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JoelLester

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  • Good question! Having been a submitter and an editor, I understand both sides.  My bottom line: it’s the editor’s responsibility to deal with a tardy reader.  If a reader doesn’t respond to editorial prodding, the editor should find another reader w…
    in Average/Expected Peer-Review Timetables Comment by Joel Lester August 2019
  • I’d welcome a more detailed sense of what people are finding worse about the new OMO interface.  I just re-submitted in the OMO “search box” a query I had put in when the old interface was there (the name of a minor 18th-century composer).  I don’t …
    in Oxford Music Online interface Comment by Joel Lester December 2017
  • Thanks, Rick, for posting the use of the term “hypermeter” referring to poetry prior to Ed Cone’s 1968 “Musical Form and Musical Performance.”  A Google search of “hypermeter,” “hypermetric,” and closely related terms comes up with a wide range of u…
    in origins of hypermeter Comment by Joel Lester November 2016
  • In the recitative "Erbarm es Gott!" from Bach's St. Matthew Passion, the diminished seventh chord on the downbeat of m. 11 enters as vii7 of V in F# minor (a B# diminished seventh chord, which is equivalent to an F# diminished seventh chord), and re…
    in Modulation by enharmonic reinterpretation of a o7 Comment by Joel Lester October 2015