{"id":12632,"date":"2025-08-19T15:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/?page_id=12632"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:02:37","slug":"note","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/38-2025\/note\/","title":{"rendered":"Editors&#8217; Note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<script type=\"text\/x-mathjax-config\">\nMathJax.Hub.Config({\nmessageStyle: \"none\"\n});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/38-2025\/38-note\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/38-2025\/38-note\/\">View PDF<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/38-2025\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"9662\">Return to Volume 38<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The editors of <em>Int\u00e9gral <\/em>are excited to present our latest volume! The five articles, one analytical vignette, one conference report, and one review comprising its contents showcase a plurality of approaches to listening and thinking about music. Stichting together a vast tapestry of genres and styles from Gioachino Rossini\u2019s <em>Il barbiere di Siviglia<\/em> to the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 100, this volume\u2019s theoretical and analytical strands encompass topic and schema theories, empirical and corpus studies, and prolongational and transformational analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his article, \u201cA <em>lazzarone <\/em>Figaro?<em> <\/em>Musical Neapolitanisms in Giaochino Rossini\u2019s <em>Il barbiere di Siviglia,<\/em>\u201d <strong>Matthew L. C. Boyle <\/strong>presents an analytical diptych that provides nuance to working-class characterizations of Figaro. Building upon the tarantella topic and introducing the <em>parlante<\/em> topic, Boyle further complicates the beloved opera character\u2019s social status through sonically encoded historical biases toward Southern Italians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>David S. Carter <\/strong>investigates teleology in bridge sections, specifically what he calls \u201crebuilds,\u201d in \u201cBuilding Bridges: Rebuilds in Popular Song, 1959\u20132024.\u201d Analyzing 118 songs, he distinguishes between bridges that blend earlier material and those that introduce new content, emphasizing the rise of the \u201crepeating-phrase rebuild\u201d and observing a shift over time from the former to the latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their article \u201cTempo Variability in <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 100 Songs, 1966\u20131995: Patterns, Click Tracks, and Historical Change,\u201d <strong>David S. Carter and Ralf von Appen<\/strong> present a novel methodology to study tempo variability in popular music. They demonstrate many uses of their method, which include determining the use of tempo-preserving technology for individual recordings and statistics-driven longitudinal studies of corpora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trevor C. Hofelich<\/strong> explores relationships between surface chromaticism and middleground structure in \u201cVignettes for Structural Hearing in the Music of Dmitri Shostakovich: Prolongational Approaches to Three Preludes.\u201d Hofelich\u2019s approach is methodologically pluralistic, as his analyses use linear analysis, Neo-Riemannian methods, and intertextuality to contextualize Shostakovich\u2019s chromaticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u201cGeneralized Chord-Member Intervals and Transformations,\u201d <strong>Alexander Shannon <\/strong>develops a theory of chord-member space that tracks how individual chord tones shift roles across progressions. Introducing a discrete mod-7 group structure and the concept of \u201cheard chord members,\u201d he demonstrates how changes in vertical placement can be perceived as linear gestures, offering new insight into diatonic and chromatic voice leading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Julien Despois <\/strong>proposes a new Romantic cadential category, the Dream Cadence\u2014here, the ninth of V<sup>9<\/sup> ascends to tonic ($$\\hat{6}$$\u2013$$\\hat{7}$$\u2013$$\\hat{1}$$) instead of descending. In his vignette, \u201cThe Dream Cadence: A Romantic Gesture of the Ascending Ninth,\u201d Despois analyzes numerous examples, showcasing the wide range of variation that the Dream Cadence admits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a report on <em>Women in Music: An Interdisciplinary Conference<\/em>, March 2024, <strong>Charity Lofthouse<\/strong> and <strong>Sarah Marlowe<\/strong>, two of the conference\u2019s co-organizers, compellingly weave together a thorough account of the many presentations and performances that comprised an enriching day of research on the many ways that women have been and continue to be integral to music composition, music performance, and music scholarship despite political, social, and cultural barriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are also pleased to present one review of a recent book: <strong>Nathan Cobb\u2019s<\/strong> review of <em>G\u00e9rard Grisey and Spectral Music: Composition in the Information Age<\/em> by Liam Cagney (2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As ever, we express our deep gratitude to <em>Int\u00e9gral<\/em>\u2019s staff, editorial board, and typesetters for their diligent service, to the many scholars who provided thorough and insightful reviews, and to you for your readership and support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Jacob Eichhorn<br>Ryan Jones<br>Hanisha Kulothparan<br><em>Co-Editors<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View PDFReturn to Volume 38 The editors of Int\u00e9gral are excited to present our latest volume! The five articles, one analytical vignette, one conference report, and one review comprising its contents showcase a plurality of approaches to listening and thinking about music. Stichting together a vast tapestry of genres and styles from Gioachino Rossini\u2019s Il &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/38-2025\/note\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Editors&#8217; Note&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":9662,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12632","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12672,"href":"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12632\/revisions\/12672"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theory.esm.rochester.edu\/integral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}