Editor's Message

  1. Introducing Tess James, our new MTO Correspondent

  2. mto-talk: Where have all the "talkers" gone?

  3. Music Theory Spectrum: Warehouse Sale!


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1. Introducing Tess James, our new MTO Correspondent

Tess James, a Canadian journalist based in London, joins our group of Correspondents for Europe. Tess is a freelance stringer for Rondo Magazine in London, Classic CD magazine in Munich, as well as several others. She works out of both cities. She has initiated a project at Brown University to categorize the music of Anthony Burgess, is working together with the home-estate of Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni, and has a special interest in the "forgotten composers" of the last century. Tess is currently researching a major project in England and Germany, involving Bruckner's favorite student Hans Rott (1858-1886), whose string quartet will be premiered in September. She has a keen interest in elements of Mahler, Brahms, Bruckner, and Wagner found in Rott's "Symphony in E Major" (1878), and the relationship between Rott and Mahler. She also attends conducting classes with the former assistant of Sergio Celibidache as part of her work on a major profile article on the Maestro, which covers in-depth the relationship with his orchestra, and the connection between his conducting technique and his Bruckner performances. We are fortunate and most pleased to have Tess on the MTO staff, and look forward to her reports. Welcome!

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2. mto-talk: Where have all the "talkers" gone?

mto-talk has been very quiet these days, this despite a most interesting and thought-provoking set of articles in our last issue (4.2), which carried essay versions of talks given by prominent SMT members (including the new President) at the Plenary Session of the 1997 annual SMT meeting in Phoenix. Jay Rahn, our new mto-talk Manager, posted an initial message designed to elicit comments, but no one followed up. That was unfortunate because the articles offered many opportunities for discussion.

Needless to say, we are all busy and it is not easy to find time to think through and formulate remarks on scholarly issues in order to participate in serious discussion. And although smt-list competes as a forum for talking about music-theoretical matters, its subscribers do not include many from mto-talk.

mto-talk was created to provide a means for focusing on issues presented in items published in the journal, allowing the unique opportunity for immediate peer response to the latest published research, including the possibility of involving authors in the discussion. We hope that mto-talk will remain viable and prove beneficial. MTO readers are invited to post comments at any time, even on past items, including reviews and MTO Correspondents' reports.

It's not too late! Those who have in the meantime gotten around to reading the Plenary Session essays are encouraged to send email to mto-talk. The article in the present issue is also most interesting (if as General Editor I do say so myself...), and ought to elicit responses, which author Stephen Soderberg no doubt welcomes, and to which he will respond. Keep in mind that each MTO essay has a hyperlink that gives readers an easy way to send comments to mto-talk, and each table of contents has a link to mto-talk Hypermail for reading postings in HTML format.

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3. Music Theory Spectrum: Warehouse Sale!

Check out the ad in this issue for an announcement about the clearance sale of back issues of Music Theory Spectrum, the print journal of the Society for Music Theory. Libraries and individuals can get a real bargain. Order now while the supply lasts. Buyers can use the order form for back issues, even though the prices given on the form differ from the sale pricing. If you use the order form, notify Cynthia Folio that you are taking advantage of the sale. Note that this offer is for SMT members only, and for libraries.

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[Contents of vol. 4.3]

Lee A. Rothfarb, General Editor
Music Theory Online
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6070
U.S.A.

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Updated 03 July 2013
Brent Yorgason

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