Editor’s Message
Dear munificent readers of MTO, After a particularly challenging winter, the first “ribbons” of spring inspire sighs of relief, songful utterance, and pollen-inspired sneezes. I would like to briefly celebrate this welcome warming of the weather in verse and prose, first drawing upon “Er ist’s,” Eduard Mörike’s well-loved poem:
So simple that it almost defies translation, Mörike’s poem cycles through the senses, painting the sweet anticipation of longing’s fulfillment in all its facets. For the prose portion of this spring fête, I am delighted to offer volume 17.1 of MTO - a Journal of the Society for Music Theory. Dressed in new spring colors, this volume presents no fewer than eleven entries (eight articles, one commentary, and two reviews). From canons to implied polyphony and from Hensel to The Who, this volume will fill your musical senses with the diverse delights of its approaches to music. Blue ribbons
Sweet, familiar scents
Brush the countryside, full of promise
You have I heard
Will soon arrive
Hear from the distance a gentle harp tone!
Spring, yes it is you!!
As you may already have noticed, our 2011 surface look has been re-designed to graphically and thematically link with SMTT’s new homepage. In the background, we have moved MTO to a new domain, allowing us more flexibility and security. For all the work in these projects and in the extensive formatting challenges presented by the current volume, many thanks go to the people behind the scenes: Brent Yorgason (Marietta College), our managing editor, and all of our editorial assistants: Sean Atkinson (UT Arlington), John Reef (Indiana University), Emily Gertsch (FSU), David Easley (FSU), and Judith Ofcarcik (FSU). Thanks also go to our editorial board, whose careful, constructive, and timely reading of submissions insures the cutting-edge quality that you have come to expect from MTO. The 2011 editorial board includes the following scholars: Nicole Biamonte (McGill University), Karen Bottge (University of Kentucky), Steven Brown (Northern Arizona University), Guy Capuzzo (UNC Greensboro), Mark Anson-Cartwright (Queens College, CUNY), Dora A. Hanninen (University of Maryland), Gary S. Karpinski (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Jonathan Kochavi (Swarthmore College), Catherine Losada (CCM, University of Cincinnati), Yonatan Malin (Wesleyan University), and Deborah Rifkin (Ithaca College). As always, we would like to encourage new and creative submissions to MTO. Although we are uniquely suited for the publication of articles that incorporate recordings, videos, and other media, we also welcome submissions in any number of formats, including full-length articles, shorter commentaries, and entire special volumes. Comments in response to this issue’s articles may be submitted to the Editor for publication in the next issue. Also, please refer to our new submission guidelines, if you are interested in submitting. Our dynamic listings for job announcements, upcoming conferences, calls for papers, new dissertations, and new books are updated automatically as soon as we receive and approve any new listing. Readers can check the MTO listings at any time to find current information on recent announcements. We also have links for submitting announcements online. All MTO volumes dating back to our first issue in 1993 can be accessed from the contents page at http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/issues.html. Thank you, as always, for your support of MTO - a Journal of the Society for Music Theory. |