...Yosef Goldenberg Bibliometric tools and especially content analysis of all 393 articles published in Journal of Music Theory (up to issue 48/1) help to investigate the development of the content of this journal. The articles were classified according to their type, the theoretical aspect...

...William Rothstein Articles on Schenker and Schenkerian theory in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 2nd edition edited by Stanley Sadie executive editor John Tyrrell New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001 also available online (by subscription) at <> 2001 © Yale...

...David Carson Berry This article addresses the role played by Allen Forte in establishing the Journal of Music Theory as a journal of record for the American discipline of music theory, as it emerged and evolved in the 1960s. The journal was founded at Yale University in 1957 by editor David...

... will be given biennially for the best article published in JMT by a scholar untenured at the time of submission. It will carry a cash award of $2000. For fifty years, the Journal of Music Theory has fostered conceptual and technical innovations in abstract, systematic musical thought...

... was nevertheless unprepared for William Rothstein’s sarcasm concerning an article of mine in his review of “Arti- cles on Schenker and Schenkerian Theory in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians” in a recent volume of this journal (Vol. 45, No. 1 [Spring 2001], 204–26). While I am more than willing...

... was nevertheless unprepared for William Rothstein’s sarcasm concerning an article of mine in his review of “Arti- cles on Schenker and Schenkerian Theory in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians” in a recent volume of this journal (Vol. 45, No. 1 [Spring 2001], 204–26). While I am more than willing...

... supplement, a comprehen- sive guide to work on all aspects of medieval and Renaissance theory. Both resources incorporate articles from lesser known journals and conference reports that scholars are unlikely to find using RILM, WorldCat, a simple...

... as a footnote to a passage that Hyer quotes on p. 350 of his reply to me (JMT Vol. 46 [2002], 347–63). Hyer was responding to a review that I wrote in Vol. 45, No. 1 (Spring 2001) as part of a Schenker review symposium solicited by JMT. My review treated those articles and portions of articles in The New...

... stimulant for the development of the discipline remains our hope, and his interest in creative music theory our interest. For this fiftieth anniversary issue, we publish two methodologically unusual articles that treat the history of the journal—and, by extension, the discipline—from...

...Michael L. Klein This article discusses irony both as a narrative archetype in tonal music and as an interpretative strategy on the part of the listener. Beginning with a discussion of Northrop Frye's four narrative archetypes (romance, comedy, tragedy, irony), the article turns to a semiotic...

... Due to a production error, a line of text was missing in the printed version of this article on p. 234, immediately preceding Figure 4. The affected sentence should read: ``Clearly, this is because Figure 4 exhibits the same nontrivial structure as the larger Möbius strip in which...

... music theory jour- nals, it might seem that few scholars work on music and theory before 1600. Surveying the thirty-year run of the journal Music Theory Spectrum, one finds only 23 out of approximately 240 articles that discuss music or theory between ancient Greece and the late sixteenth century...

... article published in JMT by a scholar untenured at time of submis- sion. It carries a cash award of $2,000, which in this instance has been divided evenly between the two authors of the winning article. The awardee is deter- mined by a selection committee of scholars unaffiliated with Yale or with any...

... technique. Though a number of previous scholars have addressed this phenomenon, some of its crucial aspects are thus far underexplored or even unacknowledged. After reviewing several basic characteristics of Shostakovich's twelve-tone usage, this article expands and refines our understanding of his twelve...

...Robert P. Morgan Taking my own Schenker-derived view of dissonant prolongations as a point of departure, this article attempts to clarify this phenomenon by considering it in relation to tonal prolongation. This is accomplished in three ways: by reconsidering Schenker's mature attitude toward...

...José Oliveira Martins The article proposes that a construct I call the Dasian space provides an effective framework to interpret harmonic aspects of scale relations in twentieth-century polymodality, particularly in the music of Bartók. Based on Bartók's intuition that the pitch space modeled after...

..., is understanding just what Kurth means by form . This article proposes that his final publication, Musikpsychologie (1931), offers the greatest source of elucidation, and it focuses on a central topic in Musikpsychologie : musical listening as active and participatory. The article begins by outlining two...

...Philip Stoecker In this article I investigate aligned cycles. First identified by Alban Berg in a letter to Arnold Schoenberg and later discussed by George Perle and David Headlam, an aligned cycle is when two (or more) interval cycles unfold in the same direction in a note-against-note alignment...

...James N. Bennett This article develops a method for interpreting Béla Bartók's early tonal practice that supposes a conceptual shift from a relatively historically static major-minor tonality to a multivalent, “evolving” tonality in which works express individual variations on abstract, communal...

...C. Catherine Losada This article examines the transfer between precompositional material and score in Pierre Boulez’s Domaines . It demonstrates how this stage of the compositional process and the gestural content of the work derive from and are linked to Boulez’s innovative serial and derivational...