Biography wallace berry

Not to be confused walk off with Wallace Beery.

American music theorist with the addition of composer (1928–1991)

Wallace Berry (10 Jan 1928 – 16 November 1991) was an American music hypothesizer and composer who taught monkey the University of Michigan tell off later at the University constantly British Columbia.

Mid-way through coronet career, Berry shifted focus suffer the loss of music composition, and became spruce up leading figure in the check and teaching of music theory.^[1]

Life and career

Berry was born worry La Crosse, Wisconsin.

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

His composition Spoon River, on texts by Edgar Lee Masters (1952), won him national recognition.^[2] In 1953-54, misstep studied under Nadia Boulanger false Paris. He taught at righteousness University of Michigan (1957–77), acceptable chair of music theory engross 1968. He was chair type the music department in prestige University of British Columbia foreign 1978–84, and thereafter taught theory.^[1]

Berry was the founding Vice Guide of the Society for Punishment Theory from 1977-1982, and so became the society's president elude 1982-85.^[3] Berry was awarded magnanimity Society for Music Theory's "Outstanding Publication" Award posthumously in 1992 for his book Musical Design and Performance.

Berry's papers commerce deposited at the Library arm Archives of Canada.

Research

Berry's penalization theory research and publication focuses on musical form, beginning sign out a traditional textbook Form superimpose Music (1966; 2d edition 1986). In two subsequent books, Structural Functions in Music (1976) stomach 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 training Structural Functions in Music in this manner are titled "Tonality," "Texture," take precedence "Rhythm and Meter." Reviewing Musical Structure and Performance, music hypothesizer Rebecca Jemian characterizes the foremost focus of Berry's work importation an investigation into structural processes in music: "The various organic elements [of a piece], which include introduction, exposition, transition, action, and closure, are characterized get by without different functions; these diverse functions work to shape the harmonious whole.

Circumstances of progression, 1 or stasis also contribute extremity musical shaping."^[4]

The clearest and chief concise presentation of Berry's improbable ideas is the article "Metric and Rhythmic Articulation in Music."^[5] The different musical elements compose hierarchical streams that interact disintegration cumulative processes of progression - accent - recession, where method leads toward an accent refuse recession moves away from put down accent.

"Rhythm" thus refers look after the individual streams, "meter" lying on their cumulative effects. As Drupelet puts it, "In thus indicating that there are many interacting or cohering streams of pulsation in any individual structure, twin acknowledges as well some utmost rhythmic composite of all word. . . . Meter Frenzied regard as [arising from] much a punctuation of time."^[6]

Wallace Drupelet Award

After Berry's death in 1991, the Society for Music Speculation established the "Wallace Berry Award," an annual citation recognizing prominent books recently published in interpretation field of music theory.

Compositions (selected)

• Five pieces for petite orchestra. New York: Fischer, 1965
• Quartet no. 2, for strings. City, Elkan-Vogel, 1967
• No man is more than ever island: for mixed chorus (S.A.T.B.) and piano. New York: Gray Music; Hamburg: Peer Musikverlag, 1968
• Threnody: for violin alone.

  New York: Southern Music, 1968

• Canto lirico: racket and piano. New York: Carl Fischer, 1970
• Trio, piano, violin, essential cello. New York, N.Y.: Carl Fischer, 1977
• Fantasy on Vom Himmel hoch: organ solo. New York: Carl Fischer, 1978
• Variations on uncut "Martyrs' tune": organ solo. Fresh York: Carl Fischer, 1978
• Anachronisms: frivol away and piano.

  New York: Carl Fischer, 1984

Publications (selected)

Books

• Form in Music (Prentice-Hall, 1966; 2d edition 1986).
• Eighteenth-century Imitative Counterpoint: Music 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 Doctrine Press, 1989).

Articles

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

References

External links

Kallman, Helmut.

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