Post-tonal music theory - selected bibliography


Adorno, Theodor Weisengrund-, Philosophy of Modern Music. trans. Anne 
G. Mitchell and Wesley V. Blomster. New York: The Seabury Press, 1973.

Boretz, Benjamin and Edward T. Cone, eds. Perspectives on 
Contemporary Music Theory. New York: W.W. Norton, 1972.

Cogan, Robert and Pozzi Escot.  Sonic Design.  Englewood Cliffs:      
Prentice-Hall, 1976.

Chrisman, Richard A. A Theory of Axis-Tonality for Twentieth-Century 
Music. Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1969.

Cope, David H. New Directions in Music.  5th ed, Dubuque: W.C. Brown, 1989.
(4th ed, 1981.)

Cowell, Henry.  New Musical Resources.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.

Creston, Paul. Principles of rhythm. New York: F. Columbo. 1964.

Dallin, Leon. Techniques of Twentieth Century Composition. 3rd ed. 
Dubuque: W.C. Brown, 1974.
 
DeLone, et. all. Aspects of 20th Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, 
NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975.

Dempster, Stuart. The Modern Trombone: A Definition of its Idiom.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Dunsby, Jonathan. Music Analysis in Theory and Practice. New Haven: 
Yale University Press, 1988.

Forte, Allen. Contemporary Tone-Structures. New York: Columbia 
University Press, 1955.

Forte, Allen. Harmonic Organization of the Rite of Spring, The. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1978.

Forte, Allen. SNOBOL3 Primer: an introduction to the computer programming
language. Cambridge, Mass.:  MIT Press, 1967.

Forte, Allen. The Structure of Atonal Music. New Haven and London: 
Yale University Press, 1973.

Gagne, Cole and Tracy Caras.  Soundpieces: Interviews with American 
Composers.  Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1982.

Grayson, John. Sound Sculpture. Vancouver: A.R.C., 1977.

Hanson, Howard. Harmonic Materials of Modern Music: Resources of the 
Tempered Scale. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1946.

Howell, Thomas. The Avant-Garde Flute. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1974.

Kivy, Peter. Sound and semblance : reflections on musical representation. 
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1984.

Kramer, J. The Time of Music: new meanings, new temporalities, new 
listening strategies. New York: Schirmer, 1988.

Kostka, Stefan. Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music.
Eng. Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1990.

Lang, Paul Henry, ed. Problems of Modern Music: The Princeton Seminar in
Advanced Musical Studies. New York: W.W. Norton, 1962.

Lester, Joel. Analytic Approach to Twentieth-Century Music. NY: WW Norton
and Co., 1989.

Lipps, Theodor, 1851-1914. Consonance and dissonance in music. San 
Marino, CA: Everett Books. 1995. 

Logier, Johann. A System of the Science of Music and Practical Composition.
NY: Da Cappo Press, 1976.

Marquis, G. Welton. Twentieth-Century Music Idioms. Englewood Cliffs, 
NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964.

Mason, R. M. (Robert Marion), 1928-. Modern methods of music analysis 
using computers. 1985.

Mead, Andrew. An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt. Princeton, 
NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1994.

Messiaen, Oliver. The Technique of My Musical Language. Paris:
Alphonse Leduc & Cie., 1950.

Metzger, Heinz-Klaus and Ranier Riehn, eds. A Book about John
Cage and his Music. New York: C.F. Peters, 1981.

Mitchell, Donald. The Language of Modern Music. New York: St. Martin's 
Press, 1970.

Narmour, Eugene, 1939-. Beyond Schenkerism : the need for alternatives in 
music analysis. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1977.

The New worlds of Edgard Varhse: a symposium. Brooklyn: Institute for 
Studies in American Music, Department of Music, School. 1979.

Null, Edwin von der. Moderne Harmonik. Leipzig: Fr. Kistner & C.F.W.
Siegel, 1932.

Perle, George. Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the 
Music of Schonberg, Berg, and Webern. 6th ed., rev., Berkeley and Los 
Angeles: University of California Press,1991.

Persichetti, Vincent. Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and 
Practice. New York: W.W. Norton, 1961.

Rahn, Jay, 1947-. A theory for all music : problems and solutions in 
the anal...1983.

Reti, Rudolph. Tonality, Atonality, Pantonality: a study of some trends in
Twentieth Century music. New York: Macmillan, 1958.

Russell, George. The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization.

Samson, Jim. Music in Transition: a study of tonal expansion and atonality,
1900-1920. New York: W.W. Norton, 1977.

Schonberg, Arnold. Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schonberg.
ed by Leonard Stein. New York: St. Martins Press, 1975.

Smither, Howard E. Theories of rhythm in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries with a contribution to the theory of rhythm for the... 1961.

Straus, Joseph Nathan. Introduction to post-tonal theory. Englewood
Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. 1990.

Teitelbaum, Richard. "Intervallic Relations in Atonal Music." Journal of
Music Theory 9/1 (1965): 72-127.

Tenney, James. Meta+hodos: a phenomenology of 20th-century musical 
material. 1988.

Tenney, James. A History of Consonance and Dissonance. University 
of Toronto Press. Tenney describes five different major usages of 
the terms consonance and dissonance (or equivalents) between 
classical Greece and the present.

Ulehla, Ludmilla. Contemporary Harmony. New York: The Free Press, 
1966.

Weber, Max, 1864-1920. The rational and social foundations of music. 
Southern Illinois University Press, 1958.

Webern, Anton. The Path to the New Music. trans. Leo Black. Bryn Mawr:
Theodore Presser, 1963.

Wourinen, Charles. Simple Composition. New York: Longman, 1979.

Zuckerkandl, Victor. The sense of music. Princeton, N. J., Princeton
University 

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