Allen Forte
Allen Forte (born December 23, 1926 in Portland , Oregon , † October 16, 2014 in Hamden , Connecticut) was an American musicologist and theorist.
Forte had piano and organ lessons in his childhood. After attending high school, he served in the US Navy at the end of World War II. He completed his music studies at Columbia University (from 1945) summa cum laude. He taught at Columbia Teachers College and the Mannes School of Music for some time before becoming a professor at Yale University . With a one-year hiatus at MIT, he worked here until his retirement as professor of music theory and Battell Professor emeritus of music theory. In 2000, Yale University endowed an Allen Forte Professorship in Music Theory.
In addition to a dozen books, Forte has written articles for music magazines such as the Journal of Music Theory , Music Theory Spectrum , Music Analysis , Perspectives of New Music and the Journal of the American Musicological Society , in which he deals in particular with that of Josef Matthias Hauer , Alois Hába , Joseph Schillinger and Milton Babbitt founded Musical Set Theory , the analysis of reductions according to Heinrich Schenker , the Second Viennese School and the music of Olivier Messiaen . In 1958 he published the first detailed music- analytical study of American jazz music . In 1995 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Forte was married to the concert pianist Madelaine Forte .
Fonts
- Contemporary tone structures . Columbia 1955.
- Tonal Harmony in Concept and Practice . Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1962.
- The Structure of Atonal Music . Yale University Press, New Haven 1973, ISBN 978-0-300-02120-2 .
- The Harmonic Organization of The Rite of Spring . Yale University Press, New Haven 1978.
- Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis (with Steven E. Gilbert ), WW Norton & Co. 1982.
- The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950 . Princeton University Press 1995.
- The Atonal Music of Anton Webern . Yale University Press, New Haven 1998.
- Listening to Classic American Popular Songs . Yale University Press, New Haven 2001.
literature
- Christoph Neidhöfer: Set Theory . In: Journal of the Society for Music Theory 2 / 2–3 (2005), pp. 219–227 ( online) .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forte, Allen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musicologist and theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Portland, Oregon |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 2014 |
| Place of death | Hamden (Connecticut) |