Papers (unpublished)

“The 'Iconic Cadence': A Post-Romantic Case of Cadential Nostalgia and Irony.” Presented (online) at the Tenth European Music Analysis Conference, Moscow, September, 2021.

“The Finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: Its Form Reexamined.” Presented at the conference “Form Forum III: ‘Romantic Form’ and Beyond,” The University of Toronto, February, 2017.

“The ‘Reopened’ Half Cadence: A Striking Cadential Anomaly.” Presented (in absentia) at the Ninth European Music Analysis Conference, Strasbourg, France, July, 2017.

“Chromatic Configurations in Haydn’s String Quartet in G, Op. 54, No. 1.” Presented at the festival “Haydn 2009: The Complete String Quartets of Joseph Haydn,” McGill University, Montreal, March, 2009.

“Schoenberg’s Theories of Form: Innovations, Limitations, Amplifications.” Presented at the conference “Scheonberg’s Legacy on Form,” McGill University, Montreal, May, 2008.

“What is Musical Form?” Presented at the opening plenary session of the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, New York, June, 2004.

“Classifying Harmonic Progressions.” Presented as the keynote address of the Annual Meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, Victoria, April, 2002.

“Why Harmonic Analysis?” Presented as the keynote address of the Annual Meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State, New York, New York, April, 2000.

“Rameau’s Views on Relationships of Harmony and Meter.” Presented at the McGill Rameau Symposium, Montreal, Quebec, March, 1983.


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