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On the eve of this most auspicious academic year, SMR gathered via Zoom for its annual BBQ, lovingly—if haphazardly—amended to the Beginning-of-the-year Bash in Quarantine. We got to know one another and, perhaps more importantly, played some excellent rounds of...

I recently presented a paper entitled “La Sensibile È Mobile! Descending Leading Tones in Italian Opera from the Primo Ottocento” at the thirty-first meeting of Music Theory Midwest. Like many other conferences this year, this meeting was held online, albeit...

Recently, SMR member Elizabeth McLain participated in a national webinar entitled “Embracing disability wisdom during COVID-19: What we can learn from the disabled community.” According to the webinar’s advertisement, “due to COVID-19, the country as a whole is experiencing what...

At the end of May, I presented a paper, entitled “Cue the Punch in the Gut: Music and the Projection of Complex Emotion in Film,” at the 16th annual Music and the Moving Image (MaMI) conference, which was held virtually...

Recently, SMR alumna Jessica Getman accepted the position of Assistant Professor in Music at California State University San Bernardino. Congratulations, Jessica! We’ll miss you, but we’re excited for this new step in your career.