Allen Forte Papers

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Allen Forte Papers

1955-2014

https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/6/resources/10686

The Allen Forte Collection includes theoretical analyses (published and unpublished) of the works of a wide variety of composers; a selection of Forte's correspondence, which includes letters to and from Ernst Oster, Gertrud Schoenberg, and other notable music theorists; materials related to some of the courses Forte taught; general theory materials; drafts of some of Forte's published and unpublished articles and lectures; and a selection of photos, personal documents, books and scores.

7.5 linear feet

eng, Latn

Yale University, Music Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11655543

Yale University, Music Library

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Forte, Madeleine, 1938-

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Madeleine Forte was born on September 20, 1938 in Orléansville (present-day Chlef), Algeria. After initial study on the piano with her aunt, she studied with Alfred Cortot and Wilhelm Kempff, and earned an artist diploma and a musicology diploma from the École Normale de Musique in Paris studying with Norbert Dufourcq, as well an artist diploma from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (Uniwersytet Muzyczny Fryderyka Chopina), studying with Zbigniew Drzewiecki. In the United States, she earne...

Forte, Allen, 1926-2014

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From the Allen Forte Papers at Yale University: Allen Forte (1926-2014) was the Battell Professor Emeritus of the Theory of Music at Yale University. He was a specialist in 20th-century atonal music, musical analysis using Schenkerian methods, and the American popular ballad. He is the author of over one hundred books and articles, and advised seventy-two Ph.D. dissertations. Allen Forte received his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University, and taught at Columbia University Teachers College, M...