College of Musical Arts

Contemporary Music Forum

Beginning 1993, the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music has periodically published the proceedings of the New Music & Art Festival in its music theory journal, the Contemporary Music Forum. The first six issues are available below in PDF format.

Volume 1:
  • “Social Dynamics at the Heart of Composition: Implications of Christian Wolff’s Indeterminate Music” by Mark D. Nelson
  • “Minimialism and Macroform” by Nadine Hubbs
  • “(Super)Computer Produced Musical Manifolds” by Sever Tipei
  • “In Memoriam Dylan Thomas: Derivation of the Tone Row” by Bruce B. Chamberlain
Volume 2:
  • “Did Modernism Fail Morton Feldman?” by Molly Paccione and Paul Paccione
  • “Listening for Large-Scale Form in the Music of Milton Babbit” by William E. Lake
  • “Composition and Synchronized Sound, from Opera and Cinema to the Computer” by Robin Bargar
  • “The Development and Application of the Chain Technique in the Recent Works of Witold Lutoslawski” by Gerald E. Evans
Volume 3:
  • “Structural Hierarchy in Two Works of Edgard Varèse: Écuatorial and Density 21.5” by Timothy Kloth
  • “Analyzing Poème Électronique: Clues from the Getty Archive and the Spectrogram” by Ann Stimson
  • “Attack, Sustain, and Decay as Metaphor in Synchronisms No. 3 by Mario Davidovsky” by Peter M. Susser
  • “Weather Report and The Expansion of Jazz Form” by David J. Vayo
Volume 4:
  • “Native-American Resonances in Contemporary Concert Music” by Curt Cacioppo
  • “The Eclectic Piano Music of Manuel M. Ponce” by David Witten
  • “In Quest of ‘Silver Ladders’ in the Americas” by Charles Hoag
  • “Dealing with Rock: How the Contemporary Composer Deals with Cultural Background” by Keith Kothman
Volume 5–6:
  • “Timbre in Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano” by David Vayo
  • “Toward a Feminine Form in Music: Pauline Oliveros’s Rose Moon” by Pamela A. Madsen

  • “The Movement of Sound in Space: An Update” by Ellen Fishman-Johnson

  • “Postmodern Narrative and John Zorn’s Spillane” by Eric Dries

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