And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts

01 October 1973 writing skills and analysis. It is a self-contained text which includes workbook and anthology. The second text by Peter Westergaard, I have had the opportunity to examine.17 According to the introduction, this is a first-year text which assumes no...

A New Learned Society for Music Theory

01 October 1978 leading theorists (Allen Forte of Yale University, Carl Schachter of Queens, Vernon Kliewer of Indiana University, Peter Westergaard of Princeton, and Carlton Gamer of Colorado College), participating in a panel discussion under the moderation of...

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...

Music Theory in Re-Transition: Centripetal Signs

01 October 1977 Richmond Browne Music Theory's Negativisms, Fallacies, Divisions, and Needs, by Vernon Kliewer What Theorists Do, by Peter Westergaard Diversity and the Decline of Literacy in Music Theory, by Carl E. Schachter Sketch of a Foundation for Music Theory...

If We Are All Theorists, Why Aren't We All Theorists?

01 October 1977 the session were: Music Theory's Negativisms, Fallacies, Divisions, and Needs, by Vernon Kliewer What Theorists Do, by Peter Westergaard Diversity and the Decline of Literacy in Music Theory, by Carl E. Schachter Sketch of a Foundation for Music Theory...

What Theorists Do

01 October 1977 This article was originally delivered as part of a unified group of papers entitled Music Theory: The Art, the Profession, and the Future, which was read at a plenary session of the national conferences of The College Music Society and the American...

Logic, Set Theory, Music Theory

01 October 1979 theories with (in my experience) very little effort and confusion. Such theories include, besides Schenker's, Peter Westergaard's, Arthur Komar's, and Maury Yeston's, Narmour's recent constructive polemic, and Lerdahl and Jackendoff's article, to...

A Brief History of Composers' Groups in the United States

01 October 1980 Composers. Founded in 1965 by Benjamin Boretz, Donald Martino, James Randall, Claudio Spies, Henry Weinberg, Peter Westergaard, and Charles Wuorinen, the group got off to a very stormy start. By the time of its second national meeting in St. Louis in...

Music Theory's Negativisms, Fallacies, Divisions, and Needs

01 October 1977 in the session were: If We Are All Theorists, Why Aren't We All Theorists?, by Richmond Browne What Theorists Do, by Peter Westergaard Diversity and the Decline of Literacy in Music Theory, by Carl E. Schachter Sketch of a Foundation for Music Theory...

Diversity and the Decline of Literacy in Music Theory

01 October 1977 Richmond Browne Music Theory's Negativisms, Fallacies, Divisions, and Needs, by Vernon Kliewer What Theorists Do, by Peter Westergaard Sketch of a Foundation for Music Theory Today, by Carlton Gamer Music Theory in Re-Transition: Centripetal Signs, by...

Sketch of a Foundation for Music Theory Today

01 October 1977 Richmond Browne Music Theory's Negativisms, Fallacies, Divisions, and Needs, by Vernon Kliewer What Theorists Do, by Peter Westergaard Diversity and the Decline of Literacy in Music Theory, by Carl E. Schachter Music Theory in Re-Transition: Centripetal...