Set music theory - selected bibliography


Babbitt, Milton. "Set Structure as Compositional Determinant." Journal of
Music Theory, 5, no. 1 (1961), 72-94.

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

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

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

Forte, Allen. "A Theory of Set-Complexes for Music." Journal of Music
Theory 8, no. 2, 1964.

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

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

Fuller, Ramon. "A Study of Interval and Trichord Progressions." Journal of
Music Theory 16/1 and 16/2 (double issue, 1972): 102-41.

Gamer, Carlton and Lansky, Paul. "Fanfare for the Common Tone."
Perspectives of New Music (Spring-Winter 1976): 229-235.

Gilbert, Steven. The Trichord: An Analytical Outlook for Twentieth Century
Music. Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1970.

Gilbert, Steven. "An Introduction to Trichordal Analysis." Journal of Music
Theory 18/2 (1974): 338-62.

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

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

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.

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.

Morris, Robert, 1943-. Composition with pitch-classes: a theory of
compositional design. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1987.
winner of the Society for Music Theory's Distinguished Publication 
Award (1988).

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

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.

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.

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

Swift, Richard. "Some Aspects of Aggregate Composition." Perspectives of
New Music (Spring-Winter 1976): 236-248.

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

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

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