Allen Forte (December 23, 1926 – October 16, 2014) was an American music theorist and musicologist. He was Battell Professor Emeritus of the Theory of...

of the concepts for analyzing tonal music. Other theorists, such as Allen Forte, further developed the theory for analyzing atonal music, drawing on...

player Aldo Rafael Forte (born 1953), Cuban-American composer Allen Forte (1926–2014), American music theorist and musicologist Anthony Forté or Rappin' 4-Tay...

In musical set theory, a Forte number is the pair of numbers Allen Forte assigned to the prime form of each pitch class set of three or more members in...

counterparts in the major mode. These we call chromatic triads by mixture. — Allen Forte (1979) The total chromatic is the collection of all twelve equally tempered...

as two tetrachords separated by a whole tone. In musical set theory, Allen Forte classifies diatonic scales as set form 7–35. The term diatonic originally...

where they are more generally referred to as tetrads. Musicologist Allen Forte in his The Structure of Atonal Music never uses the term "tetrad", but...

smaller by the interval of half step ["altered diatonic intervals"]. — Allen Forte (1979) Because diatonic scale is itself ambiguous, distinguishing intervals...

the definition of chromatic mediant relationships. Theorists such as Allen Forte define chromatic mediants conservatively, only allowing chromatic mediant...

for These Times (1995). During his tenure at Yale, he was named the Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory in 2006 and Chairman in 2007. From 2001 to...

is ... strong and melodious — Roger Scruton, The Aesthetics of Music Allen Forte describes the term figuration as being applied to two distinct things:...

minimalism. After a religious upbringing in Colorado, he studied at Yale with Allen Forte and in New York City with Morton Feldman. There he covered the work of...

used in scale-like fashion to span the interval of a perfect fourth. Allen Forte occasionally uses the term tetrachord to mean what he elsewhere calls...

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It has a long and distinguished history of past editors, including Allen Forte. The Journal of Music Theory page at Duke University Press Journals Online...

advantages[specify] and is extendable to any equal division of the octave. Allen Forte in his 1973 work The Structure of Atonal Music notated the interval vector...

was an American composer, keyboardist, and improvisor. A student of Allen Forte, Mel Powell, and Luigi Nono, he was known for his live electronic music...

173–180. Forte, Allen. 1972. Sets and Nonsets in Schoenberg's Atonal Music. Perspectives of New Music 11, no. 1 (Fall–Winter): 43–64. Forte, Allen. 1978a...

comprises all the pitches of our [12-tone] equal-tempered system. — Allen Forte (1979) All of the pitches in common use, considered together, constitute...

by Forte in constructing his numbering system. There are two slightly different methods of obtaining the prime form—an earlier one by Allen Forte and...

1017/S0040298200013954. ‹See TfM›Forte, Allen. 1986. "Letter to the Editor in Reply to Richard Taruskin from Allen Forte: Making Stravinsky Soup and Other...

pitch of the ith tone in P belong to the pitch class (set number) j. Allen Forte defines transposition so as to apply to unordered sets of other than...

is one of Liszt's most experimental works, representing, according to Allen Forte, "a high point in the experimental idiom with respect to expressive compositional...

discipline. Founded in 1977 by a group of distinguished theorists, among them Allen Forte and Wallace Berry, its members are primarily theorists in North American...

Composition". www.copyright.gov. Retrieved 26 January 2019. Translation from Allen Forte, Tonal Harmony in Concept and Practice, third edition (New York: Holt...

reason music containing them was called musica ficta or musica falsa. Allen Forte in The Structure of Atonal Music redefines the term hexachord to mean...

normal form is 01348 (e.g., C–C♯–E♭–E–G♯), its Forte number is 5-z17, in the taxonomy of Allen Forte. The identity of the Farben chord, however, depends...

"sounding like the V in the key of the relative major—that is, a V of ♭III." Allen Forte writes that "[w]hile VII in relation to C minor (I) becomes V in relation...

classes), based upon shared pitch class and/or interval class content. Allen Forte originally designated four types: Rp (maximal similarity with respect...

and Robert Morris. There are three methods of computing Forte number and prime form. Allen Forte published the first in his 1973 book The Structure of Atonal...