Dr. Bruce Benward

Dr. Bruce C. Benward was an author and professor . 

He was born June 29, 1921 in Churubusco, Indiana. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees from Indiana University and his Ph D from Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. 

Dr. Benward was Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, was the author of numerous music theory textbooks including, Ear Training: A Technique for Listening, Sightsinging Complete, Practical Beginning Theory, and the Music in Theory and Practice series. His distinguished teaching career, spanning nearly 50 years, included appointments as Professor of Music Theory and Chairman of the Music Department at the University of Arkansas and at the University of Wisconsin as well as having received an honorary doctorate from Bowling Green State University. 

He served on the editorial boards for the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, College Music Symposium and Computers in Music Research and was an onsite examiner for the National Association of Schools for Music for 40 years. He also served as a distinguished visiting Professor of Music Theory at Florida State University. 

His career-long research in perception and analysis resulted in the development of the macro analysis system and the founding of the Macro Analysis Creative Research Organization. Dr. Benward was widely regarded as one of the most gifted music theory pedagogues since his textbooks first appeared in the 1960?s and was recognized for having exerted a wide influence on the teaching of music theory both through his writings and through the generations of teachers whom he taught.

Dr. Benward on died September 15, 2007.