=== === ============= ==== === === == == == == == ==== == == = == ==== === == == == == == == == = == == == == == == == == == ==== M U S I C T H E O R Y O N L I N E * * * S P E C I A L I S S U E * * * A Publication of the Society for Music Theory Copyright (c) 1996 Society for Music Theory +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Volume 2, Number 2 March, 1996 ISSN: 1067-3040 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ General Editor Lee A. 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 Articles Patrick McCreless, Contemporary Music Theory mto.96.2.2.mccreles.art and the New Musicology: An Introduction Scott Burnham, Theorists and "The Music Itself" mto.96.2.2.burnham.art Marion Guck, Music Loving, Or the Relationship mto.96.2.2.guck.art with the Musical Work Matthew Brown, Adrift on Neurath's Boat: The mto.96.2.2.brown.art Case for a Naturalized Music Theory Joseph Dubiel, On Getting Deconstructed mto.96.2.2.dubiel.art [NOTE: Kofi Agawu's essay, Analyzing Music Under the New Musicological Regime, was not ready in time for release in this Special Issue of *MTO*. It will be published in a subsequent issue.] All essays are available on the World-Wide Web through a hypertext table of contents, at the URL: http://smt.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.96.2.2/toc.html 2. Communications This is the first time *MTO* is publishing a supplemental issue outside of the established regular schedule. The issues discussed in the papers included surely merit a first Special Issue (2.2) of the journal, for as readers will discover, the essays cut right to the heart of, and struggle with, some basic ideological and methodological assumptions in our discipline. The discussions approach the topic from different and complementary points of view, and illustrate and summarize the issues in clear, sensitive, and, in Brown's and Burnham's cases, entertaining and humorous ways. Those who heard the papers delivered at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the SMT in New York City will want to read them as essays in order to refresh their memories, and to take the opportunity to think through and re- consider the questions raised by the five authors. It is easy to imagine, further, that readers' thoughts will soon make their way into graduate seminars. I hope, too, that a lively dialog will ensue through *MTO*'s allied electronic discussion forum, mto-talk. The mailing list has been active lately with an exchange on Richard Littlefield's article The Silence of the Frames, which appeared at the end of January in *MTO* 2.1. Comments on the present essays may be sent to mto-talk@smt.ucsb.edu. Rapid delivery of the most current scholarly research and thinking, and the opportunity for instant peer commentary: that is what electronic publishing does most efficiently. *MTO* subscribers should be aware that mto-talk postings are available, indexed by author, subject, and date, on the mto-talk Hypermail Web page, at the URL: http://smt.ucsb.edu/www-talk/mto/current/index.html In addition to short informal remarks posted to mto-talk, commentators are invited to submit longer, more formal commentaries for publication in regular issues of *MTO*, the next (2.3) scheduled for release toward the end of March. Those who wish to submit formal commentaries should read the *MTO* author guidelines. Section 3 below explains how to retrieve a copy with our FileServer, mto-serv. WWW users may will find a link for the guidelines on the *MTO* home page (http://boethius.music. ucsb.edu/mto/index.html). We are most pleased to be the first to publish the essays on Music Theory and the New Musicology. They will be published a second time, later this year, in the journal repercussions. We hope that *MTO* subscribers will find the essays informative and provocative statements on the issues, will enjoy and learn from them, and will participate in what should develop into a most interesting discussion through mto-talk. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 3. Copyright Statement +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Overview: 1. Retrieving *MTO* Items (with mto-serv, FTP, and through WWW) 2. Subscribing to *MTO* 3. Retrieving *MTO* Documentation 4. Queries and Communications 1. 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