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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Target Articles

Eytan Agmon, Beethoven's Op. 81a and the Psychology of Loss

Kofi Agawu, Analyzing Music Under the New Musicological Regime

2. Commentaries

Josh Mailman, The Aims of Music Theory and Neurath's Boat: A Reply to Jonathan Walker and Matthew Brown

Jonathan Walker, The Deconstruction of Musicology: Poison or Cure?

3. Review

Nancy M. Berman, Review of Glenn Watkins, Pyramids at the Louvre, Harvard University Press, 1994.

4. Announcements

• Self and Other: Fifth International Conference on Narrative
• Indiana University Graduate Theory Association: Postponement!
• Music Theory Society of New York State: Annual Meeting
• Computer-Assisted Research in Musicology: 1996 Summer Workshops
• Composition/Computer Music Technology Workshop at Brevard Music Center
• LEXIKON-SONATE - now available as standalone program for Macintosh
• Computer Music Journal 20th Anniversary Special Issue
• Royal Holloway College, Music Department: URL Changes
• VII. Pacific Northwest Music Graduate Students' Conference
• GAMUT Journal: Call for Articles for Volume 7 (Fall 1996)
• Third Congress of Music Theory, Vienna

5. Employment

• State University of New York, Stony Brook
• Music School, Trinity College, Dublin
• University of Iowa
• The American Music Center, New York City
• University of Massachusetts Lowell

6. New Dissertations

• Bauer, Amy M. Compositional Process and Parody in the Music of Gyorgy Ligeti. Yale University, Music Dept., 1996.
• Nivans, David B. Brahms and the Binary Sonata: A Structuralist Interpretation. University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.
• Novak, John K. The Programmatic Orchestral Works of Leos Janacek: Their Style And Their Musical and Extramusical Content. University of Texas at Austin, School of Music, May 1994.
• O Maidin, Donncha S. A Programmer's Environment for Music Analysis, National University of Ireland at University College Cork, 1995.
• Solomon, Larry Joseph. Symmetry as a Determinant of Musical Composition. West Virginia University, 1973.
• Windsor, Luke W. A Perceptual Approach to the Description and Analysis of Acousmatic Music. City University, Department of Music, London, 1995.

7. Advertisements

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8. Communications

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