In Defense of Theory and Analysis: A Critical Evaluation of the Discipline and Its Application to Bartók’s Musical Language by Elliott Antokoletz

“…The analytical contributions of Roy Travis, Malcolm Gillies, Erno Lendvai, János Kárpáti, Colin Mason, Allen Forte and Richard Cohn, among others, are evaluated in order to introduce an original model that proposes a nontraditional tonal system based on the interval cycles and inversional symmetry, following some of George Perle’s propositions. …”
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