MY REAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFO.

• Contact Information
• Formal Music Theory and Composition Education
• Semi-formal Music Theory and Compositon Education
• Informal Music Theory and Composition Education

Contact Information:

by snailmail:

RICHARD E. BERG-ANDERSSON
P.O. Box 432
Morris Plains, N.J. 07950-0432

by e-mail:

Formal Music Theory and Composition Education:

"There are only twelve tones. You must treat them carefully."- the German composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Madison, N.J. High School (Class of 1974)

Music Theory (Senior Year at MHS)

Texts Used:

William Christ, Richard DeLone, Vernon Kliewer, Lewis Rowell, William Thomson:Materials and Structure of Music I 1966 (Prentice-Hall)

In addition, the Music Theory teacher- John Bunnell- utilized mimeographs of chapters and exercises from Gordon Delamont:Modern Harmonic Technique, Vol. I 1965 (Kendor Music)

Boston University (Class of 1978:
Bachelor of Arts, Music [cum laude])

Music Theory: Required Courses

Freshman Year (Music Theory I, II)

Sophomore Year (Music Theory III, IV)

Junior Year (Music Theory V, VI)

Music Theory: Required Texts

• Charles Burkhart: Anthology for Musical Analysis 2nd Ed.:1972 (Holt, Rinehart and Winston)
  [Music Theory I thru VI]
• Gardner Read: Music Notation 2nd Ed.:1969 (Crescendo)
  [Music Theory I thru VI]
• Walter Piston: Harmony 3rd Ed.:1962 (W.W. Norton)
  [Music Theory I thru V]
• Albert Riemenschmeider, ed.: 371 Harmonized Chorales and 69 Chorale Melodies with Figured Bass by JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 1941 (G. Schirmer)
  [primarily Music Theory I and II]
• Stella Roberts, Irwin Fischer: A Handbook of Modal Counterpoint 1967 (Schirmer Books)
  [Music Theory I and II]
• Walter Piston: Principles of Harmonic Analysis 1933 (Schirmer Music)
  [Music Theory III and IV]
• Douglass M. Green: Form in Tonal Music 1965 (Holt, Rinehart and Winston)
  [Music Theory III and IV]
• Justine Shir-Cliff, Stephen Jay, Donald J. Rauscher: Chromatic Harmony 1965 (the Free Press)
  [Music Theory V]
• Vincent Persichetti: Twentieth Century Harmony 1961 (W.W. Norton)
  [Music Theory VI]
• H.H. Stuckenschmidt (trans. by Richard Deveson): Twentieth Century Music 1969 (World University Library: McGraw-Hill)
  [Music Theory VI]

Music History: Required Courses

Sophomore Year (Music History I, II)

Junior Year (Music History III, IV)

Music History: Required Texts

• Donald Jay Grout: A History of Western Music 2nd Ed.:1973 (W.W. Norton)
  [Music History I thru IV]
• Archibald T. Davison, Willi Apel: Historical Anthology of Music I & II 1962 (Harvard University Press)
  [Music History I and II]
• William R. Ward: Examples for the Study of Musical Style 1970 (Wm. C. Brown)
  [Music History III and IV]

Music Composition: Electives

Senior Year (Instrumentation I, II)

one semester of Senior Year (20th Century Compositional Techniques)

Music Composition: Required Texts

• Kent Wheeler Kennan: The Techniques of Orchestration 2nd Ed.:1970 (Prentice-Hall)
  [Instrumentation I, II]
• Leon Dallin: Techniques of Twentieth Century Composition 3rd Ed.:1974 (Wm. C. Brown)
  [20th Century Compositional Techniques]

Semi-formal Music Theory and Composition Education:

"If one wanted to do additional work, one must use his ingenuity"- a Boston University alumnus, in a 1908 issue of the B.U. alumni magazine Bostonia: as quoted in the Fall 1999 issue of Arts & Sciences, the magazine for alumni and friends of the B.U. College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
By "semi-formal" education (as opposed to "informal" education), I mean my use of outside materials in addition to those which were formally required either for the Music Theory course I took while attending Madison, NJ High School or for the Music curriculum in Boston University's College of Liberal Arts (now the College of Arts and Sciences) solely in the context of that High School Music Theory course or the courses I took as a B.U. CLA Music major between September 1973 and May 1978.

Additional Texts I used on my own:

High School Music Theory:

• Percy Goetschius: Exercises in Melody-Writing (G. Schirmer)
• Percy Goetschius: The Material used in Musical Composition- a system of Harmony 14th ed.:1913 (G. Schirmer)
• William Christ, Richard DeLone, Vernon Kliewer, Lewis Rowell, William Thomson: Materials and Structure of Music II 1967 (Prentice-Hall)
• Gordon Delamont: Modern Arranging and Composing series-Modern Harmonic Technique, Vols. I & II 1965 (Kendor Music)
• Cecil Forsyth: Orchestration 2nd Ed:1935 (Macmillan)

College Music Theory:

Music Theory I:

• Roger Sessions: Harmonic Practice 1951 (Harcourt, Brace & World)
• Johann Joseph Fux (Alfred Mann, trans.& ed.): Steps to Parnassus- the study of Counterpoint 1943 (W.W. Norton)

Music Theory II:

• Knud Jeppesen (Glen Haydon, trans.): Counterpoint- the polyphonic vocal style of the Sixteenth Century 1939 (Prentice-Hall)
• C.H. Kitson: The Art of Counterpoint 2d Ed.: 1924 (Oxford University Press)

Music Theory III:

• Walter Piston: Counterpoint 1947 (W.W. Norton)
• Alfred Mann: The Study of Fugue 1958 (Rutgers University Press)
• Allen Irvine McHose: The Contrapuntal Harmonic Technique of the 18th Century 1947 (F.S. Crofts)
• Hugo Liechtentritt: Musical Form 1951 (Harvard University Press)

Music Theory IV:

• Arnold Schoenberg (Leonard Stein, rev.& ed.): Structural Functions of Harmony revised ed.:1969 (W.W. Norton)
• Allen Irvine McHose: Basic Principles of the Technique of 18th and 19th Century Composition 1951 (Appleton-Century-Crofts)

Music Theory V:

• Ludmila Ulehla: Contemporary Harmony- Romanticism through the Twelve-Tone Row 1966 (the Free Press)
• Wallace Berry: Structural Functions in Music 1976 (Prentice-Hall)

Music Theory VI:

• George Perle: Serial Composition and Atonality 3rd Ed.: 1972 (University of California Press)
• Paul Hindemith: The Craft of Musical Composition: Book 1.Arthur Mendel, trans. Theory/ Book 2. Otto Ortmann, trans. Exercises in two-part Writing 1939-1942 (Schott)
• Howard Hanson: Harmonic Materials of Modern Music- resources of the Tempered Scale 1960 (Appleton-Century-Crofts)

Music History:

• Joseph Machlis: The Enjoyment of Music- an introduction to perceptive listening 1955 (W.W. Norton)
• Richard L. Crocker: A History of Musical Style 1966 (McGraw-Hill)
• Donald N. Ferguson: A History of Musical Thought 2nd Ed.:1948 (Appleton-Century-Crofts)
• Oliver Strunk, ed. Source Readings in Music History- from Classical Antiquity through the Romantic Era 1950 (W.W. Norton)

Music Composition Electives:

Instrumentation I & II:

• Walter Piston: Orchestration 1955 (W.W. Norton)
• Anthony Donato: Preparing Music Manuscript 1963 (Prentice-Hall)
• Elizabeth A.H. Green: The Modern Conductor 2nd Ed.:1969 (Prentice-Hall)
• Hawley Ades: Choral Arranging 1966 (Shawnee Press)

20th Century Compositional Techniques:

• Richard DeLone, Vernon Kliewer, Horace Reisberg, Mary Wennerstrom, Allen Winold (Gary E. Wittlich, ed.): Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music 1975 (Prentice-Hall)
• Allen Forte: The Structure of Atonal Music 1973 (Yale University Press)
• David Cope: New Music Composition 1977 (Schirmer Books)

Informal Music Theory and Composition Education:

Additional Texts I used on my own:

There are really two periods of "informal" musical education in my life: that which took place while I was still a Music student at Madison, NJ High School or later at Boston University and that which took place after my formal musical education had ended upon my graduation from B.U. in May 1978.

while still a Music student at Madison, NJ High School or at Boston University:

In this listing, I include any music-related materials I utilized during my studies of Music Theory and Composition as a discipline but which had nothing directly to do with the formal Music courses I was taking between September 1973 and May 1978. The calendar years listed below run from the June of the first year to the following May and, therefore, include the Summer previous to the actual start of that particular academic year (i.e., 1973/74 runs from June 1973 through May 1974).

Senior Year in High School (1973/74):

• in German: Musik-handbuch: Band 1. Musiklehre und Musikleben/ Band 2. Lexikon der Komponisten, Lexikon der Interpreten, Gesamtregister 1973 (ro ro ro: Rowohlt)

Freshman Year in College (1974/75):

• David Baker: arranging & composing for the small ensemble: jazz/r&b/jazz-rock 1970 (Maher)
• Gordon Delamont: Modern Arranging & Composing series Modern Arranging Technique 1965 (Kendor Music)

Sophomore Year in College (1975/76):

• Mickey Baker: Complete Handbook for the Music Arranger 1972 (Amsco Music)

Junior Year in College (1976/77):

• Ramon Ricker: Pentatonic Scales for Jazz Improvisation 1975 (Studio)
• Dan Haerle: Jazz/Rock Voicings for the Contemporary Keyboard Player 1974 (Studio)
• Dick Grove: Arranging Concepts Complete 1972 (Dick Grove)

Senior Year in College (1977/78):

• Tom Ferguson & Sandy Feldstein: The Jazz Rock Ensemble- a conductor's and teacher's guide 1976 (Alfred)