Analyzing the Music of Living Composers (and Others)

Jack Boss is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Oregon. His research interests center around large-scale coherence in Schoenberg's music. He has published numerous articles on that topic and related ones, and has just completed a book titled Symmetry and the Musical Idea in Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music that is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. He has been President of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis since 2003. Professor Tim S. Pack has been on the faculty at the University of Oregon since 2005. Although specializing in music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, he has also done research on music of other eras and has given several presentations at scholarly conferences in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, England, Wales, Australia, and the United States. His publications range from articles on the motets of Obrecht and Orto to the liturgical works of Distler and Messiaen to choral works of living composers.