Daniel Harrison (born April 20, 1959) is a

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, and former chairman of the Department of Music at

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. Most interested in tonal theory, Harrison wrote his dissertation on the music of

Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University Chu ...

at Yale (PhD '86), which eventually became ''Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music: A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents (1994)''. Also interested in pop music, particularly

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, he appeared in the

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documentary '' Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times'' (1995). During his tenure at Yale, he was named the

Allen Forte Allen Forte (December 23, 1926 – October 16, 2014) 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. ...

Professor of Music Theory in 2006 and Chairman in 2007. From 2001 to 2003 he was editor-in-chief of ''

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''.Publications and Networking Committees
Society for Music Theory, retrieved 2014-05-16.

Publications

''Counterpoint and Fugue'' *"Some group properties of triple counterpoint and their influence on compositions by J.S. Bach." ''Journal of Music Theory'' 32/1 (1988): 23-50. *"Rhetoric and Fugue: An Analytical Application." Music Theory Spectrum 12/1 (1990): 1-42. *"Heads and Tails: Subject Play in Bach's Fugues." ''Music Theory Spectrum'' 30/1 (2008): 152-163. ''Chromatic Harmony'' *"Max Reger's motivic technique: Harmonic innovations at the borders of atonality." ''Journal of Music Theory'' 35 (1991): 61-91. *''Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music: A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents'' (Chicago, 1994) *"Supplement to the theory of augmented-sixth chords." ''Music Theory Spectrum'' 17/2 (1995): 170-195. *"Nonconformist notions of nineteenth-century enharmonicism." ''Music Analysis'' 21/2 (2002): 115-160. ''Neo-Riemannian Theory'' *"Three Short Essays on Neo-Riemannian Theory," in ''The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Riemannian Music Theory,'' ed. Edward Gollin and Alexander Rehding (Oxford, 2011): 548-577. ''Popular Music'' *"After sundown: The Beach Boys' experimental music." In ''Understanding Rock: Essays in Musical Analysis,'' ed. John Covach and Graeme M. Boone (Oxford, 1997). .

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Personal Website
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