Reference Web Pages on Atonal Music

Composers of the second Viennese School

Arnold Shoenberg (1874-1951), Alban Berg (1885-1935), Anton Webern (1883-1945)

http://aristotle.sils.umich.edu/exhibit/mushist/twen/schoenberg.htm

Arnold Shoenberg (1874-1951)

http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/schonberg.html

http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/schonberg_works.html

http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/schonberg_biblio.html

http://www.classiccd.co.uk/composers/features/schoenberg/arnie.html

Anton Webern

http://www.austriaculture.net/AKMusicSilence1615.html

http://www.smt.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.98.4.2/mto.98.4.2.alpern.html

an urban legend concerning Webern with comments on Berg

http://urbanlegends.about.com/culture/urbanlegends/library/weekly/aa062998.htm

http://urbanlegends.about.com/culture/urbanlegends/library/weekly/aa070398.htm

Composers in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

John Adams (1947- )

http://newalbion.com/artists/adamsj/index.html

Dodecaphony

Basic Concepts

http://www.classiccd.co.uk/composers/features/schoenberg/arniejargon.html

http://www.classiccd.co.uk/composers/features/schoenberg/arnierow.html

http://www.arlingtonarts.org/~mrd/cello/12tone.html

Application to Composition

Theo Hoogstins: Peter Schat's Tone Clock in jass and improvised music

http://www.xs4all.nl/~taede/toonklok/main-e.html

http://www.xs4all.nl/~taede/toonklok/artikel/intro-e.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~taede/toonklok/artikel/tonecl-e.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~taede/toonklok/artikel/steer-e.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~taede/toonklok/artikel/harmo-e.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~taede/toonklok/ode-e.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~taede/toonklok/seas-e.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~taede/toonklok/snowf-e.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~taede/toonklok/summer-e.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~taede/toonklok/VBB/Victbw-e.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~taede/toonklok/litera-e.htm

Matthew Ross Davis-Five Dimensions for Unaccompanied Violoncello

http://www.arlingtonarts.org/~mrd/cello/12tone.html

http://www.arlingtonarts.org/~mrd/cello/12tone2.html

http://www.arlingtonarts.org/~mrd/cello/12tone3.html

http://www.arlingtonarts.org/~mrd/cello/cello.html

http://www.arlingtonarts.org/~mrd/cello/index.html

Software for Exploration

Twelve Tone Toy Box

http://www.gamelan.com/javaprogramming/applets/dir.mmother9.html

http://jars.developer.com//classes/jresout.cgi?resource=1285

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~fields/TTTB/index.html

Miscellaneous

http://members.aol.com/txstnr/index2.html

http://graham.main.nc.us/~bhammel/MUSIC/compose.html

http://graham.main.nc.us/~bhammel/MUSIC/evolve.html

Atonal Music (but not Dodecaphonic)

Software for Exploration

NonTonal Analysis for Macintosh (shareware)

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/musicsoftstore/NonTonalAnalysis/

Psychoacoustics

Shepard tones

http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/physics/G+50+05.html

http://www.cameron.edu/~lloydd/webdoc1.html

John Platt (McMaster University)

his web page

http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/platt/jp.html

his lecture notes on auditory perception http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/psych3a03/outline.html

http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/psych3a03/chap1.html

http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/psych3a03/chap2.html

http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/psych3a03/chap3.html

http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/psych3a03/tsdovers.html

http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/psych3a03/chap4.html

Information about Diana Deutsch's CD Musical Illusions and Paradoxes

http://www.philomel.com/oncd.html