SMT-Pod

By Society for Music Theory

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Check out our website: www.smt-pod.org SMT-Pod is a creative venue for timely conversations about music, with episodes chosen through an open, collaborative peer review process. Audio-only podcasts offer a unique—though non-traditional—way of engaging with music, analysis, and contemporary issues in the field. This new publication medium affords our society both the ability to face outwards, by engaging in public scholarship, and inwards, by hosting meaningful conversations about the activity of music analysis. The variety of episode topics will reflect the diversity of the scholars and their scholarship in our field, making SMT-Pod an invaluable publication for music analysts at any stage. Through its goal of promoting a sense of community and inclusivity, SMT-Pod will reach beyond the boundaries of the SMT at this critical moment of calls for the revitalization of our field.

Episode Date
How Anime Opening Credits Hook You and Tell You a Story - Tan Nazare
Jun 25, 2026
Swan Lake: How the Classical Ballet Became a Political Mosh - Sasha Drozzina
Jun 18, 2026
One Block to Rule Them All: The Single-Block Form in African Music - Alice (Bai) Xue
Jun 11, 2026
Is It Over? How Silence Frames Musical Beginnings and Endings in Arvo Pärt’s “Ludus” - Hang Ki Choi
Jun 04, 2026
Gender and the Death Trope in Judith Weir’s The Black Spider - Luis Matos-Tovar
May 28, 2026
Texture, Timbre, and Instrumentation in Laura Kaminsky’s As One: A Trans Narrative - Brandon D. Scribner
May 21, 2026
Power and Captivity in Thea Musgrave’s Mary, Queen of Scots - Zachary Simonds
May 14, 2026
The Two Harriets in Thea Musgrave’s Harriet, The Woman Called Moses - Isabel Milbourn
May 07, 2026
Trauma and Vocal Utterances in Ellen Reid’s p r i s m (2018) - Aaron D'Zurilla
Apr 30, 2026
SMT-Pod Student Seminar Series: Gender and Contemporary Opera (Introduction)
Apr 23, 2026
Episode 1 - Idiomatic Improvisation: Where Theory Meets Aural Skills - Alexandrea Jonker and Peter Schubert
Jul 10, 2025
Episode 2 - Idiomatic Improvisation: Where Theory Meets Aural Skills - Alexandrea Jonker and Peter Schubert
Jul 10, 2025
Episode 3 - Idiomatic Improvisation: Where Theory Meets Aural Skills - Alexandrea Jonker and Peter Schubert
Jul 10, 2025
Episode 4 - Idiomatic Improvisation: Where Theory Meets Aural Skills - Alexandrea Jonker and Peter Schubert
Jul 10, 2025
Episode 5 - Idiomatic Improvisation: Where Theory Meets Aural Skills - Alexandrea Jonker and Peter Schubert
Jul 10, 2025
From the Sidelines: an in game look at Johanna Beyer’s Music of the Spheres - Craig Peaslee
Jul 03, 2025
Nicole Mitchell’s Mandorla Awakening II and the Sounds of Afrofuturist Theory - Audrey Slote
Jun 26, 2025
Reimagine the Sound: Or, How to Improvise a Cecil Taylor Improvisation - Mark Micchelli
Jun 19, 2025
Fuguing Essential Voices: An Informance of J. S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue, BWV 1011 - Daniel Ketter
Jun 12, 2025
“In the Days of Auld Lang Syne”: Stability and Bagpipe Music in Hong Kong (1997-2024) - Samantha Sasaki
Jun 05, 2025
Dual Leading Tone Loops in Post-Millennial Pop/Rock - Brad Osborn
May 29, 2025
Voice and Agency in Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 - Jason Jedlička
May 22, 2025
Playing Dress-Up: Co-Performance in Mozart’s Abendempfindung K. 523 - Lydia Bangura
May 15, 2025
Teaching Rhythm and Meter through Rap and Hip Hop: An Interview with Mazbou Q - Olivia Lucas & Mazbou Q
May 08, 2025
I will not tell you: Disconnection, Reticence, and Ambivalence in Heyman's “Tortie-Tortue” - Anna Stephan-Robinson
May 01, 2025
Terminal Openings: Interpreting Songs that Begin by Ending - Joon Park
Apr 24, 2025
Formal and Textural Processes in Contemporary Worship Music - Leah Amarosa
Apr 17, 2025
The Role of Reprise and Revision in 'Shrek the Musical' (2008, 2024) - Zachary Lloyd & John Combs
Apr 10, 2025
The Impact of Timbre on Perceptions of Genre in Recorded Popular Music - Stefanie Bilidas & Grace Gollmar
Apr 04, 2024
Agency and Practical Model Composition in the Music Theory Classroom - Brent Ferguson, Alani Pranzo, Carter Falkenstein, and Nykia Osborne
Mar 28, 2024
Three’s a crowd: Understanding the rise of two-chorus form in recent popular music - Jeremy Orosz
Mar 21, 2024
“¿Somos la resistencia, no?”: Memory and Manipulation in Netflix’s La Casa de Papel - Tori Vilches
Mar 14, 2024
“How do you color a sound?”: Hearing Afrofuturism in The 5th Dimension’s “Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” (1969) - Alejandro Cueto
Mar 07, 2024
Playing With Ghosts: Timbre and the Chiptuning of Canon in the Bardcore Video Game Project - Brent Ferguson, George Reid, and Matthew Ferrandino
Feb 29, 2024
What if Octaves Aren’t Equivalent? A Composer’s Guide to Non-Octave-Repeating Scales - Thomas B. Yee
Feb 22, 2024
Interrelating Concepts of Texture and Rhythm in Massive Textures and Beatless Rhythms - Nariá Assis Ribeiro & Luís Raimundo
Feb 15, 2024
Listening a Page at a Time - Stephen Rodgers
Feb 08, 2024
Muito Beleza – Ana’s Hands: Postcolonial Gendered Legacies of the Viola da Terra - Abigail Lindo
Feb 01, 2024
Analyzing Stravinsky - Introduction to Stravinsky’s 1911 Petrushka - Joseph Straus
Jan 25, 2024
Season 3 - Teaser Trailer
Jan 24, 2024
Season 3 - Call for Proposals
May 23, 2023
Theorizing African American Music: Black Women in Academic Music, and Final Thoughts (5) - Phil Ewell (with appearances by Louise Toppin, Teresa Reed, Jewel Thompson, and Chris Jenkins)
Apr 06, 2023
Theorizing African American Music: The Participants (4) - Phil Ewell (with appearances by Marvin McNeil, Stephanie Doktor, Alan Reese, and Maya Cunningham)
Mar 30, 2023
Theorizing African American Music: The Keynote (3) - Phil Ewell (with an appearance by Dwight Andrews)
Mar 23, 2023
Theorizing African American Music: The Concert (2) - Christopher Jenkins (with appearances by Phil Ewell, Lydia Bangura, Khari Joyner, and Theron Brown)
Mar 16, 2023
Theorizing African American Music: Beginnings (1) - Philip Ewell (with appearances by Christopher Jenkins, Lydia Bangura, and Susan McClary)
Mar 09, 2023
What Green Book Got Wrong About Black Music - Rami Stucky
Mar 02, 2023
The Emotional Impact of the Double Upbeat - Jenine Brown
Feb 23, 2023
Counterpoint Expanded - Melissa Hoag
Feb 16, 2023
A Gender-Analysis Approach to Settings of Chamisso’s Frauenliebe und -leben - Kimberly Soby
Feb 09, 2023
Tonal Polymodality in Tool’s Aenima - Matthew Ferrandino & Frank Nawrot
Feb 02, 2023
From Piece to Music: Analyzing Your Own Listening - Katrina Roush
Jan 26, 2023
Season 2 - Call for Proposals
May 05, 2022
Musicking While Old - 5. Old Listeners - Joseph Straus
Apr 28, 2022
Journeys Through Middleground: Holding Space Between Academic Analysis and YouTube Entertainment - Jennifer Campbell
Apr 21, 2022
Making Orchestras Speak/Making Machines Listen - Landon Morrison
Apr 14, 2022
Musicking While Old - 4. Old Performers - Joseph Straus
Apr 07, 2022
Analytical Frameworks for Post(-Millennial) Punk Episode 2: We still [speak/sing/yell] these songs well - Matthew Chiu and Tyler Howie
Mar 31, 2022
Analytical Frameworks for Post(-Millennial) Punk Episode 1: The “Twinkle” Schema in the Emo Revival - Matthew Chiu and Tyler Howie
Mar 24, 2022
Women Composers in Fin-de-siècle Paris: Marie Jaëll, Cécile Chaminade, and Augusta Holmès - Lucia Pasini
Mar 17, 2022
Facilitating Musical Discussions on Reddit: An Interdisciplinary Conversation - Nathaniel Mitchell, Sarah A. Gilbert, Timothy Byron, and Justice Srisuk
Mar 10, 2022
Musicking While Old - 3. Old Composers - Joseph Straus
Mar 03, 2022
Is Key Real? - Christopher Doll
Feb 24, 2022
Part 2 - The Inside of the Tune: Analyzing the Bridge in Pop - Elizabeth Newton and Franklin Bruno
Feb 17, 2022
Part 1 - The Inside of the Tune: Analyzing the Bridge in Pop - Elizabeth Newton and Franklin Bruno
Feb 17, 2022
Sonic Identity, Imitation, and Critical Listening in Popular Music - Matthew Ferrandino
Feb 10, 2022
Musicking While Old - 2. Operatic Representations of Old Age - Joseph Straus
Feb 03, 2022
The Teardrop Chord: Analyzing the Enigmatic Minor IV Chord in Pop and Film Music - John Baxter
Jan 27, 2022
Musicking While Old - 1. Old Age as Culture - Joseph Straus
Jan 20, 2022
Buxtehude Beats Bach? Qualifying a Canonic Claim - Scott Murphy
Jan 13, 2022
Season 1 Preview
Nov 04, 2021
SMT-Pod Trailer
May 31, 2021