Techniques and Materials of Music: From the Common Practice Period Through the Twentieth Century

About Michael HorvitMichael M. HorvitRobert NelsonThomas BenjaminTimothy Koozin

Thomas E. Benjamin has recently retired as Chair of the Department of Music Theory at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. A composer conductor performer and music theorist with more than 40 compositions published and recorded he also holds fellowships and awards from the MacDowell Colony Yaddo and the National Endowment for the Arts. Michael Horvit is Professor Emeritus of Composition and Theory at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. His works range from solo instrumental and vocal pieces to large symphonic and choral compositions and operas all widely performed in the United States Europe Japan and Israel. In addition to CDs with the Albany label he has published with C.F. Peters MorningStar Recital Publications Shawnee Press E.C. Schirmer Southern and Transcontinental. He received the Martha Baird Rockefeller Award as well as honors from the National Endowment for the Arts. Timothy Koozin is professor and division chair of Music Theory at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. He has published widely in scholarly journals and in collected essays published by Cambridge University Press Ashgate and Routledge on topics including music and meaning popular music film music and music instructional technology. He is former editor of MUSIC THEORY ONLINE the electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory. Robert Nelson teaches music theory and composition at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. A composer in residence and music director of the Houston Shakespeare Festival for 17 seasons he also has received numerous commissions for compositions and arrangements for the Houston Symphony Orchestra.