Tracking the disseminated sources for compositional work of music theorist-abbot-composer Johannes Nucius by Magdalena Dostálová

“…This essay deals with sources for compositional work of music theorist-abbot-composer Johannes Nucius (1556, Görlitz; 25 March 1620, Himmelwitz). …”
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Jean des Murs's quadrivial pursuits: introduction by Nothaft, C, Desmond, K, Husson, M

“…This is article serves as the introduction to a special issue on the intellectual activities of Jean des Murs, a mathematician, astronomer-astrologer, and music theorist active in France in the first half of the fourteenth century.…”

Heinrich Schenker’s Identities as a German and a Jew by Martin Eybl

“…During his lifetime the music theorist Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935) was confronted with a variety of different cultures. …”
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A Survey of the Art Works Connected to Adam Gumpelzhaimer with Revelations about his Compendium musicae by Richard Charteris

“…This study contains the first detailed survey of the art works connected to the influential Augsburg Kantor, composer, teacher and music theorist Adam Gumpelzhaimer (1559–1625) and demonstrates that they are much more plentiful and widespread than previously realized. …”
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Blurred Lines in Allegations of Musical Intertextuality: A Response to Orosz by Trevor de Clercq, Deborah Wagnon

“…From the viewpoint of a music theorist such as Orosz, the web site may indeed be a beneficial resource. …”
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An Issue between Contemporary Theory and Modern Compositional Practice A Study of Joseph Straus’s Laws of Atonal Voice Leading and Harmony using Webern’s Opus 12/2 and Crawford’s S... by Yi-Cheng Daniel Wu

“…In his recent research project, music theorist Joseph Straus extends the traditional notions of smooth voice leading and the quality of harmony in tonal music to describe atonal voice leading and harmony. …”
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Perceiving Sound Objects in the Musique Concrète by Rolf Inge Godøy, Rolf Inge Godøy

“…Centered in Paris around the composer, music theorist, engineer, and writer Pierre Schaeffer, this became known as musique concrète because of its use of concrete recorded sound fragments, manifesting a departure from the abstract concepts and representations of Western music notation. …”
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Horacio cristiano. El De musica de San Agustín en la obra poética de fray Luis de León by Séverine Delahaye-Grélois

“…Poet fray Luis de León and music theorist Francisco de Salinas were both involved in a thorough reflexion on lyrical poetry, aiming to redirect the almost magical powers that were attributed to Classical poetry towards christianity. …”
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Hudba a interpretace : k otázkám analýzy hudebního výkonu by Lubomír Spurný, Petr Fančal

“…The acquisition of this data in musicology research has always been the domain of a music theorist in the role of a listener of a live production or a recording, registering noticeable quantitative parameters of the music stream. …”
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A 4-year old sonata of Jelenia Góra. School and adolescent years from the biographical perspective of Professor Leszek Wisłocki by Leszek Wisłocki

“…Leszek Wisłocki is a famous music theorist and composer. For many years he has been a Professor at the Academy of Music in Wrocław. …”
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Specters of Sex. Tracing the Tools and Techniques of Contemporary Music Analysis by Danielle Sofer

“…Centering on sonic experience and perception, this article challenges the common trope of the disembodied and disinterested music theorist by proposing that, rather than neglecting sexual discourses, like-minded music theorists have instead established a veritable field founded on the commonly-held belief that sex and music are (in some cases) interchangeable. …”
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And now I'm here as his son: remembering György Ligeti as a person, a composer, and a father by Lukas Ligeti

“…These assumptions are almost invariably false. I am not a music theorist or historian and do not intend to give a musicological analysis of my father’s work. …”
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Mathematics and Music in Context: The Contribution of Erasmus Horicius to the Emergence of the Idea of Modern Number by Oscar João Abdounur

“…In order to do that, it will be consider a procedure taken by Erasmus of Höritz, a Bohemian mathematician and music theorist who emerged in the early 16th century as a German humanist very articulate with musical matters. …”
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Musiktheorie und ›Satzlehre‹ im Kontext der Diskussion um Artistic Research by Robert Christoph Bauer

“…The following discussion paper approaches the phenomenon of artistic research from the perspective of a music theorist and traditionally trained composer (Satztechniker), setting subjective accents without claiming the elaboration of a general theory. …”
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Morgan, Robert P. 2014. Becoming Heinrich Schenker: Music Theory and Ideology. New York: Cambridge University Press. by Bryan Parkhurst

“…In my view, there is a real need for the kind of book that Robert Morgan’s Heinrich Schenker: Music Theory and Ideology aspires to be: a succinct, lucid, and sympathetic summary of the most important works of the most important music theorist, one that shows how those works comprise an integrated theoretical program, a “complete, self–enclosed system” (14)— in a word, a Wissenschaft. …”
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Das Menschliche in der Musik . August Halms prozessuale Metaphorik im Brennpunkt analysetheoretischer Fragestellungen by Astrid Bolay

“…Musical analysis has traditionally relied less on the experience of actually listening to music than on what can be “seen” in the score. Music theorist August Halm, on the other hand, developed a rich and vivid vocabulary precisely for the expressive, dynamic, and processual qualities of music. …”
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The Polish Contribution to Central European Musical Culture in the Seventeenth Century. The Case of Marcin Mielczewski by Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmińska

“…Among the composers trained at the Polish court was the Italian Marco Scacchi (d. 1662), chapel-master to Władysław IV, the composer of operas staged in the royal theatre, and also a music theorist – the author of a classification of musical genres which was produced during Scacchi's dispute over music theory with the Gdansk organist Paul Siefert. …”
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Power and Equity in the Academy: Change from Within by Ellie M. Hisama

“…We found a sympathetic adviser in David Lewin, the senior music theorist on the faculty, and I secured funding from Radcliffe College and several other sources to pay for honoraria and travel for our four invited speakers. …”
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Jean Philippe-Rameau and the Corps Sonore by B. Glenn Chandler

“…Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) is remembered today as a composer and music theorist. He contributed significantly to the harpsichord literature in his early years and gave us such grand dramatic compositions for the stage as Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Indes Galantes and Castor et Pollux in his later years. …”
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LIETUVOS NACIONALINĖS MARTYNO MAŽVYDO BIBLIOTEKOS RETŲ KNYGŲ IR RANKRAŠČIŲ SKYRIAUS PALEOTIPŲ RINKINYS by VIKTORIJA VAITKEVIČIŪTĖ

“…Of the XIXth century personal libraries, particularly noteworthy are the collections of Jonas Krizostomas Gintila (1788–1857), XIXth-century bibliophile, hebraist and administrator of the Samogitian Diocese, and of Friedrich August Gotthold (1778–1858), educator and music theorist. A separate, rather abundant group of provenance inscriptions consists of the books that formerly belonged to Königsberg University. …”
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