Abstract
Ernst Bacon was one of the very first American theorists investigate aspects of extended tonality and atonality. At the age of nineteen, Bacon made his sole contribution music theory: a long article, Our Musical Idiom, which appeared the Chicago journal The Monist.! His intention was -classifY non-tonal scales and harmonies in a logical order and to develop a system of nomenclature describing any possible combination of tones. Our Musical Idiom is one of the earliest American contributions the non-tonal theoretical literature; it predates such European works as Josef Hauer's Yom Wesen des Musikalischen and Herbert Eimert's Atonale Lehrbuch.2
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