
Check out our website: www.smt-pod.org SMT-Pod is a creative venue for timely conversations about music, with episodes chosen through an open, collaborative peer review process. Audio-only podcasts offer a unique—though non-traditional—way of engaging with music, analysis, and contemporary issues in the field. This new publication medium affords our society both the ability to face outwards, by en... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 69 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Music InterviewsMusic CommentaryMusic | |||

In this week’s episode, Hang Ki Choi explores how the silences in Arvo Pärt’s "Ludus" play with our sense of musical beginnings and endings.
This episode was produced by Jason Jedlicka along with Team Lead Orit Hilewicz. Special thanks to peer revie... more
In this week’s episode, Luis Matos-Tovar gives us a look into Judith Weir’s The Black Spider, a children's opera that challenges gendered expectations of women dying and men surviving that is common in many traditional operas. Weir does this in a man... more
In this week’s episode, Brandon Scribner analyzes Laura Kaminsky’s opera, As One, which uses music (specifically texture and timbre) to trace the experience of Hannah’s gender transition.
This episode was produced by Zach Lloyd along with Team Lead ... more
In this week's episode, Zachary Simonds uses tools developed by Robert Hatten to analyze Mary, Queen of Scots by Thea Musgrave, focusing on the melodically ascending octave and its use as a complex narrative device throughout the opera.
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This show centers on music analysis, pedagogy, and contemporary issues in musicology, often through scholarly interviews, in-depth music theoretical discussions, and classroom-focused improvisation activities. Episodes frequently explore operatic narratives, gender and identity in music, idiomatic improvisation, and historical-aesthetic questions, with a strong emphasis on teaching methods, texture and timbre, and the relationship between theory and performance. A notable strength is the blend of rigorous scholarly analysis with practical demonstrations and classroom-based pedagogy,making it useful for music educators, theorists, and performers interested in how analytical frameworks translate into teaching and performance. The format often... more
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