News and Upcoming Events

(2017–2025)

June 2025: awarded the Pascall Medal from the Society for Music Analysis (UK). 

November 2024: book launch of Cadence: A Study of Closure in Tonal Music, hosted by the Marvin Duchow Music Library, McGill University.

October 2024: publication of Cadence: A Study of Closure in Tonal Music, by Oxford University Press.

October 2023: my new book Cadence: A Study of Closure in Tonal Music entered into production at Oxford University Press.

June 2023: awarded the McGill University Medal for Exceptional Academic Achievement.

March 2023: appointed Distinguished James McGill Professor Emeritus. 

November 2022: session chair, “Phrase Structures,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Theory, New Orleans, Louisiana.

September 2022: retirement from the Schulich School of Music, McGill University. During retirement I plan to continue active research in music theory.

September 2021: online paper presentation, "The 'Iconic Cadence': A Post-Romantic Case of Cadential Nostalgia and Irony," at Euromac-10 in Moscow.

March 2021: awarded an Insight Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for the project “Analyzing Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: A Form-functional Approach.”

November 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: launch of a new iPhone app (developed by Mayank Sanganaria) for accessing graphics and sound from the Analyzing Classical Form website.

November 2019: Podcast interview on the Nikhil Hogan Show.

November 2018: What Is a Cadence? (Markus Neuwirth andPieter Bergé, eds.) awarded 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 2018: workshops on form and cadence, at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, Netherlands.

April 2018: Housewright Scholar, Florida State University, School of Music; I will present a public lecture, hold workshops, attend classes, and meet with students individually.

November 2017: presented a “Personal Reminiscence" at the SMT 40th Celebration, Annual Meeting, Society for Music Theory, Arlington, Virginia.

July 2017: paper presentation (in absentia) “The ‘Reopened’Half Cadence: A Striking Cadential Anomaly," at the 9th European Music Analysis Conference, Strasbourg, France (paper read by Nathan Martin).

February 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.