Editing Allen Forte (section)

==Publications==
Forte is well known for his book ''[https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300021202/structure-atonal-music The Structure of Atonal Music]'' (1973), which traces many of its roots to an article of a decade earlier: "A Theory of Set-Complexes for Music" (1964).<ref>Allen Forte, "A Theory of Set-Complexes for Music," Journal of Music Theory 8/2 (1964): 136-183.</ref> In these works, he "applied [[Set theory (music)|set-theoretic]] principles to the analysis of unordered collections of pitch classes, called pitch-class sets (pc sets). [...] The basic goal of Forte's theory was to define the various relationships that existed among the relevant sets of a work, so that contextual coherence could be demonstrated." Although the methodology derived from Forte's work "has had its detractors ... textbooks on post-tonal analysis now routinely teach it (to varying degrees)."<ref>David Carson Berry, "Theory," sect. 5.iv ("Pitch-class set theory"), in ''The Grove Dictionary of American Music'', 2nd edition, ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 8:175-176.</ref>

Forte published analyses of the works of [[Anton Webern|Webern]] and [[Alban Berg|Berg]] and wrote about [[Schenkerian analysis]] and music of the [[Great American Songbook]]. A complete, annotated bibliography of his publications appears in the previously cited article, [http://trace.tennessee.edu/gamut/vol2/iss1/ Berry, "The Twin Legacies of a Scholar-Teacher."] Excluding items for which Forte was only an editor, it lists ten books, sixty-three articles, and thirty-six other types publications, from 1955 through early 2009.

Forte was also the editor of the ''[[Journal of Music Theory]]'' during an important period in its development, from volume 4/2 (1960) through 11/1 (1967). His involvement with the journal, including many biographical details, is addressed in David Carson Berry, "Journal of Music Theory under Allen Forte's Editorship," ''Journal of Music Theory'' 50/1 (2006): 7-23.