William Caplin’s Website

2016–2022

• September 1, 2022: retirement from the Schulich School of Music, McGill University. During my retirement I plan to continue active research in music theory. 
  
  
• September 2021: paper presentation, "The 'Iconic Cadence': A Post-Romantic Case of Cadential Nostalgia and Irony," at Euromac-10 in Moscow (pending confirmation)
  
  
• November 8, 2020: session chair, “The Period and Cyclic Form in the Nineteenth Century,” at the Virtual Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory.
  
  
• September 2020–August 2021: on sabbatic leave.
  
  
• February, 2020: luanch of a new iphone App (developed by Mayank Sanganaria) for accessing graphics and sound from the Analyzing Classical Form website; available at the iPhone App store. 
  
  
• November 11, 2019: Podcast interview on the Nikhil Hogan Show.
   
• November 3, 2018—What Is a Cadence? (Markus Neuwirth and Pieter Bergé, eds) won the “Outstanding Multi-Authored Publication" from the Society for Music Theory. My study "Harmony and Cadence in Gjerdingen’s ‘Prinner’" is the opening chapter of this book.
  
  
• May 11–14, 2018—workshops on form and cadence, at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, Netherlands.
  
  
• April 16–20, 2018—Housewright Scholar, Florida State University, School of Music; will present a public lecture, hold workshops, attend classes, and meet with students individually.
  
  
• November 2, 2017—presented a “Personal Reminiscence" at the SMT 40th Celebration, Annual Meeting, Society for Music Theory, Arlington, Virginia. 
  
  
• July 28, 2017—paper presentation (in absentia), “The ‘Reopened’ Half Cadence: A Striking Cadential Anamoly," at the 9th European Music Analysis Conference, Strasbourg, France (paper read by Nathan Martin).
  
  
• February 11, 2017—workshop, “The Finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: Its Form Reexamined,” at the conference “Form Forum III: ‘Romantic Form’ and Beyond,” University of Toronto, February, 2017.    
  
  
• November 4, 2016—session chair, "Frames, Fantasia, and Formal Functions,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Vancouver, British Columbia.
  
  
• January 8, 2016—book launch of Festschrift publication, Formal Functions in Perspective: Essays on Musical Form from Haydn to Adorno (eds. Steven Vande Moortele, Julie Pedneault, and Nathan John Martin), at the Marvin Duchow Music Library, Schulich School of Music.