Abstract
<!-- @font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } --> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;;">This article provides background on Allen Forte’s 1958 lecture, “The Development of Diminutions in American Jazz,” which is published for the first time in this issue of the <em>Journal of Jazz Studies</em></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;;">. Topics include the context in which the lecture was delivered; the lecture’s place in the history of jazz theory and analysis; and the career of Forte, one of the nation’s most prominent music theorists, including his little-known ties to the jazz world.</span>
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