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Forte, Allen

LC control no.n 50025191
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingForte, Allen
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Variant(s)Forte, Allen, 1926-2014
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1926-12-23
Death date2014-10-16
Place of birthPortland (Or.)
Place of deathHamden (Conn.)
AffiliationColumbia University. Teachers College
Mannes College of Music
Yale University. Graduate School. Department of Music
Journal of music theory
Society for Music Theory
Profession or occupationMusic theorists College teachers Editors Authors Musicologists
Found inHis Contemporary tone-structures, 1955.
Grove music online, March 25, 2013 (Forte, Allen; born December 23, 1926, Portland, OR; American music theorist; taught at Columbia University Teachers' College, 1953-1959; member of the theory faculty at the Mannes College of Music, 1957-1959; joined the music department of Yale University in 1959, and appointed professor of music in 1968; editor of the Journal of music theory, 1960-1967; president of the Society for Music Theory, 1977-1982; lists publications)
Yale News WWW site, October 21, 2014 (Allen Forte, 87, music theorist and musicologist, died October 16, [2014], Hamden, Connecticut)
Associated languageeng