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Zachary Wallmark | The Taruskin Challenge

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Two grad students blog their way through a monumental musicological work. During the Challenge I was graduate student in musicology at UCLA (completed 2014). I am currently Assistant Professor of Music History at SMU in Dallas, TX, where I teach courses on cultural musicology, opera history, music perception and cognition, popular music, and research methods. My monograph project, "Nothing but Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the Edge," is under contract with Oxford University Press. February 9, 2012.

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Notation’s Last Hurrah? | The Taruskin Challenge

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Two grad students blog their way through a monumental musicological work. Laquo; Turning Back the Clock. Notation’s Last Hurrah? February 6, 2012 by Mark Samples. As the opening frame to his final chapter on music in a postliterate society, Taruskin examines what he considers literate music’s last grasp for ultimate authority. But above all it lampoons the idea that notational technology and by extension literate music as a whole holds the ultimate key to musical meaning. Notation has been so overbur...

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TC Wrap Up | The Taruskin Challenge

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Two grad students blog their way through a monumental musicological work. Laquo; And…. February 25, 2012 by Mark Samples. At its close, Zach and Mark took some time to discuss the Taruskin Challenge and reflect on the experience. Well, here we are at the end of the Taruskin Challenge. I remember when you called me up and proposed that we read through the OHWM together, discussing as we went along. How has the experience compared to your expectations for the project? I found it liberating to exercise a ne...

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Mark Samples | The Taruskin Challenge

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Two grad students blog their way through a monumental musicological work. Posts by Mark Samples:. February 25, 2012. February 11, 2012. February 10, 2012. February 6, 2012. Notation’s Last Hurrah? December 20, 2011. The Key to Orderliness. December 18, 2011. The Taruskin Challenge’s 200th Post. December 9, 2011. Orderliness: a precompositional blog post (à la Structures Ia). Older Posts ». We finished the Taruskin Challenge on 2/12/2012. Notation’s Last Hurrah? Turning Back the Clock. On TC Wrap Up.

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Turning Back the Clock | The Taruskin Challenge

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Two grad students blog their way through a monumental musicological work. Laquo; Historicism in Rock. Notation’s Last Hurrah? Turning Back the Clock. January 27, 2012 by Zachary Wallmark. Using an innocent language innocently using tonality “in one’s own way” is no longer even an option. The choice is bleak: either renounce expression altogether or borrow a voice. — V, 435. Create the book, word by word. To write. In other words, one had to. Cervantes, to hit reset and do it over again. There is some...

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After the End | The Taruskin Challenge

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Two grad students blog their way through a monumental musicological work. Laquo; Cognitive Constraints? February 10, 2012 by Mark Samples. Find the conference program here. And if anyone finds a twitter tag, let us know in the comments. Alex Ross. Recently called it “Taruskinfest” on his Twitter feed… Wish we could be there, but we have 10 pages (only! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email (Address never made public). Orderlines...

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Historicism in Rock | The Taruskin Challenge

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Two grad students blog their way through a monumental musicological work. Laquo; The Key to Orderliness. Turning Back the Clock. January 3, 2012 by Zachary Wallmark. In the midst of the cultural turmoil of the sixties, popular musicians began drawing on the prestige (and dysfunctions) of the classical world. Thus in the middle of the decade we get some of the first rock albums that can be heard and respected as “art,” exemplified in Ch.7 (predictably) by. Brian Wilson’s bid for history). Noted also, in a...

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And… | The Taruskin Challenge

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Two grad students blog their way through a monumental musicological work. Laquo; After the End. February 11, 2012 by Mark Samples. The Taruskin Challenge is officially over for me. (How about you Zach? Now it’s time to gather up my thoughts, ruminate, and come to some conclusions about this whole endeavor. Plus there is plenty more about the last volume’s content that bears comment. I imagine Zach and I will be doing just that over the next few weeks. Posted in Twentieth Century. Bravo, Mark and Zach!

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Cognitive Constraints? | The Taruskin Challenge

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Two grad students blog their way through a monumental musicological work. Laquo; Notation’s Last Hurrah? February 9, 2012 by Zachary Wallmark. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. But can we discount this position so easily? As Leonard Meyer put it: “It is a mistake albeit a common one to conceptualize the problem as a search for ‘musical’ universals. Perhaps he has in mind a purely intellectual, disembodied, transcendent realm of pure Kantian reflection? On February 13, 2012 at 8:13 pm. You are commentin...