Annotated Bibliographies

On Twentieth-Century Composers

Prepared by students in
T556 (Analysis of Twentieth-Century Music)
Prof. Eric Isaacson, Summer 1996, Summer 1997, Fall 2000, Spring 2001

John Adams

NB: Items marked with an asterisk do not pertain to the music of John Adams.

Barsom, Paul. "Large Scale Tonal Structure in Selected Orchestral Works of John Adams, 1977-1987." Ph.D. diss., Eastman School of Music, 1998. [Andrew Knight, 2000]

*Cooper, Grosvenor W. And Leonard B. MeyerThe Rhythmic Structure of Music.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.  [Molly Morkoski, 1997]

Heisinger, Brent.  "American Minimalism in the 1980s." American Music (Sonneck Society) 7 (1989): 430-446.  [Molly Morkoski, 1997]

Heisinger, Brent. "American Minimalism in the 1980s". American Music 7 (1989): 430-447. [Andrew Knight, 2000]

*Jackendoff, Ray and Fred Lerdahl.  "An Overview of Hierarchical Structure in Music." Music Perception 1 (1983-1984): 229-252.  [Molly Morkoski, 1997]

Johnson, Timothy A. "Harmonic Vocabulary in the Music of John Adams: A Hierarchical Approach." Journal of Music Theory (1993): 117-156. [Andrew Knight, 2000]

*Schachter, Carl.
    "Rhythmic and Linear Analysis: A Preliminary Study." In Music Forum IV, ed. Felix Salzer, 281-334.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.
    "Rhythmic and Linear Analysis: Durational Reduction." In Music Forum V,  ed. Felix Salzer, 197-232.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.
    "Rhythmic and Linear Analysis: Aspects of Meter." In Music Forum VI, ed. Felix  Salzer, 1-59.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.  [Molly Morkoski, 1997]

Schwarz, David. "Listening Subjects: Semiotics, Psychoanalysis and the Music of John Adams and Steve Reich." Perspectives of New Music 31/2 (1993): 24-56.[Andrew Knight, 2000]

Schwarz, K. Robert.  "Process vs. Intuition in the Recent Works of Steve Reich and John Adams." American Music 18/3 (1990): 245-273.  [Molly Morkoski, 1997]

Schwarz, K. Robert. "Process vs. Intuition in the Recent Wworks of Steve Reich and John Adams." American Music 8/3 (1990): 245-273. [Andrew Knight, 2000]

*Winold, Allen.  "Rhythm in Twentieth-Century Music." In Aspects of 20th Century Music, ed. Gary E. Wittlich, 209-269.  Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1975.  [Molly Morkoski, 1997]


Dominic Argento

Argento, Dominick.  "A Contemporary Composer and Sacred Music."  The American Organist 26, 12 (December 1992): 24-29.

Brunelle, Phillip.  "Dominick Argento and His Music for Chorus."  The American Organist 22, 5 (May 1988): 178-80.

Gebuhr, Ann. "Structure and Coherence in 'The Diary': Dominick Argento's  Cycle, From the Diary of Virginia Woolf." Indiana Theory Review 1,  no. 3 (1978): 12-21.

Lee, Sang-Hyuk.  "A Performance Study of Dominick Argento's Song Cycles:  Six Elizabethan Songs and Letters from Composers."  D.M. diss.,  Indiana University, 1991.

Scanlan, Roger. "Spotlight on American Composers."  The National  Association of Teachers of Singing Bulletin 32, no. 3 (Spring  1976): 52-3, 57.


Milton Babbitt

Babbitt, Milton. "Some Aspects of Twelve-Tone Composition." The Score and I.M.A. Magazine 12 (1955): 53-61. [Michael W. Toler, 1997]

Babbitt, Milton. "Twelve-Tone Invariants as Compositional Determinants." Musical Quarterly 46 (1960): 46-59. [Michael W. Toler, 1997]

Lake, William E. "Listening for Large-Scale Form in Music of Milton Babbitt." Contemporary Music Forum No.2 (1990): 11-19. [Michael W. Toler, 1997]

Mead, Andrew W. "Recent Developments in the Music of Milton Babbitt." Musical Quarterly 70 (1984): 310-331. [Michael W. Toler, 1997]

Mead, Andrew W. An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994. [Michael W. Toler, 1997]


Béla Bartók

Agawu, V. Kofi. "Analytical Issues Raised by Bartok's Improvisations for Piano, Op. 20." Journal of Musicological Research 5.1-3 (1984): 131-164. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Bernard, Jonathan W. "Space and Symmetry in Bartok." Journal of Music Theory 30, no. 2 (Fall, 1986): 185-200. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Bernard, Jonathon W. "Space and Symmetry in Bartok." Journal of Music Theory 30.2 (Fall 1986): 185-201. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Cohn, Richard. "Bartok's Octatonic Strategies:A Motivic Approach." Journal of the American Musicological Society 44, no. 2 (Summer 1991): 262-300. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Cohn, Richard. "Inversional Symmetry and Transpositional Combination in Bartok." Music Theory Spectrum 10 (1988): 19-42. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Danchenka, Gary. "Diatonic Pitch-Class Sets in Bartok's Night Music." Indiana Theory Review 8, no. 1 (Spring, 1987): 15-55. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Karpati, Janos. Bartok's Chamber Music. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1976. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Parks, Richard S. "Harmonic Resources in Bartok's 'Fourths'." Journal of Music Theory 25, no. 2 (Fall 1981): 245-274. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Ross, Ronald. "The Formal and Structural Role of Thirds in the Bartok String Quartets." Bloomington: Indiana University Master's Thesis, 1968. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Stahura, Raymond. "The Uses of Thematic Material in the Orchestral Works of Bela Bartok." Bloomington, Indiana University Master Thesis, 1961. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Travis, Roy. "Tonal Coherence in the First Movement of Bartok's Fourth String Quartet." Music Forum 2 (1970): 298-372. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Wilson, Paul. The Music of Bela Bartok. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Wilson, Paul. "Atonality and Structure in Works of Bela Bartok's Middle Period." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1982. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Woodward, James E. "Understanding Bartok's 'Bagatelle,' Op. 6/9." Indiana Theory Review 4/2 (Winter 1981): 11-32. [Karen Walker, 1996]


Alban Berg

Ayrey, Craig. "Berg's Scheideweg: Analytical Issues in Op. 2/2," Music Analysis 1.2 (July 1982): 189-202. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Carner, Mosco. Alban Berg, The Man and the Work. New York; Holmes and Meier Publishers. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Fisher, George, and Judy Lochhead. "Analysis, Hearing, and Performance." Indiana Theory Review 14 (1993), 1-36. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Green, Douglass M. "Berg's De Profundis: The Finale of the Lyric Suite." International Alban Berg Society Newsletter 5 (1977), 13-23. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Jarman, Douglas. The Music of Alban Berg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Jarman, Douglas. "Alban Berg: Origins of Method," Music Analysis 6.3 (October 1987): 273-288. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Lambert, Philip. "Berg's Path to Twelve-Note Composition: Aggregate Construction and Association in the Chamber Concerto," Music Analysis 12.3 (1993), 321-342. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Lambert, Philip. "Berg's Path to Twelve-Note Composition: Aggregate Construction and Association in the Chamber Concerto." Music Analysis 12 (1993), 321-342. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Metz, Paul W. "Set Theory, Clock Diagrams, and Berg's Op. 2, No. 2." In Theory Only 12 (1991), 1-17. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Perle, George. The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume 2, Lulu. Berkeley, California. University of California Press. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Perle, George. The Operas of Alban Berg: Volume 1/Wozzeck. Volume 2/Lulu. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980 (vol. 1), 1985 (vol. 2). [Jay Hook, 1996]

Perle, George. "The Secret Program of the Lyric Suite." International Alban Berg Society Newsletter 5 (1977), 4-12. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Pople, Anthony. Berg: Violin Concerto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Pople, Anthony. "Secret Programmes: Themes and Techniques in Recent Berg Scholarship." Music Analysis 12 (1993), 381-399. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Schaffer, Sarah. "Analytical Issues in the Segmentation of Atonal Music: An Investigation Based on Selected Pre-Serial Works or Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern." Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1991. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Wilkey, Jay Weldon. "Certain Aspects of Form in Vocal Music of Alban Berg." Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1965. [Chris Dearth, 1996]


Luciano Berio

Corbin, Patricia. "Variational Procedures in Luciano Berio's Cinque Variazioni and Peter Westergaard's Variations for Six Players." M.M. thesis, Indiana University, 1975. [Michael Duke, 2001]

Helton, Jonathan. "Historical and Analytical Perspectives for the Performer on Luciano Berio's Sequenza IXb." The Saxophone Symposium 22 (1997): 1-24. [Michael Duke, 2001]

Jarvlepp, Jan. "Compositional Aspects of Tempi Concertati by Luciano Berio." Interface 11 (1982): 179-192. [Michael Duke, 2001]

MacKay, John. "Aspects of Post-serial Structuralism in Berio's Sequenza IV and VI." Interface 17 (1988): 223-239. [Michael Duke, 2001]

McLean, Susan E. "Pitch Structure in Selected Movements of Luciano Berio's Epifanie." M.M. thesis, Indiana University, 1980. [Michael Duke, 2001]


John Cage

Griffiths, Paul. Cage. London, New York, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1981. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Lindenberger, Herbert. "Regulated Anarchy: The Europeras and the Aesthetics of Tradition." In John Cage: Composed in America, eds. Marjorie Perloff and Charles Junkerman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Pritchett, James. "From Choice to Chance: John Cage's Concerto for Prepared Piano." Perspectives of New Music 26.1 (1988):50-80. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Pritchett, James. The Music of John Cage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Tan, Margaret Leng. " 'Taking a Nap, I Pound the Rice': Eastern Influences on John Cage." In John Cage at Seventy-Five, eds. Richard Fleming and William Duckworth. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1989. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]


Elliott Carter

Bernard, Jonathan W. "The Evolution of Elliott Carter's Rhythmic Practice." Perspectives of New Music 26/2 (Summer 1988): 164-203. [Peter Schimpf, 2001]

Harvey, David I. H. The Later Music of Elliott Carter: A Study in Music Theory and Analysis. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989. [Peter Schimpf, 2001]

Mead, Andrew. "The Role of Octave Equivalence in Elliott Carter's Recent Music: A Birthday Celebration." Sonus 14/2 (Spring 1994): 13-37. [Peter Schimpf, 2001]

Mead, Andrew. "Twelve-tone Composition and the Music of Elliott Carter." In Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies, ed. Elizabeth West Marvin and Richard Herrmann (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1995): 67-102. [Peter Schimpf, 2001]

Moe, Orin. "The Music of Elliott Carter." College Music Symposium 22 (1982): 7-31. [Peter Schimpf, 2001]


John Corigliano

Flood, Jonathan. "Volume I: Pluralism, Emotion and Form in the First Movement of Corigliano's Symphony No. 1." Ph. D. diss., University of California--Los Angeles, 1994. [Jason Bahr, 2000]

Hayden, Paul Murray. "The Use of Tonality in Four Concertos by American Composers." D.M.A. diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981, pp. 82-123. [Jason Bahr, 2000]

Jeter, Eulalie Wilson. "The Study, Analysis and Performance of Selected Original Two-Piano Music of Contemporary American Composers." D.Ed. diss., Columbia University, 1978, pp. 50-66. [Jason Bahr, 2000]

Polley, Jo Ann Marie. "An Analysis of John Corigliano's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra." Ph. D. diss., Michigan State University, 1983. [Jason Bahr, 2000]

Rector, Jenifer D. "John Corigliano, Symphony No. 1 of Rage and Remembrance." Research paper, np. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 1993. [Jason Bahr, 2000]


George Crumb

Bass, Richard.  "Models of Octatonic and Whole Tone Interaction: George Crumb and His Predecessors." Journal of Music Theory 38 no. 2 (Fall 1994): 155-186. [Monica Steger, 1997]

Bass, Richard. "Models of Octatonic and Whole-tone Interaction: George Crumb and His Predecessors" Journal of Music Theory 38/2 (1994), 155-186. [Gi Lee, 2000]

Bass, Richard.  "Sets, Scales, and Symmetrics: The Pitch-structural Basis of George Crumb's Makrokosmos I and II."  Music Theory Spectrum 13 (Spring 1991): 1-20. [Monica Steger, 1997]

Bass, Richard, W. "Sets, Scales, and Symmetrics: The Pitch-structural Basis of George Crumb's Makrokosmos I and II." Music Theory Spectrum 13/1 (1991): 1-20. [Gi Lee, 2000]

Borroff, EdithThree American Composers.  Lanham, MD: University Press  of America Inc., 1986. [Monica Steger, 1997]

Borroff, Edith. Three American Composers. London: University Press of America,1986. [Gi Lee, 2000]

Gillespie, Donald, ed.  George Crumb: Profile of a Composer.  New York: C.F. Peters, 1986. [Monica Steger, 1997]

Gillespie, Donald. George Crumb: Profile of a Composer. New York: C.F. Peters, 1986. [Gi Lee, 2000]

Lindeman, Timothy H.  "A Comparison of George Crumb's Night Music I and Ancient Voices of Children."  Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1978. [Monica Steger, 1997]

Stenitz, Richard John. "George Crumb." Musical Times 119 (October 1978) 844-47. [Gi Lee, 2000]

Thomas, Jennifer. "The Use of Color in Three Chamber Works of the Twentieth Century." Indiana Theory Review 4/3 (1981): 24-40. [Gi Lee, 2000]

Timm, Kenneth N. "A Stylistic Analysis of George Crumb's Vox Balaenae."  Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1977. [Monica Steger, 2000]


Claude Debussy

Brown, Matthew. "Tonality and Form in Debussy's Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune." Music Theory Spectrum 15 (1993), 127-143. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Davidian, Teresa. "Intervallic Process and Autonomy in the First Movement of Debussy's Sonata for Cello and Piano." Theory and Practice 14/15 (1989/90), 1-12. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Howat, Roy. Debussy in Proportion: A Musical Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Lewin, David. "A Transformational Basis for Form and Prolongation in Debussy's 'Feux d'artifice,'" in Musical Form and Transformation: Four Analytic Essays. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, pp. 97-159. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Parks, Richard S. "Tonal Analogues as Atonal Resources and Their Relation to Form in Debussy's Chromatic Etude." Journal of Music Theory 29 (1985), 33-60. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Trezise, Simon. Debussy: La Mer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Wenk, Arthur B. "Parsing Debussy: Proposal for a Grammar of His Melodic Practice." In Theory Only 9 (May 1987), 5-19. [Jay Hook, 1996]


Naji Hakim

Angelo, Carl. "Naji Hakim’s Symphony in Three Movements for Organ: Historical Background and Structural Analysis." D. Mus. Diss., Indiana University, 1991. [Michael Pietranczyk, 2000]

Chase, Thomas. "An Interview with Naji Hakim." The American Organist 30 (1996): 68-70. [Michael Pietranczyk, 2000]

Johansen, Amy. "Naji Hakim: An Introduction to His Life and Works." The American Organist 24 (May 1990): 288-90. [Michael Pietranczyk, 2000]

Larson, Karen. "Pitch and Proportion in The Embrace of Fire by Naji Hakim." D. Mus. Diss., Indiana University, 1993. [Michael Pietranczyk, 2000]

Miller, Crista. "One Prism, Two Parallel Planes: Lebanese Influences in the French Organ Compositions of Naji Hakim." DMA Lecture Recital, University of Rochester, 2005." [no abstract]


Lou Harrison

Brin, David M. "Lou Harrison: Sounds of East and West." Strings 4, no. 5 (March/April 1990): 55-58. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Brunner, David L. "Cultural Diversity in the Choral Music of Lou Harrison." Choral Journal 32, no. 10 (May 1992): 17-28. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Schaeffer, Richard. "A Cross Cultural Eclectic: Lou Harrison and His Music." Percussive Notes 29 no. 2 (Dec. 1990): 43-46. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Swed, Mark. "Lou Harrison." Chamber Music 10, no. 4 (July/August 1995): 10, 28-29. [Karen Walker, 1996]

von Gunden, Heidi. The Music of Lou Harrison. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995. [Karen Walker, 1996]


Paul Hindemith

Anderson, Gene. "Analysis: Musical Metamorphoses in Hindemith's March from Symphonic Metamorphoses of Themes By Carl Maria von Weber." Journal of Band Research 30/1 (Fall 1994): 1-10. [Stacey Duggan, 2001]

Briner, Andres. "A New Comment on Tonality by Paul Hindemith." Journal of Music Theory 5 (1961): 109-111. [Stacey Duggan, 2001]

Forte, Allen. "Paul Hindemith's Contribution to Music Theory in the United States." Journal of Music Theory 42 (Spring 1998): 1-14. [Stacey Duggan, 2001]

Neumeyer, David. "Counterpoint and Pitch Structure in the Early Music of Hindemith." Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1976. [Stacey Duggan, 2001]

Sprague, Gary A. "Rhythm in the Theory and Music of Paul Hindemith." Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University, 1997. [Stacey Duggan, 2001]


Charles Ives

Burkholder, J. Peter. "The Critique of Tonality in The Early Experimental Music of Charles Ives." Music Theory Spectrum 12 (1990): 203-223. [Choon-Hee Jang, 2001]

Burkholder, J. Peter. All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and The Uses of Musical Borrowing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. [Choon-Hee Jang, 2001]

Marshall, Dennis. "Charles Ives’s Quotations : Manner or Substance?" Perspectives of New Music 6/2 (1967-8) : 45-56. [Choon-Hee Jang, 2001]

Sterne, Colin. "The Quotation in Charles Ives’s Second Symphony." Music and Letters 52 (1971) : 39-45. [Choon-Hee Jang, 2001]

Stone, Kurt. " Ives’s Fourth Symphony-- A Review." Music Quarterly 52 (1966) : 1-16. [Choon-Hee Jang, 2001]


György Ligeti

Bernard, Jonathan, "Inaudible Structures, Audible Music: Ligeti's Problem, and His Solution." Music Analysis 6 (1987):  207-236. [Mischa Zupko, 1997]

Bernard, Jonathan, W. "Voice Leading as a Spatial Function in the Music of Ligeti." Music Analysis 13/ 2-3 (1994): 227-253. [Gordon Williamson, 2000]

Bernard, Jonathan, W. "Voice Leading as a Spatial Function in the Music of Ligeti." Music Analysis 13/ 2-3 (1994): 227-253. [Megan Schindele, 2000]

Bernard, Jonathan W. "Ligeti's Restoration of Interval and Its Significance for His Later Works." Music Theory Spectrum 21.1 (1999): 1-31. [Megan Schindele, 2000]

Clendinning, Jane Piper. “The Pattern-Meccanico Compositions of Giörgy Ligeti.”Perspectives of New Music 31 (1993): 192-234. [Alexandre Eisenberg, 2000]

Clendinning, Jane Piper. "The Pattern-Meccanico Compositions of Gyorgy Ligeti." Perspectives of New Music 31 (1993): 193-234. [Gordon Williamson, 2000]

Ferguson, Stephen, "György Ligetis Drei Stücke für zwei Klaviere-Eine Gesamtanalyse" band 30 of Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikwissenschaft. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1994. [Alexandre Eisenberg, 2000]

Griffiths, PaulGeorgy Ligeti. Great Britain:  Robson Books Ltd., 1983.  [Mischa Zupko, 1997]

Hicks, Michael. “Interval and Form in Ligeti’s Continuum and Coulée,” Perspectives of New Music 31 (1993): 172-189. [Alexandre Eisenberg, 2000]

Kinzler, Hartmuth. "Gyorgy Ligeti: Decision and Automatism in Désordre, 1re etude, Premier Livre." Interface: Journal of New Music Research 20.2 (1991): 89-124. [Megan Schindele, 2000]

Ligeti, Gyorgy. Ligeti in Conversation. London: Eulenburg, 1983. [Gordon Williamson, 2000]

Ligeti, György. "On My Etudes for Piano." Sonus 9.1 (1988): 3-7. [Megan Schindele, 2000]

Morrison, Charles D. “Stepwise Continuity as a Structural Determinant in György Ligeti’s Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet,” Perspectives of New Music 24 (1985-1986): 158-182. [Alexandre Eisenberg, 2000]

Reiprich, Bruce.  "Transformation of Coloration and Density in Gyorgy Ligeti's Lontano," Perspectives of New Music (Spring-Summer 1978): 167-180.  [Mischa Zupko, 1997]

Rollin, Robert.  "Traditional Canonic Technique in a New Guise,"  Music Review (November 1980):  289-296.  [Mischa Zupko, 1997]

Roig-Francoli, Miguel.  "Harmonic and Formal Processes in Ligeti's Net-Structure Compositions." Music Theory Spectrum 17 (1995): 242-267.  [Mischa Zupko, 1997]

Roig-Francoli, Miguel. "Harmonic and Formal Processes in Ligeti's Net-Structure Compositions." Music Theory Spectrum 17 (1995): 242-267. [Gordon Williamsom, 2000]

Salmenhaara, Erkki. "Das Musikalische Material und seine Behandlung in den Werken Apparitions, Atmosphères, Aventures und Requiem von György Ligeti." Suomen Musiikkitieteellinen Seura, Helsinki, 1969. [Alexandre Eisenberg, 2000]

Taylor, Stephen A. "Chopin, Pygmies, and Tempo Fugue: Ligeti's Automne à Varsovie." Music Theory Online 3.3 (1997). [Megan Schindele, 2000]

Uno, Yayoi and Hubsher, Roland. "Temporal Gestalt Segmentation: Polyphonic Extensions and Applications to works by Boulez, Cage, Xenakis, Ligeti, and Babbitt". Computers in Music Research 5 (1995): 1-37. [Gordon Williamsom, 2000]


Witold Lutoslawski

Lutoslawski, Witold. "About the Element of Chance in Music." In Three Aspects of New Music, from the Composition Seminar in Stockholm. ed. Nordiska Musikfšrlaget, The Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm, 1968. [Juan Cuellar, 1997]

Lutoslawski, Witold. "Some Remarks Concerning the Interpretation of My Sstring Qquartet." In String Quartet, study score. London: J & W Chester/Edition Wilhelm Hansen London Ltd., 1970.  [Juan Cuellar, 1997]

Lutoslawski, Witold. "String Quartet (1964)," in Lutoslawski ed. Ove Nordwall, 83-88. Stockholm: Wilhelm Hansen, 1968. [Juan Cuellar, 1997]

Nikolska, Irina. Conversations with Witold Lutoslawski. Trans. Valery Yerokbin. Stockholm, Melos: En Musiktidskrift, 1994.  [Juan Cuellar, 1997]

Rae, Charles Bodman. The Music of Lutoslawski. London. Faber and Faber (1994). [Juan Cuellar, 1997]

Selleck, John. "Pitch and Duration as Textural Elements in Lutoslawski's String Quartet." Perspectives of New Music 13.2 (1975): 150-161. [Juan Cuellar, 1997]

Stucki, Steven. Lutoslawski and His Music. London: Cambridge University Press, 1981. [Juan Cuellar, 1997]


Olivier Messiaen

Barber, Charles Frederick. "Messiaen and His Turangalila-Symphonie." D.M.A. dissertation, Stanford University, 1991. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Bernard, Jonathan. "Messiaen's Synaesthesia: The Correspondence between Color and Sound Structure in his Music." Music Perception 4 (Fall 1986): 41-68. [Gary Laycock, 2000]

Bruhn, Siglind. "Religious Symbolism in the Music of Olivier Messiaen." The American Journal of Semiotics 13, nos. 1-4 (Fall 1996 [1998]): 277-309. [Gary Laycock, 2000]

Bruhn, Siglind. ed. Messiaen's Languages of Mystical Love. New York: Garland, 1998. [Mariko Morita, 2001]

Bruhn, Siglind. "The Spiritual Layout in Messiaen's Contemplations of the Manger." In Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love, 247-67. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. [Gary Laycock, 2000]

Covington, Kate. "Visual Perception vs. Aural Perception: a Look at 'Mode de Valeurs et d'Intensites.'" Indiana Theory Review 3, no. 2 (1980): 4-11. [R. Ward Scott, 1997]

Griffiths, Paul. Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985. [R. Ward Scott, 1997]

Griffiths, Paul. Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. [Mariko Morita, 2001]

Hill, Peter, ed. The Messaien Companion. London: Faber and Faber, 1995. [R. Ward Scott, 1997]

Holloway, Clyde. "The Organ Works of Olivier Messiaen and Their Importance in His Total Oeuvre." D.S.M. diss., Union Theological Seminary, 1974. [R. Ward Scott, 1997]

Hook, Julian L. "Rhythm in the Music of Messiaen: an Algebraic Study and an Application to the Turangalîla Symphony." Music Theory Spectrum 20, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 97-120. [Gary Laycock, 2000]

Hsu, Madeleine. Olivier Messiaen, the Musical Mediator: A Study of the Influence of Liszt, Debussy, and Bartok. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1996. [R. Ward Scott, 1997]

Hsu, Madeleine. Olivier Messiaen, the Musical Mediator: A Study of the Influence of Liszt, Debussy, and Bartók. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996. [Gary Laycock, 2000]

Johnson, Robert Sherlaw. Messiaen. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1975. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Johnson, Robert Sherlaw. Messiaen. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989. [R. Ward Scott, 1997]

Messiaen, Olivier. The Technique of My Musical Language. Volume 1/Text; Volume 2/Musical Examples. English translation by John Satterfield. Paris: Alphonse Leduc, 1956. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Messiaen, Olivier. The Technique of My Musical Language. 2 vols. Trans. John Satterfield. Paris: Alphonse Leduc, 1944. [Mariko Morita, 2001]

Messiaen, Olivier. Traité de Rythme, de Couleur, et d'Ornithologie (1949-1992). Bk. 5, vol. 1, " Chants d'Oiseaux d'Europe." Paris: Alphonse Leduc , 1999. [Gary Laycock, 2000]

Nichols, Roger. Messiaen. Oxford Studies of Composers (13). London: Oxford University Press, 1975. [R. Ward Scott, 1997]

Pople, Anthony. Messiaen: " Quatuor pour la fin du temps." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [Gary Laycock, 2000]

Samuel, Claude. Olivier Messiaen: Music and Color. Translated by E. Thomas Glasow. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1994. [R. Ward Scott, 1997]

Samuel, Claude. Olivier Messiaen Music and Color. Conversations with Claude Samuel. Trans. by E. Thomas Glasow. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1994. [Mariko Morita, 2001]

Simundza, Mirjana. "Messiaen's Rhythmical Organisation and Classical Indian Theory of Rhythm (I)." International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 18 (1987), 117-144. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Simundza, Mirjana. "Messiaen's Rhythmical Organisation and Classical Indian Theory of Rhythm (II)." International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 19 (1988), 53-73. [Jay Hook, 1996]

Sun, Shu-Wen. "Birdsong and Pitch-Class Sets in Messiaen's L'Alouette Calandrelle." D.M.A. diss., University of Oregon, 1995. [Gary Laycock, 2000]

Walker, Rosemary. "Modes and Pitch-Class Sets in Messiaen: A Brief Discussion of Première communion de la Vierge." Music Analysis 8, nos. 1-2 (March/July 1989): 159-168. [Gary Laycock, 2000]

Waumsley, Stuart. The Organ Music of Olivier Messiaen. Paris: Alphonse Leduc Éditions Musicales, 1975. [Mariko Morita, 2001]

Youngblood, Joseph. "Some Rhythmic Features in Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony." Percussionist 15 (1978), 117-120. [Jay Hook, 1996]


Steve Reich

Epstein, Paul. "Pattern Structure and Process in Steve Reich's 'Piano Phase'." Musical Quarterly 72 (1986): 494-502. [Anouska Atunez, 1997]

Reich, Steve. Writings about Music. New York: New York University Press, 1974. [Anouska Atunez, 1997]

Schwarz, K. Robert. "Process vs. Intuition in the Recent Works of Steve Reich and John Adams." American Music 8 (1990): 245-73. [Anouska Atunez, 1997]

Schwarz, K. Robert. "Steve Reich: Music as a Gradual Process (Part I)." Perspectives of New Music 19/1-2 (1980-81): 373-92. [Anouska Atunez, 1997]

Schwarz, K.Robert. "Music as a Gradual Process (Part II)." Perspectives of New Music 20/1-2 (1981-82). [Anouska Atunez, 1997]

Warburton, Dan. "A Working Terminology for Minimal Music." Intègral 2 (1988): 135-59. [Anouska Atunez, 1997]


George Rochberg

Jones, Steven D.  "The Twelve Bagatelles of George Rochberg."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1974. [Elizabeth Holland, 1997]

Kudo, Elmer Takeo.  "An Investigation of Twelve-Tone Usage in George Rochberg's Symphony No. 2."  Ph..D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1974. [Elizabeth Holland, 1997]

Reise, Jay.  "Rochberg the Progressive."  Perspectives of New Music 19 (February 1981): 395-407. [Elizabeth Holland, 1997]

Rochberg, GeorgeThe Hexachord and Its Relation to the Twelve-Tone Row.  Bryn Mawr, PA:  Theodore Presser Co., 1955. [Elizabeth Holland, 1997]

Rochberg, George. "The Harmonic Tendency of the Hexachord."  Journal of Music Theory 3 (1959): 208-230. [Elizabeth Holland, 1997]

 


Frederic Rzewski

Beckman, Seth V. “The Traditional and the Avant-Garde in Late Twentieth-Century Music: A Study of Three Piano Compositions by Frederic Rzewski (1938-).” D.A. diss., Ball State University, 1996.

Hayashi, Kim. “The Keyboard Music of Frederic Anthony Rzewski with Special Emphasis on the North American Ballades.” D.M.A. diss., University of Arizona, 1995. [Jennifer Bratz, 2000]

Hymer, Jennifer. “’I Got the Blues’: Musical Analysis of Frederic Rzewski’s Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues.” M.F.A. diss., Mills College, 1996. [no annotation]

Kessler, Dolly E. ”Structural Coherence in Late Twentieth Century Music: The Linear-extrapolation Paradigm Applied to Four American Piano Compositions of Diverse Musical Styles (Martino, Rzewski, Crumb, and Adams).” Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California, 1992. [no annotation]

Koloda, Richard J. “The Piano Music (Post 1974) of Frederic Rzewski.” M.M. thesis, Cleveland State University, 1996. [no annotation]

Lewis, Ronald E. “ The Solo Piano Music of Frederic Rzewski.” D.M.A. doc., University of Oklahoma, 1992. [Jennifer Bratz, 2000]

Paul, Robert C. “Improvisation in Twentieth-Century Solo Piano Repertoire, as Represented in Alvin Curran’s First Piano Piece (1967) and Pieces Selected from Squares (1978) and Four North American Ballads (1978-1979) by Frederic Rzewski.” D.M.A. doc. diss., University of Miami, 1993. [Jennifer Bratz, 2000]

Pollack, Howard. Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and His Students, from Elliot Carter to Frederic Rzewski. Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1992. [Jennifer Bratz, 2000]


Sven-David Sandström

Alldahl, Per-Gunnar. “Mer kollega an maestro: Ett samtal om kompositionsundervisning mellan Sven-David Sandtröm och P.-G. Alldahl” ("More Colleague than Maestro: A Conversation between Sven-David Sandström and P.-G. Alldahl on the Teaching of Composition"). Nutida Musik (Contemporary Music) 32, no. 3 (1988-89): 40-43.

Forare, Erik. “Sven-David Sandströms Kammermusik: En analytisk studie” (Sven-David Sandström’s Chamber Music: An Analytical Study). Nondoctoral diss., Stockholm University, 1990.

Fundal, Karsten. “UNM med Ferneyhough, Sandström og Arditti” (UNM with Ferneyhough, Sandström and Arditti). Dansk musiktidsskrift 59 (1984-85): 104-6.

Holt, Earl. “Interpretive Suggestions for modern Swedish Organ Works.” The Diapason 87, no. 1-2 (January-February 1996): 14-16, 13-15. [Victoria Malowey, 2000]

Holt, Earl. “Interpretive Suggestions for selected Czech, Swedish, and American Secular Organ Works Published, 1977-88.” DMA diss., Arizona State University, 1993.

Johnson, Bengt-Emil. “Ropandets rost. Antecknigar till musik av Sven-David Sandström, 1969-76” (The Crying Voice. Observations on Music by Sven-David Sandström, 1969-76). Artes 4, no. 2 (1978): 83-96. [Victoria Malowey, 2000]

Reimers, Lennart. “Neue Musik in Schweden” (New Music in Sweden). Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 140, no. 1 (1979): 28-30.

Reimers, Lennart. “Sven-David Sandström.” In Dietrich Buxtehude und die europaische Musik seiner Zeit (Dietrich Buxtehude and the European Music of his Time), 50-53. Kassel, Germany: Barenreiter, 1990.

Sandström, Sven-David. Moses. Lecture presented at weekly studio masterclass of the Sandström Composition Studio, Indiana Univeristy, School of Music, 2 November 2000. [Victoria Malowey, 2000]

Soderberg, Karen Amelia Phillips. “A Survey of Selected Contemporary Swedish Choral Composers and Literature.” DMA diss., University of Arizona, 1991.


Arnold Schoenberg

Christensen, Thomas. "Schoenberg's Opus 11, No. 1: A Parody of Pitch Cells from Tristan." Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 10, no. 1 (June 1987): 38-44. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Corson, Langdon. Arnold Schoenberg's Woodwind Quintet, Op.26. Nashville. Gasparo Company. 1984. [Doug Opel, 1996]

Dale, Catherine. Tonality and Structure in Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, Op. 10. New York and London. Garland Publishing, Inc. 1993. [Doug Opel, 1996]

Friedmann, Michael L. "A Methodology for the Discussion of Contour: Its Application to Schoenberg's Music." Journal of Music Theory 29 (1985):223-248. [Doug Opel, 1996]

Haimo, Ethan. Schoenberg's Serial Odyssey: The Evolution of his Twelve-Tone Method, 1914-1928. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Hyde, Martha M. "The Roots of Form in Schoenberg's Sketches." Journal of Music Theory 24 (1980): 1-36. [Doug Opel, 1996]

Hyde, Martha M. "Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Harmony: The Suite Op. 29 and the Compositional Sketches." Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1982. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Johnson, Paul. "Rhythm and Set Choice in Schoenberg's Piano Concerto." Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 11, no. 1 (June, 1988): 38-52. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Klumpenhouwer, Henry. "An Instance of Parapraxis in the Gavotte of Schoenberg's Op. 25." Journal of Music Theory 38, no. 2 (1994): 217-248. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Lewin, David. "Vocal Meter in Schoenberg's Atonal Music, with a Note on a Serial Haupstimme." In Theory Only 6/4 (1982): 12-36. [Doug Opel, 1996]

Mead, Andrew. "'Tonal' forms in Arnold Schoenbeg's Twelve-Tone Music." Music Theory Spectrum 9 (1987): 67-92. [Karen Walker, 1996]

Mead, Andrew. "Large-Scale Strategy in Arnold Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music." Perspectives in New Music 24/1 (1985): 120-157. [Doug Opel, 1996]

Peles, Stephen. "Interpretations of Sets in Multiple Dimensions: Notes on the Second Movement of Arnold Schoenberg's String Quartet #3." Perspectives of New Music 22/1-2 (1983-84): 303-352. [Doug Opel, 1996]

Wood, Jeffrey. "Tetrachordal and Inversional Structuring in Arnold Schoenberg's 'Herzgewaechse, Op. 20'." In Theory Only 7 (August, 1983): 23-34. [Karen Walker, 1996]


Karlheinz Stockhausen

 


Igor Stravinsky

Amy, Gilbert. "Aspects of the Religious Music." In Confronting Stravinsky, ed. Jann Pasler: 195-206. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California, 1986. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Andriessen, Louis and Schoenberger, Elmer. The Apollonian Clockwork On Stravinsky. [Trans. Jeff Hamburg, 1996] Oxford/New York. Oxford University Press. 1989. [Doug Opel, 1996]

Asaf'yev, Boris. A Book About Stravinsky. [Translation: Richard F. French] Ann Arbor. UMI Research Press. 1982. [Doug Opel, 1996]

Cone, Edward T. "The Uses of Convention: Stravinsky and His Models." Music Quarterly 48/3 (1962):287-299. [Doug Opel, 1996]

Joseph, Charles M. "Strucural Coherence in Stravinsky's Piano-Rag-Music." Music Theory Spectrum 4 (1982):76-91. [Doug Opel, 1996]

Kramer, Jonathan. "Discontinuity and Proportion in the Music of Stravinsky." In Confronting Stravinsky, ed. Jann Pasler: 174-194. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California, 1986. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Krebs, Harald. "Neighboring Motion as a Unifying Feature in Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps." Indiana Theory Review 8.1 (1987): 3-13. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Moevs, Robert. "Mannerism and Stylistic Consistency in Stravinsky". Perspectives of New Music 3/2 and 10/1 (1971): 92-103. [Doug Opel, 1996]

Straus, Joseph. "A Principle of Voice Leading in the Music of Stravinsky." Music Theory Spectrum 4 (1982): 106-124. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Straus, Joseph. "A Principle of Voice Leading in the Music of Stravinsky." Music Theory Spectrum 4 (1982): 106-124. [Doug Opel, 1996]

van den Toorn, Pieter. The Music of Igor Stravinsky. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Walsh, Stephen. The Music of Stravinsky. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Whittall, Arnold. "Music Analysis as Human Science? Le sacre du Printemps in Theory and Practice." Music Analysis 1 (1982):33-53. [Doug Opel, 1996]

Wuorinen, Charles and Jeffrey Kresky. "On the Significance of Stravinsky's Last Works." In Confronting Stravinsky, ed. Jann Pasler: 174-194. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California, 1986. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]


Toru Takemitsu

Cronin, Tania and Tann, Hilary. "Afterword: Toru Takemitsu with Tania Cronin and Hilary Tann." Perspectives of New Music 27 (1989): 204-213. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Feliciano, Francisco F. Four Asian Contemporary Composers: The Influence of Tradition in Their Works. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1983. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Ohtake, Noriko. Creative Sources for the Music of Toru Takemitsu. Cambridge: Scholar Press, 1993. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Ohtake, Noriko. Creative Sources for the Music of Toru Takemitsu. Scholar Press, 1993. [Anthony Joseph Lanman, 2001]

Smaldone, Edward. "Japanese and Western Confluences in large-scale Pitch Organization of Toru Takemitsu’s November Steps and Autumn." Perspectives on New Music Vol. 27, no. 2 (Summer 1989): 216-231. [Anthony Joseph Lanman, 2001]

Takemitsu, Toru. Confronting Silence: Selected Writings. Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press, 1995. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Takemitsu, Toru. Confronting Silence. Berkeley, CA: Fallen Leaf Press, 1995. [Anthony Joseph Lanman, 2001]

Takemitsu, Toru. "Contemporary Music in Japan." Perspectives of New Music 27 (1989): 198-204. [Chris Dearth, 1996]

Takemitsu, Toru. "Contemporary Music in Japan." Perspectives of New Music Vol. 27, no. 2 (Summer 1989): 198-205. [Anthony Joseph Lanman, 2001]

Yu, Gerald. "Contemporary Notation for the Shakuhachi." Perspectives of New Music Vol. 27, no. 2 (Summer 1989): 236-249. [Anthony Joseph Lanman, 2001]


Anton Webern

Bailey, Kathryn. The Twelve-note Music of Anton Webern (Old Forms in a New Language). New York: Cambridge University, 1991. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Baker, James M. "Coherence in Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra Op. 6." Music Theory Spectrum 4 (1982): 1-27. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Escot, Pozzi. "Towards a Theoretical Concept: Non-Linearity in Webern's Opus 11, No. 1." Sonus 3 (1982): 18-29. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Forte, Allen. "Aspects of Rhythm in Webern's Atonal Music." Music Theory Spectrum Vol. 2 (1980): 90-109. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Hiller, Lejarn and Ramon Fuller. "Structure and Information in Webern's Simphonie, Op. 21." Journal of Music Theory Vol. 11-1 (1967): 60-115. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Kabbash, Paul. "Aggregate-Derived Symmetry in Webern's Early Works." Journal of Music Theory 28.2 (1984): 225-249. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]

Kolneder, Walter. Anton Webern (An Introduction to His Works). Trans. by Humphrey Searle. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California, 1968. [Bruce Hamilton, 1996]


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