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Rothfarb Co-Editors Dave Headlam Justin London Ann McNamee Reviews Editor Brian Alegant Manager Robert Judd Consulting Editors Bo Alphonce Thomas Mathiesen Jonathan Bernard Benito Rivera John Clough John Rothgeb Nicholas Cook Arvid Vollsnes Allen Forte Robert Wason Marianne Kielian-Gilbert Gary Wittlich Stephen Hinton Editorial Assistants Ralph Steffen Cindy Nicholson Nicholas Blanchard Music Example Designer William Loewe All queries to: mto-editor@smt.ucsb.edu or to mto-manager@smt.ucsb.edu ------------------------------------------------------ * * CONTENTS * * AUTHOR AND TITLE FILENAMES 1. Target Article Richard Littlefield, The Silence of the Frames mto.96.2.1.littlfd.art mto.96.2.1.littlfd1.gif mto.96.2.1.littlfd2.gif mto.96.2.1.littlfd3.gif mto.96.2.1.littlfd4.gif Also avaialble at the URL http://smt.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.96.2.1/mto.96.2.1. littlefield.html 2. Commentaries John Rothgeb, Eytan Agmon on Functional Theory mto.96.2.1.rothgeb.tlk mto.96.2.1.rothgeb1.gif mto.96.2.1.rothgeb2.gif mto.96.2.1.rothgeb2.mid mto.96.2.1.rothgeb3.gif mto.96.2.1.rothgeb4.gif mto.96.2.1.rothgeb4.mid mto.96.2.1.rothgeb5.gif mto.96.2.1.rothgeb5.mid mto.96.2.1.rothgeb6.gif mto.96.2.1.rothgeb6.mid Also available at the URL http://smt.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.96.2.1/mto.96.2.1.rothgeb.html 3. Reviews Judy Lochhead, Review of *Embodied Voices: mto.96.2.1.lochhead.rev Representing female vocality in western culture* edited by Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Series: New perspectives in music history and criticism, General Editors: Jeffrey Kallberg and Anthony Newcomb. Also available at the URL: http://smt.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.96.2.1/mto.96.2.1.lochhead.html Patrick McCreless, Review of Jean-Jacques mto.96.2.1.mccreles.rev Nattiez, *Wagner Androgyne: A Study in Interpretation* Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Also available at the URL: http://smt.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.96.2.1/mto.96.2.1.mccreless.html 4. Announcements mto.96.2.1.ann a. Real Time Composition Library (RTC-lib) for MAX, version 2.2 b. Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory: Call for Papers c. Music and {Con}Text: Art Song in the Twentieth Century d. Tonal Structures in Early Music: Provisional Program e. Georgia Association of Music Theorists: Call for Papers f. Music Theory Midwest: Call for Papers g. New England Conference of Music Theorists: Call for Papers h. The Middle Ages in Contemporary Popular Culture: An Interdisciplinary Conference i. History, Music, and the Arts in Germany and Austria, 1815-1848 5. Employment mto.96.2.1.job York University, Depaartment of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts 6. New Dissertations mto.96.2.1.dis a. Fung, Eric W.M. "The Performance of Chopin's First Movement of Piano Sonata in B Minor, op. 58: A Schenkerian Approach." The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. b. Mooney, Kevin. "The Table of Relations and Music Psychology in Hugo Riemann's Harmonic Theory." Columbia University, 1995. c. Moreno, Enrique I. "Embedding Equal Pitch Spaces and The Question of Expanded Chromas: An Experimental Approach." Stanford University, 1995. d. Seltzer, Linda A. "The Unblinking Eye, Literary Theory in the Analysis of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande." Princeton Univerisity, in progress. e. Spicker, Volker. "New Piano Improvisation." University of Giessen, Institute of Musicology, 1997 (projected). f. Wang, Yuhwen. "The Value of Values: Value Judgment in Edward T. Cone's Music Analyses." Columbia University, 1996. 7. Communications 1. *MTO* welcomes new staff 2. New hardware added 3. Dissertation Index 4. *MTO* sounds off! 5. MIDI files available ------------------------ 1. *MTO* welcomes new staff A few new staff members have been added to the *MTO* team at UCSB: Cindy Nicholson, Nicholas Blanchard, both graduate students in music theory, and William Loewe, a graduate student in composition. Nicholson joins Ralph Steffen in copyediting, and Blanchard does HTML formatting. Loewe is our new Music Example Designer. He created the musical examples for this issue using Finale. Thanks to all three for their help in preparing volume 2.1! 2. New hardware added A few weeks ago we added a two-gigabyte external disk to boethius, the SMT networking host.. The ever expanding volume of files for *MTO*, including the anticipated audio files, will require more storage space. Further, additional administrative, application, and server software was pushing the limits of the originally configured space for such items. The new disk (Seagate SCSI) will give us the flexibility to try out new things without the worry of exceeding the limits in any area of boethius's file system. 3. Dissertation Index One of the jobs assigned to our new HTML formatter, Nicholas Blanchard, was to convert the plain-text version of the *MTO* Dissertation Index into an HTML document. That job has been completed, and there is now a link on our home page for the Index. The URL is http://smt.ucsb.edu/mto/docs/diss-index.html. Each entry in the Index ends with a link to the file containing the original dissertation listing. Since those files are in plain-text format, it was not possible to create a link pointing directly at the selected dissertation data. Once readers have followed a link from the new Index, they can either use their browser's "Find" command to locate the disertation listing, or can simply scroll through the listings, which are ordered alphabetically. Eventually, we hope to convert all the files to HTML format, and will then revise the Index links to point directly at the proper locations. While on the topic of HTML-formatted indices, I should point out that we offer an up-to-date hypertext index of all essays, reviews, and commentaries published in the journal, and another of all HTML-formatted items published so far. Links for both indices are on our home page. Please report typographical errors and incorrect hypertext links to Robert Judd, *MTO* Manager. 4. *MTO* sounds off! One of the reasons for equipping boethius with a new disk was to accomodate sound files. In this issue we offer sound files for John Rothgeb's commentary on an article by Eytan Agmon. The files are in MIDI format (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). They are small because they consist of coded instructions that drive a MIDI instrument, not of actual recorded sounds, as in .au and other formats, which are huge in size by comparison. The HTML version of Rothgeb's commentary has links to the MIDI files alongside the links to the musical examples. Subscribers who have MIDI-enabled computers will be able to play the music by clicking on the links. Those who lack the soft and hardware should read Robert Judd's message below. 5. MIDI files available With *MTO* 2.1 we've decided to include a few MIDI files by way of "trial run"; they are part of John Rothgeb's essay, and consist of data to enable playback of the examples through a MIDI device. Readers can hear, as well as see, the examples in a format much less cumbersome than regular sound files (.au or .wav formats). That is, to listen to a ten-second example using .au format one must download an enormous file (over 100kb); the equivalent data in MIDI form is only about 2kb. As for sound quality: it's a compromise, but not as much as one might initially suppose. The sound is entirely dependent on the quality of the instrument with the MIDI connection. If you have a Steinway grand with MIDI installed, the playback will be quite satisfactory. If your MIDI keyboard is less substantial, the sound won't be quite so attractive! But, for example, Yamaha Clavinovas produce a quite respectable sound, and may be found in a number of computer/music labs. In any case, the point isn't to produce commercial-recording-quality sound, but serviceable sound in an efficient manner. Those who use sequencing or notation software and a keyboard or other MIDI instrument will have no difficulty hearing the files; simply configure your web browser to open the sequencer or notation program when it reads .mid files, then select "playback" from within the application to hear the file. Even if you only have a "multimedia" setup that plays CDs, you may still be able to hear the files if your sound card includes a synthesizer. For this possibility, consult your documentation, as individual setups vary. 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