Larry Solomon,
PhD, Musician, Scholar, Lecturer
How to contact me
Experience
Lectured on music at: Cornell University (1971 pt), University of
Arizona
(1980 pt), Wells College (1968-73 ft), Southwestern College (1966-68
ft), Pima
College (1973- present)
Director of TRANSITION, a new-music improvisation ensemble
Many publications (see publication lists) in music theory, music
education,
research, and paleontology
Performed as piano soloist and in ensembles since 1950
Compose and perform original mutimedia music, utilizing dance, movies,
theater, and art
Prize winner in composition and piano performance
Developed MAP, interdisciplinary creations, research, and lectures in
music, art, photography
Special
Essays, Catalogs, and Charts
Education
1973. PhD, West Virginia University, Music Theory and Composition
1966. MM, University of Illinois, Piano Performance
1962. BA, Allegheny College, Honors in Music
Traditional Publications & Research
Books
- Anthology of Music, (Phenomena)
- Counterpoint (Phenomena)
- Counterpoint Workbook (Phenomena)
- Music Fundamentals, (Phenomena)
- Music Fundamentals Workbook, (Phenomena)
- Resources for Music Theory & Composition,
(Phenomena)
- Sounds of Silence, John Cage and 4'33",
essay excerpt, published in A Call for Silence. Sonic Arts
Network: UK, 2004
- Structure of Diatonic Music, (Phenomena)
- Structure of Chromatic Music, (Phenomena)
- Symmetry as a
Determinant of Musical Composition, 1973 (University
Microfilms, #73-23,894) (1998 updated revision electronically published
at
website)
Journal Articles
- 1999-2000: "The Fractal Nature of Music", Journal
of Transfigural Mathematics (Berlin)
- 1998: "Symmetry as a Compositional Determinant", Journal
of Transfigural Mathematics (Berlin), Vol.3, No.3 (Chapter II from
dissertation)
- 1998: "John Cage, Sonatas and Interludes for
prepared piano," American Music, a review of two recordings by
Louis Goldstein and Julie Steinberg
- 1990: "Graphic Analysis, An Algorithm", Musicus
(London, England), Vol. 2
- 1986: "Improvisation II", Perspectives of New
Music, Vol. 24/2
- 1982: "The List of Chords, Their Properties and
Uses", Interface, Journal of New Music Research (The
Netherlands), Vol. 11
- 1982: "Improvisation I", Perspectives of New
Music, Vol. 21
- 1973: "New Symmetric Transformations", Perspectives
of New Music, Vol. 11/2
Special
Lectures
& Conference Papers
- 2005: Image, Symbol, and Music
in the Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, OASIS Instituite, Tucson,
AZ
- 2005: Music, Religion and
Superstition, OASIS Institute, Tucson, AZ
- 2005: Music and Meaning,
OASIS Institute, Tucson, AZ
- 2000: Composing Symmetry,
International Conference on Systems
Research, Informatics, and Cybernetics, Symposium on Systems Research
in the Arts, Baden-Baden, Germany.
- 1998: Understanding John Cage,
lecture-recital at Sam Houston
State University, Contemporary Music Festival
- 1996: Improvisation Workshop, Sam Houston State
University, Contemporary Music Festival
- 1995: The Impact of Hitler & U.S. Immigration on
Composer's and Artists, for Reframing America series,University of
Arizona Center for Creative Photography
- 1981: Symposium: Analysis of a
Chopin Mazurka, Op. 41, No.
2, Arizona Music Theory Conference, University of Arizona
- 1981: Computer Analysis: Scriabin
Prelude, Op. 74, No.
4, Arizona Music Theory Conference, University of
Arizona,
- 1987: Music Analysis, Software Demonstration, Society
of Composers, Inc., Region VIII, San Diego State Univ
- 1980: Improvisation as
Composition..., A New Music
Improvisation Symposium and Festival, University of Redlands
- 1980: Some Uses of the
Computer in Music at Pima College, Arizona
Music Theory Conference, Arizona State University
- 1978: Some Instructional
Computer Programs, Arizona Music
Theory Conference, Arizona State University
- 1977: The Improvisation
Ensemble, a lecture-demonstration, American
Society of University Composers, Arizona State University
- 1977: Schenkerian Analysis at
the Undergraduate Level, Arizona
Music Theory Conference, University of Arizona/Pima College
- 1977: Process and Techniques
of Improvisation in TRANSITION, the
New Music/Improvisation Ensemble, Arizona Music Theory
Conference, University of
Arizona/Pima College
- 1973: New Variation Techniques,
American Musicological
Society, Eastman School of Music
- 1970: Multiform Symmetry in
the Music of Bartok and Webern, American
Musicological Society, Cornell University
