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SMT-V 5.3 Joshua Banks Mailman,"Babbitt’s Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside; Part III: Opportunities" from 2019-03-24T02:05:04
Babbitt’s relatively early composition _Semi-Simple Variations_ (1956) presents intriguing surface patterns that are not determined by its pre-compositional plan, but rather result from subsequent ...
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SMT-V 5.2 Joshua Banks Mailman,"Babbitt’s Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside; Part II: Diversities" from 2019-03-24T02:04:04
Babbitt’s pre-compositional structures (partial orderings) serve as a series of game-like rules affecting the composition of surface details we hear. Especially in Babbitt’s late works (post-1980) ...
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SMT-V 5.1 Joshua Banks Mailman,“Babbitt’s Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside; Part I: Freedoms" from 2019-03-24T02:01:10
Milton Babbitt has been a controversial and iconic figure, which has indirectly led to fallacious assumptions about how his music is made, and therefore to fundamental misconceptions about how it m...
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SMT-V 4.3 Carmel Raz,"Anne Young's Introduction to Music (1803)_ Pedagogical, Speculative, and Ludic Music Theory" from 2018-11-25T13:15:51
Though ostensibly designed to explain a set of pedagogical games geared toward children, An Introduction to Music (1803)—a treatise by the Scottish music theorist Anne Young (1756-1827)—advances so...
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MT-V 4.1- Christopher Doll,“Was it Diegetic, or Just a Dream? Music's Paradoxical Place in the Film Inception" from 2018-04-19T18:09:40
Between "diegetic" film music (heard by the characters) and "nondiegetic" film music (heard only by the audience) is a paradoxical space called the "fantastical gap." A film such as Inception (2010...
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SMTV 3.3. Stephen Rodgers,"Music, Poetry, and Performance in a Song by Maria Schneider" from 2017-12-26T22:09:16
In this video I explore the way song composers respond not just to the meanings of words but also to their sounds. Using a song from Maria Schneider’s 2013 song cycle Winter Morning Walks as a case...
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SMT-V: 3.2-J. Daniel Jenkins,“Schoenberg’s‘Advice for Beginners in Composition with Twelve Tones’” from 2017-06-08T16:38:16
In 1951, Schoenberg received a letter from composer Humphrey Searle asking Schoenberg to record a lecture for the BBC radio program “Music Magazine.” Schoenberg immediately proposed a subject, “Adv...
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SMT-V 3.1: L. Poundie Burstein, with Quynh Nguyen (piano),"Parenthetic Aside in a 1789 Analysis of Mozart’s K. 284" from 2017-02-19T01:37:02
In a 1789 treatise, the Darmstadt musician J.G. Portmann presents what amounts to a multi-level harmonic analysis of Mozart’s Sonata for Piano in D, K. 284, I. Portmann’s interpretation of the move...
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SMT-V 2.3: Steven Reale,“Variations on a Theme by a Rogue A.I.: Music, Gameplay, and Storytelling in Portal 2”(Part 2 of 2) from 2016-12-19T22:32:29
This two-video series explores how the scoring to the video game Portal 2, published by Valve Corporation, not only helps tell the game’s story, but also comments on the game developers’ philosophy...
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SMT-V 2.2: Steven B. Reale,“Variations on a Theme by a Rogue A.I.: Music, Gameplay, and Storytelling in Portal 2”(Part 1 of 2) from 2016-08-04T16:58:55
This two-video series explores how the scoring to the video game Portal 2, published by Valve Corporation, not only helps tell the game’s story, but also comments on the game developers’ philosophy...
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