William van Geest is a Ph.D student in Music Theory at the University of Michigan. He specializes in the history of music theory, rhythm and meter, and medieval grammar. His dissertation explores rhythmic theory in thirteenth-century France. William has presented papers at several national and international conferences, including the Society for Music Theory, KeeleMAC, the Canadian University Music Society, and the International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology. William’s paper “New Perspectives on Meter in Webern: Opp. 5/iv, 11/i, and 29/i” is forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the Brandeis Journal of Musicology and Theory.
Contact : vangeest@umich.edu
Séance - The Second Viennese School (II): Pairing Schoenberg and Webern 5.A.2 : Two metrical problems in Webern’s String Quartet op. 28
