[Smt-talk] Car names

[Root, Jena]

Bill,

Perhaps the Kia Soul and the Toyota Matrix could be listed as honorable 
mentions?
Best wishes,
Jena

-- 
Dr. Jena Root
Assistant Professor, Music Theory Coordinator
Youngstown State University
Bliss Hall 3149
(330)-941-3371

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>     1. Re: fixed- vs. movable-do (art samplaski)
>     2. Car names (William Caplin)
>     3. Seeking David Sommerville (David Carson Berry)
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> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:22:50 -0400
> From: art samplaski <agsvtp at hotmail.com>
> To: <smt-talk at lists.societymusictheory.org>
> Subject: Re: [Smt-talk] fixed- vs. movable-do
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> Dear List,
>
> I have only today been able to catch up on the week's backlog of
> emails.
>
> Concerning Ildar Khannanov's post several digests ago, I have
> privately replied about some things, and here merely point out
> that he completely misunderstood my example of my own freshman
> experience with fixed-do after learning movable-do as a child.
> At the same time I was doing poorly with the new fixed-do system
> I was being made to learn, __I could do all the assigned melodies
> at home without problems using movable-do.__ It was purely the
> result of being forced to tear down an already-built cognitive
> framework that was giving me difficulties.
>
> At least in the U.S., the continued popularity of _The Sound of
> Music_ both on stage and with showings of the film--I've seen a
> documentary on _TSoM_ mass singalongs, with people in costume;
> "The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Valium" is a good way to
> describe them:)--means that likely the vast majority of American
> students grow up knowing movable-do. It thus seems pointless and
> counterproductive to me to tear down that existing framework,
> and we should seek other solutions.
>
> At an Eastman music cognition symposium session a few years ago,
> Betsy Marvin described to me a proposal to use the German letters
> for notes as a fixed-do system, to be done in tandem with a movable
> system, either solfege or scale-degrees. That to my mind is a great
> solution: one gets the good aspects of a fixed-do system but with a
> set of syllables that do not interfere with already-learned connotations
> of the usual solfege sysllables. I know that eventually Eastman went
> with fixed-do plus scale-degrees for movable relationships; she or
> one of the other Eastman list-members can better discuss their
> deliberations.
>
>
> Beyond this, I wish to strongly second Dmitri Tymoczko's call for
> stronger moderation of posts, and will refrain from further
> participation in this thread. I do, however, want to thank Nicolas
> Mee?s, Ben Dobbs, and Peter Schubert for the several posts about
> the earliest uses of "do" instead of "ut"--those have been extremely
> helpful to me for my history-of-theory book.:)
>
> Art Samplaski
> Ithaca, NY
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> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:27:22 -0400
> From: William Caplin <caplin at music.mcgill.ca>
> To: smt-talk Talk <smt-talk at societymusictheory.org>
> Subject: [Smt-talk] Car names
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> What do you all make of the latest trend of Asian car manufacturers naming their cars after musical terms?
>
> We already have Hyundai's "Sonata" and "Accent" (two of my own major areas of research).  Then there's Kia's "Rondo."  And just today I read about a new electric car from China named "Coda."  (I suppose a "Cadence" can't be too far in the future.)
>
> Clearly there's a prestige factor associated with music in Asia that doesn't seem to resonate with North American or European makers.
>
> Have I missed others?
>
> Wishing you all a pleasant summer!
>
> Bill
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:12:35 -0400
> From: David Carson Berry <david.berry at uc.edu>
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> Subject: [Smt-talk] Seeking David Sommerville
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> Can anyone provide me with a current e-mail address of David Sommerville
> (PhD Eastman, 2009)?
>
> I?ve tried a Nazareth College address to no avail.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> --David
>
> David Carson Berry, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Music Theory
> University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
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