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Teaching the “Theory of ‘Sweet Sounds:’” Sarah Mary Fitton’s 1855 Conversations on Harmony as Public Music Theory

Paula Maust December 15, 2022

In 1855, Sarah Mary Fitton (c.1796–1874) anonymously published a harmony book covering topics ranging from the rudiments of Western classical

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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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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 I

Farzad Daemi Milani August 29, 2022

The introduction of Western music and the consequent application of Western music notation became customary gradually from the Qajar period

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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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Watching the Ether: An Irreplicable Experiment on Pitch-Pipes (Part I)

Sheryl Chow March 22, 2022

In 1672, on the twelfth day of the eighth month of the eleventh year of the Kangxi reign (r. 1662–1722),

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Watching the Ether: An Irreplicable Experiment on Pitch-Pipes (Part II)

Sheryl Chow March 22, 2022

[…] Continuation of Part I […] In the last blog post, we have seen that officials who failed to obtain

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