Daniel Harrison (born April 20, 1959) is a

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, and former Chairman of the Department of Music at

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. Most interested in tonal theory, Harrison wrote his dissertation on the music of Max Reger at Yale (PhD '86), which eventually became ''Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music: A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents (1994)''. Also interested in pop music, particularly

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, he appeared in the

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documentary '' Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times'' (1995). During his tenure at Yale, he was named the

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Professor of Music Theory in 2006 and Chairman in 2007. From 2001 to 2003 he was editor-in-chief of ''

Music Theory Spectrum ''Music Theory Spectrum'' () is a peer-reviewed, academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis. It is the official journal of the Society for Music Theory, and is published by Oxford University Press. The journal was first published ...

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Publications

''Counterpoint and Fugue'' *"Some group properties of triple counterpoint and their influence on compositions by J.S. Bach." ''Journal of Music Theory'' 32/1 (1988): 23-50. *"Rhetoric and Fugue: An Analytical Application." Music Theory Spectrum 12/1 (1990): 1-42. *"Heads and Tails: Subject Play in Bach's Fugues." ''Music Theory Spectrum'' 30/1 (2008): 152-163. ''Chromatic Harmony'' *"Max Reger's motivic technique: Harmonic innovations at the borders of atonality." ''Journal of Music Theory'' 35 (1991): 61-91. *''Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music: A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents'' (Chicago, 1994) *"Supplement to the theory of augmented-sixth chords." ''Music Theory Spectrum'' 17/2 (1995): 170-195. *"Nonconformist notions of nineteenth-century enharmonicism." ''Music Analysis'' 21/2 (2002): 115-160. ''Neo-Riemannian Theory'' *"Three Short Essays on Neo-Riemannian Theory," in ''The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Riemannian Music Theory,'' ed. Edward Gollin and Alexander Rehding (Oxford, 2011): 548-577. ''Popular Music'' *"After sundown: The Beach Boys' experimental music." In ''Understanding Rock: Essays in Musical Analysis,'' ed. John Covach and Graeme M. Boone (Oxford, 1997). .

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Personal Website
American music theorists Yale School of Music faculty Living people 1959 births {{Musicologist-stub