And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts

01 October 1973 The 1960s were a time for reexamination of the aims, contents and methods of college courses designed to teach music theory, and, as a corollary, of the texts intended for those courses. Several factors contributed to the creation of a "crisis in the...

Claude Debussy, [i]Contrapuntiste Malgre Lui[/i]

01 October 1977 Musicians have long acknowledged the harmonic resourcefulness and techniques of Debussy. There are few who question his significant contributions to the expansion of and subsequent break with functional tonality that marked the beginning of this...