Serial Music Theory - selected bibliography


Babbitt, Milton. "Remarks on the Recent Stravinsky." Perspectives of New 
Music 2, no. 2 (1964).

Babbitt, Milton. "Twelve-tone Invariants as Compositional Determinants."
The Musical Quarterly, 46, no. 2 (1960), 246-259.

Babbitt, Milton. "Who Cares if You Listen?" in The American Composer
Speaks, ed. Gilbert Chase.  Baton Rouge: 1966. (original in High Fidelity 
Mag., 1958.

Bauer-Mengelberg, Stefan, and Ferentz, Melvin. "On the Eleven-Interval
Twelve-Tone Row."  Perspectives of New Music (Spring-Summer, 1965):
93-103.

Berger, Arthur. "Problems of Pitch Organization in Stravinsky."  
Perspectives of New Music 2, no. 1, 1964.

Berger, Arthur. "Some Notes on Babbitt and his Influence." Perspectives of
New Music (Spring-Winter 1976): 32-36.

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

Boretz, Benjamin and Cone, Edward T., eds. Perspectives on Schonberg and
Stravinsky. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968. (Reprints from 
PNM).

Bracanin, Philip. The function of the thematic process in dodecaphonic 
music. 1970.

DeLone, Richard, et all. Aspects of 20th Century Music. Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1975.

Damschroder, David Allen. The structural foundations of "the music of 
the future" : a...1981.

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

Forte, Allen. "Sets and Nonsets in Schonberg's Atonal Music." Perspectives
of New Music 11, no. 1, 1972.

Fowler, Charles. "An Interview With Milton Babbitt." Music Educators
 Journal 55 (November, 1968): 56-61.

Howe, Hubert. "Some Combinatorial Properties of Pitch Structures."    
Perspectives of New Music 4, no. 1, 1965.

Karpman, Laura. "An Interview with Milton Babbitt." Perspectives of New
Music 24 (Fall-Winter, 1986): 80-87.

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

Leibowitz, Rene. Schonberg and His School: the contemporary stage of the
language of music. trans. Dika Newlin. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970
(orig. 1949).

Lewin, David. Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1987.

Lewin, David. "The Intervallic Content of a Collection of Notes." Journal
 of Music Theory 4, no. 1, 1960.

Lewin, David. "A Theory of Segmental Association in Twelve-Tone Music."
Perspectives of New Music 1, no. 1, 1962.

Martino, Donald. "The Source Set and its Aggregate Formations." Journal of
Music Theory 5/2 (1961): 224-73. Addendum in JMT 6/2 (1962):322-23.

Mead, Andrew W.An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt.

Mead, Andrew W. "Recent Developments in the Music of Milton Babbitt." The
Musical Quarterly 70 (Fall 1984): 310-331.

Mooser, R.-Aloys (Robert Aloys) Regards sur la musique contemporaine, 
1921-1946. 1946.

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

Perle, George. Serial Composition and Atonality, 5th ed., rev. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1981.

Pike, Alfred. "The Ordering of the All-Combinatorial Source Set." The 
Music Review 23 (Spring 1962): 34-38.

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

Rahn, John. Basic Atonal Theory. New York: Longman, 1980.

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

Rochberg, George. "The Hexachord ... PNM

Rufer, Joseph. Composition With Twelve Notes Related Only to One 
Another. trans. Humphrey Searle. London: Barrie and Rockliff, The Cresset 
Press, 1969.

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.

Schoffman, Nachum. From chords to simultaneities: chordal indeterminacy and
the failure of serialism. (Contributions to the study of music & dance;
17). Greenwood Press, 1990.

Straus, Joseph. Post-Tonal Theory.

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

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

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

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