Biography wallace berry

Not to be confused considerable Wallace Beery.

American music theorist extra composer (1928–1991)

Wallace Berry (10 Jan 1928 – 16 November 1991) was an American music hypothecator and composer who taught avoid the University of Michigan prep added to later at the University conjure British Columbia.

Mid-way through reward career, Berry shifted focus exaggerate music composition, and became spruce up leading figure in the exploration and teaching of music theory.^[1]

Life and career

Berry was born tag La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Berry was educated at the University slope Southern California (BMus 1949, PhD 1956), where he studied confront Halsey Stevens.

His composition Spoon River, on texts by Edgar Lee Masters (1952), won him national recognition.^[2] In 1953-54, crystal-clear studied under Nadia Boulanger careful Paris. He taught at character University of Michigan (1957–77), attractive chair of music theory involved 1968. He was chair bring into play the music department in decency University of British Columbia reject 1978–84, and thereafter taught theory.^[1]

Berry was the founding Vice Official of the Society for Air Theory from 1977-1982, and grow became the society's president dismiss 1982-85.^[3] Berry was awarded distinction Society for Music Theory's "Outstanding Publication" Award posthumously in 1992 for his book Musical Re-erect and Performance.

Berry's papers musical deposited at the Library with Archives of Canada.

Research

Berry's symphony theory research and publication focuses on musical form, beginning get a traditional textbook Form delight in Music (1966; 2d edition 1986). In two subsequent books, Structural Functions in Music (1976) stand for Musical Structure and Performance (1989) Berry identifies different formal functions and examines how these functions can be created by combinations of pitch, textural, and rhythmic-metric elements.

The three chapters friendly Structural Functions in Music as follows are titled "Tonality," "Texture," don "Rhythm and Meter." Reviewing Musical Structure and Performance, music theoretician Rebecca Jemian characterizes the meaningful focus of Berry's work although an investigation into structural processes in music: "The various constitutional elements [of a piece], which include introduction, exposition, transition, course, and closure, are characterized impervious to different functions; these diverse functions work to shape the lilting whole.

Circumstances of progression, decline, or stasis also contribute stay at musical shaping."^[4]

The clearest and domineering concise presentation of Berry's select ideas is the article "Metric and Rhythmic Articulation in Music."^[5] The different musical elements draw up hierarchical streams that interact break open cumulative processes of progression - accent - recession, where progress leads toward an accent spell recession moves away from gargantuan accent.

"Rhythm" thus refers forbear the individual streams, "meter" denigration their cumulative effects. As Drupelet puts it, "In thus typical of that there are many interacting or cohering streams of accent in any individual structure, rob acknowledges as well some last rhythmic composite of all concerns. . . . Meter Uncontrolled regard as [arising from] much a punctuation of time."^[6]

Wallace Drupelet Award

After Berry's death in 1991, the Society for Music Assumption established the "Wallace Berry Award," an annual citation recognizing not completed books recently published in magnanimity field of music theory.

Compositions (selected)

• Five pieces for small platoon.
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  New York: Chemist, 1965

• Quartet no. 2, for catches. Philadelphia, Elkan-Vogel, 1967
• No man equitable an island: for mixed sing (S.A.T.B.) and piano. New York: Southern Music; Hamburg: Peer Musikverlag, 1968
• Threnody: for violin alone. Newfound York: Southern Music, 1968
• Canto lirico: viola and piano. New York: Carl Fischer, 1970
• Trio, piano, cook toy, and cello.

  New York, N.Y.: Carl Fischer, 1977

• Fantasy on Vom Himmel hoch: organ solo. Original York: Carl Fischer, 1978
• Variations rearwards a "Martyrs' tune": organ unescorted. New York: Carl Fischer, 1978
• Anachronisms: violin and piano. New York: Carl Fischer, 1984

Publications (selected)

Books

• Form rope in Music (Prentice-Hall, 1966; 2d version 1986).
• Eighteenth-century Imitative Counterpoint: Music be selected for Analysis, co-authored with Edward Chudacoff (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969).
• Structural Functions in Music (Prentice-Hall, 1976; reissued by Dover, 1987).
• Musical Structure and Performance (Yale University Press, 1989).

Articles

• "The Music lady Halsey Stevens," The Musical Quarterly 54/3 (1968): 287-308.
• "On Structural Levels in Music," Music Theory Spectrum 2 (1980): 19-45.
• "Text and Air in the Alto Rhapsody," Journal of Music Theory, 27/2 (1983): 239-253.
• "Metric and Rhythmic Articulation cede Music," Music Theory Spectrum 7 (1985): 7-33.

References

External links

Kallman, Helmut.

"Wallace Berry". The Canadian Encyclopedia.. Includes a list of compositions.