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The Marginalium

Reimagining Formalism for an Antiracist Music Theory (Part I)

Jade Conlee and Tatiana Koike March 8, 2021

Jade Conlee and Tatiana Koike If music theory is a kind of worldmaking, what world, what political matrix, does music

Fétis’s Racial Frame of Tonality (Part II)

Thomas Christensen September 29, 2020

[…] Continuation of: Part I I have to admit it was a rude shock when I learned of Fétis’s virulent

Fétis’s Racial Frame of Tonality (Part I)

Thomas Christensen September 29, 2020

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that Philip Ewell’s SMT plenary talk last year on music theory’s “White racial

Can the History of Theory Be Decentered? Part V – Some FAQs (and not-so-FAQs)

Alexander Rehding April 3, 2020

[…] Continuation of: IV. Pros and cons […] What are the dangers of this plan? What if it is taught badly?

Can the History of Theory Be Decentered? Part IV – Pros and cons

Alexander Rehding April 3, 2020

[…] Continuation of: III. Some Consequences […] One possible criticism of the design I sketch out here is that it provides

Can the History of Theory Be Decentered? Part III – Some Consequences

Alexander Rehding April 3, 2020

[…] Continuation of: II. Five Different Classics […] Writing a diverse HoT will require an embrace of the limits of what one

Can the History of Theory Be Decentered? Part II – Five Different Classics

Alexander Rehding April 3, 2020

[…] Continuation of: I. Prequel: Five Classics […] But there was no resting on laurels. No sooner had I completed the syllabus

Can the History of Theory Be Decentered? Part I – Prequel: Five Classics

Alexander Rehding April 3, 2020

Until fairly recently, Harvard’s History of Music Theory exam was rather free-wheeling.[1] It allowed our graduate students to focus

The Influence of Riemann (and Richter) on Music Theory in Scandinavia

Thomas Jul Kirkegaard-Larsen March 4, 2019

Even though it is well known that Hugo Riemann’s function theory traveled far and wide beyond the boundaries of German-speaking

A Princely Manuscript at the National Library of China — Part I: Guido’s Hexachords and the 18th-century Chinese Opera Reform

Zhuqing (Lester) Hu February 1, 2019

Originally from the court library of the Qing Empire (1636-1912), National Library of China Putong Guji 15251 (c. 1707) is

Rhythm, Number, and Heraclitus’ River

David E. Cohen August 21, 2018

The following short passage was recorded by an anonymous student of Aristotle or his school in the section on music

Storms in Chang-an: On the Music Debate of Kai-huang Period

Rujing Huang April 11, 2018

In its pursuit of national rejuvenation, the Xi administration in China has shown a renewed interest for traditional culture. Integral

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