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Tnewsletter S VOLUME 22, M NUMBER 1 February 1999 STnewsletterA PUBLICATION OF THE SOCIETY FOR MUSIC THEORY IN THIS Issue… 1998 PUBLICATION AWARDS SMT AWARDS The 1998 SMT Publication Award winners are Robert Snarrenberg, Christopher Hasty, and Naomi Cumming. The recipients were announced and the following citations read at the Society’s annual meeting in Chapel Hill on Saturday, Pages 1–2 December 5, immediately preceding the Plenary Session. The Young Scholar Award is granted to a scholar for a book or article published within seven years of receiving SMT OFFI- the Ph.D. or, in the case of authors who do not have a Ph.D., before reaching the age of 40. The Award was given CERS AND to Robert Snarrenberg for his Schenker’s Interpretive Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1997), which is “an COMMITTEES elegantly composed study of Heinrich Schenker’s work that draws together close reading, historical detail, and Sidebars, critical insight. Working towards the definition of Schenker’s basic concepts, Snarrenberg shows us how definition Pages 2–4 cannot be abstracted from the larger context, from the scene of Schenker’s writing. We are invited to participate in Schenker’s grand project, and, in fact, are shown our stake in that project. And through this, Schenker is recreated as a very human, even poignant figure.” Robert Snarrenberg is Associate Professor of Music Theory at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. NEWS FROM The Outstanding Publication Award, granted for a distinguished music theory article published during the last three THE SOCIETY years, was given to Naomi Cumming for “The Subjectivities of ‘Erbarme Dich’” (Music Analysis 16), a groundbreaking article on subjectivity and its consequence for our understanding of expressive meaning in music. Drawing on Pages 2–8 current approaches to ‘voice,’ gesture, and agency in music, Cumming integrates semiotic, aesthetic, Schenkerian, and theological insights into the various subjectivities projected by Bach’s celebrated Passion aria. Profound in its philosophical investigations, and wide-ranging in its analytical claims, the article presents one of the most comprehensive accounts of how we interpret and, at times, identify with implied subjectivities in both vocal and instrumental music.” GENERAL Naomi Cumming was the Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. NEWS The Wallace Berry Award, granted to a distinguished music theory book published during the last three years, was Pages 9–10 given to Christopher Hasty for Meter as Rhythm (Oxford University Press, 1997), “which impresses us immediately by the manner in which it pursues its course. Its principal argument unfolds slowly and inexorably; no conceivable aspect of the terrain is left unexamined, and all is addressed with the same generous, sympathetic, and—above CALLS FOR all—philosophically responsible tone. It never once raises its voice, never veers off course, but proceeds always PAPERS, with remarkable control and consummate intelligence in pursuit of its unprecedented agenda. The book indeed asks UPCOMING much of us, for it challenges us to take seriously the claim that experiential temporality is the constitutive experience CONFER- of music; in doing so, it challenges us to participate in a radical rethinking of what is perhaps the most ingrained ENCES dichotomy in modern Western musical thought. As its title proclaims, it challenges us to reconceive meter as rhythm.” Page 10–12 Christopher Hasty is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. The 1998 Awards Committee was chaired by Daniel Harrison and was comprised of Leslie Blasius, Scott Burnham, Robert Hatten, Janna Saslaw, and Charles Smith. Nominations for next year’s SMT Publication Awards are strongly encouraged from all members of SMT and should be directed to Leslie Blasius, Chair, 1999 SMT Awards Committee, SUMMER School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 455 N. Park Street, Madison WI 53706–1483, on or before April 1. WORKSHOP Books and articles in English (excluding unpublished dissertations) published between 1996 and 1998 are eligible. OPPORTUNI- A nomination form is enclosed with this edition of the SMT Newsletter. You can also make nominations online using TIES a link from the main menu on the SMT homepage, or directly at <http://smt.ucsb.edu/smt-list/nominate.html>. See Pages 12–13 the nominations form for additional eligibility guidelines. REGIONAL SOCIETY NEWS AND CONtaCTS Pages 13–15 CALENDAR OF EVENTS AND DEAD- LINES Robert Snarrenberg Naomi Cumming Christopher Hasty Young Scholar Award Outstanding Publication Award Wallace Berry Award SMT Publication Subvention Grants: 1998 Awards SOCIETY FOR MUSIC THEORY The first awards of the newly-created SMT Publication Subvention Grants were announced at 1999 Executive Board the Chapel Hill meeting by the Vice President of the Society, Thomas Christensen. The awards committee (consisting of Thomas Christensen, chair, along with Lori Burns and John Roeder Janet Schmalfeldt of the Publications Committee) were delighted to recommend the following three publication President, 1999 projects in the field of music theory as deserving of support: 1) Arved Ashby, Editor: Listening to Tufts University Modernism: Re-Evaluating Contemporary Music at the Millennium (under contract with Garland (781) 641-3317 Press); $500 to help defray copyright and production costs; 2) Steven Block, The Improvisor’s <[email protected]> Art: Free Jazz (under contract with Scarecrow Press); $500 to help defray copyright payments; [note new address] and 3) Paul Murphy, An Annotated Bitextual Edition of José de Torres’s Treatise “General Rules of Accompanying the Organ, Harpsichord, and Harp (under contract with Indiana Press). $350 Thomas Christensen to help in final production costs. Vice President, 1999 Members of the Society are reminded that the next round of applications is due March 15, President-elect, 1999 1999. Further information on the Publication Subventions Grant may be found elsewhere in University of Chicago this newsletter, as well as on the SMT web page. <[email protected]> Benito Rivera Secretary, 2000 NEWS FROM THE SOCIETY School of Music Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 From the President <[email protected]> For some of us, to be basking in 70-degree weather during the first week of December gave an unusual enchantment to the events of the 1998 SMT conference in Chapel Hill. Given Candace Brower that December is more typically the month for turning up the heat, pressing to the end of Treasurer, 2002 courses, and giving final exams, it may be a relief to know that our annual meeting returns School of Music to its usual month of November next year and beyond. But attendance in Chapel Hill was all Northwestern University the more impressive in light of our late date; and countless individuals with whom I spoke—in 711 Elgin Road the hallways, between sessions, at meetings, on the flight home—remarked that this year’s Evanston, IL 60208 conference seemed to sparkle with congeniality, new energy, and an overflowing abundance (847) 467-1680 of fine presentations. <[email protected]> Chapel Hill will be particularly remembered as the place where my call last February for the formation of a new Theory Pedagogy Group came to its first fruition. Not only was there a splendid turnout for that group’s organizational meeting, there was also a strong show of support for the formation of a new Popular Music Group and a Gay & Lesbian Group. This Richard Cohn, 1999 was the conference at which our Committees on Professional Development and on Diversity University of Chicago proved that they are capable of outdoing themselves from one year to the next in presenting first-rate special sessions. This conference hosted a wonderfully provocative Theory and Phi- Robert Hatten, 1999 losophy session (subscribers to the smt-list are still buzzing about its topic—philosopher Jerrold Pennsylvania State University Levinson’s work); and it provided a really fascinating opportunity to meet the son of Heinrich Ann K. McNamee, 2000 Schenker’s colleague, Reinhard Oppel. No one who was there will forget Chapel Hill as the site Swarthmore College of a Saturday-afternoon Plenary Session that ended with fireworks (talk about heat!). Nor will Andrew Mead, 2000 they forget that Ursula Mamlok—one of the five “birthday” composers whose music the session University of Michigan addressed—bestowed upon us the extraordinary honor of her presence. Finally, here was a conference for which a genuine effort was made to bring the performance of music into dialogue Maureen Carr, 2001 with analytic and historical research. For example, the special session on Schenker and Op- Pennsylvania State University pel featured first-class performances of Oppel’s music by Timothy Jackson’s guests—soprano Roger Graybill, 2001 Kecia Ashford and violinist/pianist Rose Marie Chisholm; and the centerpiece of the weekend University of Texas at Austin as a whole was the superb Saturday evening concert of music by Mamlok, Carter, Druckman, Rzewski, and Tower, with breathtaking performances by members of the renowned new-music ensemble, Speculum Musicae. All members of the 1998 Program Committee worked long and hard to ensure that Chapel Hill would be a new milestone for our society; but our Program chair, Severine Neff, our Local Arrangements chair, Thomas Warburton, and their colleague John Covach especially deserve a huge round of applause for their outstanding contributions. We are indebted as well to their institution; without financial support from Professor John Nádas, chair of the Music Department, The Society for Music Theory the William S. Newman Artist Series, and the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences at the publishes the SMT Newsletter University of North Carolina, we surely would not have been able to bring Speculum Musicae in mid-February and August, with to Chapel Hill. respective submission dead lines of Consider the roster of special guests at our conference: along with Ursula Mamlok, the Rever- December 1 and June 1.
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