Larry
Solomon, Musician & Scholar
How to contact me
Experience
Lectured on music at: Cornell University (1971), 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 and 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
NEA prize winner in composition and piano performance
World traveler
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) (2009 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