Roland C. Jordan

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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.^[1] 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.

Contents 1 List of Works 2 List of Publications 3 References 4 External Links

[edit] 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)
  

[edit] 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.

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[edit] External Links

New Music Circle