Paul Wilson is a professor of theory and composition at the University of Miami Frost School of Music where he chairs the committee to design and implement the Frost Experiential Music Curriculum.
In 1992, Yale University Press published his The Music of Béla Bartók.
In this book, Wilson begins by discussing a number of fundamental musical materials that Bartók employed throughout his oeuvre.
Wilson shows how these hierarchical structures provide meaningful forces for coherence and for dynamism and progressional drive in the music.
After analyzing the five works from Bartók's oeuvre, he concludes by explaining the philosophical similarities between his theory and the work of David Lewin and Charles Taylor in the related fields of perception and hermeneutics.