Reflections on the Manifesto

15 August 2016 Society for Music Theory. The original panelists included Juan Chattah, Jennifer Snodgrass, Melissa Hoag, Jena Root, Elizabeth Sayrs, Matthew Shaftel, and Steve Laitz. Each panelist critically examined the central tenets put forth in the manifesto in...

Poking the Pillars: A Preliminary Evaluation of Integration, Diversity, and Creativity

01 January 2016 Snodgrass, Jennifer S. Contemporary Musicianship: Analysis and the Artist. Oxford University Press, 2015. authors: Elizabeth Sayrs author_ids: 1031 authors: Elizabeth Sayrs author_ids: 1031

“Shot Into the Air Like a Rocket”: Climax in the Lieder of Alma Mahler

01 May 2023 most famously discusses gendered aspects of music theory, including cadence and closure, in Feminine Endings. and Elizabeth Sayrs’s interpretation thereof, to discuss gendered representations of desire and release: “Representations of male desire and...

Uncovering and Teaching the Process of Analysis to Undergraduate Music Theory Students

20 September 2018 http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.16.22.1/mto.16.22.1.snodgrass.html; and Juan Chattah, Melissa Hoag, Steven Laitz, Elizabeth Sayrs, and Jennifer Sterling Snodgrass, “Reflections on the Manifesto,” College Music Symposium 56,...

Deconstructing McClary: Narrative, Feminine Sexuality, and Feminism in Susan McClary's Feminine Endings

01 October 1993 "The Perils and Paradoxes of Feminist Pedagogy," Resources for Feminist Research 16, no. 3 (1987): 49-52. authors: Elizabeth Sayrs author_ids: 1031 authors: Elizabeth Sayrs author_ids: 1031

When Recollection Is All We've Got: Analytical Explorations of "Catchy" Songs

01 October 2007 I vividly recall a scene from My Best Friend's Wedding, a Hollywood chick-flick I saw several years ago: George Downes (played by Rupert Everett) is seated at a crowded table in "Barry the Cuda's" seafood restaurant, entertaining the assembled guests...