<html><body><div><br></div><div><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Please visit my blog Essays & Endnotes for the most recent post in the Desperately Seeking Relevance thread. This one is "<span style="font-family: sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'trebuchet ms';"><a data-mce-href="http://essaysandendnotes.blogspot.com/2014/11/desperately-seeking-relevance-music.html" href="http://essaysandendnotes.blogspot.com/2014/11/desperately-seeking-relevance-music.html">Maverick Integration</a></span>." It extends ideas about rubbish theory and is meant to lay groundwork to argue toward a possible worlds approach for musics.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS';" data-mce-style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS';">It took me much longer than I expected to work through the presentation issues once I decided to approach it as a problem in modeling, plus I had to break it into several installments.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS';" data-mce-style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS';"><br></span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS';" data-mce-style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS';">The email subject heading above, "Art of Models" comes from Rene Thom, "<span style="font-family: sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'trebuchet ms';"><a data-mce-href="http://ac.els-cdn.com/0040938369900184/1-s2.0-0040938369900184-main.pdf?_tid=8fc787b4-717e-11e4-bdac-00000aab0f01&acdnat=1416575092_1088addbd2c67f64cd5ddf85e0e727c9" href="http://ac.els-cdn.com/0040938369900184/1-s2.0-0040938369900184-main.pdf?_tid=8fc787b4-717e-11e4-bdac-00000aab0f01&acdnat=1416575092_1088addbd2c67f64cd5ddf85e0e727c9">Topological Models in Biology</a></span>" in </span><em>Topology</em>, vol.8 issue 3, July 1969, 313-335<span style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS';" data-mce-style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS';">: <span data-mce-style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS';">"Here we do not deal with a scientific theory, but more precisely with a </span><em style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">method, </em><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">And this method does not lead to specific techniques, but, strictly speaking, to </span><em style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">an art of models</em><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">."</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS';" data-mce-style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS';" data-mce-style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS';">The model I'm building here uses <em>roles</em> rather than specific content. This abstract approach may be confusing at first. It may help to think of the model as a play; the reader is encouraged to imagine his or her own favorite historical or current actors (e.g., specific theories) in those roles.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">In the first part of this post there is certainly no challenge to the current pedagogical assumptions giving primacy to theory & analysis, but the model soon incorporates a role that has been all but ignored in music theory today - and often eliminated almost entirely.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> Stephen Soderberg</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Keswick, VA<br><br></p></div></body></html>