Edward Toner Cone was an American composer, music theorist

Music theory

Music theory is the study of how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It seeks to identify patterns and structures in composers' techniques across or within genres, styles, or historical periods...

, pianist, and philanthropist.

Cone studied composition under Roger Sessions

Roger Sessions

Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...

 at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

, receiving his bachelor's in 1939 (Latin salutatorian

Salutatorian

Salutatorian is an academic title given, in the United States and Canada, to the second highest graduate of the entire graduating class of a specific discipline. Only the valedictorian is ranked higher. This honor is traditionally based on grade point average and number of credits taken, but...

 and the first Princeton student to submit a musical composition as his senior thesis). Cone was in the first group (with Milton Babbitt

Milton Babbitt

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

 and Carter Harmon) to earn graduate degrees in music from Princeton (MFA, 1942). He studied piano with Karl Ulrich Schnabel

Karl Ulrich Schnabel

Karl Ulrich Schnabel was an Austrian pianist, and the son of pianist Artur Schnabel and operatic contralto and lieder singer Therese Behr.-Biography:...

 and Edward Steuermann. During the Second World War Cone served first in the army (as a pianist) and later in the Office of Strategic Services. Beginning in 1946 he taught at Princeton. He was the co-editor of the journal Perspectives of New Music

Perspectives of New Music

Perspectives of New Music is a peer-reviewed, academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis. It was founded in 1962 by Arthur Berger and Benjamin Boretz , making it the second-oldest music-theory journal now published in the United States .Perspectives was a Princeton-based journal...

between 1965 and 1969.

Cone, known for his contributions to music criticism and analysis, also composed a significant body of music. His scholarly work addressed musical form and aesthetics, particularly questions of rhythm

Rhythm

Rhythm may be generally defined as a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions." This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time may be applied to a wide variety of cyclical natural phenomena having a periodicity or...

 and musical phrasing.

Cone's students include Michael Dellaira, Hobart Earle, Alan Fletcher

Alan Fletcher (composer)

Alan Fletcher is President and CEO of the Aspen Music Festival and School and both an accomplished music administrator and respected composer...

, Robert Greenberg

Robert Greenberg

Robert M. Greenberg , is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, NY. He has composed more than 45 works for a variety of instruments and voices, and has recorded a number of lecture series on music history and music appreciation for The Teaching...

, John Heiss, David Lewin

David Lewin

David Lewin was an American music theorist, music critic and composer. Called "the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation" , he did his most influential theoretical work on the development of transformational theory, which involves the application of mathematical group theory to...

, Gilbert Levine

Gilbert Levine

Sir Gilbert Levine, KC*SG is an American conductor. He is considered an "outstanding personality in the world of international music television."-Education:...

, Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan

Robert Knight Morgan was a United States Air Force colonel and pilot, from Asheville, North Carolina, and the commander of the B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle during World War II.-Biography:...

, Mario Pelusi, Malcolm Peyton, Harold Powers

Harold Powers

Harold Stone Powers was an American musicologist.Powers attended Stanford University and then Syracuse University, where he received a BMus in 1950. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959 after studying music theory under Milton Babbitt and Edward T. Cone, and musicology under...

, Victor Rosenbaum, John Solum

John Solum

John Solum is an award-winning musician, author, educator, and advocate for the arts.- Early life :Born in Wisconsin in 1935, he started taking music lessons at the age of five. He began playing the flute professionally at age 17 while still in high school in Minneapolis, including recording with...

, Beth Wiemann, and Edgar Warren Williams.

Instrumental Works

ORCHESTRA

• Elegy (1953).
• Music for Strings (1964).
• An Overture for the War (Prelude to Victory) (1942).
• Symphony (1953).
• Variations for Orchestra (1968).

SOLO INSTRUMENT & ORCHESTRA

• Cadenzas (1979) violin/oboe/string orchestra.
• Concerto for Violin and Small Orchestra (1959) violin/orchestra.
• Nocturne and Rondo for Orchestra and Piano (1957) piano/orchestra.

SMALL ENSEMBLE (3 to 14 players)

• Capriccio for String Quartet (1981) 2 violins/viola/cello.
• Clarinet Quintet (1941) clarinet/2 violins/viola/cello.
• Divertimento for Woodwinds (1940–46) flute/oboe/English horn/2 clarinets/ bassoon.
• Fanfare (1948) 6 trumpets/3 horns/3 trombones/2 tubas.
• Funeral Stanzas (1965) flute/oboe/clarinet/horn/bassoon.
• Music for a Film (1951) clarinet/2 violins/viola/cello.
• Ostinato, Cadenza and Finale (1990) viola/cello/piano.
• Quartet for Strings and Piano (1983) violin/viola/cello/piano.
• Quintet for Piano and Strings (1960) 2 violins/viola/cello/piano.
• Serenade (1975) flute/violin/viola/cello.
• String Quartet (#1) (1939) 2 violins/viola/cello.
• String Quartet (#2) (1949) 2 violins/viola/cello.
• String Sextet (1966) 2 violins/2 violas/2 cellos.
• String Trio (1973) violin/viola/cello. Trio (1951) violin/cello/piano.
• Variations on a Fan-Fair (1965) 2 trumpets/horn/trombone.

DUOS

• Cavatina (1976) treble viol/harpsichord.
• Duo for Violin & Clarinet (1969) clarinet/violin.
• Duo for Violin & Harp (1959) violin/harp.
• Duo for Violin and 'Cello (1963) violin/cello.
• Elegy (1946) violin/piano.
• Fantasy for Two Pianos (1965) 2 pianos.
• Nocturne for 'Cello and Piano (1946) cello/piano.
• Pastoral Variations for Flute and Harp (1996) flute/harp.
• Prelude and Variations for Piano Four-Hands (1946) piano four-hands.
• Rhapsody (1947) viola/piano.
• Sonata for Violin and Piano (#1) (1940) violin/piano.
• Sonata for Violin and Piano (#2) (1948) violin/piano.
• Wedding Music (1977) 2 trumpets.

SOLO STRINGS

• Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin (1961) violin solo.
• Sonata for Violoncello Solo (1955) cello solo.
• Variations for Solo Viola (after 1996) viola solo.

SOLO KEYBOARD

• Another Page from a Diary (1985) piano.
• Etude for Either Hand, or Both (1963) piano.
• Fantasy (1950) piano.
• Fantasy on a Hebrew Theme (1947) organ.
• Fantasy on an Advent Hymn (1948) organ/optional TBB chorus.
• In Memoriam - R. D. W. (1951) piano.
• Page from a Diary (1977) piano.
• Piano Sonata (1947) piano.
• Prelude, Passacaglia and Fugue (1957) piano.
• Sphinxes (1974) piano.
• Twelve Bagatelles on the Triads (1959) piano.
• Twelve Tonal Studies (1962) piano.
• Twenty-One Little Preludes (1940) piano.
• Two Fugues for J. Merrill Knapp (1940) organ.

CADENZAS

• Cadenza for Bach’s Concerto for Four Harpsichords, Strings & Continuo in A Minor (after Vivaldi, RV 580), BWV 1065 (1989) 4 pianos.
• Cadenzas for Mozart Concerto for 2 Pianos & Orchestra, E-flat Major, K. 365 (1997) 2 pianos.
• Cadenzas for Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 466 (1981) piano.

COMPLETIONS

• Completion of a Cadenza for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in C Major, Opus 15 (1984) piano.
• Completion of Bach’s Unfinished Fugue in C Minor (1974) keyboard.

Choral & Solo Vocal Works

CHORUS & ORCHESTRA

• Two Psalms for Chorus and Orchestra (1948) SSATBB/orchestra.

CHORUS, SOLO VOICE, & ORCHESTRA

• The Hollow Men (1950) TTBB/tenor & baritone soloists/winds/percussion.
• The Lotos-Eaters (1946) TTBB/tenor & bass soloists/orchestra.

CHORUS & SMALL ENSEMBLE

• Around the Year (1956) (SATB)/2 violins/viola/cello. Text: Walter de la Mare
  Walter de la Mare
  Walter John de la Mare , OM CH was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and the poem "The Listeners"....
  
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CHORUS & KEYBOARD

• Fantasy on an Advent Hymn (1948) organ/ (optional TBB).
• In the Last Days (1957) SATB/piano.
• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1946) TTBB/tenor solo/organ.
• A Memory (1947) TTBB/piano.
• Veni Creator Spiritus (1950) TBB/organ.

A CAPELLA CHORUS

• Excursions (1946) SSATBB.
• Petit Chant de Noel (1955) SATBB. Text: Gabriel Vahanian
  Gabriel Vahanian
  Gabriel Vahanian is a French-born Protestant Christian theologian who is most remembered for his pioneering work in the theology of the "death of God" movement within academic circles in the 1960s, and who taught for some 26 years in the U.S.-Life:...
  
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• Songs of Innocence and Experience (after 1996) SATB. Text: William Blake
  William Blake
  William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
  
  
• Three Miniatures (1948) TTBB. Text: James Stephens
  James Stephens
  James Stephens may refer to:*James Stephens , 17th century MP for Gloucester*James Stephen , English lawyer associated with the abolition of slavery* James B...
  
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• Two Limericks (1965) SATB.
• Two Songs from Shakespeare (1972) SATB.

SOLO VOICE & ORCHESTRA

• Dover Beach (1941) baritone/orchestra.
• The Duchess of Malfi (1954) contralto, tenor, bass/orchestra.
• La Figlia che Piange (1962) tenor/chamber orchestra.

SOLO VOICE & SMALL ENSEMBLE

• Four Lyrics from Yeats (after 1996) medium voice/2 violins/viola/cello. Text: W. B. Yeats.
• Ozymandias (1989) soprano/oboe/clarinet/bassoon/piano.
• Philomela (1970) soprano/flute/viola/piano.
• Scarabs (1948) soprano/2 violins/viola/cello. Text: R. P. Blackmur
  R. P. Blackmur
  Richard Palmer Blackmur was an American literary critic and poet. He was born and grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. An autodidact, Blackmur worked in a bookshop after graduating from high school, and attended lectures at Harvard University without enrolling...
  
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• Two Gardens (1986) soprano/2 violins/viola/cello/piano. Text: Joyce Carol Oates
  Joyce Carol Oates
  Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
  
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SOLO VOICE & SINGLE INSTRUMENT

• Bells in Tower at Evening Toll (1940) voice/piano.
• Cover Me Over, Clover (n.d.) voice/piano. Text: Richard Eberhart
  Richard Eberhart
  Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total...
  
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• Dover Beach (1941) baritone/piano.
• An Epitaph (1940) voice/piano.
• Four Songs from Mythical Story (1961) soprano/piano.
• If It Chance Your Eye Offend You (1940) voice/piano.
• In the Morning (1940) voice/piano.
• Into My Heart (1940) voice/piano.
• Loveliest of Trees (1940) voice/piano.
• Mona Lisa (1940) voice/piano.
• New Weather (1993) tenor or soprano/piano. Text: Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...
  
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• Nine Lyrics from Tennyson's “In Memoriam” (1978) baritone/piano. Text: Alfred Tennyson
• Parta Quies (1940) voice/piano.
• Psalm CXXI (1973) soprano/organ.
• The Shell (1948) contralto/piano.
• Silent Noon (1959) soprano/piano.
• Sir Thomas' House (1948) soprano/flute. Text: John Berryman
  John Berryman
  John Allyn Berryman was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry...
  
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• Solace (1990) soprano/piano. Text: Richard Eberhart
  Richard Eberhart
  Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total...
  
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• The Street Sounds to the Soldier’s Tread (1940) voice/piano.
• Three Songs from Pippa Passes (after 1996) mezzo-soprano/piano. Text: Robert Browning
  Robert Browning
  Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.-Early years:...
  
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• Triptych (1950) tenor or soprano/piano. Text; John Berryman
  John Berryman
  John Allyn Berryman was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry...
  
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• Two Women (1987) soprano/piano.
• With Rue My Heart is Laden (1940) voice/piano.

Books

• Musical Form and Musical Performance (New York, 1968)
• The Composer's Voice (Berkeley, 1974)
• Music: a View from Delft (Chicago, 1989)
• Hearing and Knowing Music: The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone (Princeton, NJ, 2009)

Edited Volumes

• (ed., with Benjamin Boretz
  Benjamin Boretz
  Benjamin Boretz is an American composer and music theorist.-Life and work:Boretz was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated with a degree in music from Brooklyn College...
  
  ) Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky (Princeton, NJ, 1968, Revised 2nd ed. 1972)
• (ed.) Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  : Fantastic Symphony (New York, 1971) (annotated score)
• (ed., with B. Boretz) Perspectives on American Composers (New York, 1971)
• (ed., with B. Boretz) Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory (New York, 1972)
• (ed., with B. Boretz) Perspectives on Notation and Performance (New York, 1976)
• (ed.) Roger Sessions on Music (Princeton, NJ, 1979)
• (ed., with Edmund Keeley
  Edmund Keeley
  Edmund Leroy Keeley is an author, translator, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University. He is a prize-winning novelist and a noted expert on Greek poets C. P...
  
   and Joseph Frank) "The Legacy of R. P. Blackmur
  R. P. Blackmur
  Richard Palmer Blackmur was an American literary critic and poet. He was born and grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. An autodidact, Blackmur worked in a bookshop after graduating from high school, and attended lectures at Harvard University without enrolling...
  
  : Essays, Memoirs, Texts" (New York, 1987)

Articles & Reviews

1940-49

• "Roger Sessions' String Quartet." Modern Music 18, no. 3 (1941): 159-63.
• "The Creative Artist in the University." American Scholar 16, no. 2 (1947): 192-200.
• Review of Paul Bowles
  Paul Bowles
  Paul Frederic Bowles was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making various trips to Paris...
  
  : Six Preludes for Piano. Notes. 4. 4 (1947).
• Review of Paul Creston
  Paul Creston
  Paul Creston was an Italian American composer of classical music.Born in New York City to Sicilian immigrants, Creston was self‐taught as a composer. He was an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity, initiated into the national honorary Alpha Alpha chapter...
  
  : Review of Five Two-Part Inventions for the Piano. Notes. 4. 2 (1947): 191-192.
• Review of David Diamond
  David Diamond
  David Diamond is the name of:* David Diamond , American composer* David Diamond * David Diamond , American screenwriter* David Diamond, frontman and songwriter with Canadian band The Kings...
  
  : Review of Sonatina for Piano. Notes. 4. 4 (1947).

1950-59

• Review of Carlos Riesco: Canzona E Rondo, for Violin and Piano. Notes. 11. 1 (1953): 155.
• Review of Tibor Serly
  Tibor Serly
  Tibor Serly was a Hungarian violist, violinist and composer.He was one of the students of Zoltán Kodály. He greatly admired and became a young apprentice of Béla Bartók. His association with Bartók was for him both a blessing and a curse...
  
  : Sonata in Modus Lascivus, for Solo Violin. Notes. 11. 1 (1953): 155.
• Review of Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, Complete Orchestral Score. (N. Y. Philharmonic-Symphony Orch., Mitropoulos) The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America. Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928...
  
  . 39. 3 (1953): 475-478.
• Review of Berlioz: The Trojans in Carthage. (Ensemble Vocal de Paris, André Jouve, Hermann Scherchen
  Hermann Scherchen
  Hermann Scherchen was a German conductor.-Life:Scherchen was originally a violist and played among the violas of the Bluthner Orchestra of Berlin while still in his teens...
  
  , Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire) The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America. Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928...
  
  . 39. 1 (1953): 138-141.
• "The Old Man's Toys: Verdi's Last Operas." Perspectives USA 6 (1954): 114-33. Reprinted in Cone, Music: A View from Delft, 159-75.
• "Words into Music: The Composer's Approach to the Text." In Sound and Poetry, edited by Northrop Frye
  Northrop Frye
  Herman Northrop Frye, was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century....
  
  , 3-15. English Institute Essays, 1956; New York, 1957. Reprinted in Cone, Music: A View from Delft, 115-23.
• Review of Robert Ward: Symphony No. Three; Stein: Three Hassidic Dances. (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Thor Johnson
  Thor Johnson
  Thor Martin Johnson was an American conductor. He was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was president of the Alpha Rho chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity. He was the first recipient of the fraternity's national...
  
  , Robert Ward, and Stein) The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America. Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928...
  
  . 42. 3 (1956): 423-425.
• Review of Roger Sessions: Second String Quartet; Colin McPhee: Concerto for Piano with Wind Octette Accompaniment. (New Music Quartet, Grant Johannesen
  Grant Johannesen
  Grant Johannesen was an American concert pianist.He was born in Salt Lake City and discovered at the age of five by an irate teacher who lived across the street. He imitated whatever he heard her play, and she did not appreciate it.He studied with Robert Casadesus, Roger Sessions, and Nadia...
  
  , Carlos Surinach
  Carlos Surinach
  Carlos Surinach was a Catalan Spanish-born composer and conductor.He was born in Barcelona, where he held conducting posts at the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona and the Gran Teatre del Liceu...
  
  ) The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America. Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928...
  
  . 43. 1 (1957): 140-142.
• Review of Berlioz: L'Enfance Du Christ. (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, Cesare Valletti
  Cesare Valletti
  Cesare Valletti was an Italian operatic tenor, one of the leading tenore di grazia of the postwar era. He was much admired for his polished vocal technique, his musical refinement and elegance, and beauty of tone....
  
  , Florence Kopleff
  Florence Kopleff
  Florence Kopleff is an American contralto.She was born in New York City.She began her career in 1941 when she was in her senior year of high school. She has been very active as a concert and oratorio singer, appearing and recording with many of the great conductors of her era, particularly as a...
  
  , Gérard Souzay
  Gérard Souzay
  Gérard Souzay was a French baritone singer, regarded as one of the very finest interpreters of mélodie in the generation after Charles Panzéra and Pierre Bernac.-Background and education:...
  
  , Giorgio Tozzi
  Giorgio Tozzi
  Giorgio Tozzi was for many years a leading bass with the Metropolitan Opera, as well as playing lead roles in nearly every major opera house worldwide.-Career:Tozzi was born George John Tozzi in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  , New England Conservatory Chorus, Lorna Cooke de Varon) The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America. Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928...
  
  . 44. 2 (1958): 259-261.
• "Musical Theory as a Humanistic Discipline." Juilliard Review 5, no. 2 (1957–58): 3-12. Reprinted in Cone, Music: A View from Delft, 29-37.

1960-69

• "Analysis Today." The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America. Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928...
  
   46, no. 2 (1960): 172-88. Reprinted in Problems of Modern Music, edited by Paul Henry Lang
  Paul Henry Lang
  Paul Henry Lang was a Hungarian-American musicologist and music critic....
  
  , 34-40. New York, 1960. Also reprinted in Cone, Music: A View from Delft, 39-54.
• "Music: A View from Delft." The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America. Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928...
  
   47, no. 4 (1961): 439-53. Reprinted in Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory, edited by Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone, 57-71. New York, 1972. Also reprinted in Cone, Music: A View from Delft, 13- 27.
• "The Not-So-Happy Medium." The American Scholar 30, no. 2 (1961): 254-67. Reprinted in Essays Today, vol. 5, edited by Richard Ludwig, 87- 96. New York, 1962.
• "Stravinsky: The Progress of a Method." Perspectives of New Music 1, no. 1 (1962): 18-26. Reprinted in Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky, edited by Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone, 155-64. New York, 1972. Also reprinted in Cone, Music: A View from Delft, 293-301.
• "The Uses of Convention: Stravinsky and His Models." The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America. Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928...
  
   48, no. 3 (1962): 287-99. Reprinted in Stravinsky: A New Appraisal of His Work, edited by Paul Henry Lang, 21- 33. New York, 1963. Also reprinted in Cone, Music: A View from Delft, 281-92.
• "From Sensuous Image to Musical Form." American Scholar 33, no. 3 (1964): 448- 62.
• "A Budding Grove." Perspectives of New Music 3, no. 2 (1965): 38-46.
• "On the Structure of 'Ich folge dir.'" College Music Symposium 5 (1965): 77-85.
• "Toward the Understanding of Musical Literature." Perspectives of New Music 4, no. 1 (1965): 141-51.
• "Conversations with Roger Sessions." Perspectives of New Music 4, no. 2 (1966): 29-46. Reprinted in Perspectives on American Composers, edited by Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone, 90-107. New York, 1971.
• "The Power of The Power of Sound." Introductory essay in Edmund Gurney
  Edmund Gurney
  Edmund Gurney was an English psychologist and psychic researcher.-Early life:He was born at Hersham, near Walton-on-Thames. He was educated at Blackheath and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a high place in the classical tripos and obtained a fellowship. His work for the tripos was...
  
  , The Power of Sound, i-xvi. New York, 1966.
• "Beyond Analysis." Perspectives of New Music 6, no. 1 (1967): 33-51. Reprinted in Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory, edited by Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone, 72-90. New York, 1972. Also reprinted in Music: A View from Delft, 55-75.
• "Webern's Apprenticeship." The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America. Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928...
  
   53, no. 1 (1967): 39-52. Reprinted in Music: A View from Delft, 267-80.
• "What is a Composition?" Current Musicology 5 (1967): 101-7.
• Review of Eric Walter White: Stravinsky - The Composer and His Works. Perspectives of New Music. 5. 2 (1967): 155-161.
• Review of Josef Rufer: Arnold Schönberg: Sämtliche Werke. Abteilung I, Reihe A, Band 1, Lieder Mit Klavierbegleitung. The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America. Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928...
  
  . 53. 3 (1967): 416-420.
• "Conversation with Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
  
  ." Perspectives of New Music 6, no. 2 (1968): 57-72. Reprinted in Perspectives on American Composers, edited by Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone, 131-46. New York, 1971.
• "Beethoven New-Born." American Scholar 38, no. 3 (1969); 389-400.
• Review of Donald N. Ferguson
  Donald Ferguson
  Donald Ferguson, PC was a Canadian politician.Born in Marshfield, Prince Edward Island, originally a livestock farmer, Ferguson spent much of his life in public service; from 1872–1873 he served as a justice of the peace, resigning that position in prior to his first of unsuccessful bid for...
  
  : The Why of Music. Notes. 26. 2 (1969): 258-260.

1970-79

• "Schubert's Beethoven." The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly
  The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America. Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928...
  
   56, No.4 (1970): 779-93.
• Review of Reinhold Brinkmann
  Reinhold Brinkmann
  Reinhold Brinkmann was a German musicologist.Brinkmann was born in Wildeshausen and studied at Freiburg im Breisgau. His dissertation was about Arnold Schönberg's Klavierstücke op. 11. He started working on the faculty of Freie Universität Berlin in 1970...
  
  : Arnold Schönberg: Drei Klavierstücke Op. 11. Studien Zur Frühen Atonalität Bei Schönberg." Notes. 27. 2 (1970): 267-268.
• "Radical Traditionalism." Listener 2229 (1971); 849.
• "Inside the Saint's Head; The Music of Berlioz." Musical Newsletter 1, no. 3 (July 1971); 3-12; 1, no. 4 (October 1971); 16-20; 2, no. 1 (January 1972); 19-22. Reprinted in Music: A View from Delft, 217-48.
• "In Honor of Roger Sessions." Perspectives of New Music 10, no. 2 (1972); 130-41.
• "Editorial Responsibility and Schoenberg's Troublesome 'Misprints.'" Perspectives of New Music 11, no. 1 (1972); 65- 75.
• Review of Roger Sessions: Review of Questions About Music. Perspectives of New Music. 10. 2 (1972): 164-170.
• "The Miss Etta Cones, the Steins
  Gertrude Stein
  Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.-Early life:...
  
  , and M'sieu Matisse." The American Scholar 42, no. 3 (1973); 441- 60.
• "Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
  
  's Unfinished Fugue in C minor." In Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Music in Honor of Arthur Mendel
  Arthur Mendel
  Arthur Mendel was an American musicologist.- Literary works :* music critics on the "Nation" * editor of "The Bach Reader", 1945...
  
  , edited by Robert L. Marshall, 149-55. London, 1974.
• "Sound and Syntax: An Introduction to Schoenberg's Harmony." Perspectives of New Music 13, no. 1 (1974): 21-40. Reprinted in Music: A View from Delft, 249-66.
• Review of Leonard B. Meyer
  Leonard B. Meyer
  Leonard B. Meyer was a composer, author, and philosopher. He contributed major works in the fields of aesthetic theory in Music, and compositional analysis.-Career:...
  
  : Explaining Music: Essays and Explorations." Journal of the American Musicological Society. 27. 2 (1974): 335-338.
• "In Defense of Song: The Contribution of Roger Sessions." Critical Inquiry 2, No.1 (1975): 93-112. Reprinted in Music: A View from Delft, 303-22.
• "Sessions' Concertino." Tempo 115 (1975): 2-10.
• "Yet Once More, 0 Ye Laurels." Perspectives of New Music 14, no. 2; 15, no. 1 (1976): 294-306.
• "Beatrice et Benedict." Boston Symphony Program (October 1977): 9-15.
• "Beethoven's Experiments in Composition: The Late Bagatelles." In Beethoven Studies, vol. 2, edited by Alan Tyson
  Alan Tyson
  Alan Walker Tyson was a British musicologist who specialized in studies of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven...
  
  , 84-105. London, 1977. Reprinted in Music: A View from Delft, 179-200.
• "One Hundred Metronomes." The American Scholar 46, no. 4 (1977): 443-59.
• "Three Ways of Reading a Detective Story-Or a Brahms Intermezzo." Georgia Review 31, no. 3 (1977): 554-74. Reprinted in Cone, Music: A View from Delft, 77- 93.
• Review of Hector Berlioz: Review of New Edition of the Complete Works, 9: Grande Messe Des Morts. Notes. 36. 2 (1979): 464-465.

1980-89

• "Aunt Claribel
  Claribel Cone
  The Cone sisters were Claribel Cone and Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland. Together they gathered one of the finest collections of modern French art in the United States. They were wealthy socialites during the Gilded Age.-Early life:Their parents were Herman Cone and Helen Cone, who were...
  
  's 'Blue Nude' Wasn't Easy to Like." Art News 79, no. 7 (1980): 162-63.
• "Berlioz's Divine Comedy: The Grande messe des morts." 19th-Century Music 4, no. 1 (1980): 3-16. Reprinted in Cone, Music: A View from Delft, 139-57.
• "The Authority of Music Criticism." Journal of the American Musicological Society 34, no. 1 (1981): 1-18. Reprinted in Cone, Music: A View from Delft, 95-112.
• "On the Road to Otello: Tonality and Structure in Simon Bocanegra." Studi Verdiana 1 (1982): 72-98.
• "Roger Sessions: Symphony No.6." San Francisco Symphony Stagebill (May 1982): v-ix.
• "Schubert's Promissory Note: An Exercise in Musical Hermeneutics." 19thCentury Music 5, no. 3 (1982): 233- 41. Revised version reprinted in Schubert: Critical and Analytical Studies, edited by Walter Frisch, 13-30. Lincoln, 1986.
• "The Years at Princeton." The Piano Quarterly 119 (Robert Casadesus
  Robert Casadesus
  Robert Casadesus was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a famous musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus.-Biography:Robert Casadesus was born in Paris...
  
   issue, 1982): 27-29.
• "A Cadenza for Op. 15." In Beethoven Essays: Studies in Honor of Elliot Forbes
  Elliot Forbes
  Elliot Forbes , known as "El", was an American conductor and musicologist noted for his Beethoven scholarship.-Life and career:...
  
  , edited by Lewis Lockwood
  Lewis Lockwood
  Lewis H. Lockwood is an American musicologist.He taught at Princeton University from 1958 to 1980, and at Harvard University from 1980 to 2002. He is currently a Distinguished Senior Scholar at Boston University and the Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Harvard...
  
   and Phyllis Benjamin
  Phyllis Benjamin
  Phyllis Jean Benjamin AO MBE , Australian Labor Party politician, was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the electorate of Hobart from 10 May 1952 until retirement in 1976....
  
  , 99-107. Cambridge, 1984.
• "Schubert's Unfinished Business." 19th-Century Music 7, no. 3 (1984): 222- 32. Reprinted in Cone, Music: A View from Delft, 201- 16.
• "Musical Form and Musical Performance Reconsidered." Music Theory Spectrum 7 (1985): 149-58.
• "A Tribute to Roger Sessions." Kent Quarterly 5, no. 2 (1986): 29-31.
• "Twelfth Night." Musiktheorie 1 (1986): 41-59. Reprinted in original English version in Journal of Musicological Research 7, nos. 2-3 (1987): 131-56.
• "Brahms: Songs with Words and Songs without Words." Integral 1 (1987): 31-56.
• "Dashes of Insight: Blackmur as Music Critic." In The Legacy of R. P. Blackmur
  R. P. Blackmur
  Richard Palmer Blackmur was an American literary critic and poet. He was born and grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. An autodidact, Blackmur worked in a bookshop after graduating from high school, and attended lectures at Harvard University without enrolling...
  
  , edited by Edward T. Cone, Joseph Frank, and Edmund Keeley
  Edmund Keeley
  Edmund Leroy Keeley is an author, translator, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University. He is a prize-winning novelist and a noted expert on Greek poets C. P...
  
  , 10-12. New York: Ecco Press, 1987.
• "Music and Form." In What Is Music? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music, edited by Philip Alperson, 131-46. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994 (1987).
• "On Derivation: Syntax and Rhetoric." Music Analysis 6, no. 3 (1987): 237- 56.
• "The World of Opera and Its Inhabitants." In Cone, Music: A View from Delft, 125- 38.
• "Responses" (to "The Composer's Voice: Elaborations and Departures"). College Music Symposium 29 (1989): 75-80.

1990-99

• "Harmonic Congruence in Brahms." In Brahms Studies, edited by George S. Bozarth, 165-88. Oxford, 1990.
• "Poet's Love or Composer's Love?" In Music and Text, edited by S. P. Scher, 177- 92. Cambridge, 1992.
• "Ambiguity and Reinterpretation in Chopin." In Chopin Studies 2, edited by John Rink and Jim Samson, 140- 60. Cambridge, 1994.
• "Thinking (about) Music." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 138, no. 4 (1994): 469-75.
• "Edward T. Cone Makes a Plea for Good Citizenship." Musical Times 135, no. 12 (December 1994): 734-38.
• Review of Nicholas Cook
  Nicholas Cook
  Nicholas Cook is a British musicologist and writer born in Athens, Greece. In 2009 he became the 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Darwin College...
  
  : Music, Imagination, and Culture." Music Theory Spectrum. 16. 1 (1994): 134-138.
• "The Pianist as Critic." In The Practice of Performance: Studies in Musical Interpretation, edited by John Rink, 241-53. Cambridge, 1995.
• "Attacking a Brahms Puzzle." Musical Times 136, no. 2 (February 1995): 72- 77.
• "Adding Up Beauty and Truth" (Article Review of Edward Rothstein
  Edward Rothstein
  Edward Rothstein is a critic and a composer.Rothstein holds a B.A. from Yale University , an M.A. in English literature from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago...
  
  : Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics). Yale Review 83, no. 4 (October 1995): 121- 34.
• "'Am Meer' Reconsidered: Strophic, Binary, Ternary." In Schubert Studies 5, edited by Brian Newbould
  Brian Newbould
  Brian Newbould is a composer, conductor and author who has finished Franz Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and more symphonic works and even extra symphonies. He was educated at Gravesend Grammar School.-References:...
  
  , 112- 26. Aldershot, 1998.

2000-09

• "Repetition and Correspondence in Schwanengesang." In Companion to Schubert's Schwanengesang, edited by Martin Chusid, 53- 89. New Haven, 2000.

External links

• Princeton Symphony Program Notes for An Overture for the War – Prelude to Victory and Elegy.