Roland C. Jordan

Roland Carroll Jordan, Jr 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. 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 for chorus and tapeMaps, An Evening of Music Sonata for Piano Songs for Li Po Except Perhaps a Constellation concerto, for flute and chamber orchestraSonata for Violin and Viola and Years of the Plague, for chamber ensemble and pre-recorded tape

List of publications

with Emma Kafalenos. "The Double Trajectory: Ambiguity in Brahms and Henry James." 19th-Century Music 13 : 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." Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 1987-88-97.