This book serves as an introduction to the work of Godfrey
Winham, an influential figure in American music theory circles in
the 1960s. Little published in his lifetime, Winham left behind, at
his premature death in 1974, a massive collection of notes:
correspondence, unfinished articles, sketches for books, etc. These
notes were transcribed and deposited in the Special Collections of
Firestone Library at Princeton University. They cover a fascinating
range of subjects: exercises in analytical logic, thoughts on the
construction of a formally consistent music theory, studies of
particular pieces, and an epistemological reconception of
Schenker's analysis.
In "The Music Theory of Godfrey Winham," Leslie David Blasius
attempts to synthesize the various aspects of the theorist's
thinking into a single coherent, if unfinished, endeavor. Blasius
concentrates in particular on Winham's attempts to define formally
the basic terms of music theory, his axiomatic phenomenology of
pitch and harmonic relations, his tentative steps towards an
axiomatic phenomenology of rhythm, and his fresh consideration of
the reciprocal relationship between theory and analysis. In so
doing, Blasius gives a clear picture of the materials in the
archives, particularly when they exhibit Winham's multiple attempts
to come to terms with a specific problem. The volume includes a set
of complete excerpts of materials cited in Blasius's text and an
index for the entire collection.
Originally published in 1997.
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