just spend countless hours figuring out how to illustrate these ideas with meticulously timecoded lights? #Meshuggah #metal #smtchat https://t.co/4TRbxGTPmN
Why would the Rolling Stones begin making extensive use of a declining pop song form just as the band was achieving superstardom? David S. Carter investigates. #smtchat https://t.co/5X7zA6FZPM
Madrigals are not JUST about text setting, contrary to popular belief—I mean, doesn’t music follow its own laws? And if Willaert was considered such a great and painstaking composer back then, why are we so mystified by his music now? #smtchat https://t.co/efSgBkDFbQ
Mozart’s K545 mvmt 1 contains 8 instances of the Prinner Schema according to Gjerdingen (2007). A simple algorithm relates these underlying skeletons computationally in a new article by Carter-Enyi and Rabinovitch. #smtchat https://t.co/vXjZzURdUA
Archival recordings of remarks by Miriam Gideon and Milton Babbitt can now be streamed in the online version of “Getting to Count.” Article by Ellie Hisama on gender and racial justice in music theory. https://t.co/RwRcbdTlhs #smtchat
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