Allen Forte | |
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Nationality | American |
Title | Battell Professor Emeritus of the Theory of Music, Yale University |
Spouse | Madeleine Forte |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellow |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Music Theory |
Sub-discipline | 20th-century atonal music and music analysis |
Institutions | Yale University Columbia University |
Allen Forte (December 23, 1926 – October 16, 2014) was an American music theorist and musicologist.[1] He was Battell Professor Emeritus of the Theory of Music at Yale University and specialized in 20th-century atonal music and music analysis.[2]