Mark Richards is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Florida State University. While his previous research has dealt with form and style in music of Beethoven, his current work explores issues of tonal ambiguity in post-classic rock music, and the structure and associations of themes in film music. Richards’ work has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals such as Music Theory Spectrum, Music Analysis, and Music Theory Online, and he is currently writing monograph for Indiana University Press titled Continuity in Beethoven: Stylistic Transformation in the Sonata Forms. Richards has presented his work at such conferences as the International Conference for Music Theory, and the annual meetings of the Society for Music Theory, and Music and the Moving Image.
Contact : mcrichards@fsu.edu
Séance - Sounds of Popular Music (I) 3.G.4 : Multimodality and Tonal Ambiguity in Rock’s Aeolian Progression
