Musical Insights
The Journal of the
Macro Analysis Creative Research Organization
The Macro Analysis Creative Research Organization (MACRO) publishes Musical Insights, a journal providing a venue for musicians of all specializations, at all levels of study, to share their observations and insights (pun intended). The journal features distinctive articles—broad-based in scope—which explore a variety of viewpoints. Musicians of all disciplines are invited to submit manuscripts for consideration.
Call for Manuscripts
MACRO invites musicians of all disciplines to submit manuscripts for publication consideration in Musical Insights.
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Volume 4
Published in 2015.
- Title Pages
- Contents
- Journal Contributor Information
- Introduction
- Welcome
- John Check – Introducing, Returning To, and Playing Up the Leading Tone
- Richard Jean Richards – Unraveling Ravel: The Prélude from Le Tombeau de Couperin
- Nolan Stolz – Teaching Jazz Improvisation Using Macro-Analytical Techniques
- Donald G. Traut – Anti-Circles as an Explanatory Model for Harmonic Motion in Pop-Rock Music
- Gary W. Don – Macro Analysis and Composition: A Model for Integrating Composition Assignments into the Theory Curriculum
- Contributors and MACRO Information
Volume 3
Published in 2005.
- Title Pages
- Table of Contents
- Journal Contributor Information
- Introduction
- Welcome
- Bruce Benward - In Search of Musical Logic
- Allison Hawkins - Macro Analysis of Robert Schumann's "Abschied," from Waldscenen, Op. 82
- Gene S. Trantham - The State of Macro-Analytical Research: Retrospective and Future Patterns
- Contributors
- Call for manuscripts and news. Previous issues
- Robert Fountain Memorial Honorarium
- Bruce Benward Theory/Composition Honorarium
- MACRO Research Award
- Composition Contest
Volume 2
Published in 2002.
- Title Page
- Journal Contributor Information
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Welcome
- Gene S. Trantham - Macro Level Two: Exploring a Harmonic Middleground
- Kristy Bryden - Maximizing Macro: A Macro-Analytical Explanation of Non-circle Progressions
- Carol VanRandwyk - Circle Progressions and the Power of the Half Step
- Whitney Prince - Macro Analysis and the I - V - I Tonal Axis
- Daniel Sommerville - An Expanded Macro Analysis System for Chromatic Harmony
- Paul Daniel Sayre - Technique and Structure in the First Movement of Maurice Ravel's Sonatine for Piano: Comparative Analytic Approaches
- Jane Roman Pitt - Music at the Crossroads: A Macro-Analytical View of the First Polyphonic Choral Music for the Synagogue
- Maureen Schafer - Illuminating Text: A Macro Analysis of Franz Schubert's "Auf dem Wasser zu singen"
- Dawn M. Drapinski - Bi-Level Macro Analysis
- Contributors
- Robert Fountain Memorial Award
- Macro Research Award
- Composition Contest
- Call for Manuscripts
- Macro Workshop
Volume 1
Published in 1997.
- Bill Carmody - Mazurka, Op. 67, No. 2 by Chopin
- Brandy N. Gerber - A Macro-Analytical Approach to Mozart's Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 545
- Warren Gooch - Tonal Axis in Ravel's Sonatine: A Macro-Analytical Discussion
- Jamie L. Henke - An Historical Survey of the Origins of the Circle: Music and Theory
- Marilyn Saker - The Development of Performance Interpretation through Macro-Analysis Application
- Charles John Stark - Insights for Teaching: Mazurka Op. 67, No. 2 by Chopin