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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 2      March, 1995      ISSN:  1067-3040   |
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  General Editor                          Lee Rothfarb
  Co-Editors                              Dave Headlam
                                          Justin London
                                          Ann McNamee
  Reviews Editor                          Brian Alegant
  Manager                                 Robert Judd
  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@smt.ucsb.edu  or to
                  mto-manager@smt.ucsb.edu
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                         * * CONTENTS * *
AUTHOR AND TITLE                                 FILENAMES
1. Target Article                                mto.95.1.2.demske.art
                                                 mto.95.1.2.demske.gif
   Thomas R. Demske, On Considering a Computational
     Model of Similarity Analysis
2. Commentaries
   Allen Forte, Tristan Redux: Comments on       mto.95.1.2.forte.tlk
    John Rothgeb's article on the Tristan        mto.95.1.2.forte1.gif
    Chord in MTO 1.1                             mto.95.1.2.forte2.gif
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3. Reviews
   None this issue
4. Announcements                                 mto.95.1.2.ann
   a. Stanford University CCRMA Summer Workshops 
      1995
   b. Computer Music Journal, 19:1--Spring, 1995
   c. International Semiotics Institute, Toronto
      Semiotics Research Unit, Summer School of
      Semiotics
   d. Music Theory Midwest and Society of Composers:
      Joint Conference
   e. Colorado College Summer Session on Wagner's Ring
5. Employment                                    mto.95.1.2.job
   a. School of Music, University of Oregon
   b. School of Music, University of Oregon
   c. University of Surrey, Guilford, England
6. New Dissertations                             mto.95.1.2.dis
   a. Harper, Steven A.  "Minimal Interval Content Descriptions,"
      School of Music, University of Texas, Austin, 1994.
   b. Murphy, Paul T.  "the Thoroughbass Theory of Jose de Torres y Martinez
      Bravo with an Annotated Translation of *Reglas Generales* (1736),"
      School of Music, University of Texas, Austin, 1995.
   c. Tucker, Gary R. "Tonality and Atonlity in Alban Berg's Four
      Songs, Op. 2," University of Western Ontario, 1995.
7. Communications
WWW:  The main Event!
Since the World-Wide Web (WWW) made its debut around three years
ago, the number of private, commercial, and non-commercial Web 
sites has grown prodigiously to more than 10,000.  One projection
puts the number at 40,000 sites by the end of this year (*Internet
World*, April 1995, p. 4).  A survey of MTO subscribers last year
indicated that many were already using the Web, and some others
anticipated being able to use it soon.  Though Web users and hope-
fuls were not in the majority at the time, presumably many more
subscribers have by now begun to explore the Web with one of the
several available "browsers" (Mosaic, Netscape, WinWeb, MacWeb,
Cello, and others).
This issue of MTO (1.2) marks an initial step into the WWW arena,
by providing access to MTO items through the Web server that has
been established on the SMT Networking host, boethius.  Those who
use the Web, may acess MTO through the URL (Uniform Resource
Locator) http://smt.ucsb.edu/mto/index.html.  The MTO
"page" has links to all the current and past MTO items.  Those
who are interested may want to take a look at the boethius "page"
(http://smt.ucsb.edu/boethius.html), which includes
a link to the MTO page.  
The main people behind MTO's Web plunge are Robert Judd, MTO
Manager, and Christopher Pitchford, MTO Editorial Assistant,
who designed and developed the pages.  We are indebted to Judd 
and Pitchford for the many hours they have spent preparing MTO 
for Web access.  
Web users should keep in mind that our pages are still under 
development.  They have been tested as far as possible, but some 
"bugs" may turn up as subscribers with different browsers try out 
the URLs.  Please be patient.  To help us resolve problems and 
improve our pages, please report difficulties and send suggestions 
to Judd (mto-manager@smt.ucsb.edu).
In addition to allowing easier access to electronic texts, WWW
opens up the possibility of going far beyond plain text documents
through formatting in HTML, the HyperText Markup Language.  With
HTML, documents can include special character formatting (e.g. 
bold, italics, underlining, different sized fonts for titles and
headings), as well as paragraph formatting (e.g. centering, numbered
lists, block quotes).  Further, HTML texts may include links to 
other texts, graphical images, audio files, and even film clips,
potentially turning a text into a hypertextual multimedia
document.  These capabilities are the main attractions of the Web, 
and are made possible through HTML itself, and through Web browsers, 
which interpret HTML codes and display the texts accordingly.
To the unitiated, HTML, with all of its power, may seem quite
complicated.  In fact, it is not.  After a short tutorial, most
can create simple documents with HTML.  This is especially true with 
the growing number of available HTML editors (for Macs, IBM/DOS and
Windows, Unix).  Getting hold of a Web browser, getting it
configured and running has become easier as well.  In the coming
months, the MTO staff will be preparing documentation on how to
get started with the Web and HTML.  Rather than wait for us to
catch up, subscribers may prefer to buy one of the many books 
available which can be found in computer sections of many 
bookstores.
After reading this far about the virtues of the Web and HTML,
subscribers may be disappointed to learn that this issue's items
are not multimedia documents, with specially formatted texts
and integrated graphics.  The new boethius and MTO URLs are so far
our only examples of HTML documents.  All of the actual MTO items
are plain text documents.  In the future, as our staff becomes
more fluent with HTML, and as authors begin to prepare their
contributions with it, MTO will become increasingly a multi-
media journal.  In order not to exclude subscribers who may not
have access to the Web, we will continue to provide plain text
versions of all documents, retrievable through mto-serv, the MTO 
FileServer, FTP, and gopher.
On mto-talk:
Our new forum, mto-talk, for discussing items published in MTO, has 
been tremendously successful.  Unfortunately, just as the exchanges 
on various topics got under way, the current SMT Networking host 
(at Harvard) had major, unanticipated problems.  The difficulties 
seem now to have been resolved, and normal service will resume on 
March 20.  Claire Boge, the Manager of mto-talk (talk-editor@boethius.
music.ucsb.edu), had to learn the "ropes" of managing a mailing list in 
a short time and has done an outstanding job.  The problems with the 
Harvard Internet host did not make for an easy start.  Even amid the 
pressures, during the service outage she went to the extra trouble of 
compiling five digests for subscribers, so that everyone would be up 
to date on the main discussion threads:  responses to John Rothgeb's 
article on the Tristan Chord, Fourier analysis, and Post-structural-
ism, the last topic an outgrowth of Adam Krims's essay in MTO 0.11.
The MTO staff is very pleased at the success of the journal's companion
discussion forum.  We encourage your continued active participation.
There's a fascinating, colorful, hypertextual multimedia world
awaiting you on the Web.  If your institution provides the 
necessary equipment and software, read up on the Web and give it 
a try.  If you do not have access, or are unsure, ask your local 
computing services for information about becoming Web-capable.
MTO will no doubt develop gradually toward becoming a multimedia
journal.  We hope our subscribers will develop with us so that 
they can enjoy a publication that delivers high-quality scholarly 
research in a modern technological environment.
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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 
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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@smt.ucsb.edu or to
        mto-manager@smt.ucsb.edu
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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.
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	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 
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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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