Current Table of Contents

• Cover
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: C1–C4.
• Front Matter
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: C2–i.
• Table of Contents
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: iii–iii.
• Bach's Partita No. 1 in B♭, BWV 825: Schenker's Unpublished Sketches with Commentary and Alternative Readings
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: 1–34. The article is an in-depth study of Bach's Partita No. 1, taking Schenker's unpublished sketches (Oster Collection: Papers of Heinrich Schenker, file 69, pages 4–35) as a point of departure. Schenker's sketches (ca.1925) are presented in transcription ...
• Modulation as a Dramatic Agent in Frank Loesser's Broadway Songs
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: 35–60. We often think of direct stepwise modulation as a crude way to convey a sense of intensification. Certainly that is how many popular composers have exploited the device, but this article examines its various guises in four of Frank Loesser's theatrical ...
• Metric Analysis and the Metaphor of Energy: A Way into Selected Songs by Wolf and Schoenberg
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: 61–87. This paper provides additions and alternatives to the current practice of metric analysis, drawing on the metaphor of energy, and it engages in close readings of music and text in songs by Wolf and Schoenberg. The metaphor of energy enables in-time ...
• Melodic Contour and Nonretrogradable Structure in the Birdsong of Olivier Messiaen
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: 89–137. Taking its cue from several highly suggestive remarks found in his interviews and two major theoretical treatises, this article investigates melodic contour structure in Olivier Messiaen's mature birdsong. Following some key refinements to Robert Morris'...
• Near-Maximally-Distributed Cycles and an Instance of Transformational Recursion in Bartók's Etude Op. 18, No. 1
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: 139–151.
• Heads and Tails: Subject Play in Bach's Fugues
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: 152–163.
• Lewin, Intervals, and Transformations: a Comment on Hook
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: 164–168.
• Reviews - Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects: The Construction of Musical Thought in Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: 169–180.
• Reviews - Reading Opera Between the Lines: Orchestral Interludes and Cultural Meaning from Wagner to Berg
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: 181–188.
• Correspondence
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: 189–192.
• Contributors
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: 193–193.
• Back Matter
  Music Theory Spectrum Apr 2008, Vol. 30, No. 1: C3–C3.