“I believe music makes a better person and a person better,” Forte remarks in the film. Forte was the author of 12 scholarly books and 100 articles. His book “The Structure of Atoanal Music” has been ...

John Forté had it all: a highly gifted musician, he had been instrumental in the Fugees’ success, and was forging a promising solo career. Then a conviction for drug-trafficking left him facing ...

Forte was the Battell Professor of the Theory of Music and a specialist in 20th-century atonal music, music analysis by Schenkerian methods and the American popular ballad. He began teaching at the ...