=== === ============= ==== === === == == == == == ==== == == = == ==== === == == == == == == == = == == == == == == == == == ==== 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) 1996 Society for Music Theory +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Volume 2, Number 7 November, 1996 ISSN: 1067-3040 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ General Editor Lee A. Rothfarb Co-Editors Dave Headlam Justin London Ann McNamee Reviews Editor Brian Alegant Manager Robert Judd Consulting Editors Bo Alphonce Thomas Mathiesen Jonathan Bernard Benito Rivera John Clough John Rothgeb Nicholas Cook Arvid Vollsnes Allen Forte Robert Wason Marianne Kielian-Gilbert Gary Wittlich Stephen Hinton MTO Correspondents Per Broman, Sweden Nicolas Meeus, Belgium, France Peter Castine, Germany Ken-ichi Sakakibara, Japan Wai-ling Cheong, Hong Kong Roberto Saltini, Brazil Geoffrey Chew, England Michiel Schuijer, Holland Gerold W. Gruber, Austria Uwe Seifert, Germany Henry Klumpenhouwer, Canada Arvid Vollsnes, Norway Editorial Assistants Ralph Steffen Cindy Nicholson Nicholas Blanchard Music Example Designer William Loewe Midi Consultant David Patrick Watts All queries to: mto-editor@boethius.music.ucsb.edu or to mto-manager@boethius.music.ucsb.edu ------------------------------------------------------ * * CONTENTS * * AUTHOR AND TITLE FILENAMES 1. Target Article Eric J. Isaacson, Issues in the Study of mto.96.2.7.isaacson.art Similarity in Atonal Music 2. Commentaries Roger Wibberley, "Mode versus Ficta" in Context mto.96.2.7.wibbrly.tlk Channan Willner, Handel, the Sarabande, and mto.96.2.7.willner.tlk Levels of Genre: A Reply to David Schulenberg 3. Reviews Donna Brink Fox, Review of Abeles, Harold; mto.96.2.7.fox.rev Hoffer, Charles; & Klotman, Robert. (1994). *Foundations of Music Education*, 2nd ed. New York: Schirmer Books Jonathan Wild, A Review of the Humdrum Toolkit: mto.96.2.7.wild.rev UNIX Tools for Musical Research, created by David Huron 4. Music Theory International Gerold W. Gruber, Review of the 3rd Congress mto.96.2.7.gruber.rev for Music Theory, Vienna, Austria, May 10-12, 1996 5. Announcements mto.96.2.7.ann Music Theory SouthEast: Call for Papers Hypertextual Database of 13th-century Treatises Music of Japan Today III: Tradition and Innovation Realtime Composition Library for MAX: New Version Released AMS South Central Chapter: Call for Papers South Central Society for Music Theory: Web Site! South Central Society for Music Theory: Call for Papers Feminist Theory and Music 4: Call for Papers Mendelssohns at the Millennium: Four-day Conference West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis: Call for Papers Texas Society for Music Theory: Call for Papers Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie, Vol. 1.3 6. Employment mto.96.2.7.job Davidson College, Music History or Theory Cornell University Department of Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, or Theory Montclair State University, Dir. of Choral Activities (Asst. Prof.) Montclair State University, Orchestra Director (Asst. Prof.) Colby College, Music Theory Ecole de musique, Universite Laval, Quebec University of Houston, Moores School of Music, Music Theory Ohio State Univeristy, School of Music, Senior Scholar in Music Cognition (Assoc. Prof. or Prof.) Hofstra University, Music Theory/Composition (Asst. Prof.) The Catholic University of America, Music Theory (Asst. Prof.) University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Theory/Electronic Music (Asst. Prof.) Ohio State University University of Washington 7. New Dissertations mto.96.2.7.dis Buhler, James. "Informal Music Analysis: A Critique of Formalism, Semiology, and Narratology As Discourses on Music." Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1996. Collaros, Pandel, L. "Quanti-MAS: A Quantitative System of Melodic Analysis." Ohio State Univ., 1996. Mak, Su Yin. "Structure, Design, and Rhetoric: Variation Procedures in Selected Instrumental and Vocal Works by Franz Schubert." Eastman School of Music, 1997. Mengozzi, Stefano. "Between Humanistic Ideals and Scientific Thought in Glareanus's *Dodecachordon*." Univ. of Chicago, 1997. Morse, Michael William. ""The Tune in Jazz as a Social Process: Prolegomena to a Sociology of Music." York University (Ontario, Canada), 1996. Wilkinson, Carlton J. "Symphony in Five Movements: A Presentation and Analytical Discussion of a New Work in a Symphonic Form." Rutgers Univ., 1995. 8. New Books mto.96.2.7.bks University of California Press Eric Chafe, Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson, & Robert Winter, The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory Theodore Karp, The Polyphony of Saint Martial and Santiago de Compostela William Kinderman, Beethoven Donald Mitchell, Gustav Mahler: Volume III: Songs and Symphonies Christopher Page, The Owl and the Nightingale: Musical Life and Ideas in France 1100-1300 George Perle, The Operas of Alban Berg John L. Stewart, Ernst Krenek: The Man and His Music Pieter C. Van den Toorn, Stravinsky and the Rite of Spring: The Beginnings of a Musical Language Peter Lang Verlag Laurie-Jeanne Lister, Humor as a Concept in Music Princeton University Press Michael Tanner, Wagner Michael Beckerman, ed., Dvorak and His World Anthony M. Cummings, The Politicized Muse: Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537 Bryan Gilliam, ed., Richard Strauss and His World Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Wagner Androgyne: A Study in Interpretation, trans. Stewart Spencer Frederick Neumann, Ornamentation and Improvisation in Mozart Pierluigi Petrobelli, Music in the Theater: Essays on Verdi and Other Composer, trans. Roger Parker Richard Taruskin, Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue John Tyrrell, Janacek's Operas: A Documentary Account Frank Walker, Hugo Wolf: A Biography Susan Youens, Hugo Wolf: The Vocal Music Prentice-Hall Earl Henry, Sight Singing Rebecca M. Herrold, Mastering the Fundamentals of Music Kent Kennan and Donald Grantham, The Technique of Orchestration, 5th ed. Peter Spencer, The Practice of Harmony, 3rd ed. 9. Advertisements mto.96.2.7.ads Electronic Musicological Review of the Arts (Department of the Federal University of Parana) MacGAMUT 3.0 10. Communications Editor's Message 1. The Internet: Sizing It Up 2. Submissions to MTO 3. MTO Reader Survey ===================== 1. The Internet: Sizing It Up At year's end, the periodical *Internet World*, published by Mecklermedia Corporation, includes an article on the state of the Internet, its size, diversity, growth sectors, internationalization, and, now, commercialization. The recent issue (December 1996) shows that the Net has grown phenomenally over the last twelve months. From mid-1995 to mid-1996, the number of hosts has nearly doubled, from 6.6 to 12.8 million-- "host" in this case defined "as a domain name that has an IP [Internet Protocol] address associated with it" (p. 46). Of course defining "host" according to the number of domain names means that a single physical computer could count as numerous virtual hosts. Still, the number--nearly 13 million--boggles the mind. Only a few years ago, in January 1993, the number stood at a "mere" 3 million. Depending on the surveying agency, statistics vary radically on the number of Internet users in the U.S., from a low of 9 million to a high of 42 million, to a median of 27 million "consistent Internet users." Web users in the U.S. number around 11.5 million (pp. 46-47). Those figures cannot help but impress us. The potential audience for a segment of the Net population interested in a particular subject--say, music theory--is quite large. Our subscribership stands at around 1150, a diminutive figure, to be sure, compared to the latest *Internet World* snapshot of the Net, but significant considering the specialized knowledge required to read MTO with understanding. And readership might be higher because many access MTO through our Web site, without subscribing. I can imagine that a good number of our readers, while interested in music theory, are not professionals in the field, for example psychologists, acousticians, philosophers, and others. I can imagine, too, that such readers might be interested in essays that relate to their engagement with music, and that they might consider contributing to MTO but have held back, perhaps, because of the often highly specialized and technical content of our essays. While MTO is sponsored by a professional organization of music theorists (SMT), the increasing diversity of topics in, and approaches to, theory and analysis opens the way for essays of interest to a wider online audience. As the welcome message sent to new MTO subscribers states, the journal is "a medium for the electronic distribution of items of thought-provoking essays of medium length, and well-conceived works in progress that treat current topics in music theory in a manner accessible to the general scholarly community online." More on that thought below... ------------------ 2. Submissions to MTO Around four weeks prior to the release of each MTO issue, and again two weeks after that, I distribute notices soliciting items for inclusion in the journal. Although those notices ask for the submission of essays and commentaries, responses usually come in the form of dissertation listings, employment vacancies, general announcements, and advertisements. Texts for such items can be sent directly to me, or can be submitted through Web forms for that purpose. I would like, though, to encourage the submission of essays, and commentaries on published MTO essays. One of the advantages of releasing six issues annually is that we can offer year-round opportunities for publication. Further, our referees, consulting editors, and other support staff communicate by email, which substantially reduces the time necessary for taking an essay from review to release. Finally, electronic publishing opens up opportunities for multimedia presentations that are impossible in print. Keep these points in mind the next time a call for MTO items arrives in your emailbox. Keep in mind too that, as mentioned above, I hope to broaden the topics and music- theoretical and analytical ideas presented in MTO by encouraging submissions from authors whose knowledge of other disciplines, combined with their musical knowledge, would benefit us all. MTO welcomes your submissions at any time. (NOTE: Please consult our author guidelines before preparing essays and commentaries.) ------------------ 3. MTO Survey MTO 2.6 (September, 1996) contained a reader survey to help us determine the advisibility of eliminating the plain-text versions of MTO items and contining the journal as an exclusively Web publication (HTML documents only). Many surveys were submitted. We had planned to publish the results of the survey in this issue, but are unable to do so. A new arrival in MTO Manager Robert Judd's family (it's a girl!) prevented him from completing an analysis of surveys and compiling the results. Our next issue, 3.1, scheduled for release toward the end of January, 1997, will carry the results of the survey. For new subscribers, and for veteran subscribers who did not fill out and submit the survey, I will include it here. Please mail it to mto-survey@boethius.music.ucsb.edu. 1. MTO ACCESS a) Do you access MTO via e-mail, gopher, ftp, or the Web? b) Do you normally download/print or do you read online? c) How would you react to eliminating ascii versions of MTO? 2. 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