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Faculty: Theory/Analysis

Mark Anson-Cartwright
Assistant Professor, Queens College and Graduate Center
(PhD, CUNY) 

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Music Department
Graduate Center, CUNY                             
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-817-8609
mansonca@qc1.qc.edu

Mark Anson-Cartwright is a music theorist specializing in the analysis of  tonal music and Schenkerian analysis. He has presented many papers at national and international conferences and has had articles published in Music Analysis, Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of Music Theory, and Intégral. He is also the former editor of the journal Theory and Practice.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

"Beethoven: Structural Principles and Narrative Strategies," in The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony, ed. Julian Horton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

"Temporal Spaces and Thematic Development in Beethoven’s Music," Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie / Dutch Journal of Music Theory (forthcoming, 2009).

“Elision and the Embellished Final Cadence in J. S. Bach’s Preludes,” Music Analysis 26/iii (2007): 267-288.

“Concepts of Closure in Tonal Music: A Critical Study,”  Theory and Practice 32 (2007): 1-17.

Review of Explaining Tonality, by Matthew Brown, Journal of Schenkerian Studies 2 (2007): 141–148.

“Tonal Conflicts in Haydn’s Development Sections: The Role of C Major in Symphonies  Nos. 93 and 102,” in Structure and Meaning in Tonal Music: A Festschrift for Carl Schachter, ed. Poundie Burstein and David Gagné. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2006.

“Haydn’s Hidden Homage to Mozart: Echoes of ‘Voi che sapete’ in Opus 64 No. 3,” Intégral 14/15 (2000/2001): 121–136.

“Chasing Rainbows: Wolf’s ‘Phänomen’ and Ideas of Coherence,” Journal of Music Theory 45/2 (Fall 2001): 233–261.

Review of Unfoldings, by Carl Schachter, Music Theory Spectrum 23/2 (2001): 242–47.

“Chromatic Features of E-flat-Major Works of the Classical Period,” Music Theory Spectrum 22/2 (2000):  177–204.

“Chord as Motive: The Augmented-Triad Matrix in Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll,” Music Analysis 15/1 (March 1996): 57–71.