... Applied to Electronic Music.” Journal of Music Theory 7/2 : 194 –246. Yarbrough, Cornelia. 1984 . “A Content Analysis of the Journal of Research in Music Education, 1953–1983.” Journal of Research in Music Education 32/4 : 213 –22. Yarbrough, Cornelia. 2002 . “The First 50 Years of the...

...” and “A Matter of Meaning It” after Forty Years Franklin Cox Abstract  Cavell’s influential mid-1960s critique of the “new music” of the postwar era poses significant challenges for contemporary composers who value...

... Kraehenbuehl. When he left his position at both the university and the journal in 1960, the editorship passed to Allen Forte, who functioned in that capacity for the next seven years, making him not only the longest-serving editor in the journal's history, but also one at an especially crucial period, when...

... multifaceted perspective on time suggested by the change of year. In particular, the chromatic fourth becomes a tonality-defining element that contrasts the essentially diatonic melody. I suggest that the tonal and motivic balances in the piece reflect the duality of regret for the past and hope for the future...

... musical traditions of her day. A historiographical overview reveals that nineteenth-century scholars were already aware of these similarities, in contrast to scholarship of the last thirty years, which has focused on Hildegard's originality. 2008 2008 Jennifer Bain is associate professor of...

... will be published later this year. Michael Buchler is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Florida State Univer- sity. He previously taught at Indiana University, Bloomington and The University of Iowa. Dora A. Hanninen is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Maryland...

...; for another, their publication was separated by an unusually short time interval. These two changes are, of course, more than just a happy coincidence. After fifty years of running the journal as a shoe- string operation with a skeleton crew of busy faculty, students, and office staff...

... 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...

... discipline—from very different angles. Relying on interviews with Allen Forte and others, David Carson Berry creates a rich history of JMT’s early years, when the journal was composed on a typewriter and laid out on a dining- room table in the editor’s apartment. While Berry’s account highlights people...

... Harvard University. He has just completed a year as a Humboldt foundation scholar in Berlin, where he was at work on a project on monumentality in nineteenth-century Ger- man music. 371 ...

... Years (Thomson/Schirmer, 2005) and author of Rhythmic and Contrapuntal Structures in the Music of Arthur Honegger (Ashgate, 2002). 361 ...

... arguably had particular impact on attempts to advance the study of French music—as I sought to do some years ago in a study of Milhaud (Mawer 1997). On the other hand, even if one successfully avoids any accusation of dilettantism, “mélange” may not...

... Schenkerian Theory and Analysis Carl Schachter edited by Joseph N. Straus New York: Oxford University Press, 1999 vi + 294 pp. REVIEWERS Matthew Brown and Panayotis Mavromatis Over the past thirty years, Carl Schachter has...

... succeeds admirably in giving a sense of how Berg created Wozzeck in many stages over eight years, while elucidating his techniques for using musical structures to communicate characters and the dramatic action, and opening new avenues for understand his musical...

...- lander), as well as official documents, the latter chiefly to illuminate Schenker’s student years” (VIII). To present a picture in Schenker’s own words as far as possible, “[diary-]entries and letter-extracts of greater importance are quoted literally.”3 The quoted passages are placed in per- spective...

... Marianne Kielian-Gilbert teaches music theory at Indiana University. Her recent work centers on music listening, media, and subjectivity, in relation to different perceptual, contextual, and philosophical orientations. Bach, Johann Sebastian. 1933 . The Liturgical Year (Orgelbüchlein): Forty...

... compiled and published in the collection Der Wille zur Macht (1901, 349–73).3 Halm expressed the hope that in twenty years the advent of “the full culture of music” would render his book super- fluous (VzK, 55); his premature death in 1929 spared him the experience...

... are reflected in Ein Beitrag Zur Ornamentik (1904, rev. 1908), the commentaries of the Erläuterungsausgaben (1909, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1920), the ten issues of Der Tonwille (1921–1924), the three year- books of Der Meisterwerk in der Musik (1925, 1926, 1930), and Brahms’s Oktaven und Quinten u[nd] A...

... theory of rhythm and meter in the past two to three decades, bringing it to a state of sophistication and analytical power unimag- inable twenty-five to thirty years ago. Work in the theory of rhythm and meter in tonal music has been particularly impressive...

... theory—and, broadly, the prospects for the theory’s future (a latter-day reflection on the ques- tion he posed—presumably cum grano salis—to his graduate students in the early 1980s: “What makes you think we shall still be teaching Schenker ten years from now5 First, Dunsby follows his chronologi...