...Robert O. Gjerdingen Robert O. Gjerdingen is the author of several books, articles, and reviews in the fields of music theory, music perception, and eighteenth-century musical style. He has served on the editorial boards of Music Theory Spectrum , the Journal of Music Theory...

...Stephen Peles Schenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory Leslie D. Blasius Studies in Music Theory and Analysis vol. 9 New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996 200 pp. 2001 © Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 2001 NOTES 1...

...Rebecca Maloy David Russell Williams and C. Matthew Balensuela Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino: A Bibliography and Guide Pendragon Press, 2007: 341 pp. ($86.00 cloth) Rebecca Maloy is associate professor of music at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author, most...

...Kyle Adams This article is intended as a solution to a perceived problem with existing theories of pretonal chromatic music: Many modern theories of this repertoire have made anachronistic uses of models from major/minor tonality, and contemporaneous theories were not broad enough to adequately...

...Benjamin Steege Hermann von Helmholtz's theory of melodic “affinity,” which he considered his primary contribution to music-theoretical thought, is inherently historicist in its conception. It seeks not only to explain local tonal relationships but also to provide a rationale for transhistorical...

... theory of consonance to assess and explain the interaction of rhythms as well as the interaction of pitches. At several points in his 1739 Tentamen novae theoriae musicae ( Attempt at a New Theory of Music ), Euler suggests that everything he has written about consonance should also apply to duration...

...Stefano Mengozzi Stefano Mengozzi is associate professor of musicology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory: Guido of Arezzo between Myth and History (2010). McKinney Timothy R. Adrian Willaert and the Theory...

...Joel Galand Joel Galand is associate professor of music theory and associate director of the School of Music at Florida International University. James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata...

...Rob Schultz The advent of the numerical representation of contour was a watershed in the development of musical contour theory. Both Michael L. Friedmann and Robert D. Morris pioneered the practice by mapping pitches in ascending registral order onto the subset of nonnegative integers from 0 to n...

...Matthew Arndt Matthew Arndt is assistant professor of music theory at the University of Iowa. Morgan Robert P. . Becoming Heinrich Schenker: Music Theory and Ideology . Cambridge University Press , 2014 : xx+275 pp . ( $99.00 cloth) © 2016 by Yale University 2016...

...C. Catherine Losada C. Catherine Losada is associate professor of music theory at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, and president of Music Theory Midwest. She has published articles and reviews in the Journal of Mathematics and Music, Music Analysis, Music...

...Jason Yust The discrete Fourier transform on pitch-class sets, proposed by David Lewin and advanced by Ian Quinn, may provide a new lease on life for Allen Forte's idea of a general theory of harmony for the twentieth century based on the intervallic content of pitch-class collections. This article...

...Kofi Agawu Schachter Carl . Edited by Straus Joseph N. , The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory , Oxford University Press , 2016 : v + 295 pp. ( $45.00 cloth) Copyright © 2018 by Yale University 2018 Works Cited Agawu Kofi . 2009...

...Edward Klorman Swinkin Jeffrey , Performative Analysis: Reimagining Music Theory for Performance , University of Rochester Press , 2016 : vii + 260 pp. ( $95.00 cloth) Copyright © 2018 by Yale University 2018 Jeffrey Swinkin Performative Analysis: Reimagining Music Theory...

... that we today understand as grouping, chunking, and subjective rhythmicization. In the absence of anything resembling a modern theory of cognition, Holden’s account of how we can perceive music chiefly relies on the actions of posited mental faculties, including attention, memory, imagination...

...Nathaniel Adam 261 Journal of Music Theory 63:2, October 2019 DOI 10.1215/00222909-7795200 © 2019 by Yale University Christopher Doll Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era University of Michigan Press, 2017: x + 320 pp. ($90.00 cloth, $39.95 paper) Nathaniel Adam Building theory...

..., and self-effacing alterations. 209 Journal of Music Theory 63:2, October 2019 DOI 10.1215/00222909-7795269 © 2019 by Yale University Toward a Theory of Recapitulatory Tonal Alterations Jonathan Guez Abstract Despite differences in critical alignment, epistemological underpinnings, and reportorial cover...

... studies to identify theme types in later musical styles in which Caplin’s definitions do not necessarily apply. The utility of this approach is demonstrated in analyses of waltzes by Johann Strauss II. 1Journal of Music Theory 64:1, April 2020 DOI 10.1215/00222909-8033408 © 2020 by Yale University Toward...

...Jonathan De Souza 283 Journal of Music Theory 64:2, October 2020 DOI 10.1215/00222909-8550807 © 2020 by Yale University Robert S. Hatten A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music Indiana University Press, 2018: x + 326 pp. ($85.00 cloth, $32.00 paper, $31.99 ebook) Jonathan De Souza...

...Philippa Ovenden 293 Journal of Music Theory 64:2, October 2020 DOI 10.1215/00222909-8550819 © 2020 by Yale University Karen Desmond Music and the Moderni, 1300 1350: The Ars Nova in Theory and Practice Cambridge University Press, 2018: xxiii + 300 pp. ($99.99) Philippa Ovenden In the early...