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What Kind of Brain? A Reply to Megan K. Long

Stefano Mengozzi October 21, 2022

Prof. Long’s recent observations on hexachordal solmization raise several issues that cannot be fully teased out in blog format. The

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A Hybrid (Abjadic-Metric) Notation for Seventeen-Tone Temperament of Persian Music (یک روش نت‌نویسی تلفیقی (ابجدی-نقطه‌ای) برای گام هفده-نغمه‌ای موسیقی ایرانی) Part II

Farzad Daemi Milani August 29, 2022

[…] Continuation of: Part I Mehdi-Qoli Hedāyat (1863–1955) (also known as Mokhber-al Saltaneh) (Figure 1), is the twentieth-century Persian musicologist

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This is Your Brain on Hexachordal Solmization

Megan Kaes Long August 26, 2022

Recently, I posed a question on Twitter: what kind of solmization system(s) were you brought up on, and to what

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North American Music Theory and the Early Internet

Miriam Piilonen July 28, 2022

“Hah! It’s poetry in motion She turned her tender eyes to me As deep as any ocean As sweet as

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The Golden Book of Chinese Music Theory

Richard Cohn June 3, 2022

In 1978, archaeologists working in Hubei Province, China, uncovered a royal tomb from 433 B.C. Among the twenty musical instruments is

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Colonial Organology and Ornithology in Richard Ligon’s Acoustics of Anthropological Difference (Part II)

Andrew J. Chung May 23, 2022

[…] Continuation of Part I […] Music theoretical judgments help to articulate Ligon’s understandings of the human as a category

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Colonial Organology and Ornithology in Richard Ligon’s Acoustics of Anthropological Difference (Part I)

Andrew J. Chung May 23, 2022

Among early modern colonizers’ narratives of the invasion and expropriation of the so-called New World, a great many and perhaps

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Arabic Music Theory and Manuscript Studies: Greek Notation in al-Fārābī’s Great Book on Music?

Marcel Camprubí April 10, 2022

Arabic music theory from the Abbasid period (750–1258) is a rich and sophisticated tradition that incorporates ancient Greek thought into

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Should We Burn the Pianos?: Introducing A Collaborative Project Focused on Building “New Instruments for Theory” 

Daniel Walden November 1, 2021

Enter just about any room of a Western-style conservatory or music department, and you will probably stumble into a piano. 

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The Planets Cannot Sing! : Al-Fārābī on Music Theory and Practice

Yasemin Gökpınar October 26, 2021

 In his Great Book on Music, Abū Naṣr al‑Fārābī (d. 339/950) appeals to the science of nature (physics) and in

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Stories of Translation; or, Translation as Music Theory

Edwin K. C. Li April 2, 2021

Translation plays a key role in the circulation of histories of music theory across the globe; yet stories of translation

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Reimagining Formalism for an Antiracist Music Theory (Part II)

Jade Conlee and Tatiana Koike March 18, 2021

[…] Continuation of: Part I In order to theorize high-level relationships within musical structure, music theory as it is currently

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