Sam Reenan is Ph.D. student in music theory at the Eastman School of Music. His current research interests include harmony and form in the vocal music of Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler; transformational and post–tonal theory and analysis; musical memory in contemporary French music; and the perception of tension, resolution, and musical organization. Sam is co-author of an article recently published in Music Theory Online, a journal of the Society for Music Theory. He has also presented at the annual meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State. He completed a BM in Music Theory and a BS in Biological Sciences at the University of Connecticut (2014).
Contact : sreenan@u.rochester.edu
Séance - Leading Figures of Modernity (I): Messiaen, Dutilleux, and Kurtág 3.B.2 : The Connective Role of the Parenthèses in Dutilleux’s Ainsi la Nuit
