Emergent Dissonance and the Resolution of a Paradox

01 October 1996 of Music Theory," 18-19. 75A Generative Theory of Tonal Music (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983), 291. authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779 authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779

Wilfred C. Bain: A Reminiscence In Memoriam

01 October 1998 at Juilliard (The "L & M" sequence), which had been motivated by similar musical and educational goals. authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779 authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779

Empirical Reality Versus the Systems Malady

26 March 2014 Lewiston: Mellen Books, 2010. Schoenberg’s Error, Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779 authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779

Music as Organic Evolution: Schoenberg's Mythic Springboard Into the Future

01 October 1993 52Paul Johnson, Intellectuals (New York: Harper and Row, 1988), 99. 53Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony, 412. authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779 authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779

On Miles and the Modes

01 October 1998 have remarked on the prevalence of "blues" 3rds and "Mixolydian" 7ths in some of the musics of Africa. authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779 authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779

Those Strange Bedfellows, Politics and Music

01 October 2001 invited to write a reply to this essay, and declined the invitation. 2In Le Sanglot de l'homme blanc, 1983. authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779 authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779

Response to Frederick Bashour

01 October 1999 III, ¶250. 19The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge, 1985), 23. 20What is Art For (Seattle, 1988), 35. authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779 authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779

Polymeters in Unexpected Places

04 April 2014 Sweetheart”. New York City: Robbins Music Co., by arrangement with Campbell, Connelly & Co., London, 1931. authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779 authors: William Ennis Thomson author_ids: 779

The Core Commitment in Theory and Literature for Tomorrow's Musician

01 October 1970 When we speak of the responsibilities of the music theory and music literature programs in a college or university curriculum, we are concerned with singular parts of a greater educational process. All reputable educational processes have networks of...

The Problem of Music Analysis and Universals

01 October 1966 Music analysis is not necessarily a complicated nor esoteric process. It is not even remotely akin to any branch of mathematics, except by virtue of an occasional shotgun marriage we find reported in our learned journals. The child who notes that the...

Celebrating 60 Years of the [i]Symposium[/i] (1961-2021): Learning from our Past

01 May 2021 Ruth Stone, Stephen Blum, David Schulenberg, Vincent Duckles, Susan C. Cook, Clifford Madsen, Claude V. Palisca, William Ennis Thomson, Timothy Rice, Neal Zaslaw, James R. Briscoe, John Daverio…and the list of luminaries goes on and on. The quality of...