John Clough

Publications of Professor John Clough:

Books:

  • With Joyce Conley. Basic Harmonic Progressions. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984.
  • With Claire Boge & Joyce Conley. Scales, Intervals, Keys, Triads, Rhythm, and Meter. Revised & expanded ed., New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. [First ed. 1964; second ed. 1983.]

Articles in Refereed Journals:

  • With Jack Douthett & Rober Entringer. "Concentric Circle Problem." Mathematics Magazine (forthcoming, June 2000).
  • "Flip-Flop Circles and their Groups." Journal of the Science and Practice of Music 13 (Seoul, 1999): 169-201. Korean translation by So-Yung Ahn.
  • With Nora Engebretsen & Jonathan Kochavi. "Scales, Sets, and Interval Cycles: A Taxonomy." Music Theory Spectrum 21 (1999): 74-104.
  • "A Rudimentary Model for Contextual Transposition and Inversion." Journal of Music Theory 42 (1998): 297-306.
  • With John Cuciurean & Jack Douthett. "Hyperscales and the Generalized Tetrachord." Journal of Music Theory 41 (1997): 67-100.
  • With Jack Douthett. "Hypertetrachords." Muzica 6 (1995): 100-109.
  • "Diatonic Interval Cycles and Hierarchical Structure." Perspectives of New Music 32 (1994): 228-253.
  • With Jack Douthett, N. Ramanathan, & Lewis Rowell. "Ancient Indian Scales and Recent Diatonic Theory." Music Theory Spectrum 15 (1993): 36-58.
  • With Jack Douthett. "Maximally Even Sets." Journal of Music Theory 35 (1991): 93-173. Winner of 1993 Outstanding Publication Award, Society for Music Theory.
  • With Gerald Myerson. "Variety and Multiplicity in Diatonic Systems." Journal of Music Theory 29 (1985): 249-270.
  • With Gerald Myerson. "Musical Scales and the Generalized Circle of Fifths." American Mathematical Monthly 93 (1986): 695-701 [a version of the previous article, addressed to scientists].
  • "Profiling of Pitch-Class Sets by Means of the Exclusion Relation." Journal of Music Theory 27 (1983): 181-201.
  • "Diatonic Interval Sets and Transformational Structures." Perspectives of New Music 18 (1979-80): 461-482.
  • "Aspects of Diatonic Sets." Journal of Music Theory 23 (1979): 45-61.
  • "TEMPO: A Composer's Programming Language." Perspectives of New Music 9 (1970): 113-125.
  • "Pitch-Set Equivalence and Inclusion: A Comment on Forte's Theory of Set- Complexes." Journal of Music Theory 9 (1965): 163-171.
  • "Indirect Chromaticism in the Renaissance." Journal of Music Theory 3 (1959): 147-150.
  • "The Leading Tone in Direct Chromaticism." Journal of Music Theory 1 (1957): 2-21.

Reviews and Reports:

  • Review of David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations. Music Theory Spectrum 11 (1989): 226-231.
  • Review of Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach. In Theory Only 5/2 (1979): 47-49.
  • Review of the First International Conference on Computer Music. In Theory Only 2/8 (1976): 34-35.
  • "A Report from Oberlin." Computer Music Newsletter (1971): 3-6.
  • IRMA (Interactive Real-Time Music Assembler) User's Guide. Technical report issued by the Oberlin College Computer Music Project, 1970. 22 pp.
  • TEMPO Language Specifications. Technical report issued by the Oberlin College Computer Music Project, 1970. 60 pp.
  • Review of J. Welton Marquis's Twentieth-Century Music Idioms. Journal of Music Theory 9/2 (1965): 313-315.

Conference Papers and Special Lectures:

  • "Maximally Even Sets: A Discovery in Mathematical Music Theory is Found to Apply in Physics." BRIDGES: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, Winfield, Kansas, 2000.
  • "Uniform Flip-Flop Circles and their Groups." Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, 1999; Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea, 1999; Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea, 1999; Music Theory Society of New York State, New York, 2000; accepted for Society for Music Theory annual conference, Toronto, 2000.
  • With Jack Douthett & Richard Krantz. "Music, Mathematics, and Magnetic Ordering." BRIDGES, Winfield, Kansas, 1999.
  • "Cardinality and Variety: Analytical Consequences." University of Western Ontario, 1996.
  • "Aspects of Sequence in Music of the First Viennese School." Invited paper presented at the international conference, "Austria, 996-1996: Music in a Changing Society," Ottawa, 1996 [forthcoming in conference proceedings].
  • With Nora Engebretsen. "Scales, Sets, and Interval Cycles: A Taxonomy." Society for Music Theory, National Conference, New York, 1995; & European Society for Cognition in Music. Uppsala, Sweden, 1997.
  • With Jack Douthett. "Hypertetrachords." International Conference on Music and Mathematics, Bucharest., 1994.
  • "Music and Mathematics: Recent Connections." Mt. Holyoke College, 1994.
  • With Jack Douthett, N. Ramanathan, and Lewis Rowell. "Ancient Indian Scales an Modern Diatonic Theory." Society for Music Theory, National Conference, Cincinnati, 1991.
  • "Interval Circles." Eastman School of Music, 1990.
  • With Jack Douthett. "Maximally Even Sets." Society for Music Theory, National Conference, Austin, 1989.
  • "Scale Theory, Finger Exercises, and Ear Training." Music Teachers National Association, New York Chapter, Buffalo, 1987.
  • "Cardinality Equals Variety: Analytical Consequences." Indiana University (Bloomington), 1985.
  • "A New Theorem of the Diatonic Set." SUNY at Buffalo, 1984.
  • "Profiling of Pitch-Class Sets by Means of the Exclusion Relation." Society for Music Theory, National Conference, New Haven, 1983.
  • "Motivic Shape in the Late String Quartets of Beethoven." SUNY at Buffalo, 1982.
  • With Stefan Ehrenkreutz. "Diatonic Hierarchies in Tonal Music." Society for Music Theory, National Conference, Los Angeles, 1981.
  • "An Example of Diatonic Hierarchy in Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C minor." SUNY at Buffalo, 1981.
  • "Chord Personality Profiles." University of Michigan, 1981.
  • "Music and Mathematics." University of Michigan, 1980.
  • "Diatonic Interval Sets and Transformational Structures." Society for Music Theory, National Conference, New York, 1979.
  • "Some Unstudied Diatonic Structures in Classical Music." University of Michigan, 1979.
  • "Diatonic Pitch-Class Sets in Beethoven's Bagatelle in G minor, opus 119, no. 1." University of Chicago, 1977.
  • "Computer Music as an Educational Resource." Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Michigan State University, 1974.
  • "Algorithms for Musical Composition." Cranbrook Academy of the Arts, Detroit, 1973.
  • "An Interactive System for Computer Sound Generation." American Society of University Composers, Houston, National Conference, 1971.
  • "IRMA: An Interactive Real-Time Digital System for Electronic Music." Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, National Conference, New York, 1971.
  • "Computer Sound-Generation: an Educational Resource at Oberlin College." Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula, Iowa City, 1970.
  • "Computer Music." Association for Computing Machinery, National Conference, Las Vegas, 1969.
  • "Computer Music and Group Theory." American Society of University Composers, National Conference, Santa Barbara, 1969.
  • "A-Subroutines in MUSIC4." New York University, 1967.
  • "Gershwin's Porgy and Bess." Oberlin College, 1964.
  • "Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms." Oberlin College, 1963.
  • "Self-Instruction in Music Theory." Bowling Green State University, 1960; & Ohio Psychological Association, Cleveland, November 1960.
  • "Features of Melody in the Songs of George Gershwin." Oberlin College, 1960.

Works Submitted or in Preparation:

  • With Jack Douthett and Richard Krantz. "Music, Mathematics, and Magnetic Ordering." Submitted.