Adam, Livi, and Seth interview pianist Caral Salas-Ruiz. Their conversation includes how she journeyed into the music world and her thoughts on piano pedagogy. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: thetheorybehindit@interludepodcasts.com Follow: @TTBIpod on Twitter  Intro Music: Jazzy Abstract Beat by Coma-Media Transition Music: Old Vintage Bass and Two Octave Piano by JuliusH Outro Music: Chill Funk Theme by undruground

Adam, Livi, and Seth tackle how the imposter syndrome affects one going through undergraduate and graduate studies in music. 01:00 Helpful or Not: Chrome Music Lab 12:30 Main Topic: Music Theory and The Imposter Syndrome 38:50 Closing Segment Contact: thetheorybehindit@interludepodcasts.com Follow: @TTBIpod on Twitter  ----more---- Intro Music: Jazzy Abstract Beat by Coma-Media Transition Music: Old Vintage Bass and Two Octave Piano by JuliusH Outro Music: Chill Funk Theme by undruground  

This week we are thrilled to share our conversation with musicologist Dr. Daniel Elphick. Dan is a faculty member at Royal Holloway, University of London, as well as the man behind the Cult of Musicology Youtube channel. Check out our discussion about his research, writing in music theory, and the distinctions between analysis and musicology. (We had some minor internet hiccups during this recording, mostly on Adam's end. Some slight glitches and distortion, apologies all around.) Cult of Musicology - Youtube

Oh hey, we're not dead! TTBI is back with a brand new season of music theory and theory adjacent content (oftentimes very adjacent). Back in July, we had the chance to interview Memphis' own DJ A.D. We spoke with A.D. about the musical skills a DJ needs to possess, the worst wedding DJ ever, and how to melt faces with a killer mix. Check back next week for another episode, with another special guest! (Excuse the scuffed audio on this one, Zoom records can be a coinflip.)

Welcome to the first ever edition of Reddit Recap! The gang takes a peek at the top of the month on r/musictheory to see if they can answer any questions or have anything to add to the conversation. Plus, some questionable Jeopardy clues from the week: what's the most colorful scale?

Welcome back to another edition of Let's Argue! This week, Livi's questions about music notation nearly bring Seth and Adam to fisticuffs. Are double dotted notes good? Should we notate timbres? Modes bad? Listen and find out!

As Seth calls it, welcome to narrative-land. This week, TTBI welcomes Aubrey Leaman, a Music Theory and Cognition PhD student at Northwestern University, to discuss her work with subjectivity and agency in music. Check out her SCSMT 2021 paper at the link below to see where our conversation begins, and listen to find out where it ends!   Huge thanks to Aubrey for joining us and for the wonderful discussion. Feel free to email her at aubreyleaman2021@u.northwestern.edu with any questions you might have!   Empathic Identification: A Theory of Subjective Agency in Western Art Music

Special guest and friend of the show, Taylor Burks, returns to draft the top 7 best Kanye West albums with Adam. Listen back to the previous episode with Taylor for some non-mandatory backstory, and then check out his new website and upcoming EP!   https://www.tjbpercussion.com/

This is a heavy one. Building off our conversation with The Score last episode, we dig into Dr. Phillip Ewell's writing on music theory's white racial frame, how it applies to us, and some things we can do to help. We talk about the problems with Schenkerian analysis and break down the academic drama of the JSS from last summer, as well as some recent social media interactions. It's a serious conversation about issues facing the field today and where we can go from here.   Music Theory and the White Racial Frame, EwellJOURNAL OF SCHENKERIAN STUDIES: PROVING THE POINT, Lavengood

For the first new episode of our new season, we had the incredible pleasure of talking with Eric and Justin from The Score, an urban music education podcast.  We wanted to get their insight into building a more inclusive curriculum that connects with today's students, as well as the place of music theory in the public school band setting. Be sure to add The Score to your podcast rotation, and check back in soon for the rest of season 3 of TTBI!   The Score: An Urban Music Education Podcast

It's the final episode of this season of TTBI! And what better than a holiday themed episode to close out the year. In this episode, Seth, Livi, and Adam collaborate to draft and rank the 11 best Christmas songs ever. It gets a little heated, but hopefully some of your favorites made it on. Let us know what got robbed and what we forgot to include!    TTBI is gonna take some time off, but you'll hear from us soon in 2021. Happy Holidays!

Welcome back to our...music theory podcast? Where we spend an inordinate amount of time discussing early to mid 2000s Disney animated films?  As we wrap up season 2 of the podcast, we investigate our Spotify Wrappeds to see what the algorithm decided we were into this year. Who spent the most time listening? Who found the most new artists? Can you name the second to last traditionally animated film made by Disney Animation Studios?

Coming at you, hot off the press: it's a new episode of Let's Argue! This week, Seth has devised questions about the role of music theory from elementary to high school music programs. Who will come out on top? Did those music ed degrees pay off? Find out this week!

As promised in the last episode, Adam has prepared a brief introduction to the music of the masked madman himself, MF DOOM. Enjoy hearing about the twisty, overlapping personas, as well as Adam's incredulity at Seth and Livi's favorite tracks. Follow along with the episode playlist!

Hey, everybody! Bit late on this one ("a bit"), but the good news is you get an episode on rap music today and another one tomorrow! This episode was supposed to come out last Friday, but kept getting delayed. Check here again tomorrow for this week's normally scheduled episode. In this episode, TTBI reads and discusses Kyle Adams' recent Music Theory Online article on phrases in rap music. He describes various levels phrases can exist or be implied at, and develops discourse on what a phrase even is. https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2/mto.20.26.2.adams.html

In some form or another, each of us came up with a potential thesis idea for our master's that just didn't pan out. So today, we're talking about these ideas, what the complications or problems were, and how we ended up with what we did write!(Please don't steal any of our left behind ideas; there's still meat on these bones, TM TM TM)

Yes, it's true. Time has caught up with the podcast and Adam has enforced his will against the show. In this week's episode, Adam and special guest his father draft the top 9 U2 albums of all time. It's another Screendrafts rip-off for the ages!

Seth and Adam's battle to not lose every Let's Argue they've debated in comes to a close! Find out who takes home the gold (or the silver or something, I dunno, It's not a great metaphor). We answer more of your questions from r/musictheory, and hopefully come out as friends.

Just announcing the new name for the podcast, The Theory Behind It. We feel it's a much better name for actually sharing and talking about the podcast, and we're excited to see what comes next!

After a break last week (oops), Livi has prepared a Let's Argue of her own, this time featuring questions gathered from the music theory subreddit. Will Adam maintain his sanity? Will Seth or Adam will break their Let's Argue curse? Will Livi somehow win another Let's Argue as moderator? All this and more in this week's episode of Oursatz!