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OMS-Music: Table of Contents

 If this is your first visit to this website, start with the 3 items marked in red below. 

A. Overview materials
Overview of OMS    ← (Newcomers: Read this first)
Background on OMS - Authorship; origins; acknowledgements
FAQs

 
B. Analyses of musical works, using OMS  (Newcomers: Select any of on the eight items below and take a quick look at it)

For each item, read the Profile and the Essay together.   While reading, if you want an explanation of any receptor,  click here .

[0] Introduction
[1] Side-by-side comparison of works by Schoenberg and Brahms:          OMS Profile        Essay
[2] Cage: 4'33"                                                                                        OMS Profile        Essay
[3] Jessie Hill: Ooh Poo Pah Doo                                                             OMS Profile        Essay        Listen (excerpt)           Listen (longer excerpt)
[4] Side-by-side comparison of two works by Mozart:                             OMS Profile        Essay        
[5] Ustvolskaya: Piano Sonata#6                                                              OMS Profile        Essay       Listen
[6] Esa-Pekka Salonen: Helix                                                                   OMS Profile        Essay       YouTube Clip
[7] Beethoven: Grosse Fugue, Op. 133                                                    OMS Profile         Essay       YouTube Clip, Part1    YouTube Clip, Part 2 
[8] Brahms: Sapphische Ode, Op. 94 #4                                                  OMS Profile        Essay        YouTube Clip     
[9] John Lennon: Strawberry Fields Forever                                             OMS Profile         Essay       Video Clip   
(click here for additional analyses ...)


C. More about the OMS Model
Explanations of each receptor:  Short discussions of each principal receptor, there are about 90 of them. ← (Newcomers: Take a quick look at this)
OMS - Formal Exposition - Formal, academic-style exposition of OMS. This is the most comprehensive and detailed discussion on this website. It goes much deeper than other materials on this website.


D. Essays, Blog, and Miscellaneous

OMS Tackles the "Great Questions" in Music  -  Discussions of  the perennial questions about meaning, emotion, greatness, authenticity, ...
OMS Music Blog - The blog presents quick ratings and analysis on a wide variety of music; quick discussions on a variety of topics. Style is informal and freewheeling.
General comments about receptors  - just some rough notes
Thinking About Music - comments on some central issues re modeling and thinking about music.
Glossary