Guy Capuzzo
August 15, 2023
Welcome, and thanks for visiting.
This site provides a brief description of my research, which focuses on Elliott Carter, rock music, and heavy metal.
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My book Elliott Carter's What Next?: Communication, Cooperation, and Separation was published on September 15, 2012 by the University of Rochester Press. It is part of the Press's Eastman Studies in Music series.
Information on the book appears here: http://www.urpress.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=13961
Book reviews appear here:
Opera Netherlands:
http://www.operanederland.nl/Boeken%20Elliott%20Carter.htm
Opera News:
http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2013/4/Departments/Elliott_Carter_s_What_Next.html
Music Theory Online:
http://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.13.19.2/mto.13.19.2.jenkins.php
Klassisk Magasin (page 96):
http://www.swiflet.com/PixH/utgave/15/1/
Book reviews that require journal subscriptions to access:
Music Theory Spectrum 37/2, Fall 2015.
Tempo, Volume 67, Issue 265, July 2013.
Notes, Volume 70, Number 1, September 2013.
The Musical Times, Autumn 2013.
Music and Letters, Volume 94, Number 3, August 2013.
Revue de musicologie Volume 98/2, 2012.
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A list of peer-reviewed/refereed articles and chapters appears below in reverse chronological order.
Forthcoming. "Simultaneous Distinct Headbanging Patterns in Heavy Metal." SMT-V (Society for Music Theory Videocast Journal). http://www.smt-v.org/
2020. "Elliott Carter and Musical Silence: Intermittences and 'Sound and Silence in Time'." Journal of Music Theory 64/1.
2018. "Balancing the Familiar and the Unfamiliar: Three Elliott Carter Pieces with Quiet Endings." Elliott Carter Studies Online 3.
2018. "Rhythmic Deviance in the Music of Meshuggah." Music Theory Spectrum 40/1.
2014. "The Backcycle Progression: A Supplement to the Omnibus Progression for the Study of Chromatic Harmony." Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 28.
2012 "Text, Music, and Irony in What Next?” Elliott Carter Studies, ed. Marguerite Boland and John Link. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2009 “Sectional Tonality and Sectional Centricity in Rock Music.” Music Theory Spectrum 31/1.
2009 “A Pedagogical Approach to Riffs in Rock Music.” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 23.
2008 “Maximally Alpha-Like Operations.” Music Theory Online 14/3.
2007 “Registral Constraints on All-Interval Rows in Carter’s Changes.” Intégral 21.
2006 “Pat Martino and ‘The Nature of Guitar’: An Intersection of Neo- Riemannian Theory and Jazz Theory.” Music Theory Online 12/1.
2004 “The Complement Union Property in the Music of Elliott Carter.” Journal of Music Theory 48/2.
2004 “Neo-Riemannian Theory and the Analysis of Pop-Rock Music.” Music Theory Spectrum 26/2.
2002 “Lewin’s Q Operations in Carter’s Scrivo in Vento.” Theory and Practice 27.
Below are three book reviews.
2008 William Echard, Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy. Music Theory Spectrum 30/2.
2002 Robert D. Morris, Class Notes for Advanced Atonal Music Theory. Music Theory Online 8/3.
2000 David Schiff, The Music of Elliott Carter, 2nd ed. Intégral 13.
I have a number of publications for guitarists.
2003 “Elliott Carter’s Shard.” Guitar Review 126.
2001 “Bad Man Ballad” (Arrangement). American Folk Songs for Guitar (ed. David Nadal). Dover.
1996 Theory for the Contemporary Guitarist. Alfred.
1995 Tapping (Guitar Technique Series). Alfred.
I also have a number of unpublished papers that may be of interest.
2005 Interview with Pat Martino.
1998 "Three Dilettantes, Two Recording Contracts, One Chronic Schizophrenic: Some Issues Raised by The Shaggs and Wesley Willis."
1996 Interview with Elliott Carter.
If you are interested in any of these publications, please email me at guycapuzzo@uncg.edu.
Thanks again for visiting.