Editor's Message


  1. Submission forms

  2. Forms for subscribing and setting mail options

  3. Introducing the New Books section

  4. MTO Correspondents


1. Submission forms

In order to make it a bit simpler to submit general announcements, dissertation postings, and employment listings, I have created three new Web forms. They are available on the MTO home page, in the section "MTO Submissions." Subscribers wishing to submit an item in one of those three categories should follow the appropriate link on the MTO page, fill in the various fields on the form, and submit it for processing. An appointed editorial assistant will receive a copy of the information and will prepare the text for inclusion in MTO. If after submitting an announcement of an event the dates, fees, or other information change, please contact the General Editor so that the text can be corrected before publication rather than after. We hope the new submission forms will be useful, and encourage Web-enabled subscribers to use them. Suggestions for improving the forms are welcome. Send comments to the General Editor (address below).

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2. Forms for subscribing and setting mail options

In addition to the new submission forms, I have also added several forms to make it easier to subscribe to MTO, and to change mail options once subscribed. Without wanting to suggest that anyone cancel their MTO or mto-talk subscriptions, I should mention, too, that there is a form for terminating a subscription.

By "mail options" I mean the following:

  • whether copies of messages you post to mto-talk are sent to you or not
  • postponing and restarting mto-talk mail (e.g. during and after vacation periods)
  • receiving mto-talk mail in digest form (i.e. as a weekly mailing of accumulated messages)

Options a and c are relevant only for mto-talk, since that list is for dialog among subscribers, and tends to be quite active at times. The only option that applies to mto-list (the general MTO mailing list, used only by the General Editor to distribute tables of contents, calls for items, and occasional announcements) is c (postponing/restarting mail).

The form for setting options also allows you to:

  • change your list password
  • change your mailing address
  • check your current settings (including password)
  • check your registered address

Of these four possibilities, c and d are most important, because you will may want to check your current settings before changing anything, and you will need your password and current registered address to change to a new address. Details about these procedures are on the relevant Web pages.

As with the new submission forms, we hope that the forms for checking and setting mail options will simplify the management of your MTO and mto-talk subscriptions. Send comments to the General Editor (address below).

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3. Introducing the New Books section

Starting with this issue (2.5), MTO will include a section for announcing new books and journals in music theory. I have contacted several leading publishers and offered to publicize new and forthcoming releases in MTO. For this issue, I received submissions from W.W. Norton, The University of California, Harvard and Cambridge University Presses.

Publishers may send promotional advertisements of their products to the General Editor at any time, preferably by email (ASCII text only, please!). There is no particular format for such submissions, but they should of course include all ordering information, including price, and may also include promotional endorsements.

If publishers wish to have books reviewed in MTO, they should contact our Reviews Editor, Brian Alegant (McGill University).

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4. MTO Correspondents

Another new section of our journal, MTO Correspondents, makes its debut in this issue. This section will feature reports on conferences, forums, and workshops from various people around the world. The reports will help to keep the expanding community of theorists informed about research and activities going on in other countries. The first report, by Peter Castine, appears in this issue, Review of "The Beginnings of Serial Music," Berlin, Germany, June 20-25 1996. Prof. Castine will serve as coordinating Correspondent for Germany, and will work together with Prof. Uwe Seifert in providing reports on events that take place in Germany.

So far, the following individuals have agreed to serve as MTO Correspondents:

Nicolas Meeus (Belgium-France)
Henry Klumpenhouwer (Canada)
Wai-ling Cheong (Hong Kong)
Geoffrey Chew (England)
Peter Castine (Germany)
Uwe Seifert (Germany)
Michiel Schuijer (Holland)
Ken-ichi Sakakibara (Japan)
Arvid Vollsnes (Norway)
Per Broman (Sweden)

We thank these people in advance for their willingness to help enhance the content of MTO, and look forward to reading their reports. Volunteers from countries not represented on the list should contact the General Editor. Please notify the Correspondents directly about scheduled events.

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Lee A. Rothfarb, General Editor
Music Theory Online
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6070
U.S.A.
voice: (805) 893-7527 (with voice mail)
fax: (805) 893-7194

7/22/96

Updated 03 July 2013
Brent Yorgason

SMT