Schoenberg on the Modes: Characteristics, Substitutes, and Tonal Orientation

01 October 1993 be applied, however, to the question of tonal orientation, a question of some concern to the field of music perception. Richmond Browne, in the essay entitled, "Tonal Implications of the Diatonic Set," refers to "rare" intervals, the tritone in...

A New Learned Society for Music Theory

01 October 1978 discussion of the prospects for a formal professional organization, a steering committee, under the chairmanship of Richmond Browne (Professor of Music Theory, University of Michigan), was formed and charged with the task of planning continued national...

Shape/Interval Contours and Their Ordered Transformations: A Motivic Approach to Twentieth-Century Music Analysis and Aural Skills

03 October 2005 return to analysis based on ordered motives long advocated by such theorists as William Benjamin, Jonathan Bernard, and Richmond Browne.1 Building on the ideas of these theorists, we propose an approach to analysis and aural skills that emphasizes...

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

01 October 1977 This article was originally delivered as the foreword to 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...

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

01 October 1977 November 6, 1976. The other papers read 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...

What Theorists Do

01 October 1977 November 6, 1976. The other papers read in the session were: If We Are All Theorists, Why Aren't We All Theorists?, by Richmond Browne Music Theory's Negativisms, Fallacies, Divisions, and Needs, by Vernon Kliewer Diversity and the Decline of Literacy...

Diversity and the Decline of Literacy in Music Theory

01 October 1977 November 6, 1976. The other papers read in the session were: If We Are All Theorists, Why Aren't We All Theorists?, by 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

01 October 1977 November 6, 1976. The other papers read in the session were: If We Are All Theorists, Why Aren't We All Theorists?, by Richmond Browne Music Theory's Negativisms, Fallacies, Divisions, and Needs, by Vernon Kliewer What Theorists Do, by Peter Westergaard...

Music Theory in Re-Transition: Centripetal Signs

01 October 1977 November 6, 1976. The other papers read in the session were: If We Are All Theorists, Why Aren't We All Theorists?, by Richmond Browne Music Theory's Negativisms, Fallacies, Divisions, and Needs, by Vernon Kliewer What Theorists Do, by Peter Westergaard...

On Miles and the Modes

01 October 1998 from the recording. 22Perhaps the BF tritone embedded in the background figure is crucial here as a tonal marker, as Richmond Browne, Helen Brown, and David Butler have argued. 23"Added 6th" refers here to the cliché tradition in 20th-century popular...