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SMT-V
SMT-V is a peer-reviewed video journal showcasing original research in music theory.
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SMT-V 5.3 Joshua Banks Mailman, "Babbitt’s Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside; Part III: Opportunities"
Babbitt’s relatively early composition _Semi-Simple Variations_ (1956) presents intriguing surface patterns that are not determined by its pre-composi...
SMT-V 5.2 Joshua Banks Mailman, "Babbitt’s Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside; Part II: Diversities"
Babbitt’s pre-compositional structures (partial orderings) serve as a series of game-like rules affecting the composition of surface details we hear....
SMT-V 5.1 Joshua Banks Mailman, “Babbitt’s Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside; Part I: Freedoms"
Milton Babbitt has been a controversial and iconic figure, which has indirectly led to fallacious assumptions about how his music is made, and therefo...
SMT-V 4.3 Carmel Raz, "Anne Young's Introduction to Music (1803)_ Pedagogical, Speculative, and Ludic Music Theory"
Though ostensibly designed to explain a set of pedagogical games geared toward children, An Introduction to Music (1803)—a treatise by the Scottish mu...
MT-V 4.1- Christopher Doll, “Was it Diegetic, or Just a Dream? Music's Paradoxical Place in the Film Inception"
Between "diegetic" film music (heard by the characters) and "nondiegetic" film music (heard only by the audience) is a paradoxical space called the "f...
SMTV 3.3. Stephen Rodgers, "Music, Poetry, and Performance in a Song by Maria Schneider"
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...
SMT-V: 3.2-J. Daniel Jenkins, “Schoenberg’s ‘Advice for Beginners in Composition with Twelve Tones’”
In 1951, Schoenberg received a letter from composer Humphrey Searle asking Schoenberg to record a lecture for the BBC radio program “Music Magazine.”...
SMT-V 3.1: L. Poundie Burstein, with Quynh Nguyen (piano), "Parenthetic Aside in a 1789 Analysis of Mozart’s K. 284"
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...
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)
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 a...
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)
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 a...