Nicolas Slonimsky,born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy,was a Russian-born American musicologist,conductor,pianist,and composer. Best known for his writing and musical reference work,he wrote the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns and the Lexicon of Musical Invective,and edited Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.
James Tenney was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics,sound synthesis,algorithmic composition,process music,spectral music,microtonal music,and tuning systems including extended just intonation. His theoretical writings variously concern musical form,texture,timbre,consonance and dissonance,and harmonic perception.
In music using the twelve-tone technique,derivation is the construction of a row through segments. A derived row is a tone row whose entirety of twelve tones is constructed from a segment or portion of the whole,the generator. Anton Webern often used derived rows in his pieces. A partition is a segment created from a set through partitioning.
Benjamin Aaron Boretz is an American composer and music theorist.
Allen Forte was an American music theorist and musicologist. He was Battell Professor Emeritus of the Theory of Music at Yale University and specialized in 20th-century atonal music and music analysis.
Samuel Hans Adler is an American composer,conductor,author,and professor. During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. In addition,he is credited with founding and conducting the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra which participated in the cultural diplomacy initiatives of the United States in Germany and throughout Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Adler's musical catalogue includes over 400 published compositions. He has been honored with several awards including Germany's Order of Merit –Officer's Cross.
The mathematical operations of multiplication have several applications to music. Other than its application to the frequency ratios of intervals,it has been used in other ways for twelve-tone technique,and musical set theory. Additionally ring modulation is an electrical audio process involving multiplication that has been used for musical effect.
Chou Wen-chung was a Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music. He emigrated in 1946 to the United States and received his music training at the New England Conservatory and Columbia University. Chou is credited by Nicolas Slonimsky as one of the first Chinese composers who attempted to translate authentic East Asian melo-rhythms into the terms of modern Western music.
Leon Kirchner was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,and he won a Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 3.
David Benjamin Lewin was an American music theorist,music critic and composer. Called "the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation",he did his most influential theoretical work on the development of transformational theory,which involves the application of mathematical group theory to music.
Robert Cogan was an American music theorist,composer and teacher.
Carlton Gamer is an American composer and music theorist. He has taught at Colorado College,Princeton University,and the University of Michigan. He studied at Northwestern University and Boston University and privately with Roger Sessions.
Wayne Brewster Barlow was an American composer of classical music. He was also a professor of music,organist,and choir director.
Anton Webern's Concerto for Nine Instruments,Op. 24,written in 1934,is a twelve-tone concerto for nine instruments:flute,oboe,clarinet,horn,trumpet,trombone,violin,viola,and piano. It consists of three movements:
In music,the all-trichord hexachord is a unique hexachord that contains all twelve trichords,or from which all twelve possible trichords may be derived. The prime form of this set class is{012478}and its Forte number is 6-Z17. Its complement is 6-Z43 and they share the interval vector of <3,2,2,3,3,2>.
Elaine "Ray" Barkin née Radoff was an American composer,writer,and educator.
James Dashow is an American composer of electro-acoustic music,instrumental music and opera.
John Kirkpatrick was an American classical pianist and music scholar,best known for championing the works of Charles Ives,Aaron Copland,Carl Ruggles,and Roy Harris. He gave the first complete public performance of Ives's Concord Sonata in 1939,which became a turning point in the composer's public recognition. Kirkpatrick played an important role in Ives scholarship,and he was leader in the Charles Ives Society. One important example is his role in the editing of Memos,which is a collection of Ives's autobiographical writings. At the time of his death Kirkpatrick was a professor emeritus at Yale University,where he had also been the curator of the Charles Ives archives.
Joshua Banks Mailman is an American music theorist,as well an analyst,composer,improvisor,philosopher,critic,and technologist of music.
