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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) 1995 Society for Music Theory
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| Volume 1, Number 1 January, 1995 ISSN: 1067-3040 |
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General Editor Lee Rothfarb
Co-Editors Dave Headlam
Justin London
Ann McNamee
Reviews Editor Brian Alegant
Consulting Editors
Bo Alphonce Thomas Mathiesen
Jonathan Bernard Ann McNamee
John Clough Benito Rivera
Nicholas Cook John Rothgeb
Allen Forte Arvid Vollsnes
Marianne Kielian-Gilbert Robert Wason
Stephen Hinton Gary Wittlich
Editorial Assistants Christopher Pitchford
Ralph Steffen
All queries to: mto-editor@husc.harvard.edu
* * CONTENTS * *
AUTHOR AND TITLE FILENAMES
1. Target Articles
Richard J. Cochrane mto.95.1.1.cochrane.art
The Phases of Fire
John Rothgeb mto.95.1.1.rothgeb.art
The Tristan Chord: Identity and Origin mto.95.1.1.rothgb1.gif
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2. Commentaries
Richard Cochrane mto.95.1.1.cochrane.tlk
The Ideal Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds: Response to John Covach
John Covach mto.95.1.1.covach.tlk
Musical Worlds and the Metaphysics of Analysis: Response to
Cochrane and Smoliar
Adam Krims mto.95.1.1.krims.tlk
On the Fear of Losing Our Tools (A Response to Joseph N. Straus)
Stephen Smoliar mto.95.1.1.smoliar.tlk
Musical Objects: Response to John Covach
Joe Straus mto.95.1.1.straus.tlk
Post-structuralism and Music Theory (A Response to Adam Krims)
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3. Reviews
David Clampitt mto.95.1.1.clampitt.rev
Report: An International Symposium on Music and Mathematics
(Bucharest, Romania)
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4. Announcements mto.95.1.1.ann
a. League of Composers/ISCM 1995 National Composers Competition
b. International Computer Music Association Software Library & Central
Resource Locator
c. Miles Davis and American Culture
d. First International Conference on Gilles de Bins, dit BINCHOIS
e. Computer Music Journal 18:4--Winter, 1994
f. Session on Fuzzy Techniques for Music Applications
g. Four NEH Summer Seminars on Music
h. CDMC Newsletter available on IRCAM's WWW Server
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5. Employment mto.95.1.1.job
a. Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri-Kansas City
b. School of Music at Eastern New Mexico University
c. McMaster Univeristy (temporary, 10-month post)
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6. New Dissertations mto.95.1.1.dis
a. Castren, Marcus. "RECREL: A Similarity Measure for Set-Classes,"
Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland, 1994.
b. Kwan, Kenneth. "Compositional Design in Recent Works of Chou Wen
Chung," SUNY Buffalo, 1995.
c. Tong, Chee-yee J. "Separate Discourses: A Study of Performance
and Analysis," University of Southampton, Dept. of Music, 1994.
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7. Communications
1. SMT and MTO
2. mto-talk: A New List!
3. New MTO Reviews Editor
4. New Indices Available
1. SMT and MTO
MTO subscribers may have noticed that the numbering for this issue is
1.1. After eleven issues in volume "0"--an indicator of MTO's initial,
trial stage--future issues will be numbered from volume 1, as an
indicator of SMT's official imprimatur. At the November 1994 annual
SMT meeting in Tallahassee, Florida, the Executive Board voted to
adopt, with some revisions, a proposal on SMT networking drafted last
year by an ad hoc Networking Committee (Ann McNamee, Chair) appointed
by President Patrick McCreless after the 1993 meeting. The SMT
Publications Committee (Rick Cohn, Chair) discussed the proposal in
Talahassee and submitted it with some modifications to the Executive
Board, which approved it. In addition to extending official recognition
to MTO and to the other SMT networking components (the Email Conference
and Online Bibliograhic Database), the adopted proposal calls for the
establishment of several administrative and managerial positions to
oversee and develop SMT networking. A new Networking Committee is
currently being appointed. The names and roles of its members will be
published in an Editor's Communication in MTO 2.1 (March). The ad hoc
Networking Committee members (Bo Alphonce, Dan Harrison, Ann McNamee,
John Roeder) are delighted with the Executive Board's decision and
appreciate the Publication Committee's support. I would like personally
to thank the ad hoc Committee for its efforts. I look forward to working
with the members of the new Networking Committee in further developing
the content and scope of our online resources.
2. mto-talk: A New List!
Beginning in early February a new, trial mailing list, called mto-talk,
will be established. Its purpose will be to carry dialog among
subscribers and authors about items published in MTO. After a few
months of what will hopefully be an active existence, mto-talk will
be evaluated by the new SMT Networking Committee. The manager of
mto-talk will be Claire Boge, who can be reached at the following
address: talk-editor@boethius.music.ucsb.edu. She will take over
as Manager soon after the new list is launched in early February.
mto-talk will be dedicated to relatively short comments, defined
loosely as 10-50 lines (roughly) of electronic text. Extensive,
in-depth commentaries on MTO essays (50+ lines) should be prepared
according to the MTO author guidelines and submitted to the Editor
for publication in MTO. The MTO Guide explains how to request a copy
of the author guidelines.
In order to save time and effort, rather than issuing a call for
current MTO subscribers to submit requests to join the list, I will
simply add all subscribers to the list and send out a welcome
message to everyone. After receiving the welcome message, those
who wish to remove themselves from mto-talk may do so by sending
a message to listproc@husc.harvard.edu with the line
"unsubscribe mto-talk" (without the quotation marks) as the
sole text.
3. New MTO Reviews Editor
MTO welcomes Brian Alegant (McGill University) as the new
Reviews Editor. He replaces Claire Boge who, as the first
Reviews Editor, held down that post while at the same time
serving as Editor of the SMT Newsletter. The MTO Co-
editorial Board would like to thank Claire for her dedica-
tion and creative input during the early stages of the
journal's development. We welcome her in her new role as
mto-talk Manager.
As the new Reviews Editor, Alegant will consult with the
staff of *Music Theory Spectrum*, SMT's print journal, in
order to coordinate assignments. In its reviews MTO will
aim at covering those publications that *Spectrum* cannot
cover, in addition to including reviews that our print
journal and others have not often covered, for example
conferences, textbooks, software, and periodical articles.
Subscribers interested in writing a review, as well as those
with suggestions for reviews should contact the Reviews
Editor by email (alegant@music.mcgill.ca).
4. New Indices Available
As announced a few weeks ago, two new files are available in the
MTO archive, one containing a directory of dissertation listings
published so far in MTO (0.1 - 0.11), the other containing a
directory of essays, commentaries, and reviews published so far.
The directories are organized alphabetically by authors' names.
The files will be updated with each new issue of MTO.
Originally, the files were named diss-index.txt (for the
dissertation directory) and all-toc.txt (for the directory
of essays, commentaries, and reviews). I recently changed
the names of the files to diss.index and toc.index, respectively.
Those names are in keeping with the one other index file in
the MTO archive, mto.index, which is a listing of *all* files
contained in the archive.
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8. Copyright Statement
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Overview:
1. Retrieving MTO Items (with mto-serv and FTP)
2. Subscribing to MTO
3. Retrieving MTO Documentation
4. Queries and Communications
1. RETRIEVING MTO ITEMS
Items are retrieved by sending an email message to the MTO FileServer,
mto-serv, or through anonymous FTP (see below). To use the FileServer,
send a message to one of the following two addresses:
mto-serv@husc.harvard.edu (Internet)
mto-serv@husc.bitnet (Bitnet)
Leave the "Subject:" line blank and as the body of the message include
the following lines (no personal letterheads or signatures!):
path YourEmailAddress (Bitnet addresses *must* include .BITNET)
send Item (specify item, as listed below)
send Item (additional "send" lines, if desired)
After the word "path," enter your full email address (Bitnet users
must include .BITNET). Be *sure* to include the word "path"
followed by a valid email address. Without the "path" line, mto-serv
will not know where to deliver requested items. To retrieve items
from the *current* issue of MTO, after the word "send," replace "Item"
with the one of the following options:
articles (= main article[s])
gifs (= musical examples)
reviews (= review[s])
commentaries (= commentaries on past MTO articles)
dissertations (= dissertation listings)
announcements (= announcements)
jobs (= job listings)
package (= all the above items, in a single package)
toc (= current table of contents)
Example:
path john_doe@husc.harvard.edu
send package
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CAUTIONARY NOTE:
Subscribers with restricted emailbox space should be careful when
using the "package" option. A full issue of MTO, text and musical
examples, can be quite large and may "crash" an emailbox of limited
size. It may be safer to request a few files at a time, and to remove
them from the emailbox before requesting more files.
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For instructions on retrieving items from back issues, or complete
back issues of MTO, consult the document "mto-guide.txt" (see below,
on retrieving MTO documentation).
MTO items may also be retrieved through anonymous FTP. The site is:
fas.harvard.edu). Use "anonymous" as loginID and your email address
as password. Change to the directory pub/smt/mto (with the command:
cd pub/smt/mto). The file mto.current contains all items constituting
the current issue; toc.current is the most recent table of contents.
The individual items of the current issue have filenames that begin
as follows: mto.yy.v.i, where "yy" is the last two digits of the
current year; "v" is the current volume number; and "i" is the current
issue number (example: mto.94.0.6). Refer to the MTO Guide for further
information.
2. SUBSCRIBING TO MTO
To subscribe to MTO, send an email message to one of the following
"listproc" addresses:
listproc@husc.harvard.edu (Internet)
listproc@husc.bitnet (Bitnet)
Leave the "Subject:" line blank and as the text of the message include
the following single line (no personal letterheads or signatures!):
subscribe mto-list YourFirstName YourLastName
You will receive a message confirming your subscription. Once the
subscription is confirmed, to receive the MTO Guide send a message to
one of the "listproc" addresses shown above, and as the body of the
message include the single line: information mto-list
To cancel a subscription, send the following single line to one of the
"listproc" addresses (not to mto-serv!): unsubscribe mto-list
[NOTE: Do not send email to the "listproc" addresses for anything
other than initiating and terminating subscriptions to MTO. Further,
do not send email to mto-list@husc. mto-list is solely for broadcasting
MTO to its subscribers, *not* for communication among subscribers, nor
for retrieving MTO items (done with mto-serv), nor for communication
with the Editor (address above). Please do not send mail to
mto-list@husc, *nor* use a "reply" command on email distributed through
mto-list.]
3. RETRIEVING MTO DOCUMENTATION
Several MTO explanatory documents are available through mto-serv:
mto-guide.txt (the MTO Guide, also retrievable from "listproc")
Instructions for
a. subscribing to MTO
b. retrieving MTO items (articles, reviews,
commentaries, musical examples, and figures)
c. posting items in MTO (announcements, jobs, dissertations)
d. searching the MTO database
authors.txt
Guidelines for authors
policy.txt
MTO editorial policy
software.txt
List of available software (IBM and Mac) for MTO
subscribers, and instructions for retrieving the
software
mto.index
List of all files in the MTO archive (updated regularly)
To retrieve any of these documents, send an email message to one of
the "mto-serv" addresses (not to the "listproc" addresses!), and use
the format shown above ("path" line with full email address, and one
or more "send" lines specifying the desired document[s]). For example,
to retrieve the document called "software.txt," address a message to
mto-serv and as the body of the message include only the following two
lines (no personal letterheads or signatures!):
path john_doe@husc.harvard.edu (Bitnet addresses must include .BITNET)
send software.txt
send authors.txt (additional "send" lines for more items)
The words "path" (followed by an email address) and "send" (followed
by the desired item) *must* appear.
4. QUERIES AND COMMUNICATIONS
Send all queries and communications (announcements, letters to
the Editor, etc.) to one of the following addresses:
mto-editor@husc.harvard.edu (Internet)
mto-editor@husc.bitnet (Bitnet)
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Copyright Statement
[1] Music Theory Online (MTO) as a whole is Copyright (c) 1995,
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.
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