Roland C. Jordan

Roland Carroll Jordan Jr (1938- ) is an American composer and music theorist. He studied in Texas and Pennsylvania before receiving his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, where he taught theory and composition for three decades. [ [http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~music/Jordan.htm] Washington University in St. Louis, Emeritus Faculty] As a composer, Jordan has written for both large ensembles and chamber groups, and as a music theorist, he has explored the uses of phenomenological methodology and structuralist/post-structuralist theory.

List of Works

* Times Space (encounters) for chorus and tape

* Maps, An Evening of Music (produced by the New Music Circle and Washington University, 1978)

* Sonata for Piano (commissioned by the NMC and written for John Phillips)

* Songs for Li Po (commissioned by River Stix)

* Except Perhaps a Constellation concerto, for flute and chamber orchestra

* Sonata for Violin and Viola and Years of the Plague, for chamber ensemble and pre-recorded tape (written for Synchronia)

List of Publications

* with Emma Kafalenos. "The Double Trajectory: Ambiguity in Brahms and Henry James." "19th-Century Music" 13 (2) (Fall, 1989): 129-144.

* with Emma Kafalenos. "Spatial Aspects of Temporal Structure: The Effects of Ordering and Reordering in Mozart and E. T. A. Hoffmann." In "Proceedings of the XIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Munich 1988, IV: Space and Boundaries of Literature," 530-35. Munich: Iudicium, 1990.

* "Fold upon Fold: Boulez (and Mallarme)." "Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature" 1987-88-97.

References

External links

[http://www.newmusiccircle.org/ New Music Circle]