...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...

...Edward Pearsall Among current theories of cognition, Gerald Edelman's Theory of Neuronal Group Selection is one of the most successful in showing how the mind is grounded in neurobiological activity. Edelman brings together ideas concerning the selective adaptability of the brain and the interplay...

...Hugibert Ries MUSICAL LOGIC.1 A CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF MUSIC. by Hugibert Ries. [1] The fact that I have often perceived errors when listening to a piece of music, where harmony and counterpoint could show...

...Matthew Brown; Panayotis Mavromatis REVIEWS Unfoldings: Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis Carl Schachter edited by Joseph N. Straus New York: Oxford University Press, 1999 vi + 294 pp. REVIEWERS Matthew...

...Byron Almén NARRATIVE ARCHETYPES: A CRITIQUE, THEORY, AND METHOD OF NARRATIVE ANALYSIS Byron Almén I. Introduction The application of narrative theory to music has been an important aspect of theoretical...

...Karl Braunschweig ENLIGHTENMENT ASPIRATIONS OF PROGRESS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN THEORY Karl Braunschweig Music considered as an art does nothing else than to enhance the charac- teristics of natural...

...Jean-Paul C. Montagnier HEAVENLY DISSONANCES: THE CADENTIAL SIX-FOUR CHORD IN FRENCH GRANDS MOTETS AND RAMEAU’S THEORY OF THE ACCORD PAR SUPPOSITION Jean-Paul C. Montagnier By the 1620s, French musicians seem...

... transformational theory has become an active area within the discipline of music theory. Though this subdisci- pline has been with us for some years now, a dialogue between transfor- mational specialists and others has been slow to develop. The emergence of broad-based critique and commentary has been...

...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...

...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...

... is researcher in history of music and musicology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. She is the author of numerous essays on the history of Italian music theory in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Abbate, Alessandro. 2007 . “Due autori per un testo di contrappunto di scuola...

...Candace Brower A COGNITIVE THEORY OF MUSICAL MEANING Candace Brower 1. Introduction This article presents the outlines of a theory of musical meaning that draws upon two ideas that have recently emerged...

...Dora A. Hanninen ORIENTATIONS, CRITERIA, SEGMENTS: A GENERAL THEORY OF SEGMENTATION FOR MUSIC ANALYSIS Dora A. Hanninen the non-trivial aspect of defining ‘what music is’resides in the explication of what it means...

...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 Timothy R. McKinney Adrian Willaert and the Theory of Interval Affect: The Musica Nova Madrigals and the Novel Theories of Zarlino and Vicentino Ashgate, 2010: xiii + 318 pp. $119.95 cloth Stefano Mengozzi Adrian Willaert (ca. 1490–1562) took on the prestigious...

...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...