Newsletter No. 31 (January 2009) (PDF) - Society for Music Analysis

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S M AexecutivecommitteePresidentMichael Spitzermichael.spitzer@durham.ac.ukVice PresidentDanuta Mirkad.mirka@soton.ac.ukEvents OfficerLois Fitchlois.fitch@rncm.ac.ukInformation OfficerTim Rutherford-Johnsontim.johnson77@btopenworld.comAdministrator and TreasurerEdward Venne.venn@lancaster.ac.uksubmissionsThe Society for Music Analysis (SMA)publishes the SMA Newsletter in Januaryand July, with respective submissiondeadlines of 1 November and 1 May.Send materials for submission by email totim.johnson77@btopenworld.com or, ifnecessary, by post to:Tim Rutherford-JohnsonInformation OfficerSMA Newsletter/Website97a Rosebery RoadLondon N10 2LDeditorialThe central feature of the Society‟s 2008was a very successful Music AnalysisConference in Cardiff. The event makes itspresence felt in this issue with a specialreview-article by Arnold Whittall that alsomarks the centenaries of Messiaen andCarter, and three reviews from JosephDubiel, Anthony Gritten and Michael Byde.Reviews Corner also features a review bySimon Jones of our Study Day on Analysingthe Musically Sensuous, held at LiverpoolUniversity in November. As ever, I amgrateful to all contributors to the newsletterfor their submissions.2009 will be one of the Society‟s busiest forsome time. Four exciting SMA events,including our inaugural Summer School inAnalysis, are introduced in Michael‟spresident‟s letter on the opposite page.Posters for each are printed at the end ofthis newsletter and on the events page ofour website. Please feel free to distributecopies of these notices to any colleaguesand students who may be interested.This year should see the launch of aredesigned SMA website. Detailed plans arecurrently ongoing, but it will feature a moreup-to-date look, more information and anumber of new features. Keep an eye onwww.sma.ac.uk for developments.And, as Michael details in his letter, we saythanks and farewell to two long-standingmembers of the executive, William Drabkinand Nick Reyland, and welcome two newmembers in their place, Danuta Mirka andLois Fitch. Both are introduced in thefollowing pages, and I would like to offer myown welcome to the committee to both.Wishing you all a happy, analytical 2009!Tim Rutherford-JohnsonEditorSMA newsletter 2
president’s letterA Happy NewYear to all ourmembers! I hopeyou have had agood Christmas,and that Santahas beengenerous (a newiPod hasrevolutionised myown listeningpractices!). Oneyear into my post,it is with naturallymixed feelingsthat I say farewellto retiring officers, and greet new ones.William Drabkin and Nick Reyland, who bothjoined the Executive Committee in 2005, arestepping down. Bill has given the Societyinestimable service as Vice-President,assisting myself and Amanda Bailey with hiswisdom and council. Perhaps his particularachievement is to have put the SMA‟sschedule of events on a secure financialfooting through a regular grant from the MusicAnalysis Development Fund. The success ofthese events is largely due to Nick‟s dynamicand resourceful leadership; it was Nick whoput the MAC tradition back on the rails after aperiod of uncertainty, and CarMAC would nothave been possible without him. Welcome toDanuta Mirka, our new Vice-President, and toLois Fitch, who succeeds Nick as EventsOfficer. Both bring with them new experiencesand interests, and I look forward to their input.And I‟m grateful to the rest of the team – Ed,Tim, Jo, and Tristian – for their energy andsupport over the last year.It has been a great year of events – theRoadshows, the stimulating Autumn StudyDay at Liverpool, organised by AnahidKassabian, and of course the Society‟sflagship conference at Cardiff. The SMA isenormously grateful to Charles Wilson and histeam for delivering an outstanding conference,which the newsletter reports from threeangles, as well as a thought piece from ArnoldWhittall. It will be a tough act to follow. Eventsin 2009, if not bigger or better, will generallybe longer – catering for the practicality oftravelling to the northern corners of thekingdom. The Spring Study Day at Glasgowand the TAGS at Durham will both occupyweekends, and will feature more keynotespeakers than before. John Butt, who ishosting the „Analysing Bach‟s Passions‟weekend in Glasgow, will be joined by theeminent Bach scholars Laurence Dreyfus andDaniel Melamed. What could be morewonderful than devoting an Easter weekend tothe study of these towering masterpieces,works which have strangely defied analysis?The TAGS Weekend is the first of three eventshappening at Durham this year. I look forwardto welcoming you to one of the mostspectacular city centres in the world. Let mesay a few words about these events. The MayTAGS features two extraordinary phenomena.The first is partimenti – extemporisedharmonic schemas with the potential torevolutionise study of galant and classicalmusic, demonstrating a continuity betweencomposing and performing. The famousAmerican theorist and music psychologistRobert Gjerdingen, whose recent book, Musicin the Galant Style, discovered partimenti, willbe giving the opening address. The otherphenomenon is Rudolph Lutz, Professor ofimprovisation at the Schola CantoriumBasiliensis in Basel, who will be bringingGjerdingen‟s partimenti to life with a keynotepiano and harpsichord recital. ExperiencingLutz‟s genius and charisma in action is likehaving Mozart in front of you. Staying with thegraduate scene, the SMA is proud this July toinaugurate its biennial Music Analysis SummerSchool (www.dur.ac.uk/analysis.school), inassociation with Wiley-Blackwell and the IMR,offering intensive training in four modules ofcurrent music theory: Neo-Riemannianharmony, the New Formenlehre, Semiotics,and Schenker. Teaching, accommodation, andcatering are free – all you need do is get there.August will see the International Conferenceon Music and Emotion(www.dur.ac.uk/music.emotion), initiating theSMA‟s new strategy of alternating MACs withthemed conferences. So why emotion? Thestudy of emotion and affect is of burningimportance in the humanities, as well as thesocial and biological sciences. Philosophers,psychologists and scientists talk about musicalSMA newsletter 3
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