Table of Contents

Beyond Unity: Toward an Understanding of Musical Postmodernism The Art-Science of Music after Two Millennia Aspects of Confluence between Western Art Music and Ethnomusicoloy Twelve-Tone Composition and the Music of Elliott Carter An Analysis of Polyrhythm in Selected Improvisd Jazz Solos A Generalization of Contour Theory to Diverse Musical Spaces: Analytical Applications to the Music of Dallapiccola and StockhausenStockhausen A Generalization of Contour Theory to diverse Musical Spaces: Analytical Applications to the Music ofDdallapiccola and StockhausenStockhausen The Beatles as Composers: The Genesis of Abbey Road, Side Two Structural Factors in the Microcanonic Compositions of Gyorgy Ligeti Theory, Analysis, and the "Problem" of Minimal Music The Question of Climax in Ruth Crawford's String Quartet, Mvt. 3 Does the Song Remain the Same? Questions of Authorship and Identification in the Music of Led Zeppelin Theories of Chordal Shape, Aspects of Linguistics, and their Roles in Structuring Berio's Sequenza IV for Piano Stylistic Competencies, Musical Satire, and "This is Spinal Tap" Music Theory and the Postmodern Muse: An Afterword