“Set” (2000 words); “Interval Class” (400 words); “Pitch Class” (250 words)
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed. London: Macmillan Reference, Ltd. Weblink: Pitch Class: https://oxfordmusiconline.com Interval Class: https://oxfordmusiconline.com Set: https://oxfordmusiconline.com
Music and Text in Elisabeth Lutyens’s Wittgenstein Motet
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “Music and Text in Elisabeth Lutyens’s Wittgenstein Motet.” Canadian University Music Review 20, no. 1 (1999): 71–100. Weblink: www.proquest.com Summary: “I know from experience that sanity … lies in applying the conscious mind objectively and allowing the ‘unconscious’ – ‘inspiration’, ‘soul’, ‘spirit’ … to look, as an adult, after itself.” This remark, […]
Review of Composition with Pitch-Classes by Robert D.Morris
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Spectrum 11/2: 240 – 251 Weblink: www.jstor.org
Review of Christopher F. Hasty, Meter as Rhythm
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online 4.4: 1.1-5.7. Weblink: http://www.mtosmt.org
A Calculus of Accent
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Journal of Music Theory 39, no. 1 (Spring, 1995): 1-46 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org Abstract: Writings by Wallace Berry and William Benjamin describe musical accent not simply as the momentary emphasis of a time-point in relation to its context, but as the “the intensity peak of a shaped pattern of activity,” and “a point from […]
Voice Leading as Transformation
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Musical Transformation and Musical Intuition: Essays in Honor of David Lewin. Ed. Raphael Atlas and Michael Cherlin. Roxbury, MA: Ovenbird Press. Pp. 41-58. Weblink: https://books.google.ca
Interacting Pulse Streams in Schoenberg’s Atonal Polyphony
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Spectrum, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 231-249 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org
Formal Functions of Hypermeter in the Dies iræ of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Theory and Practice, Vol. 19 (1994), pp. 83-104 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org
A MaMuTh Achievement” [Review of Guerino Mazzola’s Geometrie der Töne and Gruppen und Kategorien in der Musik]
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Perspectives of New Music 31/2: 294-312 Weblink: www.jstor.org
Toward a Semiotic Evaluation of Music Analyses
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online 0.5: 1-22. Weblink: www.mtosmt.org Abstract: Eco’s theory of codes provides the basis for analyzing the structure of meaning in three contrasting types of music- analytical representation.An evaluation of the pitch-class- integer code highlights the essential arbitrariness of the links between music and mathematics.Graphical representations of music are also evaluated with reference […]