BAIN MUSC 525
Post-Tonal Theory
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Teaching Post-Tonal Theory
PC Set Theory
Forte, Allen. 1973, The Structure of Atonal Music.
New Haven: Yale University Press. {GB}
Rahn, John, 1980. Basic Atonal Theory. New York: Longman.
{GB}
Morris, Robert. 1987. Composition with Pitch Classes. New
Haven: Yale University Press. {GB}
Straus, Joseph N. 2016. Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory,
4th ed. New York: Norton. {GB}
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Other Textbooks
Kostka, Stefan and Matthew Santa. 2018.
Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, 5th ed.
New York: Routledge.
{GB}
Lambert, Philip. Basic Post-Tonal Theory and Analysis.
New York: Oxford, 2019. {GB}
Pearsall, Edward. 2012. Twentieth-Century Music Theory
and Practice. New York: Routledge. {GB;
Full text: TCL}
Roig-Francolí,
Miguel. 2021. Understanding Post-Tonal Music, 2nd ed.
New York: Routledge. {GB}
Babbitt, Milton. 2003. The Collected Essays of
Milton Babbitt, edited by Stephen Peles, Stephen Dembski,
Andrew Mead, and Joseph N. Straus. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press. {GB}
Schuijer, Michiel. 2008. Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set
Theory and Its Contexts. Rochester: University of Rochester Press.
{GB}
Taruskin, Richard. 2010. Music in the Early Twentieth Century.
New York: Oxford University Press. {GB;
Full text: TCL}
______________. 2010. Music in the Late Twentieth Century. New
York: Oxford University Press. {GB;
Full text: TCL}
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Analysis
Cook, Nicholas. 1994.
A Guide to
Musical Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press. {
GB}
Hanninen, Dora A. 2012.
A Theory of Music Analysis: On
Segmentation and Associative Organization. Rochester:
University of Rochester Press. {
GB}
Lester, Joel. 1989.
Analytic Approaches to Twentieth-century
Music. New York: Norton. {
GB}
Perle, George. 1991/1962.
Serial Composition and Atonality: An
Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern,
6/e. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Perle, George. 1990.
The Listening Composer. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press. {
GB}
Stein, Deborah. 2005.
Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis.
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GB}
Alegant, Brian. 2018. "Teaching
Post-Tonal Aural Skills." In
The Norton Guide to Teaching
Music Theory, edited by Rachel Lumsden and Jeffrey Swinkin.
New York: Norton, pp. 147–160. {
GB}
Friedmann,
Michael L. 1990. Ear Training for Twentieth-Century Music.
New Haven: Yale University Press. {GB}
Geary, David
and Robert Komaniecki. 2017. "Post-Tonal Solmization for
Post-Tonal Aural Skills: Implementing Ordered Pitch-Class
Intervals." Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 31
(2017). {JMTP}
Silberman, Peter. 2003. "Post-Tonal Improvisation in the
Aural Skills Classroom."
Music Theory Online 9/2 (July
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MTO}
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Selected Articles, Book Chapters, and Presentations
Alegant, Brian and Gordon Sly. 2004. "Taking Stock of
Collections - A Strategy for Teaching The Analysis of Post-Tonal
Music." Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 18/2 (January
1, 2004). {JMTP}
Bain, Reginald. 2016. "Scripting Web Apps for Music Theory using
SVG & Web Audio API." Association for Technology in
Music Instruction 2016 National Conference. Santa Fe, NM.
Available online at: <https://reginaldbain.com/atmi16/>.
Biamonte, Nicole. 2016. "Online
Music Theory in Music Theory Online."
Zeitschrift der
Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie 13/2 (2016): 297–309. {
ResearchGate}
Buchler, Michael. "A Case Against Teaching Set Classes to
Undergraduates."
Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy
5. Available online at: <
http://flipcamp.org/engagingstudents5/essays/buchler.html>.
Burstein, L. Poundie and Joseph N. Straus. 2020. "Part 6: Post-Tonal Theory."
In A Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony,
2nd ed. New York: Norton. {GB;
Norton}
Cohn, Richard.
1998. "Music Theory's New Pedagogability." Music Theory
Online 4/2. {MTO}
Fleming, Amy and Aaron Grant. 2020. "The Rest Is Noise: A
Historically Integrated Approach to Post-Tonal Pedagogy." Journal
of Music Theory Pedagogy
Volume 34/2. {JMTP}
Gowboy, Anna. 2018. "Teaching Music
Theory with Video." In
The Norton Guide to Teaching Music
Theory, edited by Rachel Lumsden and Jeffrey Swinkin. New
York: Norton, pp. 285–298. {
GB}
Hook, Julian. 2018. "Teaching Mathematical Techniques in Music
Theory."
In
The Norton Guide to Teaching Music
Theory, edited by Rachel Lumsden and Jeffrey Swinkin. New
York: Norton, pp. 88–104. {
GB}
Lewin, Harold F. 1980. "On the
Formation of Collections of Twelve-Note Rows That Contain Segments
of Common Pitch-Class Content."
College Music Symposium
20/1 (Spring, 1980): 49–92. {
JSTOR}
Morris, Robert D. 1994.
"Recommendations for Atonal Music Pedagogy in General; Recognizing
and Hearing Set-Classes in Particular."
Journal of Music
Theory Pedagogy 8 (1994): 75–134. {
JMTP}
Pearsall, Edward and John Schaffer.
2005. "Shape/Interval Contours and Their Ordered Transformations:
A Motivic Approach to Twentieth-Century Music Analysis and Aural
Skills."
College Music Symposium (October 3, 2005). {
CMS}
Roeder, John. 2014. "Transformation in Post-Tonal
Music." Oxford Handbooks Online (August 2014). {Oxford
Handbooks Online}
Roig-Francolí, Miguel. 2017. "A
Pedagogical and Psychological Challenge: Teaching Post-Tonal Music
to Twenty-First-Century Students."
Indiana Theory Review
33/1 & 2 (Spring & Fall 2017). {
Project
Muse}
Salley, Keith. 2021. "Late Night
Thoughts on Listening to Schoenberg's
Klavierstück, op.
33a."
Music Theory Online 27/1 (March 2021). {
MTO}
Schiano, Michael J. 1999. "The Role of Musical Set Theory in
Undergraduate Education."
College Music Symposium
(October 1, 1999). {
CMS}
Straus, Joseph N.
"Ten Tips for Teaching Post-Tonal Theory."
In
The
Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory, edited by Rachel
Lumsden and Jeffrey Swinkin. New York: Norton, pp. 79–87. {
GB}
Tymoczko, Dmitri. 2010. "Geometrical Methods in Recent Music
Theory."
Music Theory Online 16/1 (March 2010). {
MTO}
Online Resources by Joseph N. Straus
Straus, Joseph N. 2022a. The Art of
Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-Three Graphic Music Analyses.
New York: Oxford University Press. {GB;
Companion
Website}
______________.
2022b. "The Melodic Organization of The Rite of
Spring." Music Theory Online 28/4 (December 2022).
{MTO}
______________. 2018. Broken Beauty:
Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability.
New York: Norton. {GB;
Companion
Website}
______________. 2012. "Three Stravinsky Analyses."
Music Theory Online 18/4 (December 2012). {MTO}
______________. 1991. "A Primer for Atonal Set
Theory." College Music Symposium 31 (1991). {CMS}
Analyzing Modernist Music YouTube Channel:
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Reviews
Belcher, Owen. 2020.
"Review of Basic Post-Tonal Theory and Analysis by
Philip Lambert, and Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory
by Joseph N. Straus." Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy
34 (2020). {JMTP}
Lopez, Gerardo. 2022. "Review of The
Art of Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty Three Graphic Music
Analyses by Joseph N. Straus, Oxford University Press,
2022." Intégral 36. {Integral}
Mead, Andrew. 2011. "Review of Understanding Post-Tonal
Music and Anthology of Post-Tonal Music by Miguel A.
Roig-Francolí." Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory
Society of the Mid-Atlantic 4/1 (2011). {Gamut}
McGartland, Aidan. 2023. "Joseph N.
Straus. The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-Three
Graphic Music Analyses." Context 48 (2022):
126-129. {Context}
Wente, Allison. 2022.
"Review of Understanding Post-Tonal Music and The Art of
Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-Three Graphic Music
Analyses." Journal of Music Theory
Pedagogy 36 (1-1-2022). {JMTP}