List of music theorists

This is a list of music theorists arranged in chronological order. The criteria for inclusion relies on publication or (especially with pre-15th-century theorists) dissemination of written theoretical work by western musicians, and their inclusion in published books discussing the history of music theory.

Since the categories for music theorists are not subdivided by nationality, this list is intended to provide an overview of music theorists and provide for further exploration of the field.

Martin Gerbert and Edmond de Coussemaker were the 18th and 19th century compilers of numerous medieval theoretical treatises. It appeared to be their custom to assign names to treatises where the author was unknown (thus names such as "Anonymous IV" or "Pseudo Odo"). Modern practice is to refer to the treatises themselves by their title or their opening line, rather than infer information about their authors.[1]

Antiquity

NameDateMajor writingKnown for
Archytas428–347 BCnaming the harmonic mean; may have been the first author to describe the Quadrivium[2]
Aplypiusflourished 360Introduction to Music (Εἰσαγωγὴ Μουσική)[3]
Aristoxenusborn c. 375 BCE, flourished 335 BCEElementa harmonica[4]
Archestratusearly 3rd century BCEdescribing the pyknon
Ptolemais of Cyreneprobably 3rd century BCEwrote concerning the proper roles of reason and sensory experience in the study of music
Eratosthenescirca 276 BCE – circa 195/194 BCEcalculation of the tuning of the degrees of the tetrachords[5]
Didymosfirst century BCEchromatic tetrachords[6]
Cleonidesprobably first century ADIntroduction to Harmonics (ἰσαγωγὴ ἁρμονική Eisagōgē harmonikē)[7]
Ptolemycirca 100 – circa 170Harmonics[8]
Augustine of Hippo13 November 354 – 28 August 430De musica[9]
Martianus Capellaearly 5th centuryDe nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii[10]
Boethius480–524 or 525De institutione musica[11]
Cassiodorus485–580Institutiones Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum[12]
Isidore of Sevillecirca 560 – 636Etymologiarum sive Originum libri xx (chapters 15–23 deal with music)[13]

Medieval

NameDateMajor writingKnown for
Al-Kindi[14]801–873Al-risāla al-kubrā fī al-ta’līf (Grand treatise on composition)
Notker the Stammerer[15]840–912Epistola ad Lantbertum
Aurelian of Réômeflourished 840–850Musica disciplinaearliest extant treatise on medieval music[16]
Johannes Scotus Eriugenac. 815 – 877De divisione naturae (also called Periphiseon)mentions organum (scholars doubt this refers to polyphony)[17]
Hucbaldc. 840 or 850 – 930De musica (formerly known as De harmonica institutione)"One of the foremost expositors of music theory in the Carolingian era"[18]
Anonymous 89th centuryMusica enchiriadisearliest extant discussion of polyphonic singing and the first chant melodies preserved in a precise pitch notation[19]
Anonymous 79th–10th centuryAlia musica
Regino of Prümdied c. 915Epistola de armonica institutione"correct the intonations and confirm the modes of the antiphons and responsories of the Mass and Office"[20]
Al-Farabi872–950Kitāb al-mūsīqī al-kabīr (Great book on music)"most imposing of all Arabic works on music"[21]
Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani897–967Kitab al-Aghani (Book of Songs)
Notker Labeo950–1022
Pseudo-Odo11th centuryDialogus de musica
Guido of Arezzoc. 991 – after 1033Micrologus
Avicenna (Ibn-Sīnā)c. 980 – 1037
Berno of Reichenaudied 1048
Hermannus Contractus1013–1054
Aribo Scholasticus[22]fl. 1068–1078De musicaalso known as simply "Aribo." Created a "caprea," a diagram showing modal tetrachords superimposed on the gamut.
Wilhelm of Hirsaudied 1091De musica[23]
Frutolf of Michelsberg[24]mid-11th century – 1103Brevariumcompiler of treatises, in particular Boethius and Berno of Reichenau.
Theogerus of Metz[25]c. 1050 – c. 1120Musica
Coussemaker, doc. 12nd half of 11th centuryAd organum faciendum
Johannes Cottofl. 1100De musica
Guido of Eu[26]fl. 1130ssupposed author of Regule de arte musicaearliest Cistercian treatise on music theory.
Theinred of Dover (Theinredus Doverensis)[27]12th centuryDe legitimis ordinibus pentachordorum et tetrachordorumdiscussion of chromatically altered tones in plainsong
Ficker Anonymous[28]early 13th centuryArs organi
Franco of Cologne13th centuryFranconian Notation
Safi al-Din al-Urmawiborn c. 1216 AD Baghdad, died in 1294 ADKitab al-Adwār and Risālah al-Sharafiyyah fi 'l-nisab al-taʾlifiyyah (The Sharafiyyah Letter on the Art of Composing[29])
Bartholomeus Anglicusbefore 1203 – 1272
Roger Bacon1214–1292
Coussemaker, Anonymous 3, document 3c. 1230Discantus positio vulgaris
Egidius de Zamora[30]fl. 1260–1280Ars musicanoted for inclusion of Spanish instruments and description of organ used in church.
Amerusfl. 1271Practica artis musice
Hieronymus of Moravia[31]died after 1272Tractatus de musica
Anonymous IVfl. 1270 – 1280De mensuris et discantu
Anonymous 2late 13th centuryTractatus de discantu
Magister Lambertus[32]fl. c. 1270Tractatus de musica
Engelbert of Admontc. 1250 – 1331
Jacob of Liègec. 1260 – after 1330
Johannes de Garlandiafl. 1270–1320
Petrus de Crucelate 13th century
Johannes Balox[33]late 13th centuryGaudent brevitate moderni
Petrus de Picardia[34]mid-13th centuryArs motettorum compilata breviter
Elias Salomo[35]late 13th centuryScientia artis musice
Sowa Anonymous or Anonymous of St. Emmeram1279De musica mensurata
Anonymous 3early 14th centuryCompendiolum artis veteris
Philippe de Vitryc. 1291 – 1361
Hugo Spechtshartc. 1285 – 1359/60Flores musicae omnis cantus Gregoriani
Johannes Vetulus de Anagnia[36]1st half of 14th century]Liber de musica
Petrus frater dictus Palma ociosa[37]fl. early 14th centuryCompendium de discantu mensurabili
Johannes de Grocheiofl. 1300Ars musicae
Manuel Bryennius[38]14th centuryHarmonika
Walter Odingtondied 1330
Johannes de Murisc. 1290 – after 1344
Marchetto da Padovafl. 1274–1319
Robert de Handlo[39]early 14th century
Anonymous 7 (Coussemaker)mid-14th centuryDe diversis manieribus
John Hanboyslate 14th century
John of Tewkesbury[40]fl. 1351–1392Quatuor principalia musice
Johannes Boen[41]died 1367Ars [musicae], Musica
Ellsworth Anonymibefore 1375The Berkeley Manuscript
Anonymous 5late 14th centuryArs cantus mensurabilis
Johannes Ciconia1360–1412
Philippus de Casertalate 14th century

Renaissance

NameDateMajor writingKnown for
Fernand Estevan[42]fl. 1410Reglas de canto plano è de contrapunto, è de canto de organo
Giorgio Anselmic. 1386 – 1440/43
Ugolino of Forlì or Ugolino of Orvietoc. 1380 – 1452
Antonius de Leno[43]early 15th centuryRegulae de contrapunto(title created by Coussemaker from incomplete treatise)
John Hothbyc. 1410 – 1487
Johannes Gallicus[44] c. 1415 – 1473Praefatio libelli musicalis de ritu canendi vetustissimo et novoFirst 15th century theorist to describe attributes of Renaissance music.[44]
Prosdocimus de Beldemandisdied 1428
Johannes Tinctorisc. 1435 – 1511
Bartolomeus Ramis de Pareiac. 1440 – after 1491
Adam von Fulda1445–1505
Johannes Cochlaeus1449–1552
Anonymous 11mid-15th centuryTractatus de musica plana et mensurabili
Anonymous 122nd half of 15th centuryTractatus de musica
Franchinus Gaffurius1451–1522Practica musicae, 1496
Nicolò Burzio[45] 1453–1528Musices opusculum
Giovanni Spataro[46] 1458–1541Tractato di musica di Gioanni Spataro musico bolognese nel quale si tracta de la perfectione da la sesqualtera producta in la musica mensurata exercitate
Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (alias Jacobus Faber Stapulensis)c. 1460 – 1536Musica libris demonstrata quattuor, Paris 1496
Domingo Marcos Duránc. 1460 – 1529
Erasmus Horicius[47] c. 1465 – early 16th centuryMusica and Tractatus de sphera
Michael Keinspeck[48]c. 1470 – mid-16th centuryLilium musicae planae
Lodovico Fogliano[49]c. 1475 – 1542Musica theorica (Venice, 1529)
Johannes Aventinus1477–1534
Pietro Aaronc. 1480 – c. 1550
Nicolaus Wollick[50]c. 1480 – 1541Enchiridion musices (1512)
Sebastian z Felsztynac. 1480/1490? – after 1543
Melchior Schanppecher[51]born c. 1480Opus aurem musicae (Cologne, 1501)
John Tucke[52]c. 1482 – after 1539His notebook[53]
Martin Agricola1486–1556
Heinrich Glarean1488–1563
Georg Rhau1488–1548
Giovanni Del Lago[54]c. 1490 – 1544Correspondence with Giovanni Spataro and Pietro Aaron[54]
Giovanni Maria Lanfranco[55]c. 1490 – 1545Scintille di musicaAuthor of the earliest treatise on music theory in Italian[55]
Andreas Ornithoparchus[56]born c. 1490Musicae activae micrologus (Leipzig, 1517)
Bonaventura da Brescia[57]late 15th centuryBreviloquium musicale (Brescia, 1497) (later editions known as Regula musicae planae)
Gulielmus Monachus[58]late 15th centuryDe preceptis artis musicae
Guillermo de Podio[59]late 15th centuryArs musicorum (Valencia, 1495); In enchiridion de principiis musicae
Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontegoc. 1492 – mid-16th centuryOpera intitulata Fontegara (Venice, 1535) Regola Rubertina (Venice, 1542) Lettione Seconda (Venice, 1543)
Stephanus Vanneo1493–1535
Henricus Grammateus (alias Heinrich Schreiber)1495–1525/6
Sebald Heyden1499–1561De arte canendi (Nuremberg, 1532-40)
Heinrich Faberbefore 1500–1552Compendiolum musicae (1548) De musica poetica (1548) Ad musicam practicam introductio (1550)
Simon de Quercu[60]early 16th centuryOpusculum musices (Vienna, 1509)
Vicente Lusitano16th centuryIntrodutione facilissima et novissima de canto fermo (Rome, 1553)
Auctor Lampadius[61]c. 1500 – 1559Compendium musices, tam figurati quam plani cantus, ad formam dialogi (Berne, 1537, 5/1554)
Adrianus Petit Coclicoc. 1500 – 1562
Juan Bermudoc. 1510 – 1565Libro primero de la Declaración de instrumentos musicales (1549) Comiença el Arte Tripharia(1550)[62]
Nikolaus Listenius[63]born c. 1510Rudimenta musicae (1533)
Ghiselin Danckertsc. 1510 – after 1565
Diego Ortizc. 1510 – 1570
Nicola Vicentino1511–1576
Francisco de Salinas1513–1590
Gioseffo Zarlino1517–1590
Girolamo Mei1519–1594
Aiguino da Brescia[64]1520–1581Illuminata de tutti i tuoni di canto fermo (Venice, 1562)
Vincenzo Galileilate 1520–1591
Hermann Finck1527–1558
Francisco de Montanos[65]c. 1528 – after 1592Arte de música (1592)
Ercole Bottrigari1531–1612
Pietro Pontio1532–1595
Gallus Dressler1533 – c. 1580/89
Orazio Tigrini[66]c. 1535 – 1591Il compendio della musica nel quale si tratta dell’arte del contrapunto
Giovanni Maria Artusic. 1540 – 1613
Giulio Caccinic. 1545 – 1618
Cyriakus Schneegass1546–1597
Philibert Jambe de Ferfl. 1548–1564
John Wyldemid-15th century
Riccardo Rognonic. 1550 – 1620Passaggi per potersi esercitare nel diminuire Venice 1592
Pierre Maillart1550–1622
Scipione Cerretoc. 1551 – 1633
Elway Bevinc. 1554 – 1638
Girolamo Dirutac. 1554 – after 1610
Jean Yssandonc. 1555 – 1582
Lodovico Zacconi1555–1627
Sethus Calvisius1556–1615
Johannes Nuciusc. 1556 – 1620
Thomas Morleyc. 1557 – 1602
Claudius Sebastianifl. 1557–65
Adam Gumpelzhaimer1559–1625
Giovanni Luca Confortic. 1560 – 1608Breve et facile maniera d’essercitarsi..., Rome 1593
Charles Butler1560–1647The Principles of Musik (1636)
Giovanni Bassano1560/61–1617Ricercate, passaggi et cadentie... Venice 1585
Pietro Cerone1561–1625
Peter Eichmann1561–1623
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck1562–1621
Giovanni Camillo Maffeifl 1562–73Delle lettere del Signor Gio. Camillo Maffei da Solofra, libri due ..., Naples 1562
William Bathe1564–1614
Joachim Burmeister1564–1629
Johannes Christoph Demantius1567–1643
Claudio Monteverdi1567–1643
Thomas Campion1567–1620
Adriano Banchieri1568–1634
Girolamo Dalla Casabefore 1568 – 1601Il vero modo di diminuir con tutte le sorti di stromenti di fiato, & corda, & di voce humana Venice: Angelo Gardano 1584
Michael Praetoriusc. 1569/73 – 1621
Georg Quitschreiber1569–1638
Tomás de Santa Maríadied 1570
Francesco Bianciardic. 1571 – 1607
Eucharius Hoffmanndied 1588
Rudolf Schlickflourished 1588Exercitatio, qua musices origo prima, cultus antiquissimus, dignitas maxima et emolumenta … breviter ac dilucide exponuntur Speyer, 1588[67]
Giovanni Battista Bovicellifl 1592–94Regole, passaggi di musica, madrigali et motetti passeggiati Venice, 1594
Gaspar Stoqueruslate 16th century
Francesco Rognoni Taeggiosecond half of the 16th century – after 1626Selva de varii passaggi Milan, 1620

17th century

NameDateMajor writingKnown for
Aurelio Virgilianofl c1620Il Dolcimelo, c1620
Wolfgang Schonsleder1570–1651
John Coprarioc. 1570 – 1626
Johannes Kepler1571–1630
Giulio Monteverdi1573–1630/31
Robert Fludd1574–1637
Salomon de Causc. 1576 – 1626
Gerhard Johann Vossius1577–1649
Agostino Agazzari1578–1640Del sonare sopra il basso, 1607
Henricus Baryphonus1581–1655
Severo Bonini1582–1663
Thomas Ravenscroftc. 1582 – 1635
Johannes Lippius1585–1612
Antoine Parran1587–1650
Johann Heinrich Alsted1588–1638
Johann Andreas Herbst1588–1666
Marin Mersenne1588–1648
Heinrich Grimm1593–1637
Giovanni Battista Doni1595–1647
René Descartes1596–1650
Galeazzo Sabbatini1597–1662
Joan Albert Ban1597–1644
Johann Crüger1598–1662
Joachim Thuringusborn late 16th centuryOpusculum bipartitum de primordiis musicis, Berlin, 1624
Agostino Pisaearly 17th century
Jean Denisc. 1600 – 1672
Antoine de Cousuc. 1600 – 1658
Marco Scacchic. 1600 – 1681/87
Athanasius Kircher1601–1680
Christopher Simpsonc. 1605 – 1669
Hans Mikkelsen Ravnc. 1610 – 1663
Wolfgang Ebner1612–1665
Otto Gibelius1612–1682
Thomas Mace1612/3 – c. 1706
Lorenzo Penna1613–1693
William Holder1616–1696
John Wallis1616–1703
Isaac Vossius1618–1689
Conrad Matthaei1619 – c. 1667
Matthew Locke1621–1677
John Playford1623–1686
Andrés Lorente1624–1703
René Ouvrard1624–1694
Bénigne de Bacillyc. 1625 – 1690
Giovanni Andrea Bontempic. 1624 – 1705
Christoph Bernhard1628–1692
Christiaan Huygens1629–1695
Guillaume-Gabriel Niversc. 1632 – 1714
Nikolay Diletskyc. 1630 – after 1680
Angelo Berardic. 1636 – 1694
Daniel Speer1636–1707
Francis North1637–1685
Wolfgang Caspar Printz1641–1717
Giovanni Maria Bononcini1642–1678
Jean Rousseau1644–1700
Andreas Werckmeister1645–1706
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz1646–1716
Thomas Salmon1648–1706
Johann Georg Ahle1651–1706
Roger North1653–1734
Zaccaria Tevo1651 – c. 1709/12
Joseph Sauveur1653–1716
Georg Muffat1653–1704
Pier Francesco Tosic. 1653 – 1732
Pablo Nassarrec. 1654 – 1730
Johann Baptist Samber1654–1717
Johann Beer1655–1700
Sébastien de Brossard1655–1730
Étienne Louliéc. 1655 – 1707
Giovanni d’Avellafl. 1657Regole di musica, divise in cinque trattati, Rome, 1657
Henry Purcell1659–1695
Nicola Matteisfl. 1670–c. 1698
Friedrich Erhard Niedt1674–1717
Charles Massonfl. 1680–1700
De La Voye-Mignotdied 1684

18th century

NameDateMajor writingKnown for
Johann Joseph Fux1660–1741
Johann Kuhnau1660–1722
Tomáš Baltazar Janovka1669 –1741
Francesco Gasparini1661–1727
Johann Heinrich Buttstett1666–1727
Johann Christoph Pepusch1667–1752
David Kellnerc. 1670 – 1748
Johann Philipp Treiber1675–1727
Georg Philipp Telemann1681–1767
Johann Mattheson1681–1764
Johann David Heinichen1683–1729
Jean-Philippe Rameau1683–1764
Meinrad Spieß1683–1761
Johann Gottfried Walther1684–1748
Alexander Malcolm1685–1763
Johann Georg Neidhardt1685–1739
François Campionc. 1686 – 1748
Francesco Geminiani1687–1762
Giuseppe Tartini1692–1770
Johann Joachim Quantz1697–1773
Francesco Antonio Vallotti1697–1780
Jakob Adlung1699–1762
Christoph Gottlieb Schröter1699–1782
William Tans'ur1700–1783
De Saint-Lambertfl. 1700–1710
Georg Andreas Sorge1703–1778
Gottfried Kellerdied 1704
Jean-Adam Serre1704–1788
Giovanni Battista Martini1706–1784
Leonhard Euler1707–1783
Johann Adolph Scheibe1708–1776
Jean Laurent de Béthizy1709–1781
Joseph Riepel1709–1782
Lorenz Christoph Mizler Kolof1711–1778
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778
Nicola Sala1713–1801
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach1714–1788
Pierre-Joseph Roussier1716–1792
Jean le Rond d'Alembert1717–1783
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg1718–1795
Niccolo Pasqualic. 1718 – 1757
Leopold Mozart1719–1787
Johann Friedrich Agricola1720–1774
Johann Georg Sulzer1720–1779
Martin Gerbert1720–1793
Johann Philipp Kirnberger1721–1783
George Simon Löhlein1725–1781
Giuseppe Paolucci1726–1776
Antonio Eximeno y Pujades1729–1808
Antonio Soler1729–1783
Johann Friedrich Daubec. 1730 – 1797
Luigi Antonio Sabbatinic. 1732 – 1809
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger1736–1809
Vincenzo Manfredini1737–1799
Johann Gottlieb Portmann1739–1798
Honoré François Marie Langlé1741–1807
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz1747–1800
Maximilian Stadler1748–1833
Georg Michael Telemann1748–1831
Johann Nikolaus Forkel1749–1818
Heinrich Christoph Koch1749–1816
Abbé Vogler1749–1814
Antonio Ventura Roel del Riofl. mid-18th century
Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann1756–1829
Daniel Gottlob Türk1756–1813
Francesco Galeazzi1758–1819
Luigi Cherubini1760–1842
Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny1762–1842
Bedřich Diviš Weber1766–1842
Józef Elsner1769–1854
Anton Reicha, (alias Antoine-Joseph Reicha, alias Antonín Reijcha)1770–1836
Alexandre-Étienne Choron1771–1834
John Holdendied c. 1771
Charles Simon Catel1773–1830
Matthew Peter King1773–1823
Johann Anton André1775–1842
Johann Bernhard Logier1777–1846
Gottfried Weber1779–1839

19th century

NameDateMajor writingKnown for
Christian Theodor Weinlig1780–1842
François-Joseph Fétis1784–1871
Simon Sechter1788–1867
Carl Czerny1791–1857Theoretico-Practical Piano School Volume 4, Vienna, 1847
Moritz Hauptmann1792–1868
Adolf Bernhard Marxc. 1795–1866
Sarah Mary Fittonc. 1796–1874
Johann Christian Lobe1797–1881
Siegfried Dehn1799–1858
Auguste Barbereau1799–1879
Joseph d'Ortigue1802–1866
Edmond de Coussemaker1805–1876
Henri Reber1807–1880
Carl Friedrich Weitzmann1808–1880
Ernst Friedrich Richter1808–1879
Alfred Day1810–1849A Treatise on Harmony
George Alexander Macfarren1813–1887
Hermann von Helmholtz1821–1894
Anton Bruckner1824–1896
Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley1825–1889
Eduard Hanslick1825–1904
Rudolf Westphal1826–1892
Friedrich Chrysander1826–1901
François-Auguste Gevaert1828–1908
Mathis Lussy1828–1910
František Zdeněk Skuherský1830–1892
Salomon Jadassohn1831–1902
Heinrich Bellermann1832–1903
Arthur von Oettingen1836–1920
Ebenezer Prout1835–1909
Théodore Dubois1837–1924
John Stainer1840–1901
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky1840–1893
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov1844–1908
Bernhard Ziehn1845–1912
Otakar Hostinský1847–1910
Carl Stumpf1848–1936The Origins of Music (1911)
Hugo Riemann1849–1919
Vincent d'Indy1851–1931
Percy Goetschius1853–1943
Guido Adler1855–1941Umfang, Methode und Ziel der Musikwissenschaf (1885)
Sergei Taneyev1856–1915Convertible Counterpoint in the Strict Style
Ludwig Thuille1861–1907

20th century

NameDateMajor writingKnown for
Stephan Krehl1864–1924
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze1865–1950
Ferruccio Busoni1866–1924
Charles Koechlin1867–1950
André Gedalge1868–1926
Alfred Lorenz1868–1939
Thorvald Otterstrom1868–1942A Theory of Modulation
Heinrich Schenker1868–1935Free Composition, part 3 of New Musical Theories and FantasiesSchenkerian Analysis
August Otto Halm1869–1929Die Symphonie Anton Bruckners
Hans Pfitzner1869–1949
André Pirro1869–1943
Rudolf Louis1870–1949
Charles Herbert Kitson1874–1944
Hugo Leichtentritt1874–1951
Arnold Schoenberg1874–1951Style and Idea
Donald Tovey1875–1940
Arnold Schering1877–1941
Boleslav Leopoldovich Yavorsky1877–1942
Zdeněk Nejedlý1878–1962
Otakar Zich1879–1934
Marion Bauer1882–1955
Mario de Andrade1883–1945
Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev1884–1949
Hermann Keller1885–1967The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach
Rudolph Reti1885–1957
Vladimír Helfert1886–1945
Ernst Kurth1886–1946
Charles Seeger1886–1979formulation of dissonant counterpoint[68]
Nadia Boulanger1887–1979
Ernst Ferand1887–1972
Adele T. Katz1887–1979
Ludvík Kundera1891–1971
Knud Jeppesen1892–1974
Josef Hutter1894–1959
Nicolas Slonimsky1894–1995Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns (1947)
Paul Hindemith1895–1963
Joseph Schillinger1895–1943
Howard Hanson1896–1981
Victor Zuckerkandl1896–1965
Roger Sessions1896–1985
Henry Cowell1897–1965
Erwin Ratz1898–1973
Felix Salzer1904–1986
Alain Daniélou1907–1994
Ernst Oster1908–1977
Zofia Lissa1908–1980
Olivier Messiaen1908–1992
George Perle1915–2009
Miroslav Venhoda1915–1987
Milton Babbitt1916–2011
Edward T. Cone1917–2004
Alfred Mann1917–2006
Deryck Cooke1919–1976
Iannis Xenakis1922–2001
George Russell1923–2009
Jaroslav Volek1923–1989
Joseph Kerman1924–2014
Ernő Lendvai1925–1993
Allen Forte1926–2014
Eric Sams1926–2004
William Ennis Thomsonborn 1927
Ernst Widmer1927–1990
Harold Powers1928–2007
Tomislav Volekborn 1931
Karlheinz Stockhausen1928–2007
Carl Schachterborn c. 1932
David Lewin1933–2003
Benjamin Boretzborn 1934
Edward Aldwell1938–2006
Edward Laufer1938–2014
Stefan Kostkaborn 1939
Fred Lerdahlborn 1943A Generative Theory Of Tonal Music (1983)
Jean-Jacques Nattiezborn 1945Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Musicologie générale et sémiologue, 1987). Translated by Carolyn Abbate (1990)
Maury Yestonborn 1945The Stratification of Musical Rhythm
Vladimir Martynovborn 1946
William Caplinborn 1948
Laurence Dreyfusborn 1952
Miller Pucketteborn 1959The Theory and Technique of Electronic MusicMax (software), Pure Data
David Carson Berryborn 1968
Dmitri Tymoczkoborn 1969A Geometry of Music

21st century

NameDateMajor writingKnown for
Richard Cohnborn 1955 "Transpositional Combination of Beat-Class Sets in Steve Reich’s Phase-Shifting Music" "Maximally Smooth Cycles, Hexatonic Systems, and the Analysis of Late-Romantic Triadic Progressions"
Victor Kofi Agawuborn 1956 African Rhythm, A Northern Ewe Perspective
James Hepokoskiborn 1946 Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata. (Co-authored with Warren Darcy) (Awarded the Wallace Berry Prize from the Society for Music Theory, 2008)

See also

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Further reading

  • Damschroder, David and David Russell Williams. Music theory from Zarlino to Schenker : a bibliography and guide. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1990. ISBN 0-918728-99-1
  • Williams, David Russell and C. Matthew Balensuela. Music theory from Boethius to Zarlino: a bibliography and guide. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-57647-157-9
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