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		<title>Wallace Berry and Tonality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working through Wallace Berry&#8217;s Structural Functions in Music, which has become a staple of the hapless graduate student&#8217;s reading list—at least judging by the $5 price for one of several used copies floating around Amazon&#8217;s marketplace.  The prose is purple (Wallace Berry), and at times incomprehensible; the man loves listing synonymous adjectives, adverbs, nouns, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yuribroze.com/2011/06/wallace-berry-and-tonality/</link>
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		<title>Reading, Writing, and Edumacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There comes a point in studies when it stops being useful to read more and more, and begins to be useful to write all the time. A two-year period is about right, as it turns out, to learn enough about a field&#8217;s many facets to transition from exploration to contribution. It&#8217;s very important to know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yuribroze.com/2011/06/reading-writing-and-edumacation/</link>
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		<title>Global Warming and Skepticism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;d be better for science and the world in general if people would use the word skeptic instead of denier. With all this current discussion of tribalism in American politics, perhaps the lens could be turned on the language we use to describe scientific communities. I could also point out that proponents of the anthropogenic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yuribroze.com/2011/06/global-warming-and-skepticism/</link>
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		<title>Advice to First-Year Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For aural skills: First, ALWAYS engage in active listening&#8212;sing under your breath along with everything you hear, and attempt to place solfege syllables to the music. Especially this applies to basslines; harmonic hearing begins with singing the root of the chord in pop music, and this will be the best training to open your ears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yuribroze.com/2011/06/advice-to-first-year-students/</link>
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		<title>Rick James was the original Thriller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now this is something I was not at all aware of until last night.  Music has always recycled, recombined, and meme-morphed.  But I had no idea that the iconic Thriller bass riff was pulled from Rick James!  This makes me certainly want to look up more Rick James.  In fact, I think there might well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yuribroze.com/2011/06/rick-james-was-the-original-thriller/</link>
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		<title>Ode to Academic Music Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[O Academic Music Theory at times it seems the stakes are so high only because your pie is so small.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yuribroze.com/2011/06/ode-to-academic-music-theory/</link>
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		<title>Position Finding With Tritones in Nondiatonic Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing with this idea of position finding with tritones, and beginning to apply it to music that is not strictly diatonic. In particular, it seems as though it should be possible to describe scales as conjoint tritones in order to begin thinking in terms of regions of local diatonicity. The idea goes back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yuribroze.com/2011/05/position-finding-with-tritones-in-nondiatonic-music/</link>
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		<title>Statistical Proofs in Apropos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the blog has made it, after some futzing with css and things of that sort. The accordions were choking just a bit when I tried to incorporate the blog posts, but after some sleuthing I uncovered a dangling div-tag. Hopefully soon I&#8217;ll plunge into the css maze and try to cull out the unneeded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yuribroze.com/2011/05/statistical-proofs-in-apropos/</link>
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		<title>Migration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the process of wrapping all the old Portamental posts to put here; it&#8217;s possible though, that Portamental will continue on.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yuribroze.com/2011/01/hello-world/</link>
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		<title>Linus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not sure where this comes from &#8212; but danceability is where it&#8217;s at!]]></description>
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