Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1933, July 2 | Born, New York City |
| 1945-1950 | Studied piano, harmony and composition with Eduard Steuermann |
| 1951-1954 | Music director, Lowell House Music Society, Harvard University |
| 1954 | B.A. in mathematics (summa cum laude), Harvard University |
| 1954-1955 | Shaw Fellow, Harvard University Studied music with Josef Polnauer, in Vienna |
| circa 1955-1958 | Studied composition with Roger Sessions; theory and analysis with Milton Babbitt, Edward Cone and Earl Kim, at Princeton |
| 1958 | Married June Knight M.F.A. in music, Princeton University |
| 1958-1961 | Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University |
| 1961 | First professional musician to compose a computer-generated piece at Bell Laboratories |
| 1961-1967 | Instructor, assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1966-1967 | Produced and played piano for Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire, San Francisco |
| 1967-1980 | Associate professor, professor, graduate program director, State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| 1968 | Taught graduate analysis course, Harvard University Son Alexander born |
| 1974-1975 | Visiting professor of music, Harvard University |
| 1979-1985 | Professor, Yale University |
| 1980 | Master of Arts privatim, Yale University |
| 1983 | One of the founders of the American Brahms Society |
| 1983-1984 | Guggenheim Foundation Fellow |
| 1985-1988 | President, Society for Music Theory |
| 1985-2003 | Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, Harvard University |
| 1987 | Published Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations. New Haven: Yale University Press |
| 1993 | Published Musical Form and Transformation: 4 Analytic Essays. New Haven: Yale University Press |
| 1995 | Received honorary doctoral degree, University of Chicago |
| 1998 | Symposium on Schönberg string quartets held in his honor, Harvard University |
| 2000 | Received honorary doctoral degree, New England Conservatory of Music |
| 2003, May 5 | Died, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 2006 | Published Studies in Music with Text. New York: Oxford University Press Received honorary doctoral degree, Université Marc Bloch de Strasbourg, France |