...or does it?
We're on spring break here at TTU which means less grading and planning and more researching and writing. I'm trying to come up with a new project or two while I have this copious free time, and it occurs to me that our discipline might benefit from a journal of negative results. They have them in the sciences to prevent people from spending outrageous amounts of money on equipment and personnel only to replicate a failed experiment or disproven hypothesis.
What sorts of things might one find in the Journal of Negative Results in Music Theory? Here's a sample table of contents from the first issue:
*with 8 1/2 miles of fold-out graphs!
Folks in musicology and ethnomusicology could follow suit: "British Library MS Stowe 584: No music here;" "The role of music in ritual in Tuvalu: Nonexistent."
These authors should consider submitting a chapter of their dissertations...
Come to think of it, I could probably get quite a few publications in such a journal... Submissions for consideration will be accepted in the "comments."
We're on spring break here at TTU which means less grading and planning and more researching and writing. I'm trying to come up with a new project or two while I have this copious free time, and it occurs to me that our discipline might benefit from a journal of negative results. They have them in the sciences to prevent people from spending outrageous amounts of money on equipment and personnel only to replicate a failed experiment or disproven hypothesis.
What sorts of things might one find in the Journal of Negative Results in Music Theory? Here's a sample table of contents from the first issue:
Pitch-class set analysis of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
Stockhausen's Licht: A Schenkerian approach*
There's no relationship between music and text in songs by Gershwin
Multidimensional scaling, the coprime hypothesis, and the IV chord
Josquin's use of the piano
Out of touch: The role of Oates in Hall and Oates.
*with 8 1/2 miles of fold-out graphs!
Folks in musicology and ethnomusicology could follow suit: "British Library MS Stowe 584: No music here;" "The role of music in ritual in Tuvalu: Nonexistent."
These authors should consider submitting a chapter of their dissertations...
Come to think of it, I could probably get quite a few publications in such a journal... Submissions for consideration will be accepted in the "comments."