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 by utilizing the macro-analysis system. Musicians of all disciplines are invited to submit manuscripts for consideration.
Call for ManuscriptsVolume 4 (forthcoming)
- 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
Volume 3 (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 (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 (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