Last year, about 50 people sent me their SMT proposals for feedback. Knowing that only about 22% of proposals get accepted every year, I tried to give frank feedback to each person—trying to gauge what might be the weak links in the proposal.

Of the proposals I was sent...

A recurring issue in the SMT proposals that people sent me for feedback last year is their failure to sufficiently explain the larger concept behind the proposal. Many people prepared proposals that involve close readings of a specific piece. But for a national confere...

As of noon November 1, 2015, my tenure as President of SMT has come to an end. I keep this blogsite now as my personal blog, changing its name from "SMT Musings" to "Music Theory Musings." I may mention things about the SMT--but no longer in an official or even quasi-o...

The upcoming Annual Meeting of the SMT in St. Louis on October 29–November 1 promises to be another exciting one.  As in past years, there is plenty for attendees to choose from. You could spend the whole conference attending talks in the traditional 30-minute layout;...

SMT-V is now catalogued by RILM; see http://bibliolore.org/2015/05/23/smt-v-videocast-journal-of-the-society-for-music-theory/

The second issue of SMT-V is now avialable:: this new contribution is a very stimulating and enjoyable video article by Peter Schubert., "Contrapuntal Thinking in Haydn."
 

SMT members will be interested  in "Share Your Stories," a esource recently added to the SMT CSW blog, "Women in Music Theory"    Some of these stories are unfortunately very disturbing and highlight the persistance of the striking gender discrimination in our fi...

The SMT Professional Development Committee has placed on its webpage two valuable documents by David Huron regarding the peer review process: one document offers advice on how to handle recommendations by reviewers after submitting an essay that either has been rejecte...

The February 2015 SMT Newsletter, Volume 38.1, is now available at https://societymusictheory.org/files/SMTNL_38_1.pdf . Among other things, this Newsletter inlcudes touching tributes to Allen Forte by David Carson Berry, Akane Mori, and Jonathan Bernard and David Neum...