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Alfred Cramer

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

2008-2009	Music 81: Music Theory II (Fall) Music 190: Senior Seminar (Fall) [Focus on the Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg] Music 80: Music Theory I (Spring) Music 91: Sites of Sound: Music, Technology, Aural Culture, Film
Recent years	Music 4: Materials of Music Music 82: Theory III Music 86: Music in Theory and Practice Music 149: Music Perception and Cognition ID1: Critical Inquiry Seminar (Music in a Culture of Literacy)

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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.

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