A Theory of Pitch-Class-Set Extension in Atonal Music

01 October 2001 Over years of teaching pitch-class-set theory and analysis as part of undergraduate twentieth-century theory courses, I have often reflected (and heard perceptive students remark) on an apparent shortcoming of the system. At that stage of their...

[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Neurodiversity and the Ethnomusicology of Autism

25 August 2014 Personal Account of Autism Spectrum Disorder. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Lerner, Neil, and Joseph N. Straus, eds. 2006. Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music. New York: Routledge. Lubet, Alex. 2011. Music, Disability,...

[i]Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony[/i] by L. Poundie Burstein and Joseph N. Straus

08 August 2017 is circumnavigated and simplified in the Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony (CITH) by L. Poundie Burstein and Joseph N. Straus. In doing so, I will also compare CITH to texts that I consider overly complex in a pedagogical sense. Before addressing...

The Pedagogy of Early, Twentieth-Century Music: Ideas for a Classroom Discussion based on a Multi-Faceted Analysis of Scriabin's Op. 31, No. 4.

29 November 2016 integer-based solfeggio system) are recommend by Joseph Straus in order “to maintain a single syllable for each note.” Joseph N. Straus, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory, 3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005), 20 – I...

A Primer for Atonal Set Theory

01 October 1991 central concerns are presented more informally in Milton Babbitt: Words About Music, eds. Stephen Dembski and Joseph N. Straus (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987). The basic concepts presented in this article are drawn from Babbitt's work,...

Reflections on Reflections of Serialism: Using Metaphors of Language, Visual Arts, and Nature as Pathways to Appreciation

03 June 2016 Centuries. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2013. Babbitt, Milton. Words About Music. Edited by Stephen Dembski and Joseph N. Straus. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. Berleant, Arnold. “The Aesthetics of Art and Nature.” In The Aesthetics of...

Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony: Show It! Formative Adaptive Quizzing Powered by InQuizitive

20 September 2018 an integrated website for its music theory textbook, Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony (L. Poundie Burstein/Joseph N. Straus), that helps students assess their mastery of the material using Show It!. The questions for these online quizzes have a...

Spioraid an dochais, Spirit of Hope: Imagining a Scottish Gamelan

01 May 2020 Abstract Frederick Lau and Christine Yano’s edited work Making Waves (2018) notes that while music travels from culture to culture, “There is always a backstory behind each movement . . . [.] [A]ny piece of music or an instrument can become [a resource...

An Analysis of Triadic Post-tonality in Sky Macklay’s [i]Many Many Cadences[/i] for String Quartet

10 January 2018 Abstract Emerging composer Sky Macklay has written a string quartet entitled Many Many Cadences (2014) which inventively combines the basic operations of neo-Riemannian triadic transformations and voice leading (e.g., Parallel (P), Leading-tone (L),...

A "Requiem for the Requiem": On Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles

01 October 1993 complete aggregates. 20Arthur Berger, "Problems of Pitch Organization in Stravinsky." Boretz and Cone, 126-127. 21See Joseph N. Straus, "The Problem of Prolongation in Post-Tonal Music," Journal of Music Theory 31, no. 1 (Spring 1987): 1-21....

Schenker's Parallelisms, Schoenberg's Motive, and Referential Motives: Notes on Pluralistic Analysis

01 October 2001 5The concept of referential motives is discussed in Milton Babbitt, Words About Music, eds. Stephen Dembski and Joseph N. Straus (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987), 138-39. See also James Sobaskie, "Associative Harmony: The Reciprocity...

Schoenberg's Theoretical Writings after the Harmonielehre: A Study of the Published and Unpublished Manuscripts

01 October 1993 Norton, 1987), 54; Nicholas Cook, An Introduction to Music Analysis (London and New York: George Brazilier, 1987), 90; Joseph N. Straus, Remaking the Past: Musical Modernism and the Influence of the Tonal Tradition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,...