Archives from Am Steg and Sound and Mind

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to those who have read, commented on, and contributed to Am Steg and Sound and Mind over the past four years. We decided to call it quits at the end of 2008, but we're preserving some of the more popular and substantial podcasts and articles here. Enjoy!

Podcasts

Interview with Ian Quinn about his SMT paper 'Harmonic Function without Primary Triads' and the Yale undergraduate music theory curriculum (December 2005).

Sean Atkinson interviews Nancy Rogers and Clifton Callender on their recent research into perceived voice-leading distance, presented at the 2006 SMT/AMS conference (June 2007).

Book Reviews and Articles

Hmmmmm, cheesecake . . . Pinker and Mithen on the origins of music (Sound and Mind, November 2007).

Leonard B. Meyer: Style and Music (Sound and Mind, July 2007).

Carol L. Krumhansl, Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch (Sound and Mind, May 2007).

J. P. Kirnberger: phenomenology and historical music theory (Sound and Mind, May 2007).

Steven Mithen, The Singing Neanderthals (Sound and Mind, January 2007).