=== === ============= ==== === === == == == == == ==== == == = == ==== === == == == == == == == = == == == == == == == == == ==== M U S I C T H E O R Y O N L I N E A Publication of the Society for Music Theory Copyright (c) 1999 Society for Music Theory +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Volume 6, Number 1 January, 2000 ISSN: 1067-3040 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ All queries to: mto-editor@smt.ucsb.edu or to mto-manager@smt.ucsb.edu +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ File: comm.txt Editor's Message We are pleased to be able to present in this special issue the papers presented as part of the International Plenary Session at the 1999 SMT Meeting in Atlanta. Organized by Richard Cohn, the session featured four speakers and a respondent, based in four different continents, addressing a range of issues and repertoires. We are especially grateful to the authors who agreed to have their papers published here and for the special effort each made to facilitate the inclusion of score, analytic, and a number of digital audio examples. A recent version of the RealPlayerŽ is required to listen to the audio examples. A link is provided in the Table of Contents and in the relevant articles. Please note that, for technical reasons, the audio files are being delivered from a server at Indiana University. The number of simultaneous connections is limited to 25, so if you are unable to play an audio file, please try again later. As always, readers are encouraged to post reactions to these papers--or to any of the several reviews published in this article--on mto-talk, MTO's email discussion list. I am pleased to welcome Jane Piper Clendinning and Patrick McCreless to the MTO Editorial Board. They join continuing members Henry Klumpenhouwer, Catherine Nolan, and Lawrence Zbikowski. With the new volume we make some minor cosmetic changes to MTO's appearance. We thank William Findlay for colorizing the logo and creating new navigation buttons for the HTML version of the journal. A number of pages have been updated to make the web pages more easily navigable. Eric J. Isaacson, General Editor Music Theory Online School of Music Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 U.S.A. mto-editor@smt.ucsb.edu voice: (812) 855-0296 (with voice mail) fax: (812) 855-4936 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Copyright Statement [1] *Music Theory Online* (*MTO*) as a whole is Copyright (c) 2000, all rights reserved, by the Society for Music Theory, which is the owner of the journal. Copyrights for individual items published in (*MTO*) are held by their authors. Items appearing in *MTO* may be saved and stored in electronic or paper form, and may be shared among individuals for purposes of scholarly research or discussion, but may *not* be republished in any form, electronic or print, without prior, written permission from the author(s), and advance notification of the editors of *MTO*. [2] Any redistributed form of items published in *MTO* must include the following information in a form appropriate to the medium in which the items are to appear: This item appeared in *Music Theory Online* in [VOLUME #, ISSUE #] on [DAY/MONTH/YEAR]. It was authored by [FULL NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS], with whose written permission it is reprinted here. [3] Libraries may archive issues of *MTO* in electronic or paper form for public access so long as each issue is stored in its entirety, and no access fee is charged. Exceptions to these requirements must be approved in writing by the editors of *MTO*, who will act in accordance with the decisions of the Society for Music Theory. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ END OF *MTO* ITEM