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Copyright � 1997 Society for Music Theory
Volume 3, Number 1 January 1997 ISSN 1067-3040


General Editor Editorial Board

Lee Rothfarb (UC Santa Barbara) David Headlam (Eastman School of Music) Justin London (Carleton College) Catherine Nolan (University of Western Ontario)

Reviews Editor Consulting Editors

Brian Alegant Bo Alphonce Thomas Mathiesen (McGill University) Jonathan Bernard Benito Rivera John Clough John Rothgeb Nicholas Cook Arvid Vollsnes Allen Forte Robert Wason Marianne Kielian-Gilbert Gary Wittlich Stephen Hinton

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Target Article

Eytan Agmon, The Bridges that Never Were: Schenker on the Contrapuntal Origin of the Triad and Seventh Chord


2. Reviews

Michael Friedmann, Review of Nicolas Marstons' Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E, op. 109

Sarah Fuller, Review of Musica Enchiriadis and Scolica Enchiriadis, trans. with an Introduction and Notes, by Raymond Erickson, ed., Claude V. Palisca


3. Music Theory International

Andre M. Douw and Michiel C. Schuijer, Music Theory at the Amsterdam School of Music


4. Announcements

Workshop in Teaching Tonal Theory at the End of the 20th Century


5. Employment

Montclair State University, Asst. Prof. of Piano
Aaron Copland School of Music, Associate/Full Professor of Music Theory
Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Dept. of Musicology (two positions)


6. New Dissertations

Adlington, Robert C. "Temporality in post-tonal music," University of Sussex, 1996.
Douw, Andre M. "The Construction of Order and Direction in Igor Stravinsky's In Memoriam Dylan Thomas, Canticum Sacrum, and Threni," Utrecht University, 1995.
Jardim, Antonio. "Music, Another Density of Real: Toward a Thilosophy of Substantive Language," Conservatorio Brasileiro de Musica, 1988.
Laurson, Mikael. "PATCHWORK: A Visual Programming Language and some Musical Applications," Sibelius Academy, 1996.
McGinness, John, R. "Playing with Debussy's Jeux: Music and Modernism," UC Santa Barbara, 1996.
Tjoeme, Berit K. "The Articulation of Sonata Form in Atonal Works by Fartein Valen," University of Oslo, 1995.
Waters, Keith, J. "Rhythmic and Contrapuntal Structures in the Music of Arthur Honegger," Eastman School of Music, 1997.


7. New Books

Oxford University Press
Jessie Ann Owens, Composers at Work: The Craft of Musical Composition
John Daverio, Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age"
Sandra McColl, Music Criticism in Vienna, 1896-1897
Christopher Hasty, Meter as Rhythm
George Pratt, The Dynamics of Harmony: Principles and Practice
Nicholas Cook, Analysis Through Composition: Principles of the Classical Style
Bryan Gilliam, Richard Strauss's Elektra
Anne C. Shreffler, Webern and the Lyric Impulse: Songs and Fragments of Poems of George Trakl
Nicholas Marston, Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E, Op. 109
Irene Deliege and John Sloboda, eds., Musical Beginnings: Origins and Development of Musical Competence

University of Rochester Press
Joscelyn Godwin, Music and the Occult: French Musical Philosophies, 1750-1950
Arthur Farwell, "Wanderjahre of a Revolutionist" and Other Essays on American Music, ed. Thomas Stoner
Margaret G. Cobb, ed., The Poetic Debussy
Lawrence Archbold and William J. Peterson, eds., French Organ Music From the Revolution to Franck And Widor
Elizabeth West Marvin and Richard Hermann, eds., Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945
Jonathan W. Bernard, ed., Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995
Frank J. Cipolla and Donald R. Hunsberger, eds., The Wind Ensemble and its Repertoire
Judith Tick, American Women Composers before 1870
Robert W. Wason, Viennese Harmonic Theory From Albrechtsberger to Schenker and Schoenberg
Jonathan P. J. Stock, Musical Creativity in Twentieth-Century China: Abing, His Music, and Its Changing Meanings

J. Kent Williams, Theories and Analyses of Twentieth-Century Music


8. Advertisements

John, Clevenger: ChordSymbol Fonts and Call for Symbols


9. Communications

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Lee A. Rothfarb, General Editor
January 10, 1997