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1. New Staff Members
As announced in the last issue of MTO (3.5), a few staff members
completed their terms, and new members have been appointed in
their places. Ichiro Fujinaga will take over as MTO Manager.
Fujinaga received his B.Sc. (honors) in Mathematics (1979) and
B.Mus. in Percussion and Music Theory (1982) at University of
Alberta, where he studied with Wesley Berg, Alfred Fisher, and
Malcolm Forsyth. He received his M.A. in Music Theory (1989)
and Ph.D. in Music Technology (1997) at McGill University,
where he studied with Bo Alphonce, William Caplin, Brian Cherney,
Mary Cyr, Bruce Pennycook, and Janet Schmalfeldt. He has been
on the faculty of the Computer Music Department at the Peabody
Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University, since
1993. He is also the Associate Director of Information
Technology. His principal area of research is optical music
recognition. Other interests include lazy learning
(exemplar-based learning), digital signal processing, pattern
recognition, and music perception.
Robert Gjerdingen will take over as MTO Reviews Editor.
Gjerdingen has taught music theory and history at
Carleton College, University of Michigan, Harvard, Stony Brook, and
Northwestern. His research interests are in the psychology
of music and in 18th-century musical style. He has served
on the Executive Board of SMT, the Editorial Board of JAMS,
and is an Associate Editor of Music Perception.
Jay Rahn has been appointed mto-talk Manager. Best known for
his Theory for All Music (1983), Rahn has written extensively
on history and philosophy of music theory, focusing on basic
concepts underlying scales, tunings, meter, form, and texture
in cross and trans-cultural perspective. Editor of the
Canadian Journal for Traditional Music, he has published
several analytic studies of French and English-language
traditional song, and co-authored a recent book on the life and
music of LaRena Clark (1994). He is Former Chair and continuing
Music Coordinator of Atkinson College's Fine Arts Department,
has contributed to York's Graduate Program in the
musicology/ethnomusicology of contemporary cultures, and directs
York's degree programs in Music Education. His current research
concerns perception, pedagogy, and vernacular harmony.
Henry Klumpenhouwer joins Cathy Nolan and Justin London on the
MTO Co-editorial Board. Klumpenhouwer is Associate Professor
in the Music Department at the University of Alberta, where he
also serves as the Secretary of the newly formed Institute for
Popular Music. His work, which has appeared in the Journal of
Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum, Perspectives of New
Music, Music Theory Online, Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie,
and Music/Ideology, deals with the analysis of 20th century
musics, history of theory, Marxist approaches to theory and
analysis, as well as to general aspects of cultural studies.
I am delighted with our new staff members and look forward to
working with them. Their talents and skills are most welcome
as MTO moves into its sixth year.
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2. Internet Statistics
Periodically, I devote a short section of my message to the state
of the Internet. Since we had no December issue on account of
the late release of volume 3.5, I will mention a few recent Net
statistics here. The days of the Internet being populated
chiefly by the military, research scientists of various types,
and academics is long gone. The increasing commercialization of
the Net and the phenomenal growth since around 1994 of its
multimedia dimension through the World-Wide Web have diversified
and expanded the Net--as well as, alas, traffic on it--to a
degree hardly imaginable only a few years ago. A recent survey
by Nielsen Media Research, published in the Wall Street Journal
(http://www.wsj.com), shows that there are now 58 million adults
in the U.S. and Canada online (based on interviews with 9,000+
people). That represents an increase of 15% over the Nielsen
estimate of 51 million just six months ago. Between 20-25% of
those interviewed said they go online daily. International Data
Corporation estimates that 40 million American households will
be connected to the Net by the year 2001 (http://www.idcresearch.
com/f/idcf.htm). The number of Internet users continues to grow
worldwide as well. Alone AOL subscribers outside the U.S. have
grown to one million, about 10% of AOL's ten million subscribers.
Estimating the worldwide Internet population is difficult
and depends on various factors and interpretive decisions.
Estimates vary widely. NUA, an Ireland-based Internet
Consultancy and Developer (http://www.nua.ie/) which
publishes a weekly electronic newsletter that includes
various statistical reports (http://www.nua.ie/surveys/),
puts the current number of Internet users worldwide at an
astounding 90.4 million (http://www.nua.ie/how_many_online/index.html).
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3. Virtual Poster Session: Multimedia Forum
Former Co-editorial Board member Dave Headlam has been appointed
Director of SMT's Virtual Poster Session (VPS). As his article
in MTO 3.5 makes clear, Dave is highly skilled and experienced
in multimedia authoring, in which he has been involved for the
past several years. In addition to the VPS objective of providing
a central resource leading to music-theoretical work in the form
of poster sessions, one of Dave's goals with VPS is to provide
practical information for those interested in learning about the
tools and techniques of multimedia authoring. VPS will thus
become a valuable reference for MTO authors who would like to take
advantage of the multimedia potential offered by an electronic
journal. I look forward to visiting the VPS page and watching its
development under Headlam, and encourage MTO subscribers to do
the same.
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4. SMT Book Pages
A few weeks after the SMT annual meeting in Phoenix, a message
about two new online services was broadcast to the SMT general
mailing list (smt-list): the Used Book Corner and Book Seekers
pages. Private individuals (not commercial interests) who have
music-theory related materials that they would like to sell (e.g.
monographs, texts, scores) are invited to post information on
those items in the Used Book Corner. Individuals seeking theory
matierials (e.g. hard-to-find or out-of-print items) may post
information on the Book Seekers page. SMT hopes that these two
new services will assist scholars in locating research materials
for purchase, and in selling materials they no longer need.
Those who use the services should be aware SMT neither warrants
nor bears any responsibility for arrangements or terms of sale
worked out between buyers and sellers.
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Lee A. Rothfarb, General Editor
Music Theory Online
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6070
U.S.A.
mto-editor@societymusictheory.org
voice: (805) 893-7527 (with voice mail)
fax: (805) 893-7194
