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Alfred Cramer

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Associate Professor

Pomona College
Claremont, California

Email: acramer(a)pomona.edu 

awc04747 at pomona.edu is the official address, which also works.

I teach Music Theory at Pomona College. I also play the violin.

Courses

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Publications

• "Of Serpentina and Stenography: Shapes of Handwriting in Romantic Melody." 19th-Century Music, vol. 30, no. 2 (November 2006), pp. 133-65. ISSN: 0148-2076. Abstract, audio demonstrations, and errata  / Online access ( ISSN: 1533-8606)
  
• Review of "Composing with Tones": A Musical Analysis of Schoenberg's Op. 23 Pieces for Piano by Kathryn Bailey.  Music Theory Spectrum, vol. 24, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 1-24. (Online access)
• "The Harmonic Function of the Altered Octave in Early Atonal Music of Schoenberg and Webern: Demonstrations Using Auditory Streaming." Music Theory Online, vol. 9, no. 2 (July 2003). Contains synthesized audio demonstrations of principles I discuss in "Schoenberg's Klangfarbenmelodie."
• "Schoenberg's Klangfarbenmelodie: A Principle of Early Atonal Harmony." Music Theory Spectrum, vol. 27, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 118-27. Winner of the Society for Music Theory's 2004 Outstanding Publication Award.  (abstract / Online access)
• Review of Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Instruction in Form = Zusammenhang, Kontrapunkt, Instrumentation, Formenlehre by Arnold Schoenberg, ed. Severine Neff and Charlotte M. Cross and The Musical Idea and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation by Arnold Schoenberg, ed. Patricia Carpenter and Severine Neff. Music Theory Spectrum, vol. 19, no. 1 (Spring 1997), pp. 87-92.  (Online access)
  
• Want to find out how Viennese Atonality was performed, and what that has to do with Star Trek? Check out The Schoenberg Circle's Performance Utopia -- a paper about performance practice in the Second Viennese School that I presented at the American Musicological Society meeting in 1996.
• Here's the abstract of my Ph.D. dissertation about the Second Viennese School's atonal music in the context of early twentieth century psychology, linguistics, and literature. You can order this dissertation from UMI Dissertation Express for $41 U.S. ACCESSION NO.: AAG9727207 and the SOURCE: DAI, VOL. 58-03A, Page 0629, 00494.

Favorite Links

I am married to YouYoung Kang, who teaches music theory at Scripps College.

My friend Frank Lambert's "Shakespeare and Thermodynamics" page www.shakespeare2ndlaw.com

I may be descended from a reformed hog thief. Read about how Adam Lowrey (quite possibly the same Adam Lowrey who was my great-great-great grandfather) was given executive clemency in the 1820s, courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. (The relevant documents are 2, 2a, 2b, and 2c.)