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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Target Article

Victor Grauer, Toward a Unified Theory of the Arts

2. Commentaries

Margaret Bent, Diatonic ficta Revisited: Josquin's Ave Maria in Context

Jonathan Walker, Intonational Injustice: A Defense of Just Intonation in the Performance of Renaissance Polyphony

3. Reviews

John W. Schaffer, Review of Peter Castine's Set Theory Objects: Abstractions for Computer-Aided Analysis and Composition of Serial and Atonal Music

4. Music Theory International

Per F. Broman, Report from the Three Seminars on Contemporary Music with Connection to the ISCM World Music Days in Copenhagen, 1996.

5. Announcements

• Mikropolyphonie: A New Electronic Journal
• Ethnomusicology Online
• Words and Music: Assessing An Interart Discipline
• Georgia Association of Music Theorists: Annual Meeting

6. Employment

• University of Pennsylvania: Robert Weiss Chair in Music Composition
• Aarhus University (Denmark): Chair in Music
• University of Wisonsin-Madison: Assistant Professor of Music
• Eastman School of Music: One senior, one junior postion in Theory
• University of Connecticut, Storrs: Head, Department of Music
• Florida State University: Tenure-track position in Music Theory

7. New Dissertations

• Guigue, Didier. "Une �tude "pour les Sonorit�s Oppos�es": Pour une analyse "orient�e objets" de l'oeuvre pour piano de Debussy et de la musique du 20� si�cle." Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1996.
• Hussey, William Gregory. "Compositional Modeling and Quotation in the Works of Johannes Brahms: An Application of Harold Bloom's Theory of Influence to Music." University of Texas at Austin, 1996.
• Lowe, Bethany L. "Performance as Reception: The Symphonies of Sibelius in Britain 1930-1965." University of Southampton, 1998 (projected).
• McDonnell, Donald R. "Roger Sessions' Symphony No. 3, First Movement: Form, Hexachordal Polarity, and Harmonic Language (and) Nexus/Dreamscape for Chamber Ensemble. (Original Composition)," Brandeis University, 1994.
• Raickovich, Milos. "Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass: A Musical Analysis. City University of New York, 1994.
• Robison, Brian. "Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum: Toward a Methodology for Analyzing Harrison Birtwistle's Music Since 1977," (working title) Cornell University, 1997.

8. New Books

University of Chicago Press

Ingrid Monson, Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction

Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata, ed. Fabrizio della Seta

Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman, eds., Disciplining Music

Oxford University Press

David R. Beveridge, ed., Rethinking Dvorak: Views from Five Countries

George Pratt, The Dynamics of Harmony: Principles and Practice

Michael Burden, ed., Performing the Music of Henry Purcell

Peter Walls, Music in the English Courtly Masque, 1604-1640

Konrad Koster, Mozart: A Musical Biography, trans. Mary Whittall

Robert L. Kendrick, Celestial Sirens: Nuns and Their Music in Early Modern Milan

Rob C. Wegman, Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht

Bernard Harrison, Haydn's Keyboard Music: Studies in Performance Practice

Peter Evans, The Music of Benjamin Britten, rev. ed.

Bryan Gilliam, Richard Strauss's Elektra

Jane L. Baldauf-Berdes, Women Musicians of Venice: Musical Foundations, 1525-1855

Warren Darcy, Wagner's Das Rheingold

Elizabeth Norman McKay, Franz Schubert: A Biography

Jonathan Dunsby, Performing Music: Shared Concerns

9. Advertisements

• Integral
• Music Theory Spectrum 18.2 (fall 1996)

10. Communications

Editor's Message

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