Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #musicanalysis, aggregated by home.social.
Taylor Swift’s 123,000-Word Song Database Reveals A Pattern In Her Lyrics
Taylor Swift’s songs may appear to constantly reinvent her musical identity, but an analysis of more than 123,000…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #AU #Australia #Entertainment #musicanalysis #songwriting #TaylorLyricCorpus #TaylorSwift #TaylorSwiftlyrics #TaylorSwiftsongs #TheLifeofaShowgirl
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/912267/
#EuroMAC11 - Eleventh European Music Analysis Conference
Videos of the plenary sessions:
https://euromac11.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/36
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
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
Pastoral and Mysterious: Brahms Symphony No. 3, Mvt. 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoDrGu9yWVw
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
🔸 #Telemann ’s SSGBÜ: What to Double in a Sixth Chord? https://essaysonmusic.com/telemanns-ssgbu-what-to-double-in-a-sixth-chord/
🔸 Telemann’s SSGBÜ: On Direct Fifths and Octaves https://essaysonmusic.com/telemanns-ssgbu-on-direct-fifths-and-octaves/
🔸 Telemann’s SSGBÜ: On Parallel Fifths https://essaysonmusic.com/telemanns-ssgbu-on-parallel-fifths/
🔸 Telemann’s SSGBÜ: Chord Substitutions and Additions https://essaysonmusic.com/telemanns-ssgbu-chord-substitutions-and-additions/
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
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
星野源が仕掛けたLAジャズとの融合。『Mad Hope』 #音楽 #名曲解説 #musicanalysis#genhoshino #jazz https://www.vivizine.com/1200329/ #actor #俳優 #星野源
https://www.wacoca.com/videos/3213778/celebrity/ CMでお馴染みの爽やかポップス。星野源『Star』の裏で鳴るエグいコード進行 #musicanalysis #1分解説 #星野源#fusion #1分解説 #Celebrities #Celebrity #CMでお馴染みの爽やかポップス星野源Starの裏で鳴るエグいコード進行 #musicanalysis #Vlog #星野源 #星野源fusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLT5WPji2_s
Was Young criticising freedom per se in this song, or was he criticising capitalism?
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/
The Bold Opening Movement of Brahms's 3rd Symphony 🔝 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rKaD0_BKI
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
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
Science is weird, fascinating, and terrifying without turning it into existential vibes or cosmic unease. When musicians borrow science, they inherit its constraints—not just its aesthetics. 🌌🧪
#AvengedSevenfold #MileyCyrus #Science #Art #FermiParadox #Rock #CriticalThinking #Pop #Environmentalism #ScientificLiteracy #MusicAnalysis #Poetry #Physics
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/24/the-epistemological-chasm-scientific-literacy-lyrical-abstraction-and-the-semiotics-of-environmentalism-in-contemporary-popular-music/
“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
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
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
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
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 2026
Deadline (extended): 02/02/2026
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
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
Yoo 8 Bit Music Theory just dropped a Silksong analysis video!
CFP EuroMAC11: 11th European Music Analysis Conference
Barcelona. Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) https://euromac11.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/8
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
#Techno #MusicAnalysis
Iron Maiden’s “Aces High” never lands—it lives in the loop between story and song. A four-minute dogfight where tension replaces resolution, and history becomes adrenaline. ✈️⚡️
#IronMaiden #AcesHigh #Powerslave #HeavyMetalHistory #MusicAnalysis #Songwriting #RockHistory #BattleOfBritain #BruceDickinson #SteveHarris #ClassicMetal #MusicEssay #MetalCulture
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/the-loop-of-combat-form-and-function-in-iron-maidens-aerial-anthem/
If "Custard Pie" is what Page and Plant stole from American blues, they can keep it.
#LedZeppelin #PhysicalGraffiti #RockCriticism #MusicWriting #ClassicRock #RobertPlant #JimmyPage #RockHistory #MusicAnalysis #Essay
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/bakers-of-the-blues-how-custard-pie-spoils-physical-graffiti/
The Toni Braxton duology, comprising "Breathe Again" and "I’m Still Breathing," provides a compelling case study of evolving gendered scripts within R&B pop music between 1993 and 2000.
#ToniBraxton #MusicAnalysis #LoveSongs #BreatheAgain #MusicCriticism #MusicEssay #PopCulture #90sMusic #CulturalCritique #MusicWriting
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/oxygen-optional-toni-braxtons-guide-to-codependent-romance/
Richard Atkinson analiza el complejo contrapunto del coro inicial de la cantata BWV 14 "Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit" de #Bach https://youtu.be/gTYN2nyPvF0?si=gqH7hP8NJ_Ortggl
Otra web muy completa con material de teoría de la música y análisis. Esta vez en inglés: Open Music Theory https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/
#OpenEducationalResources #music #musictheory #musicanalysis
🎵 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjylI8_Sq_c
I Analyzed Chord Progressions in 680k Songs
https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/i-analyzed-chord-progressions-in
#HackerNews #ChordProgressions #MusicAnalysis #SongData #MusicTrends #DataScience
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
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
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
#AcademicJob | #PhDStudentship
Application to doctoral studies in music at the Sibelius Academy (#Helsinki)
Deadline: 22/01/2025
CC @academicjobs @musicology @ethnomusicology
#Musicology #Ethnomusicology #MusicAnalysis #MusicResearch #MusicScience
