Composing a Sound: Giacinto Scelsi’s L’âme ailée / L’âme ouverte for violin solo

22 December 2017 all its dimensions.6The most comprehensive use of spectrographs in the study of music is found in the work of theorist Robert Cogan, whose book New Images of Musical Sound represents a landmark in the development of this type of analysis, using musical...

Reconceiving Theory: The Analysis of Tone Color

01 October 1975 in 1976. The present article is issued by permission of Prentice-Hall, Inc., publishers of Sonic Design. See also Robert Cogan, "Teaching Music Theory," Journal of Music Theory, Spring 1974. 2The Medieval European modal limitation to a single octave...

An Ethnomusicologist's Reflections on "Complexity" and "Participation" in Music

01 October 1977 from a broad perspective are Robert Erickson, Sound Structure in Music (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975); Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot, Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976). The latter...