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• Guidelines for producing a reference appendix for studies of music in the 21st century: the single reference appendix solution (2015, PDF) [HTML dummy]
• British blue notes and backbeats- musicological missing links (2004, PowerPoint).
  An example of how musicology can contribute to the defalsification of canonic consensus in the history of North American popular music.
  Should be viewed in conjunction with the Open Letter/Lettre ouverte.
• Aggregate Glossary of neologisms, special terms and abbreviations (2022) [PDF]
• Popular Music Assignment Howlers [upd. June 2001]
• Popular Music Studies Bibliography
• Popular Music Studies: a brief introduction [PowerPoint 543k]

Main listing in reverse chronological order

Today-2010

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2021

• In memoriam Lucæ Marconii (prov. pdf)
• 3 million texts about corruption in Italian universities.

2019

• Advertising is evil [1]. 1-page extract from Chapter 10 of Fernando the Flute IV. (2019)
• Turning Music Studies into Videos. Notes used in Skype presentation at NIMiMS symposium, Cursos Manuel de Falla, 21 October 2017, 2016-03-04.
• Tagg’s Paris Voice Montage documentation, 2016-03-04.

2015

• The academic publishing protection racket, 2015-11-25 [HTML 22k].
• The Urgent Reform of Music Theory. Contribution to Festschrift for Jean-Jacques Nattiez, 2015-09-19 (PDF, 22 pp. upd. 160331) [dummy HTML] See also this related edutainment video.
• ФИЛИП ТАГГ: ИНТЕРВЬЮ | PHILIP TAGG : INTERVIEW (2015-06-01)
  
• Updated version of 1982 article Analysing popular music (q.v.) [23 pp.]. [HTML dummy].

2014

• ‘Music Theory Terminology as Ideology’, a.k.a. ‘Semiotics: the missing link between music and the rest of human knowledge’ (minor updates Aug 2015). Keynote presentation at 1st International Congress of Numanities (ICoN), Kaunas (Lithuania), 2014-06-07 (PDF, 39 pp.) [dummy HTML].
• Everyday Tonality II: towards a tonal theory of what most people hear [600 pp.] [HTML dummy]
• (with Goffredo Plastino) Popular Music Studies in Italian Universities / Gli studi di popular music nell’università italiana / Los estudios sobre música popular en las universidades italianas — a petition/una petizione/una petición —
• Why Popular Music Studies are excluded from Italian universities.

2013

• Discussion document concerning the Reform of Basic Music Theory Terminology, 1: Tonality and form [39 pp.] [HTML dummy]
• PopMAC Day 3: 42 years of Popular Music Analysis Teaching in 21 minutes/#popmac. Summary by Joe Bennett of presentation given at Popular Music Analysis Conference, 2013-07-04, including embedded video illustration of syncrisis using Vladimir Cosma’s theme tune for Médecins de Nuit (1980) (also on this site).
• ‘Not the sort of thing you could photocopy’ A short idea history of notation with suggestions for reform in music education and research [21 pp] [HTML dummy]
• Trouble with Tonal Terminology. Article submitted 2011-12-06 for publication in Festschrift for Coriún Aharonián and Graciela Paraskevaidis. Updated April 2012 and revised version February 2013. [HTML dummy]. >> see later version (2015).
• Music's Meanings (hard copy: see 2012).

2012

• Music's Meanings: a modern musicology for non-musos (2012-2013)
  New York & Huddersfield: Mass Media Music Scholars' Press. 710 pp. e-book ISBN 978-0-9701684-5-0; hard copy (2013) ISBN 978-0-9701684-8-1. [html].
• Lettre ouverte à propos des musiques « noires », « afro-américaines » et « européennes »;
  Open Letter about 'Black', 'Afro-American' and 'European' Music, Part 2. Artéfact, 1 16-31 (2012-08-31): première version française. Meilleure traduction, en deux parties, dans Artéfact, 1, 16-31 (2012-08-31)) et 2. Slightly abridged version, in two parts, of Tagg (1989).
• Tagg's Tonal Terminology Tour Diary (2012-02-22) My unacademically written academic gig tour diary. Reactions I’ve recently received from different people in different institutions reveal a lot about the state of music studies among different types of academic audience. With reactions ranging from elitist disdain and outright boycott via strong objections, epistemic discomfort, partial scepticism, all the way through to intellectual relief, gratitude and enthusiasm.
• Unsystematic notes about vocal persona sources (16 Jan 2012) Unformatted, ad hoc notes from online searches about voice, vocal persona, vocal personality, etc.; in raw text format (*.txt).
• The phonetic anomalies of standard UK English (2010) (table, 1 p. only, incl. phonetic script [90k PDF]

2011

• Trouble with Tonal Terminology. Article submitted 2011-12-06 for publication in Festschrift for Coriún Aharonián and Graciela Paraskevaidis. Updated April 2012 and revised version February 2013. [HTML dummy]. >> see later version (2015).
• Dominants and Dominance: A video contribution to discussions in Montevideo about musicology and colonialism. Música/Musicología y colonialismo (ed. Aharonián). Montevideo: Centro Nacional de Documentación Musical Lauro Ayesterán. Written synthesis pp. 67-71 and DVD attachment (22 mins.) (2012): video produced 2009 for Montevideo conference.
• Caught on the Back Foot: epistemic inertia and invisible music (keynote presentation, IASPM 16th Biennial Conference, Grahamstown, 2011-06-27; slightly revised 2013-02-15). [HTML dummy]; also in IASPM @ Journal, 2/1-2 (2011/2012; not updated and less reader-friendly).
• La tonalità di tutti i giorni (2011, Milano: Saggiatore), hard-copy Italian version of Everyday Tonality (2009).
• Music, Moving Image and the "Missing Majority": how vernacular media competence can help music studies move into the digital era. Text accompanying keynote address at conference Music & The Moving Image, 2011-05-21, Steinhardt School, New York University [HTML dummy 61k]
• Musicology and the Silent Majority in the Digital Era. Abstract of lectures held in Oslo and Kristiansand, January 31-Feb 1 2011 (raw text only)

2010

• Musiques de couleur ? Peut-on parler de musiques noires ? Des chercheurs planchent aujourd'hui Bordeaux sur un sujet soulevé il y a vingt ans par Philip Tagg. Article dans Sud-Ouest, le vendredi 16 avril 2010 par Antoine De Baeke.
• Os acordes de  Yes We Can do vídeo da campanha presidencial de Barak Obama (tr. Fausto Borém). Per musi, 22: 7-21. |scielo.br/pdf/pm/n22/n22a02.pdf|    

2000-2009

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2009

• Everyday Tonality —towards a tonal theory of what most people hear. WITHDRAWN. Please use Everyday Tonality II  (2015)
• The Yes We Can Chords (26 pp, 2009), Chapter 15 in Everyday Tonality II . G B Em C simply strummed on a metal-6-string acoustic guitar in 4/4 at 100 bpm: what does it ‘mean’? What does the chord sequence have to do with the Obama campaign, or with hope, encouragement, determination and a sense of community (‘Yes we can’) in the face of hardship and difficulty?  [Chapter 15 as HTML dummy].

2008  

• Essay review (12 pp.) of Simon Frith: Taking Popular Music Seriously (Ashgate, 2007). Includes a 4-page discussion of the musicological implicationsof Frith's writings [200k PDF; dummy HTML]

2007

• La película del libro de la música/The film of the book of the music. Sobre la necessidad de repensar las maneras de explicar el significado musical.On the neceesity of rethinking ways of explaining musical meaning. Texto incluido en la ponencia presentada en el sptimo congreso de la IASPM-AL, La Habana, junio de 2006. I am unable to find the English original of this text translated into Spanish by Marta Garcia. This version is therefore 65% in Spanish and 35% in English. It will appear entirely in Spanish in the Actas of IASPM-AL's Havana conference and I will try soon to translate Marta’s Spanish back into English. Using Lakoff’s notion of functional embodiment, I argue that awareness of music’s semiotic functions in contemporary media cannot be generated through mere verbal deconstruction or theorising. If important theoretical or ideological lessons are to be learnt… they must be rooted in knowledge intrinsic to the modes of perception under investigation. Footage produced and discussed: Intel Inside, Atomic Power Montage and Breakfast at Ibotirama (Fernando the Flute, Chapter 1). Click here to access those clips. PDF 490k. Dummy HTML.

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• Which type of love? Ideology and connotativeprecision in TV music: Olwen, Austria and Shampoo. Zipped PowerPoint presentation (including ‘movie’), revised for Semioticon, August 2006
• Poner el dedo sobre la llaga (entrevista por Olavo Alén). La Ventana (Casa de las Americas, La Habana)
• Subjectivity and Soundscape, Motorbikes and Music . The Popular Music Studies Reader (ed. Andy Bennett, Barry Shank, Jason Toynbee): 44-50. London & New York: Routledge. Also as edutainment video.

2005

• Musical microcosms and the political economy. Provisional text part only (7 mins.) of 20-min. presentation delivered at 13th IASPM international conference, Rome, 2005 [html 15k].
• Faciliter l’étude de la musique populaire est un enjeu démocratique. Entrevue réalisée par Julie Fortier; Sforzando, 9/2 (printemps 2005), p. 9 [html 11k]
• Review of Volume 1 of Musiques: une encyclopédie pour le XXIe sicle (ed. J-J Nattiez) [html 97k; PDF 232k]
• Gestural interconversion and connotative precision. Film International #13/2005:1, Submitted Nov-Dec 2004 [dummy html] " Versione italiana.
• 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 in l'Enciclopedia della musica, published by Giulio Einaudi editore, Torino.

2004

• Gestural conversion and connotative precision. Article published in Film International, December 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 angóstia Conferência Philip Tagg, Universidade de Montréal V Congresso da IASPM-LA, Rio de Janeiro, 22 de Junho de 2004. Tradução preliminar (Henrique Wesley).
• 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].
• Mostrar lo extraña que es la normalidad (‘Normality is so weird’). Existe una definición positiva de música popular? Cuál é la utilidad del análisis musical? Qué lugar tiene la autenticidad como juicio de valor? Qué papel podra 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).
• Inlay for CD Hearing the Detectives (1999) • A4  • US Letter
• Assignment and Dissertation Tips (‘Tagg’s Tips’) Version 5, Nov 2003. [HTML dummy]

2002

• Copyright vs. the democratic right to know [HTML] (winning article in counter-essay competition organised by wipout.net, 2001-2002) [as PDF].
• Text and context as corequisites in the popular analysis of music. Paper prepared for conference on Musical Text and Context, Department of Musicology, University of Padua at Cremona. April 2002 [28k] [PDF version].
• Entries for Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World (EPMOW) 2, May-June 2002.
• Towards a definition of ‘music’ — notes and quick reference only, March 2002 [41k PDF]

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. Updated for translation into Portuguese (Brazilian journal Per Musi), October 2009. [PDF 348k] [HTML dummy].
  
• Background dates to Popular Music Studies [upd. June 2001, 338k HTML]
• Twenty Years After — Founder’s Event, 11th International IASPM Conference, Turku , 8 July 2001 [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

• High and Low, Cool and Uncool, Music and Knowledge — Conceptual falsifications and the institutionalisation of popular music studies. Keynote speech, IASPM UK. July 2000 [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'   SUPERSEDED AND REPLACED BY CHAPTERS IN EVERYDAY TONALITY.
• Melody and Accompaniment — 2 longer entries for EPMOW (2000)'   SUPERSEDED AND REPLACED BY CHAPTERS IN EVERYDAY TONALITY and MUSIC'S MEANINGS.
• 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]  SUPERSEDED AND REPLACED BY CHAPTERS IN EVERYDAY TONALITY.
• Kojak - 50 Seconds of TV Music - Towards the analysis of affect in popular music (2nd edition of PhD thesis from 1979, 424 pp. ISBN 978-0- 9701684-9-8) [html]
• Fernando the Flute (144 pp. 7 - 10" = 177×254 mm., illustrated, numerous music examples. ISBN 0-9701684-1-1.) [html]
• Music and a Sense of Place  (initial statistics only), Sept. 2000.
• Personal statement in memory of Gaston Rochon (May 2000).

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• Popular Music Studies — bridge or barrier? Paper at symposium La musica come ponte fra popoli, Bolzano, November 1998 (1999) [HTML]
• TV Music: quick fixes, semiotics and the democratic right to know. Paper at conference Music and Manipulation, Stockhokm, Sept 1999 [31k]; click here for longer article based on this paper.
• Philip Tagg entrevistado por Martha Ulhôa (Debates 3, 1999) [PDF: no longer on line]
• ‘Absolute music’, ’primary signification’ and semiotic music analysis. Interviewed by Prof. Martha Ulhôa (1998) [38k HTML]
• The musical ‘work’: an evaluative charge (1998) [47k html]
• Tritonal crime and ‘music as music’. In Scritti per i settant' anni di Ennio Morricone (1998) [440k PDF] (HTML)
• The Göteborg Connection: lessons in the history and politics of popular music education and research. Popular Music 17/2 (1998) [HTML]
• Hearing the Detectives (CD inlay details and text)

   1997-1995

• Netscope — limits and possibilities of the internet for popular music studies. Paper delivered at fifth annual conference of IASPM (Australia and New Zealand), 21-23 July 1997, University of Technology, Sydney: ‘Sites & Sounds: popular music in the age of the Internet’ [HTML]
• Review of Music and Cultural Theory by John Shepherd and Peter Wicke (1997) Popular Music [116k HTML]
• Closing remarks, 9th IASPM international conference, Kanazawa (1997) [HTML]
• Mass Media Music Studies versus ‘The Other’ — paper delivered at musicological conference in Cascais, December 1996 [HTML]
• Music 2017 — A British Dystopia — paper delivered at IASPM UK conference in Salford, 1996 (original text from. 1993) [24k HTML]
• Review of David Brackett’s Interpreting Popular Music for American Music (1995) [19k HTML]
• Analysing music in the media. An epistemological mess — keynote speach for 8th international IASPM conference, Glasgow, 1995 [HTML]

1994-1990

• Tagg’s Diatribe or Tagg’s Nag or Phil’s Whinge
  — in IPM (University of Liverpool) news bulletin, 1994 [16k HTML]
• Popular Music: da Kojak al rave (1994); cura/trad. Roberto Agostini e Luca Marconi; 440 pagine, ISBN 978-88-809-1044-2; Bologna: CLUEB.
• Subjectivity and soundscape, motorbikes and music— paper delivered at soundscapes studies conference, Virrat (Finland), 1994 [58k HTML]
• From refrain to rave — the decline of figure and the rise of ground. In Popular Music (1994) [37k HTML]. Earlier version in ReR Quarterly 0402 (1992).
• ‘Universal’ music and the case of death. In Critical Quarterly, 1993 [PDF] [HTML dummy] (updated 2015-09-22)
• Towards a sign typology of music — paper delivered at second European Music Analysis Conference, Trento (1991) [53k HTML] [PDF, 8 pp. A4]
• Vers une musicologie de la télévision— paper delivered at Colloque Ferdinand Gonseth, La Chaux du Fonds, (1990) [120k HTML]

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• Open letter about ‘Black music’, ‘Afro-American’ and ‘European’ music. Popular Music, 1989 [65k] (see also 2012).
• An Anthropology of Stereoptypes in TV Music  In Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning, , 1989 [87k PDF] (HTML)
• Report on 4th IASPM conference in Accra, Ghana, in RPM (IASPM bulletin), 1987 [HTML]
• Musicology and the Semiotics of Popular Music In Semiotica, 66-1/3, 1987 [64k PDF] (dummy HTML)

1984-81

• 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 [HTML] [PDF]
• Musikvetenskap och populärmusikens semiotik (1984) (PDF 33 pp., ed. 2015) [original, 110k html]
• Why IASPM? Which Tasks?— paper at 2nd international IASPM conference, Reggio Emilia, September 1983 [HTML] [PDF]
• Understanding ‘Time Sense’ — for Jan Ling’s 50th birthday Festschrift Tvärspel, 1983; revised and expanded 1996 [PDF] (dummy HTML)
• Nature as a Musical Mood Category — 1982 [103k PDF] html
• Analysing Popular Music: theory, method and practice. Article for Popular Music, 2 (1982, revised 2015) [23 pp. A4 PDF] (dummy HTML); original 1982 version (solely for archival reasons, PDF) (dummy 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 [HTML | PDF]

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1979

• Kojak - 50 Seconds of TV Music - Towards the analysis of affect in popular music (1st edition of PhD thesis, published as #2 in series Skrifter från musikveteskapliga institutionen (Göteborg, 1979); out of print; available in revised edition from 2000).
• ‘“Fernando” - Analyse af affekt i ABBA’s “Fernando”, som er solgt i mere end 10 millioner eksemplarer og er blevet hørt af over 100 millioner mennesker.’ Dansk Musiktidskrift, 1979/3. 1979, København: Dansk Tonekunstnerselskab: 124-156. https://seismograf.org/dmt/54/03/fernando [230401]

1966

• Popular music as a possible medium in secondary school education — dissertation for Certificate in Education, University of Manchester, 1966 (historical document!), with foreword added in 2001 [PDF | dummy HTML]

  Course materials (written, edited or compiled by P. Tagg unless otherwise indicated)
              - See also courses pages on this site.
              - See also Essential external links. See also Audiovisual materials

• General pedagogy
• Popular Music History
• Music and Moving Images
• Music Analysis and Semiotics
• Epistemology of music (musicology, popular music studies, etc. )

General pedagogical tools

• 26 Easy Steps explaining how to export music examples from Finale v1.0 to JPEG and thereafter into a Word Document [1 Meg PDF] | [Dummy HTML]
• ABC de remise des travaux
• Assignment and Dissertation Tips (‘Tagg’s Tips’) [PDF] (v4, Nov 2003) html
• Keyboards and multilingual solutions
• Useful fonts
  
• Glossary of Tagg’s neologisms, special terms and abbreviations [13k]
• The phonetic anomalies of standard UK English 2010, 1 page only;(table, incl. phonetic script [92k PDF]
• Popular Music Assignment Howlers [upd. June 2001]

Epistemology of music (music, popular music studies, etc.)

• "Absolute" music (problems of) REPLACED BY MUSIC'S MEANINGS, CHAPTER 3. (2012).
• Adorno on Popular Music; see also 'Socio' section of Chapter 4 in Music's Meanings (2012).
• Century of the Self  Indispensable viewing and 4 short texts about propaganda, ‘advertising’and consumer manipulation.
• Chester, A. 1970. For a rock aesthetic and Second thoughts about a rock aesthetic
• Definition of popular music from Kojak: 50 Seconds of TV Music.
• Fabbri, F. 1981. A Theory of Musical Genres: Two Applications [95k]; superseded by Fabbri (1999).
• Fabbri, F. 1999. Browsing Music Spaces - Categories and the Musical Mind [pdf 78k]; see also Chapter 8 in Music's Meanings (2012).
• Hamm, C. 1981. Some thoughts on the Meausurement of Popularity in Music [54k]
• Mattelart & Neveu: Introduction aux cultural studies. Paris: Coll. Repéres, éd. La Découverte, 2003, 122 p. € 7,95 (en ligne).
• ‘Music’, definition of (notes, March 2002) REPLACED BY MUSIC'S MEANINGS, CHAPTER 2. (2012)
• Popular Music Studies: a brief presentation (Simplified PowerPoint presentation for The Rayson Huang Lecture, Department of Music, University of Hong Kong, 2003)
• Troubles with Tonal Terminology (2011).
• Williams, Raymond. 1976. Definitions of 'Popular'
• Ten Little Title Tunes: Chapter 1 — The rise of musical absolutism; Chapter 2 — The decline of musical absolutism? (Tagg & Clarida, PDF 34 + 56 pp.). Download Ten Titles for peanuts.
  

Popular Music History

• Background dates to Popular Music Studies (ed. D Harker, M Kelly, P Tagg) [upd. June 2001, 338k HTML]
• Open letter about ‘black music’, ‘Afro-American’ and ‘European’ music
• Origins of rock ’n’ roll (PowerPoint)
• Rock 'n' Roll 'n' Film
• Rothenbuhler, Eric W. 1987. Commercial Radio and Popular Music: Processes of Selection and Factors of Influence
• Why Rock 'n' Roll? Why 1955? [PowerPoint]

Music Analysis and Semiotics

• Analyse sémiotique (simplifiée) de la musique populaire présentation PowerPoint, 50% en français)
• Basic pop guitar notation (1994 by Brad Sheward, ed. Tagg)
• Björnberg, Alf. On aeolian harmony in contemporary popular music (original English version, 1984)
• Björnberg, Alf (1992). Music video and the semiotics of popular music [was html 37k]
• Chandler, D. Semiotics for Beginners (essential basic reading)
• British blue notes and backbeats- musicological missing links. An example of how musicology can contribute to the defalsification of canonic consensus in the history of North American popular music [This PowerPoint presentation should be viewed/heard in conjunction with the Open Letter about “black music”. Ce document n'est accessible qu’ à ceux en possession du mot de passe et du code d’identification corrects / This document can only be accessed by those in possession of the correct user-ID and password]
• Burns, G. 1987. Typology of 'hooks' in popular records [pdf 84k]
• Nic Thompson: Drumkit notation key
• *** Everyday Tonality II (2015).
• "Form", its problems and meanings: see Chapters 11-12 in Music's Meanings (2012).
• Fernando the Flute (book info and extracts)
• Guide du travail d’analyse de la musique populaire
• Introductory notes to the semiotics of music (1997) REPLACED BY replaced by Chapters 5-14 in Music's Meanings (2012).
• Kojak: 50 Seconds of TV Music (book info); transcription, table of musemes, definition of popular music
• Lead sheets and lead sheet chord shorthand were in Tagg’s Harmony Handout (2000). Now in "Chords" chapter of Everyday Tonality (2009: 145-158)
• *** Music's Meanings (2012), chapters 5 (semiotics), 6-7 (intersubjective and interobjective), 8-9 (parameters of musical expression),
  10 (vocal persona), 11-12 ("form" and meaning), 13 (sign typology), 14 (film music analysis).
• Melody in Everyday Tonality II ;
• Melody & accompaniment chapters 4 & 12 in Music's Meanings (2012: 425-446).
• Semiotics and the semiotics of music chapters 5-14 in Music's Meanings (2012).
• Semiotics of popular music assignment notes
• Signal treatment recognition examples/Recognition d’effets de traitement sonore
• Subjectivity and soundscape, motorbikes and music; included as part of Chapter 12 in Music's Meanings.; see also video Buzz, Roar, Click, Crash.
• Tagg’s Harmony Handout all contained in Everyday Tonality II and/or Music's Meanings.
• Timbre Chapter 1 in Everyday Tonality II; Chapter 9 in Music's Meanings (2012)
• Tonality passim in Everyday Tonality II.
• 'Universal' music and the case of death [96k PDF] html
• Vocal persona: Chapter 10 in Music's Meanings (2012).

Music and Moving Image

• Analysing film music: Chapter 14 in Music's Meanings (2012).
• Background dates relevant to the history of music and the moving image [PDF]
• Cinematographic and film production terms (James Monaco)
• Composing for Films (Dimitri Tiomkin,1951) [PDF]) [HTML]
• Composition or dissertation assignment notes (Music and the Moving Image 2)
• Collins, Karen. Home page <gamessound.com>, including links to several documents on computer/video games sound and music.
• Cue spot and analysis assignment notes (Music and the Moving Image 1)
• Film music analysis : Chapter 14 in Music's Meanings (2012).
• Film music audio examples: list and comments (90% en anglais)
• Music examples from Morricone Western scores. Per un pugno di dollari (1964) and Per qualche dollari in più (1965)
• Film composers and their films (short selection in list form)
• Film music analysis and transcription assignment (Music and the Moving Image 2)
• Film music audio examples: list and comments
• Film music audio examples: notation
• Film music bibliography
• Final assignment notes (Music and the Moving Image 2)
• Functions of Film Music (Lissa)
• Kojak: 50 Seconds of TV Music (book info and download link)
• Korngold biography (Anon.)
• The Mission (Morricone 1986) (various materials)
• Monotony section from Rape's Motion Picture Moods for Pianists and Organists (Chopin's 'Raindrop' Prelude, middle section in C#m and Grieg's Bådenlåt from Lyrische Stücke)
• Music and the Moving Image (1): exam information
• Notes sur le travail Cue list et analyse (Musique et images en mouvement)
• Notes pour la présentation comparative sur la musique du film muet
• Rock 'n' Roll 'n' Film
• Silent film analysis assignment
• Silent film: various short articles from primary sources

 Encyclopædia entries for EPMOW
(Encyclopædia of Popular Music of the World, Vol II, pp. ix, 521-601; ISBN 978-0-8264-6322-7)
Harmony is on pp. 521-549; Melody on pp. 560-601

All substantial EPMOW articles are now contained in Everyday Tonality II and/or in Music's Meanings
Those EPMOW entries were: ACCOMPANIMENT, ANTIPHONY, CHORD, CIRCLE OF FIFTHS, COUNTERPOINT, DRONE, HARMONY, HETEROPHONY, HOMOPHONY, LEAD SHEET CHORD SHORTHAND, MELISMA, MELODY, MODALITY/MODE[s], NOTE, OCTAVE, PICTH, TUNING and TURNAROUND.

The two books also contain explanations of: AESTHESIC, AFFECT, ALOGOGENIC, ANACRUSIS, ANAPHONE, ANAPHORA, ARBITRARY SIGN, ATONAL, ATONICAL, AURAL STAGING, BEAT, BODYISM, CHORUS, COMMUTATION, CONNOTATION, CROSS-DOMAIN REPRESENTATION, CUE, DENOTATION, DIATAXIS, DIATONIC, DISTORTION, ECHO, EMOTION, ENVELOPE, EPISODIC MARKER, EPISTROPHE, EXTENDED PRESENT, FEELING, ‘FORM’, GENRE, GENRE SYNECDOCHE, GESTURAL INTERCONVERSION, GROOVE, ICON, INDEX, INTEROBJECTIVE, INTERSUBJECTIVE, INTERVALS, IOCM, JAZZ STANDARD, KINETIC, LIBRARY MUSIC, LOGOGENIC, LOUDNESS, MELODY-ACCOMPANIMENT DUALISM, METAPHOR, METRE, MOOD, MOTIF, MOTORIC, MUSOGENIC, NOTATION, PENTATONIC, PERIODICITY, PHRASE, PMFC, POÏETIC, POLYSEMY, QUARTAL, RANGE, REGISTER, RESPONSORIAL, REVERB, RHYTHM, RIFF, SEMANTICS, SEMIOSIS, SEMIOTICS, SIGN, SONATA FORM, SPATIALITY, SPEED, STYLE, STYLE FLAG, SUBBEAT, SURFACE RATE, SYNAESTHETIC, SYNCRISIS, SYNTAX, THEME, TEMPO, TERTIAL, TIMBRE, TITLE MUSIC, TONAL, TONALITY, TONE, TONIC, TONICAL, UNDERSCORE, VOCAL PERSONA, VVA.

See also the Glossary on this site.

The following short encyclopædia articles are available separately on line:
▪ Changes  ▪ Drone  ▪ Hocket  ▪  Lead sheet  ▪ Melisma  ▪ Note   ▪ Plagiarism (by Bob Clarida)   ▪ Polyphony (general def.)  

in other languages than English

Čeština

• ‘Přioda jako kategorie hudebni nalady’. Opus musicum, 1983/10: 295-304. Brno: Vydávi Státni filharmonie, Český hudebni fond.

•   [nothing]

Dansk

• ‘Fernando - Analyse af affekt i ABBA's  Fernando’ . Dansk Musiktidskrift, 1979/3: 124-156. 1979, København: Dansk Tonekunstnerselskab.

Deutsch

• Zur Analyse von populärer Musik. Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, 1985/3-4: 241-264. 1985, Berlin: Verlag Neue Musik.
• Beitrag zu einer Typologie des musikalischen Zeichens. Forum Musik Wissenschaft, 1: 35-46, ed. Markus Heuger, Matthias Prell. 1995, Regensburg: ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft.

Eesti

• Philip Tagg ja tema pop-etümofoonia (Tõnis Kahu õpib Briti popmuusikateadlasega rääkides popmuusikast rääkima).
  Interviewed 2015-03-18 for Eesti-ekspress, 2015-03-22.

     Español

• ¡Toca más fuerte, no oigo!. La Brecha, 1989-09-15: 13 (1989), Montevideo.
  
• La película del libro de la música. Sobre la necessidad de repensar las maneras de explicar el significado musical. Texto incluido en la ponencia presentada en el séptimo congreso de la IASPM-AL, La Habana, junio de 2006. I am unable to find the English original of this text translated into Spanish by Marta Garcia. This version is therefore 65% in Spanish and 35% in English. It will appear entirely in Spanish in the Actas of IASPM-AL's Havana conference and I will try soon to translate Marta’s Spanish back into English. Using Lakoff’s notion of functional embodiment, I argue that awareness of music’s semiotic functions in contemporary media cannot be generated through mere verbal deconstruction or theorising. If important theoretical or ideological lessons are to be learnt… they must be rooted in knowledge intrinsic to the modes of perception under investigation. Footage produced and discussed: Intel Inside, Atomic Power Montage and Breakfast at Ibotirama (Fernando the Flute, Chapter 1). Click here to access those clips.
• ¿Para qué sirve un musema? Antidepresivos y la gestión musical de la angustia (Traducción provisional), Conferencia V Congresso da IASPM-LA, Rio de Janeiro, 22 de Junio de 2004. En Musica popular na América Latina - Pontos de escuta, ed. Martha Ulhôa & Ana Maria Ochoa, 2005, Porto Alegre: Editora da Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul: 22-51.
• Mostrar lo extraña que es la normalidad Existe una definición positiva de música popular? Cuál la utilidad del análisis musical?Qué lugar tiene la autenticidad como juicio de valor? Qué papel podra 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. En Brecha (Montevideo), 30/07/2004 [html 21k]
• Philip Tagg: perfíl basico(short) and in Brecha (Montevideo), 2004-07-30.
• Las formas de producción de sentido en la música popular; entrevista por Alexander Laluz in Brecha (Montevideo), 2004-07-30.
•   Metodologa de la investigación artistica - música: la perspectiva musicolgica de Philip Tagg, UNC (Chile), 2000.
•   ‘Poner el dedo sobre la llaga’ — entrevista (Olavo Alén). (La Ventana, La Habana, 22 de Junio del 2006)
• « Hace falta una educación musical » (Viernes 24 de agosto de 2012, 12:08, Diario Jaén, Noticias Provinciales, por Imma Soria (Baeza), p. 29).
• Carlos Vega: ‘Mesomusica un ensayo sobre la música de todos’ (ed. Aharonián). Revista musical chilena, jul. 1997, vol.51, no.188: 75-96.
• Introducción a las presentaciones PowerPoint sobre los problemas de la terminología tonal (Granada y Cáceres, 2012).

Français

• La musicologie et la sémantique de la musique populaire. Analytica. Studies in the Description and Analysis of Music: 77-96. Stockholm: Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien.
• Vers une musicologie de la télévision (1990)[120k HTML]
• Voir aussi matériaux d’enseignement pour les 4 cours suivants :
  • Histoire de la musique populaire anglophone  
  • Musique et images en mouvement
  • Tendances dans l’étude de la musique populaire
  • Analyse de la musique populair

 Italiano

• Musica popolare, innovazione, tecnologia. Musica/realtá, 13: 89-98. 1984, Milano: Unicopli.
• Il 'senso del tempo' nella musica. Definizioni, esempi, proposte. Musica e sistema dell'informazione in Europa: 103-129, ed. Francesco Rampi. 1985, Milano: Unicopli.
• Perché la IASPM? Quali compiti? What is Popular Music? Quaderni di Musica/realtà, 8: 539-546. 1985, Milano: Unicopli.
• Musicologia, semiotica, ‘popular music’. Il senso in musica: 139-150, ed. Luca Marconi, Gino Stefani. 1987, Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna.
• Le città sono come impianti stereo a bassa fedeltà. Essere, 16 (agosto 1987): 60-69. 1987, Torino: Essere.
• Leggere i suoni. Saggio sul paesaggio sonore e la musica, la conoscenza, la società. Musica/Realtà, 25: 145-160. 1988, Milano: Unicopli.
• Lettera aperta sulla ‘musica nera’ , ‘afro-americana’ ed ‘europea’. Musica/Realtà, 29: 53-80. 1989, Milano: Unicopli.
• Musica popolare, innovazione, tecnologia. Quaderni di Musica/Realtà, 23: 34-43. 1989, Milano: Unicopli.
• Leggere i suoni. Saggio sul paesaggio sonoro e la musica, la conoscenza, la società. Quaderni di Musica/Realtà, 23: 168-183. 1989, Milano: Unicopli.
  
• Un approccio antropologico per gli stereotipi presenti nella musica della TV. Musica/Realtà, 33: 85-116. 1990, Milano: Unicopli.
• Muzak, sigle televisive, temi conduttori e musiche da film. Cinema & cinema, 18/60: 77-86 (Audiofane - Voci, rumori e musica del cinema). 1991, Bologna: CLUEB: 77-86.
  
• Tramonta la figura, emerge lo sfondo. La musica del rave. Progetto Uomo - Musica, 5 (Identità musicali): 95-99. 1994, Assisi: Edizioni Musicali Pro Civitate Christiana.
  
• Un approccio antropologico per gli stereotipi presenti nella music della TV.Musica/Realtà, 33 (1990): 85-116 (ZIP, 17 jpg, 12 Meg)
• Popular Music: da Kojak al rave (1994); cura/trad. Roberto Agostini e Luca Marconi; 440 pagine, ISBN 978-88-809-1044-2; Bologna: CLUEB.
• Dal ritornello al `rave': tramonta la figura, emerge lo sfondo. Annali del Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna, 2/1994: 158-175, ed. Elisabeta Collini, Simona Granelli. 1995, Bologna: Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna: 158-175.
• La musica nel 2017. Un'utopia britannica rovesciata. Musica/Realtà, 50: 13-19. 1996, Lucca: Libreria musicale italiana: 13-19.
• Un approccio etico alla cultura mediale. Musica Domani, 116. 2000, Torino: EDT: 30-31.
• Frammenti di musicologia della popular music. L'esperienza musicale (intervista). Per una femnomenologia dei suoni: 13-26, ed. Luca Nostro. 2002, Roma: Montag/Manifestolibri.
• Interconversione gestuale e precisione connotativa. Musica/Realtà, 76. 2005, Lucca: LIM: 89-120.
  
• Significati musicali, classici e popular. Il caso dell’ angoscia. Enciclopedia della musica V: L'unità della musica, ed. J-J Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. 2005, Torino: Einaudi: 1037-1064.
• Interconversione gestuale e precisione connotativa. Musica/Realtà 76 (2005): 89-120; trad. Simona Mentisci (PDF imagini scanerizzate, 26 Meg). Testo ingl. orig. Gestural interconversion and connotative precision (2004).
• La tonalità di tutti i giorni: armonia, modalità, tonalità nella popular music: un manuale. A cura e con un' introduzione di Franco Fabbri. Traduzione di Jacopo Conti. 2011, Milano: Il Saggiatore, serie La Cultura, 742; 432 pagine; ISBN 978-88-428-1669-0. Also in English.

 日本語 (Japanese)

• [Analysing Popular Music (1982). In What is Popular Music? (ed. Toru Mitsui) ISBN 4-276-23051-9.

Nederlands

• Muzikale wasverzachters: Beïnvloeding door populaire muziek. Amersfoort: NSKV, schrift 17 (1981, 15 pp.).
  

Polski

• Analiza muzyki czołowki filmowej jako metoda dekodawania ukrytego przekazu ideologicznego. Przekazy i opinie, 3 (25) 66-79 (1981). Warszawa: OBOPSP.
• Od refrenu do rave-u: pomniesjazanie figury i uwydatnianie tła przełożył... (tr. Ireneusz Socha); Studium, 15-16, Nr 1-2, 1999: 208-236. Krakow: Młoda Literatura czeska i słowacka.
• (with Karen Collins) Industrialna estetyka dźwiȩkowa (rekonstrukcja dźwiękowych przeszlości z perspektywy wspóczesnej alienacji przyszlej dystopii). Gośiniec Sztuki, 1/8 Rok VII, Płock: Płocki Ośrodek Kultury i Sztuki: 34-47. ISBN 1505-5299/.

   Português

• Ulhôa, Martha Tupinambà de; Tagg, Philip. Entrevista com Philip Tagg. Debates, 3 (Março de 1999) 1999, Rio de Janeiro: Centro de Letras e Artes, Uni-Rio: 81-96.
• Analisando a músical popular: teoria, método e prática (2003, 1994; tradução do orig. inglés (Tagg, 1982) de Martha Ulhôa) Em Pauta v. 14, n. 23 (2003).
• Para qué serve um musema? Antidepressivos e a gestão musical da angústia Conferência, V Congresso da IASPM-LA, Rio de Janeiro, 22 de Junho de 2004. Verso espanhola em Musica popular na América Latina - Pontos de escuta. Ulhôa, Martha Tupinambá de (ed); Ochoa, Ana Maria (ed). 2005, Porto Alegre: Editora da Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul: 22-51.
• Melisma (EPMOW, 4 pp;) - tradução de Jorge de Jesus Gomes Leandro (obrigado!)
• Os acordes de Yes we can do vídeo da campanha presidencial de Barak Obama (2008) Translated by Fausto Borém. Per musi [online]. 2010, n.22, pp. 7-21. ISSN 1517-7599.
• Análise musical para "não-musos": a percepção popular como base para a compreensão de estruturas e significados musicais. Tradução de Fausto Borém, Professor Titular da Escola de Música da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) (original title Music analysis for "non-musos": popular perception as a basis for understanding musical structure and signification (2009). Portuguese translation, published in Per musi ãno.23,Belo Horizonte, Jan-June 2011 (ISSN 1517-7599).

Русский

• ФИЛИП ТАГГ: ИНТЕРВЬЮ Медиамузыка (электронньй научный журнал, Москва 2015-06-01: in Russian and English).

Suomi

• Populaarimusiikin affektianalyysi: rapporti musiikin sisältöanlyysin uusista menetelmistä. Musiikin Soivat Muodot: 147-180, ed. Eero Tarasti. 1982, Jyväskylä: Yliop:n mus.tt:n laitoks. A/2: 147-180.

  Svenska

• Pop i örat. 1975, Stockholm: Sveriges Radio/UTR Prod. Nr. 5924 (26 + 62 pp.).
• [with Dan Malmström and Lars Silén] Country and Western. Sohlmans musiklexikon, 2: 141-144. 1975, Stockholm: Sohlmans Förlag.
• Kompkompendium + Supplement no.1 till Kompkompendium. 1977, Göteborg: Musikhögskolan (51 + 22 pp.).
• [with Krister Malm, Martin Tegen and Lars Silén] Popmusik. Sohlmans musiklexikon, 5: 90-100. Stockholm: Sohlmans Förlag: 90-100.
• De musikaliska kodernas makt. Musikdramatik, 5/6: 24-25. 1979, Stockholm: Tidskriften Musikdramatik.
• Musik till bild - ett världspråk av stereotyper. Bild och Musik: 7-17, ed. Bertil Allander, 1980, Stockholm: Sveriges Radio Personalutbildning.
• [ed] Från motkultur till företagsamhet. 1980, Göteborg: Stencilled Papers from the Musicology Department (33 pp.).
• Natur i massmediemusik. Naturen som symbol. : 161-199, ed. Jens Allwood, Tore Frängsmyr and Uno Svedin (ed). 1982, Stockhom: Liber.
• Musikvetenskap och populärmusikens semiotik (1984, 110k html)
• [with Krister Malm] Musiken i massmediautvecklingen. Tonfallet, 1984/4: 4-5. Stockholm: Rikskonseter.
• Musiken - språket som alla förstår? Fallet med dödsmusiken. Tvärkulturell kommunikation: 220-248, ed. Jens Allwood. 1985, Göteborg: Lingvistiska institutionen, PAL 12.
• Musikvetenskap och populärmusikens semiotik. 1986, Göteborg: Stencilled Papers from the Musicology Department, 8601 (38 pp.).
• Musik som kommunikation. Mänsklig kommunikation: 116-131, ed. Jens Allwood. 1986, Göteborg: Skriftserien GULING Nr 14.
• Musiken som kommunikationsform. Kulturmöten, kommunikation, skola: 133-153, ed. Sven Strömqvist and Göran Strömqvist. 1988, Stockholm: Nordstedts.

Books

= e-book = hard copy   = out of print/unavailable

Everyday Tonality II (2016-17: replaces 2009 version) (dummy html)

Music's Meanings: a modern musicology for non-musos ( | hard copy | 2012-3 dummy html)

  Everyday Tonality (2009): replaced by Everyday Tonality II

La tonalità di tutti i giorni ( Milano: Saggiatore; cura F Fabbri, trad. J Conti); Trad. da Everyday Tonality (2009))

Ten Little Title Tunes (by Ph Tagg & Bob Clarida (2003) (dummy HTML of Index)

Fernando the Flute (1st publ. 1992) (ebook | dummy html)

Kojak — Fifty Seconds of Television Music (2000, replaces first edition, 1979)   (ebook | dummy html)

Popular Music: da Kojak al rave (trad/cura: Roberto Agostini, Luca Marconi); Bologna: CLUEB).

Kojak — Fifty Seconds of Television Music (1979, replaced by2000 edition)

Explanations