And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts

01 October 1973 and possibly the modal period for counterpoint as well. Milton Babbitt argued for a Schenkerian theory of tonal music,4 Leo Kraft for that plus Fux's species counterpoint,5 and William Thomson for the inclusion of the insights of Hindemith.6 And, in...

A New Approach to Species Counterpoint

01 October 1981 "We do not live for ourselves alone; our lives also belong to our country, to our parents, and to our friends." authors: Leo Kraft author_ids: 1308 authors: Leo Kraft author_ids: 1308

The Composer in Academia: Reflections on a Theme of Stravinsky

01 October 1970 Elliott Carter Paul Creston Ingolf Dahl Cecil Effinger Ross Lee Finney Carlisle Floyd Andrew Imbrie Ellis B. Kohs Leo Kraft Lawrence K. Moss John Pozdro Gardner Read George Rochberg Seymour Shifrin Halsey Stevens Lester Trimble Hugo Weisgall Charles...

A Survey of Music Anthologies

01 October 1979 theme and variation, etc. Introductory comments precede each selection. The two books of the Gradus Music Anthology by Leo Kraft, coordinated with the author's Gradus (an Integrated Approach to Harmony, Counterpoint, and Analysis), contain 249 excerpts...

In Search of a New Pedagogy

01 October 1968 In the Fall of 1965 SYMPOSIUM printed a group of articles by four distinguished musicians under the heading "The Crisis in Theory Teaching."1 The present paper is offered as a continuation of that discussion. A particular approach to theory teaching,...

Reflections on CMP 6

01 October 1972 Since the mission of The College Music Society is to act as a forum for the exchange of ideas in the profession, it is quite natural that the pages of Symposium should continue to be open to discussion of the Contemporary Music Project, the philosophy...

A New Learned Society for Music Theory

01 October 1978 of Michigan; Allen Forte, Yale University; Douglass Green, University of Texas; Arthur Jannery, Radford College; Leo Kraft, Queens College; Lewis Rowell, University of Hawaii; Mary Wennerstrom, Indiana University; and Peter Westergaard, Princeton...

A Brief History of Composers' Groups in the United States

01 October 1980 is in the process of issuing catalogues of its members' work. Led now by Charles Dodge, its immediate past chairman was Leo Kraft. Broadcast Music Incorporated was founded in 1940 and funded by 600 broadcasters. It is mainly a performing rights...

A Re-Evaluation of Keyboard Harmony

01 October 1982 Concept And Practice, 3rd ed. (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979), p. 251. 4Allen Brings, Charles Burkhart, Roger Kamien, Leo Kraft, and Dora Pershing, A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony (W.W. Norton, 1979), p. 42. 5Ibid. 6Idem., p. vii. 7Robert Melcher...

[i]Linear-Derived Harmony[/i], by Arthur Komar

01 October 1993 triad itself. Such a thoroughly linear philosophy places this book in the tradition of other undergraduate texts such as Leo Kraft, Gradus (Norton, 1987-90); Aldwell/Schachter, Harmony and Voice Leading (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989), and Joel...