Theoria
HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF MUSIC THEORY
Editor: Frank Heidlberger, Professor of Music Theory at the University of North Texas
Publisher: The University of North Texas Press
Theoria is a peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of history in music theory. This includes critical articles representing the current stage of research, and editions of newly discovered or mostly unknown theoretical texts with translation and commentary. Analytical articles on recent or unknown repertory and methods are also published, as well as review articles on recent secondary literature and textbooks.
Volume 15 - 2008:
*John Haines, Proprietas and Perfectio in Thirteenth-Century Music Theory
*Jeffrey Brukman, The relevance of Friedrich Hartmann’s fully-chromaticised scales
with regard to Bartók’s Fourteen Bagatelles, Op. 6
*Paul Mathews, Anatomie et physiologie de l’orchestre by Delius and Papus: A Translation and Commentary
*Vera Micznik, Approaches to Meaning in Music, ed. by Byron Almén and Edward Pearsall,
Indiana University Press, 2006
COMING SOON: Theoria, Vol. 16 (2009), to be released in June. $ 22 per copy
Order at: www.tamu.edu.upress
Content preview (tentative):
*James MacKay, Into the Composer’s Workshop: Pre-Compositional Planning and Contrapuntal Design in William Byrd’s Imitative Points
*Kenneth Smith, Sébastien de Brossard’s Entry for Cadenza in the Manuscript Draft of His Dictionnaire, F-Pn n.a.f. 5269, ff. 88r – 91r:
*Ildar Khannanov, Revisiting Russian Music Theory: Victor Bobrovsky’s Functional Foundations of Musical Form
*Timothy McKinney, Errata in the article "Affectus mire hercules ubique expressit: Heinrich Glarean on Text and Tone in Josquin’s Planxit autem David”