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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) 1993 Society for Music Theory
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| Volume 0, Number 5 November, 1993 ISSN: 1067-3040 |
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General Editor Lee Rothfarb
Co-Editors David Butler
Justin London
Ann McNamee
David Neumeyer
Gregory Proctor
Reviews Editor Claire Boge
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 Natalie Boisvert
Cynthia Gonzales
All queries to: mto-editor@husc.harvard.edu
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SPECIAL NOTE
Please read the "Communications" section below (section 7)
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* * CONTENTS * *
AUTHOR AND TITLE FILENAMES
1. Target Article
John Roeder, Toward a Semiotic Evaluation
of Music Analyses mto.93.0.5.roeder.art
mto.93.0.5.roeder.fig
mto.93.0.5.roeder1.gif
2. Commentaries
None
3. Reviews
None
4. Announcements mto.93.0.5.ann
1. Music Theory Midwest: Annual Conference
2. Music Theory Midwest: Call for Papers
3. Canadian Univ. Music Society: Annual Conference
4. Music Performance and Pedagogy: New Mailing List
5. International Computer Music Conference, 1994
6. Indiana Theory Review: Announcement of New Volume
7. Texas Society for Music Theory: Call for Papers
8. 9th International Congress of Musical Signification
9. Florida State Univ. Theory Society: Annual Meeting
10. Festival of Music by Contemporary Chinese Composers:
Call for Papers
5. Employment mto.93.0.5.job
Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of
the Arts
6. New Dissertations
No listings this issue
7. Communications
a. MTO in RILM
b. Call for materials
c. Farewell to Elizabeth West Marvin, greetings to
Ann McNamee
a. MTO IN RILM
An important step in the life of a journal is
gaining recognition by major bibliographic indexes.
Those interested in monitoring the contents of
MTO, as well as potential authors, may be pleased
to learn that MTO articles will now be indexed in
RILM, one of the main bibliographic indexes of
scholarly music literature.
c. CALL FOR MATERIALS
In order to sustain any scholarly publication, and
to expect serious consideration by university
rank and tenure committees, high-quality material
is crucial. The backbone of each MTO issue is the
target article. Now that MTO has gotten the attention
of RILM, I hope that authors will give MTO serious
consideration as a unique way of sharing and then
discussing their research with the world-wide
community of those interested in music theory and
analysis.
In addition to carrying essays and works in progress,
MTO, with its rapid delivery and bimonthly
appearance, should regularly feature commentaries
on past articles. The dialog in such commentaries
broadens the perspective of issues for MTO
subscribers, and benefits authors in the development
of their ideas. Our last two issues have
unfortunately lacked commentaries. I hope that, as
MTO continues, subscribers will respond to target
articles by submitting formal commentaries for
publication in MTO (50+ lines of text as an arbitrary
threshold), or by posting less formal, shorter
commentaries to smt-list (less than 50 lines of text).
MTO hopes to enlarge the scope of reviews by regularly
including discussions of textbooks and conferences.
I regret to say that MTO has not yet been able to
publish any reviews. I hope that will soon change.
Reviews, like essays, may also stimulate commentaries
(on smt-list and in MTO), which could make for
interesting dialog. Those wishing to review a
book, text, or a conference should contact the current
MTO reviews editor, Claire Boge (boge_claire@msmail.
muohio.edu) to discuss an assignment, and to get the
guidelines for preparing electronic texts for MTO.
d. FAREWELL AND GREETINGS
Due to an increased workload, Elizabeth West
Marvin (Eastman School of Music) has notified
me that she will be unable to continue as a
co-editor. I thank her for her participation
in early discussions, on smt-list and on a
special co-editor's list, about how to organize
and disbribute MTO. In Elizabeth's place, I
welcome Ann McNamee (Swarthmore College) to the
MTO co-editorial board. I thank her once again
for providing the target article in the last issue
of MTO, and look forward to working with her and
others on the co-editorial board in improving MTO
and assuring its future as a unique new journal
for the dissemination of research in music theory.
Lee A. Rotharb, Editor
mto-editor@husc.harvard.edu
mto-editor@husc.bitnet
8. Copyright Statement
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Overview:
1. Retrieving MTO Items
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, at 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 "information.txt" (see below,
on retrieving MTO documentation).
2. SUBSCRIBING TO MTO
To subscribe to MTO, send an email message to one of the following
"listserver" addresses:
listserver@husc.harvard.edu (Internet)
listserver@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-j YourFirstName YourLastName
You will receive a message confirming your subscription. Once the
subscription is confirmed, to receive the MTO Guide send a message to
one of the "listserver" addresses shown above, and as the body of the
message include the single line: information mto-j
To cancel a subscription, send the following single line to one of the
"listserver" addresses (not to mto-serv!): unsubscribe mto-j
[NOTE: Do not send email to the "listserver" addresses for anything
other than initiating and terminating subscriptions to MTO. Further,
do not send email to mto-j@husc. mto-j 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-j@husc, *nor* use a "reply" command on email distributed through
mto-j.]
3. RETRIEVING MTO DOCUMENTATION
Several MTO explanatory documents are available through mto-serv:
information.txt (the MTO Guide, also retrievable from "listserver")
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 "listserver" 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@husc.harvard.edu (Internet)
mto-editor@husc.bitnet (Bitnet)
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Copyright Statement
[1] Music Theory Online (MTO) as a whole is Copyright (c) 1993,
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.
[2] Any redistributed form of items published in MTO must
include the following information in a form appropriate to
the medium in which the items are to appear:
This item appeared in Music Theory Online
in [VOLUME #, ISSUE #] on [DAY/MONTH/YEAR].
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
form for public access so long as each issue is stored in its
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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END OF MTO TABLE OF CONTENTS