Category
page 1American music theorists

Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)

Harry Partch
American composer, music theorist, creator of musical instruments
Milton Babbitt
American composer (1916–2011)
Henry Cowell
American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)
Howard Hanson
American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist (1896–1981)
George Russell
American pianist and composer (1923–2009)
Lou Harrison
American composer (1917-2003)
George Perle
American composer (1915–2009)
Joseph Schillinger
American musician (1895-1943)
Noël Carroll
American philosopher
James Tenney
American composer and music theorist (1934–2006)
Rudolph Reti
musical analyst, composer and pianist (1885-1957)
Felix Salzer
Austrian-American musicologist (1904–1986)
Allen Forte
American musicologist (1926-2014)
David Lewin
American music theorist, music critic and composer (1933–2003)
John Rahn
American music theorist, composer, bassoonist, and professor of music
Harold Powers
American academic (1928–2007)
Kathleen Higgins
American philosopher
Tui St. George Tucker
American composer (1924-2004)

Edward T. Cone
American composer and pianist (1917–2004)
Benjamin Boretz
American composer