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Wednesday, June 13, 2018

On the Value of Music Analysis

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. . . . if you think about it, you'll miss it . . . .

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stephen soderberg: I'm a musicologist whose research specialty is compositional and arithmetic music theory (pub. articles in Journal of Music Theory, Perspectives of New Music, and Music Theory Online; presented papers at various conferences, including the American Mathematical Society & the Society for Music Theory and been a guest lecturer at the University of Maryland and the University of Iowa). In 2011 I retired as Senior Specialist for Contemporary Music in the Music Division of the Library of Congress where I planned and coordinated internet-, concert- and collections-related projects focused on American contemporary classical music. As a violinist, I performed semi-professionally in various orchestras and chamber ensembles for 45 years.

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