Milton BabbittW
Milton Babbitt

Milton Byron Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.

Marion BauerW
Marion Bauer

Marion Eugénie Bauer was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. She played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth century.

Benjamin BoretzW
Benjamin Boretz

Benjamin Aaron Boretz is an American composer and music theorist.

Ian Brennan (music producer)W
Ian Brennan (music producer)

Ian Brennan is an American music producer, author and lecturer on violence prevention.

Cardon V. BurnhamW
Cardon V. Burnham

Cardon Vern Burnham Jr. was an American composer, arranger, conductor, and performer of musical genre. His work included classical, choral, jazz, orchestral, operatic, and chamber music, most notably the opera entitled "Nitecap" which he composed in 1955.

Patricia Carpenter (music theorist)W
Patricia Carpenter (music theorist)

Patricia Carpenter (1923–2000), a music theorist, was a professor of music theory at Barnard College and Columbia University. Her areas of scholarly interest included music theory, the history of music theory, musical analysis, and the aesthetics of music.

Henry CowellW
Henry Cowell

Henry Dixon Cowell was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, impresario and the husband of Sidney Robertson Cowell.

Paul ErlichW
Paul Erlich

Paul Erlich is a guitarist and music theorist living near Boston, Massachusetts. He is known for his seminal role in developing the theory of regular temperaments, including being the first to define pajara temperament and its decatonic scales in 22-ET. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Yale University.

Allen ForteW
Allen Forte

Allen Forte was an American music theorist and musicologist. He was Battell Professor Emeritus of the Theory of Music at Yale University and specialized in 20th-century atonal music and music analysis.

Howard HansonW
Howard Hanson

Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music. In 1944, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 4, and received numerous other awards including the George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Entertainment in Music in 1946.

Harry PartchW
Harry Partch

Harry Partch was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947).

George PerleW
George Perle

George Perle was a composer and music theorist.

James K. RandallW
James K. Randall

James K. Randall was an American composer, music theorist, and early adopter of electronic music. At the time of his death he was Professor of Music Emeritus at Princeton University.

Anton RovnerW
Anton Rovner

Anton Rovner is a Russian-American composer, music critic and theorist.

George Russell (composer)W
George Russell (composer)

George Allen Russell was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and theorist. He is considered one of the first jazz musicians to contribute to general music theory with a theory of harmony based on jazz rather than European music, in his book Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (1953).

Joseph SchillingerW
Joseph Schillinger

Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger was a composer, music theorist, and composition teacher who originated the Schillinger System of Musical Composition. He was born in Kharkiv, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire and died in New York City.

Arnold SchoenbergW
Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg was an Austrian-born composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. As a Jewish composer, Schoenberg was targeted by the Nazi Party, which labeled his works as degenerate music and forbade them from being published. He emigrated to the United States in 1933, becoming an American citizen in 1941.

Roger SessionsW
Roger Sessions

Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, teacher and writer on music.

James TenneyW
James Tenney

James Tenney was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microtonal music, and tuning systems including extended just intonation. His theoretical writings variously concern musical form, texture, timbre, consonance and dissonance, and harmonic perception.

Christopher TignorW
Christopher Tignor

Christopher Tignor is an American composer, musician, software engineer, and lecturer based in New York City. In addition to releasing music under his own name, he is a founding member of post-rock acts Slow Six and Wires Under Tension. Primarily a violinist, he has also composed and recorded string arrangements for notable acts including This Will Destroy You, John Congleton, Keith Kenniff, and Lymbyc Systym.

Erv WilsonW
Erv Wilson

Ervin Wilson was a Mexican/American music theorist.

Bernhard ZiehnW
Bernhard Ziehn

Bernhard Ziehn was a German-American music theorist and music teacher.