Laurence Willis is a PhD candidate in music theory at McGill University under the supervision of Professor Jon Wild. His dissertation treats form in nineteenth-century character pieces for piano, including Brahms and Reger. His other current research projects include tonality in recent microtonal music, approaches to electronics in G. F. Haas’s string quartets, and rhetoric in Schumann’s fugues. Laurence has presented his research at the Society for Music Theory annual meeting and other international conferences. He recently won a teaching award for post-tonal theory. He previously studied at the University of Surrey where he won the Shoana M. Mackay Dissertation Prize for his work on Debussy’s Prelude No. 4.
Contact : laurence.willis@mcgill.ca
Séance - French Music (I): Fauré and Saint-Saëns 2.C.1 : Fauré’s Nocturne No. 10 and the Twilight of Tonality
