<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Dear Colleagues,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>I have listened to the suggested link and have found the progression I-V-vi-IV quite enjoyable. Pop music, sometimes, provides insightful innovations to the classical models. The phrases in classical paradigm normally end either with dominant, or with tonic. The phrase that contains the dialectic of tonic and dominant but suddenly ends on subdominant is quite intriguing and fresh. As if a singer ends each phrase with thoughtful and multivalent gesture that calls for
continuation. Beautiful logic!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Best wishes,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Ildar Khannanov</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University</span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>solfeggio7@yahoo.com</span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:00 AM, Stefanie Acevedo <stefanie@stefanieacevedo.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8693888636"><div><div>I agree with Devin et al.: We, as the "authority" of this field SHOULD eschew the expression. Otherwise, we are only promoting the sexist stereotyping. Like Devin said, the mere fact that someone brought the term up as a "category" is problematic. </div><div><br></div><div>In either case, I urge everyone to
visit and familiarize themselves with the SMT guidelines for non-sexist language: <a href="http://societymusictheory.org/administration/committees/csw/non-sexist-language" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://societymusictheory.org/administration/committees/csw/non-sexist-language</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for bringing this up, Devin!</div><div><br></div><div>Another "sensitive" female, </div><div>Stefanie</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>MW Morse wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">"We," the collected wisdom, could eschew the expression "SFCP"; what<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that would or would not contribute to social gender roles is not entirely<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">clear.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>Well, it would avoid the sexist stereotyping inherent in the term.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I doubt this expression is
of significance to the music theory community<br></blockquote>in the first place.<br><br>Except that at least some of us find it offensive...but perhaps I'm just<br>being too "sensitive"!<br><br>Nicole Biamonte<br>McGill University<br><br>
<div><b>Stefanie Acevedo, M.M.</b></div><div><i>Ph.D. Student, Music Theory - Yale University</i></div><div><<a href="mailto:stefanie.acevedo@yale.edu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:stefanie.acevedo@yale.edu">stefanie.acevedo@yale.edu</a>></div><div><a href="http://www.stefanieacevedo.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.stefanieacevedo.com/</a></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org" ymailto="mailto:Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org">Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org" target="_blank">http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>