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Volume 6, Number 2,  May 2000 ISSN 1067-3040
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Table of Contents

1. Articles

Michael Tenzer (University of British Columbia), Theory and Analysis of Melody in Balinese Gamelan [Frames] [No frames]

2. Commentary

Raymond Monelle, Martinez's Concept of "Intrinsic Semiosis" 

3. Review

Yrjo Heinonen, Review of Walter Everett, The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999

4. Announcements

• Editor Sought: Perspectives of New Music

• Research Request: Biographical Information on Twentieth-Century Polish Composers

• New E-mail discussion list: Royal Musical Association

• Conference Announcement: Acoustics and Music: Theory and Applications

• Conference Announcement: International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music

• Conference Announcement: 2nd Symposium on Systems Research in the Arts

• Call for Papers: Popular Music Today: Objects, Practices, Approaches

• Call for Papers: Oxford Music Analysis Conference

• Call For Papers: Music IR 2000

• Online Catalogues Available: British Library Manuscripts

• Request for Encyclopedia Assistance: Nupeida.com

• Call for Papers/Presentations/Panel Discussions: 2001 SCI Student National Conference.

• Spring 2000 Colloquium Schedule, University of Chicago Music Dept.

• Conference Information: Music Theory Midwest 2000

• Event Announcement: CMS ARIA Institute

• Call for Papers: Music and AIDS

5. Employment

• Universite Laval: Assistant Professor of Composition
• Middle Tennessee State University (two positions): Music Theory/Composition, Musicologist/Ethnomusicologist
• George Washington University: Music Theory (one-year)
• University of Zurich: Professor in Ethnomusicology and Social Anthropology

6. New Dissertations

• Capuzzo, Guy. "Variety Within Unity: Expressive Ends and their Technical Means in the Music of Elliott Carter, 1983-1994." Eastman School of Music, 1999.
• Dodds, Michael R. "The Baroque Church Tones in Theory and Practice." University of Rochester, 1999. 
• Harris, Joseph H. "Harmony in Olivier Messiaen's Eclairs sur l'Au-Dela." University of Iowa, 2000.
• Herlin, Thomas R. "Carl Ruggles and the Viennese Tradition: A Comparative Analysis." University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.
• Johnson, Shersten R. "Hearing the Unvoiceable: Writer's Block in Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice." University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001.
• Nicholson, G. Gordon. "The Experience of Successful Contemporary Classical Musical Composition for Non- Computer-Assisted Performance: A Qualitative Study." Saybrook Institute (San Fransisco, CA), 1997.
• Rifkin, Deborah. "Tonal Coherence in Prokofiev's Music: A Study of the Interrelationships of Structure, Motives, and Design." Eastman School of Music, 2000.
• Samplaski, Arthur G. "A Comparison of Perceived Chord Similarity with Predictions of Selected Twentieth- Century Chord-Classification Systems, using Multidimensional Scaling and Cluster Analysis." Indiana University, 2000.

7. Books

• Carciofoli
  • Elaine Barkin & Lydia Hamessley, eds. Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music.

8. Editor's Comments

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