BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250926T140825EDT-0288mRManh@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250926T180825Z DESCRIPTION:Zoom URL:  https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5285155037\n\nTheory Area P resentation: Prof. Scott Murphy (University of Kansas)\n\n\nTitle: 'Some W estern Music as Economic.'\n\n\n Abstract: \n\n Many of the pitch-based conv entions that typify a large set of western musical styles—from European co urt\, church\, and concert compositions of the seventeenth through ninetee nth centuries\, to North American and British popular chart toppers of the twentieth and twenty-first—may be generalized by a model based in neoclas sical economics. This talk summarizes some of these findings\, with a focu s on how these economic generalizations may be incorporated into a music t heory curriculum.\n\n \n Biography:  \n\n Scott Murphy has taught music theor y at the University of Kansas since 2001. He holds a PhD in Music Theory f rom the Eastman School of Music. He has published articles on a variety of topics\, including new approaches to works by J.S. Bach\, Haydn\, C. Schu mann\, Ives\, Bartók\, Myaskovsky\, and Penderecki\, on film music analysi s and new conceptions of musical time\, especially with regards to the mus ic of Brahms. He edited Brahms and the Shaping of Time\, a collection of e ssays analyzing rhythmic and metric aspects of selected works of Brahms\, published by University of Rochester Press in 2018\, which received the Ou tstanding Multi-Author Collection Award from SMT. He was the founding edit or of SMT-V: Videocast Journal of the Society for Music Theory and is a pa st president of Music Theory Midwest.\n\n DTSTART:20221122T213000Z DTEND:20221122T233000Z LOCATION:[ONLINE] SUMMARY:Theory Area Presentation: Scott Murphy URL:/music/channels/event/theory-area-presentation-sco tt-murphy-343600 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR