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#699

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#9780

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PhD Musicology Columbia University
Masters Musicology Columbia University
Bachelors Music Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, 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.

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Allen Forte's Published Works

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The Structure of Atonal Music (1973) (580)
Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis (1984) (163)
Tonal Harmony in Concept and Practice (1962) (76)
Schenker's Conception of Musical Structure (1959) (65)
Liszt's Experimental Idiom and Music of the Early Twentieth Century (1987) (62)
A Theory of Set-Complexes for Music (1964) (61)
The American popular ballad of the golden era, 1924-1950 (1995) (55)
Debussy and the Octatonic (1991) (41)
Pitch-Class Set Genera and the Origin of Modern Harmonic Species (1988) (35)
The harmonic organization of The rite of spring (1978) (32)
New Approaches to the Linear Analysis of Music (1988) (26)
Contemporary Tone-Structures (1956) (24)
Motivic Design and Structural Levels in the First Movement of Brahms's String Quartet in C Minor (1983) (23)
Concepts of Linearity in Schoenberg's Atonal Music: A Study of the Opus 15 Song Cycle (1992) (22)
Paul Hindemith's Contribution to Music Theory in the United States (1998) (22)
The Atonal Music Of Anton Webern (1998) (20)
Context and Continuity in an Atonal Work: A Set-Theoretic Approach (1963) (20)
Aspects of Rhythm in Webern's Atonal Music (1980) (19)
Pitch-Class Set Analysis Today (1985) (17)
SCHOENBERG'S CREATIVE EVOLUTION: THE PATH TO ATONALITY (1978) (15)
Middleground Motives in the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth Symphony (1984) (14)
Secrets of Melody: Line and Design in the Songs of Cole Porter (1993) (13)
Instructor's manual for introduction to Schenkerian analysis (1982) (13)
Motive and Rhythmic Contour in the Alto Rhapsody (1983) (13)
Listening to Classic American Popular Songs (2001) (12)
Sets and Nonsets in Schoenberg's Atonal Music (1972) (12)
Musorgsky as Modernist: The Phantasmic Episode in 'Boris Godunov' (1990) (12)
The Basic Interval Patterns (1973) (10)
Olivier Messiaen as Serialist (2002) (9)
Grounds for Concern (1999) (9)
The Domain and Relations of Set-Complex Theory (1965) (8)
A program for the analytic reading of scores (1966) (8)
Letter to the Editor in Reply to Richard Taruskin from Allen Forte (1986) (8)
Reflections upon the Gershwin-Berg Connection (1999) (7)
An Octatonic Essay by Webern: No. 1 of the Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9 (1994) (7)
Foreground Rhythm in Early Twentieth-Century Music (1983) (6)
Tonality, Symbol, and Structural Levels in Berg's Wozzeck (1985) (5)
BARTOK'S “SERIAL” COMPOSITION (1960) (5)
Harmonic relations: American popular harmonies (1925–1950) and their European kin (2000) (4)
Generative Chromaticism in Mozart's Music: The Rondo in A Minor, K. 511 (1980) (4)
The Diatonic Looking Glass, or an Ivesian Metamorphosis (1992) (4)
Tristan Redux: Comments on John Rothgeb’s article on the Tristan Chord in MTO 1.1 (1995) (4)
A Major Webern Revision and Its Implications for Analysis (1990) (4)
Milton Babbitt's "Three Theatrical Songs" in Perspective (1997) (3)
Analysis Symposium: Webern, Orchestral Pieces (1913): Movement I ("Bewegt") (1974) (3)
The Development of Diminutions in American Jazz (2011) (3)
A Schenkerian Reading of an Excerpt from Tristan und Isolde (1998) (3)
The compositional matrix. (2013) (3)
Banquet Address: SMT, Rochester, 1987 (1989) (2)
SYNTAX-BASED ANALYTIC READING OF MUSICAL SCORES (1967) (2)
Moses und Aron : Oper in drei Akten = Moses and Aaron : opera in three acts (1957) (2)
Snobol3 Primer: An Introduction to the Computer Programming Language (1967) (2)
The Founding of the Society for Music Theory (2003) (2)
Messiaen’s chords (2017) (2)
Round Table: Response and Discussion (1998) (2)
Thoughts on Musis Analysis (2002) (1)
Responses to Plenary Session Papers, NECMT 2000 (2000) (1)
Workbook in Harmonic Composition (1964) (0)
Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata, Op. 1: a Landmark in Early Twentieth‐Century Music (2007) (0)
Brahms, Alto Rhapsody (1983) (0)
Madeleine Forte play piano music of Messiaen : with commentary by Allen Forte (2001) (0)
The Marriage of Note and Word in Two Songs by the Gershwins (2011) (0)
Lincoln Center Festival overture (1962) (1963) (0)
Tonal harmony in concept and practice /Allen Forte (1962) (0)
Elegy for Orchestra (1958) (1963) (0)
Violin Concerto No. 2 (1960). Reduction for violin and piano (1963) (0)
Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur (2017) (0)
Letter from Allen Forte (1993) (0)
DIABOLUS IN MEMORIA OBSERVATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF THE TRITONE IN DEBUSSY’S ENDINGS (2020) (0)
Allen Forte to the Editor (1998) (0)
A Book About Stravinsky. By Boris Asaf'yev. Translated by Richard F. French. Introduction by Robert Craft. Russian Music Studies, no. 5. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1982. xxviii, 287 pp. Illustrations. $44.95. (1984) (0)
[Not Available]. (1949) (0)
In Defense of Theory and Analysis: A Critical Evaluation of the Discipline and Its Application to Bartók’s Musical Language (2016) (0)
The programming language SNOBOL3 An introduction (1967) (0)
Recent Approaches to the Study of Harmony@@@Tonal Harmony in Concept and Practice@@@Harmony@@@Harmony: Structure and Style (1964) (0)
Guest Artist Lecture Recital: 2005-02-09 - Allen Forte, music theorist and Madeleine Forte, piano (2005) (0)
Walnuts: production, commercial situation and market prospects. (1973) (0)
Sketches and Skeletons (1962) (0)
Re: A Review in Our Issue of March 1957 (1957) (0)
[Antigenic structure of L forms]. (1958) (0)
Scherzo for Piano & Orchestra (1963) (0)

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