Editing Allen Forte (section)

{{Short description|American musicologist}}
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| title              = Battell Professor Emeritus of the Theory of Music, Yale University
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'''Allen Forte''' (December 23, 1926 – October 16, 2014) was an American [[music theory|music theorist]] and [[musicologist]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.yale.edu/2014/10/17/memoriam-allen-forte-music-theorist|title=In memoriam Allen Forte, music theorist|publisher=news.yale.edu|date=October 17, 2014}}</ref> He was Battell Professor Emeritus of the Theory of Music at [[Yale University]] and specialized in 20th-century [[atonal music]] and [[music analysis]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.yale.edu/2014/10/17/memoriam-allen-forte-music-theorist|title = In memoriam: Allen Forte, music theorist|date = 17 October 2014}}</ref>