#musicanalysis — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #musicanalysis, aggregated by home.social.
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Descrito en :blobcatread: Riley: Chopin's Craft of Musical Form: Making Romantic Music with Classical Theme Types and Galant Schemata https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/musa.70019
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A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber
https://decodingvibes.com/blog/a-kantian-critique-of-sorry-by-justin-bieber/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399524
#HackerNews #KantianPhilosophy #JustinBieber #Critique #MusicAnalysis #EthicsInArt #PopCulture
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Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4212
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085280
#HackerNews #Harmony #Music #Theory #ScientificProgress #Arxiv2012 #MusicAnalysis
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Stipendiary Lecturer in Music
📍Somerville College & St Catherine’s College, University of #Oxford, UK
Permanent lectureship in Music, teaching undergraduate tutorials and classes in music analysis and musicology. The role includes academic advising, admissions work, and contributions to outreach activities across both colleges.
Deadline: 19/06/2026
https://isw.changeworknow.co.uk/somerville_college/vms/e/careers/positions/cOPBYdkwXjL6aB2JVKjLcc
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Lecturer in Music
📍The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Fixed-term lectureship in Music with teaching across #Ethnomusicology, #MusicAnalysis, and interdisciplinary arts curricula. The role includes distance-learning teaching and curriculum development, with interests in ethnographic and analytical approaches to music especially welcome.
Deadline: 16/06/2026
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Love isn’t light—it anchors, drags, and drowns. From iron chains to sunken cities, romance reveals its true weight: the tension between losing yourself and needing meaning.
#HeavyInYourArms #Atlantis #FlorenceAndTheMachine #BridgitMendler #Pop #Music #Love #Philosophy #MusicAnalysis
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/04/25/the-architecture-of-romantic-gravity-metaphysical-weight-cognitive-distortion-and-the-sisyphean-labor-of-connection/ -
What happens when medieval songs become raw sonic material? In Schnittke’s Minnesang, fragments of Minnesinger melodies appear, dissolve, and re-emerge inside a 52-voice choral texture. A listening guide + spectrogram analysis.
https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/
#blog #research #20thC #MusicAnalysis #Medievalism #Schnittke #ClassicalMusic #Minnesang
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Pop songs love to promise emotional permanence. Reality keeps canceling the subscription. On Piece by Piece, wishful thinking poses as healing; on The Good Ones, perfection masquerades as depth. Romantic mythology rewrites our expectations until irony does the editing.
#KellyClarkson #Pop #Criticism #MusicAnalysis #Romance #WishfulThinking #EmotionalProjection #CulturalCommentary #DaddyIssues #LoveSongs #PopLyrics
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/the-architecture-of-attachment-transference-engineering-metaphors-and-the-deconstruction-of-the-romantic-savior-in-twenty-first-century-popular-music/ -
Dmitri Tymoczko's 'A Geometry of Music' has this wonderful passage in the first chapter where he relates composers to magicians. Love it. ❤️
#music #musicTheory #musicAnalysis #musicology #magic #composition
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“Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” isn’t a love song, it’s obsession wrapped in melody.
https://needlevine.com/between-circuits-and-corks/
A listening journey through an album that has stayed relevant for ages.
#ClassicRock #MusicHistory #DeepListening #MusicAnalysis #NewWave
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Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
https://www.madebywindmill.com/tempi/blog/hbfs-bpm/
#HackerNews #DaftPunk #EasterEgg #BPM #Tempo #MusicAnalysis #HarderBetterFasterStronger #ElectronicMusic
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Sound of The Tides 💖
I adore Fourplay's "I'll Still Be Loving You" because I get an eargasm every time. To me, it's literally the sound of calm clarity.
1. Sonic Luxury: The smooth jazz arrangement is perfect. It uses warm chords and clean bass lines, giving your brain comfort. No abrasive sounds, only a feeling of sonic ease.
2. The Tempo of Calm: It matches a relaxed heart rate. This tempo reduces stress and promotes the deep focus we need to choose the "Tides." It sounds patient, not rushed.
3. Tides Vibe: It resonates with my core values—pure devotion, trust, and consistency. It feels like the steady, non-urgent motion of a deep ocean tide.
It's the perfect soundtrack for choosing depth over delivery.
What music gets you into that flow state?
Listen here https://youtu.be/0F3Qp0d_DJUCz5h17UvP8W4hKln
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My tentative understanding is that 'extension' refers metrical prolongation, as in the lengthening of a note or chord, whereas, 'expansion' refers to harmonic prolongation through like a neighboring chord. Is this right? #musicTheory #musicAnalysis #schenkerianAnalysis #classicalMusic
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AAWM 2026 – Analytical Approaches to World Musics
Interdisciplinary analytical perspectives on global musical traditions, beyond European art music. Papers, panels, workshops & lecture-recitals. Hybrid conference.
📍 Durham University, UK
📅 13–17 July 2026Deadline (extended): 02/02/2026
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Music theory nerds in my phone, is there a difference between 'extension' and 'expansion'?
I'm seeing both of these terms in analysis textbooks, sometimes used within the same paragraph, and it still isn't clear to me if they're synonymous or describing different techniques.
#musicTheory #musicAnalysis #schenkerianAnalysis #classicalMusic
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Honesty Sets You Free: A Musicological Perspective
Why does music move us so deeply? In this essay, I connect honest expression in sound with the analytical freedom it offers us.
Ready to explore the intersection of authenticity and musical structure? Check out the full post: https://s.srvr.life/f-qBHfFs
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Yoo 8 Bit Music Theory just dropped a Silksong analysis video!
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New Sara Landry set starts with Perfect Celebrity by Lady Gaga. The track seems to be popular among Techno DJs currently and I can see why. Interesting since I recently listened to a SongExploder episode with Lady Gaga, which was unexpectedly personal. Can 100% recommend, the podcast is great anyway. Every episode takes apart a song and gives insight to the story behind it - told by the musicians themselves. https://songexploder.net/episodes
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🎵 Imagine writing an essay about Erik Satie that reads like a high school book report, only with more pretentious flair and fewer actual insights. 🌊 A riveting journey from "Who?" to "Oh, that piano guy!" as we pretend to discover what everyone who Googled 'relaxing piano music' in 2003 already knows. 💤
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-many-sides-of-erik-satie/ #ErikSatie #PretentiousEssays #MusicAnalysis #PianoJourney #HighSchoolVibes #HackerNews #ngated -
Mira que la 1ª no está entre mis favoritas (no entra ni en mi top 5 de sinfonías de #Mahler) y aun así disfruté como un enano de este análisis del primer movimiento. 🔝
🍿 Bird Calls and Fanfares: Mahler Symphony No. 1, Mvt. 1
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I Analyzed Chord Progressions in 680k Songs
https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/i-analyzed-chord-progressions-in
#HackerNews #ChordProgressions #MusicAnalysis #SongData #MusicTrends #DataScience
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Gesaffelstein’s remix is a dark reinvention—he peels back the glossy pop exterior and replaces it with a suffocating, atmospheric intensity.
https://retroworldnews.com/lady-gaga-and-gesaffelstein-ignite-coachella-2025-with-fiery-live-debut/#Gesaffelstein #Remix #DarkMusic #AtmosphericSound #ElectronicMusic #MusicReinvention #PopRemix #IntenseVibes #SoundDesign #MusicProduction #UndergroundMusic #InnovativeSound #ArtisticExpression #MusicAnalysis #DeepListening #ExperimentalMusic #ChillVibes #MusicCommunity #DJLife #Soundscape #music #EDM
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Online Conference:
"Galant Schema Theory: Contemporary Approaches to Composition, Pedagogy, Performance" Friday, March 21 – Sunday 23, 2025 (Eastern Time, New York).La conferencia tiene un programa superinteresante: https://www.galantschemastudies.com/draft-conference-plan
Inscripción: https://www.galantschemastudies.com/registration-proposals
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Music Analysis
@ Aarhus University (#Denmark)
Join a leading programme combining cultural-sociological, anthropological, and historical research, focusing on European music of the 20th century.
Deadline: 06/01/2025
https://www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-of-music-analysis
