Supplemental Information: Episode 3
Terminal Openings: Interpreting Songs that Begin by Ending
Joon Park (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Release Date: Thursday, April 24, 2025
Production Credits
Team Lead: Ana Rose Nelson
Producer: Jose Garza
Peer Reviewers: Cara Stroud,
Shersten Johnson
Special Thanks: Photo by Wing Lau
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Maria Tartaglia
Closing Music: Yike Zhang
Bio: Joon Park is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas. Joon’s research interests include jazz analysis, East Asian music and music theories, and the music of Arnold Schoenberg. His most recent article from Music Theory Online, “‘At One End of the Endless Universe’: Akira Nishimura’s Interview with Isang Yun” is a translation of the interview between the two composers that explores the social, cultural, and philosophical contexts for Yun’s compositional decisions.
Keywords: Popular Music, Topic Theory, Solfège Singing, Corpus Analysis, Interpretation