Ongoing
projects
- Assignment
and Dissertation Tips
(‘Tagg’s Tips’) (Version
5, Nov 2003, 1 Meg PDF)
- Background
dates to
Popular Music Studies [upd. June 2001,
338k HTML]
- Glossary
of Tagg’s neologisms, special terms and abbreviations
[upd. 011120, 13k]
- Popular
Music Assignment Howlers [upd. June 2001]
- Introductory
notes to the Semiotics of Music [upd.
July 1999, version 3; 211k. PDF]
- Tagg’s
Harmony Handout [upd. Oct 2003;
583k PDF].
Includes articles on Polyphony,
Chord(s), Counterpoint,
Homophony, Heterophony,
Harmony, Lead
sheet , Lead
sheet chord shorthand, Turnaround,
Circle of fifths.
The Harmony article includes sections on ‘Classical’
and ‘Non-classical’ harmony. It also sorts out the confusion
of terms like triadic, tertial, quartal, ‘functional’,
etc.
2005
- «Faciliter
l’étude de la musique populaire est un enjeu démocratique».
Entrevue réalisée par Julie Fortier; Sforzando,
9/2 (printemps 2005), p. 9 [Original
PDF avec photo; html 11k]
- Review
of Volume 1 of Musiques: une encyclopédie pour le XXIe
siècle (ed. J-J Nattiez)
[html 97k; PDF
232k]
-
Gestural
interconversion and connotative precision. Film
International #13/2005:1, Article submitted to November-December
2004. pdf
890k incl. illustrations and notated music examples
[dummy html version].
-
Musical
meanings, classical and popular.
Revised English original of text submitted for
publication in Einaudi’s Enciclopedia della musica.
(ed. J-J Nattiez, to be translated into Italian and French)
[PDF 286k; dummy
html 50k]. Was called ‘What use is a museme?’.
Slightly shorter, less ideological, but more theoretical variant
of ’Film music,
antidepressants and anguish’ and ‘Antidepressants
and musical anguish management’ (both 2004). N.B.
Italian version to appear in l'Enciclopedia della musica,
published by Giulio Einaudi editore, Torino.
2004
- Film
music, antidepressants and anguish management. Slightly
reworked version of next paper on list. Done for a volume edited
by Jochen Eisentraut (Bangor, Wales).
[html dummy 48k; correct
pdf version 330k incl. notated music examples].
- Para
que serve um musema? Antidepressivos e a gestão musical da angústia
Conferência Philip Tagg, Universidade de Montréal
V Congresso da IASPM-LA, Rio de Janeiro, 22 de Junho de 2004. Tradução
preliminar (Henrique Wesley).
- ¿Para
qué sirve un musema? Antidepresivos y la gestión musical
de la angustia Conferencia
Philip Tagg, Universidade de Montréal. V Congresso da IASPM-LA,
Río de Janeiro, 22 de Junio de 2004 Traducción preliminar (Antonio
Moreno)
- Antidepressants
and musical anguish management. Keynote
speech, IASPM Latin America conference, Rio de Janeiro, June 2004.
[html 70k with short
MP3 links; pdf version
169k incl. notated music examples]. Em
português | En
español .
- Mostrar
lo extraña que es la normalidad (‘Normality
is so weird’). ¿Existe
una definición positiva de música popular? ¿Cuál
la utilidad del análisis musical?¿Qué lugar tiene
la autenticidad como juicio de valor?
¿Qué papel podría cumplir un tipo de subversión
que actuara en la música misma, una especie de boicot de
la normalidad en la música popular? (Entrevista
por Guilherme Alencar de Pinto, Uruguay, 2004-07-12. Published in
Brecha (Montevideo), Friday 30 July 2004 [html 21k]
-
2003
-
Ten
Little Title Tunes
— Towards a musicology of the mass media,
co-authored by
Bob Clarida (xiv+898 pp.,
ISBN 0-9701684-2-X, 10" x 7" = 177 x 254 mm., 501 music examples.,
numerous illustrations, tables and figures, US$71 — online
ordering). Ten Little Title Tunes
is about the importance of music as an everyday means of communication.
It documents the associations of hundreds of respondents to ten
extracts of music, played without visual accompaniment, but used
(or usable) as film or TV title music. It deals with the links
between listener connotations and musical structures in the global,
Anglo-US-American mass-media culture of the late twentieth century,
analysing musicogenic categories of thought which own serious
ideological potential, e,g, gender, love, loneliness, injustice,
nostalgia, sadness, exoticsm, nature, crime, normality, urgency,
fashion, fun, the military, etc.
View • Table
of Contents • Tune
1 (extract) •
Tune 2 (extract) • Index.
2002
2001
- Music
analysis for ‘non-musos’ — Popular perception
as a basis for understanding musical structure and signification.
Paper delivered at Popular Music
Analysis Conference, University of Cardiff 17 Nov. 2001 [71k]
- Twenty
Years After — Founder’s
Event, 11th International IASPM Conference, Turku
, 8 July 2001 [35k HTML]
- Foreword
to Popular music as a possible
medium in secondary school education
(May 2001, plus complete original text and statistics from May
1966) html
- The
Sonic Aesthetics of the Industrial: Re-Constructing Yesterday’s
Soundscape for Today’s Alienation and Tomorrow’s Dystopia,
co-authored by
Karen E Collins. Paper
delivered at UK/EIR Soundscape Conference, Dartington, February
2001. HTML (75k)
& PDF
(39k, 8 pp. A4 2 cols.).
- Music,
moving image, semiotics and the democratic right to know.
Longer article based on shorter paper given at
conference ‘Music and Manipulation’, Stockholm, September
1999 [24 pp., 118k PDF]
2000
- Music
and a Sense of Place (initial
statistics only), Sept. 2000 [47k HTML]
- High
and Low, Cool and Uncool, Music and Knowledge — Conceptual
falsifications and the institutionalisation of popular music studies.
Keynote speech, IASPM UK. July 2000 [54k
HTML]
- High
and Low, Cool and Uncool — Aesthetic and historical falsifications
about music in Europe. Keynote speech, IASPM Bulgaria, June
2000 [34k HTML]
- ‘Modality’
and other short articles for EPMOW —
entries for Antiphony,
Changes, Drone,
Hocket, Modality,
Note
[75k, 10 pages PDF]
- Melody
and Accompaniment — 2 longer entries
for EPMOW (2000) [541k, 24 pages PDF, 52 music examples]
available in PDF for paper of either International
A4 size or
North American
‘Letter’ size
- An
ethical approach to media culture in music education.
Response to questions from Luca Marconi
for Italian music teachers’ magazine. Published in Italian
as ‘Un approccio etico alla cultura mediale’ in Musica
Domani no. 116 (EDT, Torino, 2000), pp. 30-31
- Harmony
Handout. Entries for EPMOW
(Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World): includes articles
on Circle of Fifths, Chord, Counterpoint, Harmony, Heterophony,
Lead Sheet, Lead Sheet Chord Shorthand, Polyphony, Turnaround
(2000) [581k, 50 pages PDF, 41 music examples, 12 tables]
- Kojak
- 50 Seconds of TV Music
- Towards the analysis of affect in popular music
(2nd edition of PhD thesis from 1979, 424 pp, US$38, online
ordering). By 1976 the title theme for the TV series Kojak
had been heard by at least 100 million people in at least seventy
countries. It is an infinitesimal part of all the mass media music
outside the traditional musicological frames of reference. Tagg
argues that conventional musicology cannot help us understand
how music works on an everyday basis in the popular mass media
market of ideas. This book not only reveals, in fascinating detail,
how a widely disseminated piece of music can influence the TV-viewer’s
evaluation of people and places: it also presents a solid methodological
basis for analysing music as if it actually meant something.
- Fernando
the Flute [please buy!] (144
pp. 7×10" = 177×254 mm., illustrated, numerous music examples.
$28. ISBN 0-9701684-1-1, online
ordering). A
neat edition of this fascinating analysis of the famous but ideologically
ambiguous Abba mega-hit from 1975. By 1977 Abba’s Fernando
had sold at least 10 million copies worldwide. Released some 18
months after the fascist coup in Chile, the English lyrics have
the vocalist reminiscing about ‘the fateful night we crossed the
Rio Grande’ when fighting ‘for freedom in this land’. Fernando
was certainly no pro-Pinochet or pro-CIA song, but it failed to
capture the mood of solidarity and indignation which was so prevalent
in Sweden at the time of its release. Rigorous musematic analysis
of the song reveals how its musical structuration is operative
in the communication of ideology and political stance.
- Personal
statement in memory of Gaston Rochon (May 2000).
1999-1998
1997-1995
1994-1990
1980s
- Open
letter about ‘Black music’, ‘Afro-American’
and ‘European’ music.
Popular Music, 1989 [65k]
- An
Anthropology of Stereoptypes in TV Music
In Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning,
1989 [87k PDF] (dummy HTML)
- Report
on 4th IASPM conference in Accra, Ghana,
in RPM (IASPM bulletin), 1987 [42k HTML]
- Musicology
and the Semiotics of Popular Music In
Semiotica, 66-1/3 [64k PDF] (dummy
HTML)
- Reading
sounds — written for L'Unità
(Rome), summer 1986 [57k HTML]
- Address
on the State of the Association — speech
at 3rd international IASPM conference, Montréal, July 1985
[39k HTML
- Musikvetenskap
och populärmusikens semiotik
(1984) [110k html]
- Why
IASPM? Which Tasks? — paper
at 2nd international IASPM conference, Reggio Emilia, September
1983 [26k HTML]
- Understanding
‘Time Sense’ — for
Jan Ling’s 50th birthday Festschrift Tvärspel,
1983; revised and expanded 1996 [120k PDF] (dummy
HTML)
- Nature
as a Musical Mood Category —
1982 [103k PDF] html
- Analysing
Popular Music. Article for Popular
Music, 2 (1982) [303k PDF] html
- Music
Teacher Training Problems and Popular Music Research.
Paper for first IASPM conference, Amsterdam, 1981
[37k HTML]
- Proposals
concerning the establishment of an International Society for Popular
Music Research.
Discussion document for the first International Conference on
Popular Music Studies (Amsterdam, 1981) when IASPM was founded
[11k HTML | 13k
PDF]
before 1980
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