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Research paper thumbnail of July 29, 1989: A Talk with Ben (About Writing Meta-Variations and Other Things)

Perspectives of New Music, 2006

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Research paper thumbnail of July 29, 1989: A Talk with Ben (About Writing Meta-Variations and Other Things)

Perspectives of New Music, 2006

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Research paper thumbnail of Modulation

Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2003

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Research paper thumbnail of Transposition

Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2003

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Research paper thumbnail of Scale

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Research paper thumbnail of Teaching Music Slowly

Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Listening and Possessing

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2018

How do people relate to the music they value? Listening is a central relation, but there are many... more How do people relate to the music they value? Listening is a central relation, but there are many others. As Charles Keil observed, people may find music, be invaded by music, use music, participate in music, and so on. This chapter explores a relation that may be called possessing music or owning music. Theodor W. Adorno and Simon Frith both emphasized such relations in the context of their very different accounts of mass-media music. A psychoanalytic approach, drawing on the ideas of Melanie Klein and D. W. Winnicott, clarifies the nature of these relations. A close reading of ethnographic interviews from the collection My Music shows some of the specific forms that such relations can take, which are different for every individual.

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Research paper thumbnail of Narración, drama y emoción en la música instrumental

Quodlibet Revista De Especializacion Musical, 2003

Es una traduccion de: Narrative, drama and emotion in instrumental music. Publicado en "The ... more Es una traduccion de: Narrative, drama and emotion in instrumental music. Publicado en "The Joumal of aesthetics and art crlticism" 55:3 (verano de 1997). Ed. Blackwell

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Research paper thumbnail of La música como drama

Quodlibet Revista De Especializacion Musical, 2004

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Research paper thumbnail of Music as Narrative

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Research paper thumbnail of Ethnomusicology, Music Curricula, and the Centrality of Classical Music

College Music Symposium

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Research paper thumbnail of Musical performance as analytical communication

Performance and Authenticity in the Arts

Music theorists often suggest that performance can communicate analytical insights. I disagree, a... more Music theorists often suggest that performance can communicate analytical insights. I disagree, arguing both experientially and by an analogy with Donald Davidson's philosophy of language. Composition and performance are better understood as stages in a unified process; thus, both as composition or, perhaps better, both as performance. First written and presented 1989, revised 1997-98.

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Research paper thumbnail of Classical Instrumental Music and Narrative

A Companion to Narrative Theory

Overview of field, published in 2005. File will not open at academia.edu but may be downloaded.

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Research paper thumbnail of Glamour and evasion: the fabulous ambivalence of the Pet Shop Boys

Popular Music, 2001

Shifty harmonies in ‘West End Girls’This first section is for readers interested in technical mus... more Shifty harmonies in ‘West End Girls’This first section is for readers interested in technical musical analysis. Others may wish to skip ahead to the next section: while one of my goals is to link technical, interpretive and political concerns, it is possible to read this paper with relatively little attention to the technicalities.At the beginning of the Pet Shop Boys' ‘West End Girls’, after some street sounds and a sustained chord, there is a three-chord progression (Cmaj7, D, E), mingling harmonies from the keys of e minor and E major (0:21-0:24; see Example 1). The bass-line goes up, with a major triad over each note; only the third chord is free of additional, dissonant notes. The second chord sounds like a way of passing smoothly from the first one to the third.

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Research paper thumbnail of A Conversation about Feminism and Music

Perspectives of New Music, 1994

Page 1. A CONVERSATION ABOUT FEMINISM AND MUSIC PAULINE OLIVEROS AND FRED MAUS INTRODUCTION THE C... more Page 1. A CONVERSATION ABOUT FEMINISM AND MUSIC PAULINE OLIVEROS AND FRED MAUS INTRODUCTION THE COMPOSER Pauline Oliveros has often written about music; her writings from 1963 to 1980 are collected in a book called Software for ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Masculine Discourse in Music Theory

Perspectives of New Music, 1993

WHAT RELATION might music theory have to feminist thought?1 This question might be heard as propo... more WHAT RELATION might music theory have to feminist thought?1 This question might be heard as proposing an interdisciplinary linkage, a cooperation between two initially self-sufficient discourses. But before trying to construct such a linkage, it is important to consider ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Music as Drama

Music Theory Spectrum, 1988

... same details? No account of music as a loose conjunction between, on one hand, ingeniously pa... more ... same details? No account of music as a loose conjunction between, on one hand, ingeniously patterned sounds, and on the other hand, ex-pressions or evocations of various emotional states, will be plau-sible. A better account ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Intimacy and Distance: On Stipe's Queerness

Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2006

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Research paper thumbnail of Three Songs about Privacy, by R.E.M

Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Response to Lawrence Rosenwald

The Journal of Musicology, 1993

... "This is exactly the kind of 5 Babbitt, Words about Music, ed. by Steven Dembski and... more ... "This is exactly the kind of 5 Babbitt, Words about Music, ed. by Steven Dembski and Joseph Straus (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987), pp. ... RESPONSE TO ROSENWALD thing you often miss in Schenker: explicit discussion of motivic par-allelism..." (p. 133). ...

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Research paper thumbnail of July 29, 1989: A Talk with Ben (About Writing Meta-Variations and Other Things)

Perspectives of New Music, 2006

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Research paper thumbnail of July 29, 1989: A Talk with Ben (About Writing Meta-Variations and Other Things)

Perspectives of New Music, 2006

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Research paper thumbnail of Modulation

Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2003

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Research paper thumbnail of Transposition

Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2003

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Research paper thumbnail of Scale

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Research paper thumbnail of Teaching Music Slowly

Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Listening and Possessing

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2018

How do people relate to the music they value? Listening is a central relation, but there are many... more How do people relate to the music they value? Listening is a central relation, but there are many others. As Charles Keil observed, people may find music, be invaded by music, use music, participate in music, and so on. This chapter explores a relation that may be called possessing music or owning music. Theodor W. Adorno and Simon Frith both emphasized such relations in the context of their very different accounts of mass-media music. A psychoanalytic approach, drawing on the ideas of Melanie Klein and D. W. Winnicott, clarifies the nature of these relations. A close reading of ethnographic interviews from the collection My Music shows some of the specific forms that such relations can take, which are different for every individual.

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Research paper thumbnail of Narración, drama y emoción en la música instrumental

Quodlibet Revista De Especializacion Musical, 2003

Es una traduccion de: Narrative, drama and emotion in instrumental music. Publicado en "The ... more Es una traduccion de: Narrative, drama and emotion in instrumental music. Publicado en "The Joumal of aesthetics and art crlticism" 55:3 (verano de 1997). Ed. Blackwell

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Research paper thumbnail of La música como drama

Quodlibet Revista De Especializacion Musical, 2004

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Research paper thumbnail of Music as Narrative

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Research paper thumbnail of Ethnomusicology, Music Curricula, and the Centrality of Classical Music

College Music Symposium

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Research paper thumbnail of Musical performance as analytical communication

Performance and Authenticity in the Arts

Music theorists often suggest that performance can communicate analytical insights. I disagree, a... more Music theorists often suggest that performance can communicate analytical insights. I disagree, arguing both experientially and by an analogy with Donald Davidson's philosophy of language. Composition and performance are better understood as stages in a unified process; thus, both as composition or, perhaps better, both as performance. First written and presented 1989, revised 1997-98.

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Research paper thumbnail of Classical Instrumental Music and Narrative

A Companion to Narrative Theory

Overview of field, published in 2005. File will not open at academia.edu but may be downloaded.

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Research paper thumbnail of Glamour and evasion: the fabulous ambivalence of the Pet Shop Boys

Popular Music, 2001

Shifty harmonies in ‘West End Girls’This first section is for readers interested in technical mus... more Shifty harmonies in ‘West End Girls’This first section is for readers interested in technical musical analysis. Others may wish to skip ahead to the next section: while one of my goals is to link technical, interpretive and political concerns, it is possible to read this paper with relatively little attention to the technicalities.At the beginning of the Pet Shop Boys' ‘West End Girls’, after some street sounds and a sustained chord, there is a three-chord progression (Cmaj7, D, E), mingling harmonies from the keys of e minor and E major (0:21-0:24; see Example 1). The bass-line goes up, with a major triad over each note; only the third chord is free of additional, dissonant notes. The second chord sounds like a way of passing smoothly from the first one to the third.

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Research paper thumbnail of A Conversation about Feminism and Music

Perspectives of New Music, 1994

Page 1. A CONVERSATION ABOUT FEMINISM AND MUSIC PAULINE OLIVEROS AND FRED MAUS INTRODUCTION THE C... more Page 1. A CONVERSATION ABOUT FEMINISM AND MUSIC PAULINE OLIVEROS AND FRED MAUS INTRODUCTION THE COMPOSER Pauline Oliveros has often written about music; her writings from 1963 to 1980 are collected in a book called Software for ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Masculine Discourse in Music Theory

Perspectives of New Music, 1993

WHAT RELATION might music theory have to feminist thought?1 This question might be heard as propo... more WHAT RELATION might music theory have to feminist thought?1 This question might be heard as proposing an interdisciplinary linkage, a cooperation between two initially self-sufficient discourses. But before trying to construct such a linkage, it is important to consider ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Music as Drama

Music Theory Spectrum, 1988

... same details? No account of music as a loose conjunction between, on one hand, ingeniously pa... more ... same details? No account of music as a loose conjunction between, on one hand, ingeniously patterned sounds, and on the other hand, ex-pressions or evocations of various emotional states, will be plau-sible. A better account ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Intimacy and Distance: On Stipe's Queerness

Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2006

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Research paper thumbnail of Three Songs about Privacy, by R.E.M

Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Response to Lawrence Rosenwald

The Journal of Musicology, 1993

... "This is exactly the kind of 5 Babbitt, Words about Music, ed. by Steven Dembski and... more ... "This is exactly the kind of 5 Babbitt, Words about Music, ed. by Steven Dembski and Joseph Straus (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987), pp. ... RESPONSE TO ROSENWALD thing you often miss in Schenker: explicit discussion of motivic par-allelism..." (p. 133). ...

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Research paper thumbnail of "What if music IS sex?"

Presentation for a conference in New York City, December 2015, in honor of Suzanne Cusick's resea... more Presentation for a conference in New York City, December 2015, in honor of Suzanne Cusick's research and teaching in musicology. The paper is partly memories of my interactions with Suzanne, and includes comments on her paper "On a Lesbian Relationship with Music."

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