Ian Bent
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Ian Bent is Professor Emeritus, after retiring from Full Professor of Music, at Columbia University
and Honorary Professor in the History of Music Theory
at the University of Cambridge
. He is the editor of the Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis
series and an area for second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music. , he is the director of Schenker
Documents Online.
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
and Honorary Professor in the History of Music Theory
Music theory
Music theory is the study of how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It seeks to identify patterns and structures in composers' techniques across or within genres, styles, or historical periods...
at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. He is the editor of the Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis
Musical analysis
Musical analysis is the attempt to answer the question how does this music work?. The method employed to answer this question, and indeed exactly what is meant by the question, differs from analyst to analyst, and according to the purpose of the analysis. According to Ian Bent , analysis is "an...
series and an area for second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music. , he is the director of Schenker
Heinrich Schenker
Heinrich Schenker was a music theorist, best known for his approach to musical analysis, now usually called Schenkerian analysis....
Documents Online.
Published works
- Analysis (Macmillan, 1987; translated into Italian and French). ISBN 978-0393024470
- Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century, 2 vols (CUP, 1994 & 2004). ISBN 978-0521259699 and ISBN 978-0521673471
- (edited) Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism (CUP, 1996). ISBN 978-0521551021