"His partitioning of the octave in the first ten bars places Varèse with Scriabin and the Schoenberg circle among the …"

"Do we really have to look these chords up in Forte's catalog in order to find a name for them? Another theorist [Chri…"

"The crucial and monumental development in the art music of our century has been the qualitative change in the foundat…"

"By the time of his Fourth String Quartet, inversional symmetry had become as fundamental a premise of Bartók's harmon…"

"I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of …"

"Z-relation, or rather, "that certain pitch-class collections share the same 'interval vector' even though they are ne…"

"The achievement of such a change of register through a sequential progression is a familiar procedure in the music of…"

"If...[Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the …"

"Collections of all twelve pitch classes can be differentiated from one another only by assigning an order to the pitc…"

"Every bit of theorizing I’ve ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I mad…"