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Richard Grayson was born in New York on March 25, 1941. [1] [2] He received his PhD in composition from UCLA in 1969—only the third person to receive a UCLA music Ph.D., after Michael Zearott and Edward Applebaum [3] —and in the same year joined the music faculty of Occidental College, where he taught until his retirement in 2001.
The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatures, and rhythmic notation); the second is learning scholars' views on music from antiquity to the present; the third is a sub-topic of musicology ...
Robert M. Greenberg (born April 18, 1954 [1]) is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, New York.He has composed more than 50 works for a variety of instruments and voices, and has recorded a number of lecture series on music history and music appreciation for The Great Courses.
Music theory analyzes the pitch, timing, and structure of music. It uses mathematics to study elements of music such as tempo , chord progression , form , and meter . The attempt to structure and communicate new ways of composing and hearing music has led to musical applications of set theory , abstract algebra and number theory .
The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2007) Max (software), Pure Data: Philip Ewell: born 1966 Music Theory and the White Racial Frame (2020) Race in music, Russian and twentieth century music, as well as rap and hip hop [218] Ellie Hisama: Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon (2007)
The Society for Music Theory (SMT) is an American organization devoted to the promotion, development and engagement of music theory as a scholarly and pedagogical discipline. [2] Founded in 1977 by a group of distinguished theorists, among them Allen Forte and Wallace Berry , its members are primarily theorists in North American academic ...
In the 1960s, Berklee College of Music founder Lawrence Berk started the remote Correspondence Course program that allowed students to complete music theory and arranging courses through the mail. Berklee Online was established in 2001 when Berklee College of Music's President Lee Berk , Executive Vice President Gary Burton , and the college's ...
Perspectives of New Music (PNM) is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis. It was established in 1962 by Arthur Berger and Benjamin Boretz (who were its initial editors-in-chief). Perspectives was first published by the Princeton University Press, initially supported by the Fromm Music Foundation. [1]