Theory and Practice is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 specializing in music theory

Music theory

Music theory is the study of how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It seeks to identify patterns and structures in composers' techniques across or within genres, styles, or historical periods...

 and analysis

Musical analysis

Musical analysis is the attempt to answer the question how does this music work?. The method employed to answer this question, and indeed exactly what is meant by the question, differs from analyst to analyst, and according to the purpose of the analysis. According to Ian Bent , analysis is "an...

. It is the annual journal of the Music Theory Society of New York State, which was "[t]he first regional theory organization" in the U.S., having "held its initial meeting in 1971 at the Eastman School of Music." The journal began publication in 1975, initially with the subtitle "Newsletter-Journal of the Music Theory Society of New York State".

The journal is currently edited

Editor in chief

An editor-in-chief is a publication's primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies. Additionally, the editor-in-chief is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members as well as keeping up with the time it takes them to complete their task...

 by Seth Monahan and Matt BaileyShea. Recent past editors include Adrian Childs (2007-2008), Philip Stoecker (2005-07), David Carson Berry

David Carson Berry

David Carson Berry is an American music theorist and historian, writer about music, and college professor. Among his diverse research interests are American popular music of the 1920s-60s, including a focus on Irving Berlin and Jimmy Van Heusen; the theory and aesthetics of music of the...

(2003-04), Mark Anson-Cartwright (1999-2002), and Taylor A. Greer (1997-99).

External links

• Music Theory Society of New York State