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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Target Article

Eric J. Isaacson, Issues in the Study of Similarity in Atonal Music

2. Commentaries

Roger Wibberley, "Mode versus Ficta" in Context

Channan Willner, Handel, the Sarabande, and Levels of Genre: A Reply to David Schulenberg

3. Reviews

Donna Brink Fox, Review of Abeles, Harold; Hoffer, Charles; and Klotman, Robert. (1994). Foundations of Music Education, 2nd ed. New York: Schirmer Books

Jonathan Wild, Review of the HUMDRUM Toolkit: UNIX Tools for Musical Research, created by David Huron

4. Music Theory International

Gerold W. Gruber, Review of the 3rd Congress for Music Theory, Vienna, Austria, May 10-12, 1996

5. Announcements

• Music Theory SouthEast: Call for Papers
• Hypertextual Database of 13th-century Treatises
• Music of Japan Today III: Tradition and Innovation
• Realtime Composition Library for MAX: New Version Released
• AMS South Central Chapter: Call for Papers
• South Central Society for Music Theory: Web Site!
• South Central Society for Music Theory: Call for Papers
• Feminist Theory and Music 4: Call for Papers
• Mendelssohns at the Millennium: Four-day Conference
• West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis: Call for Papers
• Texas Society for Music Theory: Call for Papers
• Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie, Vol. 1.3

6. Employment

• Davidson College, Music History or Theory
• Cornell University Department of Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, or Theory
• Montclair State University, Dir. of Choral Activities (Asst. Prof.)
• Montclair State University, Orchestra Director (Asst. Prof.)
• Colby College, Music Theory
• Ecole de musique, Universite Laval, Quebec
• University of Houston, Moores School of Music, Music Theory
• Hofstra University, Music Theory/Composition (Asst. Prof.)
• The Catholic University of America, Music Theory (Asst. Prof.)
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Theory/Electronic Music (Asst. Prof.)
• Ohio State University, School of Music, Senior Scholar in Music Cognition (Assoc. Prof. or Prof.)
• University of Washington

7. New Dissertations

• Buhler, James. "Informal Music Analysis: A Critique of Formalism, Semiology, and Narratology As Discourses on Music"
• Collaros, Pandel, L. "Quanti-MAS: A Quantitative System of Melodic Analysis"
• Mak, Su Yin."Structure, Design, and Rhetoric: Variation Procedures in Selected Instrumental and Vocal Works by Franz Schubert"
• Mengozzi, Stefano. "Between Humanistic Ideals and Scientific Thought in Glareanus's Dodecachordon"
• Morse, Michael William. "The Tune in Jazz as a Social Process--Prolegomena to a Sociology of Music"
• Wilkinson, Carlton J. "Symphony in Five Movements: A Presentation and Analytical Discussion of a New Work in a Symphonic Form"

8. New Books

• University of California Press

  Eric Chafe, Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach

  Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson, & Robert Winter, The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory

  Theodore Karp, The Polyphony of Saint Martial and Santiago de Compostela

  William Kinderman, Beethoven

  Donald Mitchell, Gustav Mahler: Volume III: Songs and Symphonies

  Christopher Page, The Owl and the Nightingale: Musical Life and Ideas in France 1100-1300

  George Perle, The Operas of Alban Berg. Volume 1: Wozzeck, Volume 2: Lulu

  John L. Stewart, Ernst Krenek: The Man and His Music

  Pieter C. Van den Toorn, Stravinsky and the Rite of Spring: The Beginnings of a Musical Language

• Peter Lang Verlag

  Laurie-Jeanne Lister, Humor as a Concept in Music

• Prentice-Hall

  Earl Henry, Sight Singing

  Rebecca M. Herrold, Mastering the Fundamentals of Music

  Kent Kennan and Donald Grantham, The Technique of Orchestration, 5th ed.

  Peter Spencer, The Practice of Harmony, 3rd ed.

• Princeton University Press

  Michael Tanner, Wagner

  Michael Beckerman, ed., Dvorak and His World

  Anthony M. Cummings, The Politicized Muse: Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537

  Bryan Gilliam, ed., Richard Strauss and His World

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Wagner Androgyne: A Study in Interpretation, trans. Stewart Spencer

  Frederick Neumann, Ornamentation and Improvisation in Mozart

  Pierluigi Petrobelli, Music in the Theater: Essays on Verdi and Other Composers, trans. Roger Parker

  Richard Taruskin, Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue

  John Tyrrell, Janacek's Operas: A Documentary Account

  Frank Walker, Hugo Wolf: A Biography

  Susan Youens, Hugo Wolf: The Vocal Music

9. Advertisements

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10. Communications

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