I’m going to write and work on my courses, but I’m going to prioritize relaxing also.
Tag: dissertation
Using Scrivener to write your music dissertation or book
I have three practical tips for how Scrivener can make your life easier when you write your long document.
What Makes It Sound Like Christmas?
In so many cases, when we’re wondering “what makes it sound ____?” where ____ is Christmas, or metal, or Irish, or whatever, the answer lies not so much in the harmonies, but the timbres. Timbre is probably the most immediate aspect of our musical experience. Why shortchange it in our analyses?
Lerdahl’s Timbral Hierarchies
A very belated review of an article from 1987. Are timbre hierarchies possible?
Beat of a Different Drummer?
The majority of spectrogram analysis methods are overly focused on overtones and partials.
What helps me survive writing my dissertation
Transitioning from student to writer has been somewhat bizarre. I can’t rely on my old thought patterns anymore. I’ve made number of changes to my working style that improve my mentality and attitude toward writing, which I hope could be helpful for someone else out there.
’80s-inspired music
How do we make something sound ’80s? When today’s millennials—who were only infants or children in the ’80s—recreate an ’80s sound, how does it compare to an authentically ’80s sound? What elements of the ’70s or the ’90s get misremembered as an ’80s phenomenon? All these questions are discussed in the the latest Pop Unmuted episode.
A theory of attacks?
The critique of binaries as being over-generalizing is leveled at me a lot. But McAdams 1999 shows that perhaps this isn’t actually a damaging oversimplification.
Keyboard Magazine in 1986
It’s funny what we identify with and how we situate ourselves when we research an era of the past.
Analyzing timbre
I’ve removed this post, which was from 2016 (!), because my approach to timbre has evolved a lot. Readers should check out my MTO article instead, which was published in 2020. You can find more publications (all of which was published later than this blog post) on my Research page.