Review of a collection of essays by Carl Dahlhaus, translated by Derrick Puffett and Alfred Clayton and entitled Schoenberg and the New Music.

Review of the Lippman and Rahn books, both devoted to music aeathetics.

Review of the Lippman and Rahn books, both devoted to music aeathetics.

Review of Forte’s book devoted to the analysis of Tin Pan Alley popular music.

Review of Forte’s book devoted to the analysis of Tin Pan Alley popular music.

Review of three books devoted to progressive rock snd its history.

Review of three books devoted to progressive rock snd its history.

Reviews Freeman/s book with special attention paid to the development of music school curricula.

Reviews Freeman/s book with special attention paid to the development of music school curricula.

Review of Borthwick’s book, which approaches music theory from a point of view informed by philosophy.

Review of Borthwick’s book, which approaches music theory from a point of view informed by philosophy.

The expression P3,0 refers to one class of parsimonious voice-leading transformations between seventh chords introduced in a 1998 article by Jack Douthett and Peter Steinbach as Pm,n (Journal of Music Theory 42 (2): 241–63). In addition to tones that may be held in common, the subscripts indicate the number of voices that move by half step (m) o…[Read more]

This article provides a detailed examination of Hauer’s late 12-tone compositions, identifying the practices and procedures employed across a body of more than 100 pieces.

This article explores the influence of sources outside the institutional framework of organized religion (“occult” sources) on Schoenberg’s aesthetic thinking and writing, especially with regard to the musical idea..

This article examines the spiritual dimension of early twelve-tone theoretical writing, with a focus on the writing and music of Arnold Schoenberg and Josef Matthias Hauer.

This article explores the influence of mysticism in early 20th-century Vienna on the palindromic designs that can found n Berg’s music.

The published version of my invited response to the special session on “(Per)Form in(g) in Rock” from SMT Indianapolis.

This article explores the sometimes tricky question of tonality in pop and rock songs by positing three tonal scenarios: 1) songs with a fragile tonic, in which the tonic chord is present but its hierarchical status is weakened, either by relegating the tonic to a more unstable chord in first or second inversion or by positioning the tonic…[Read more]

The introductory essay to my edited volume *Rock Music*, from the Ashgate Library of Essays in Popular Music series (2011).

This article explores the sources of what Dahlhaus calls Schoenberg’s “aesthetic theology” in the philosophical, literary, and mystical writings of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe.