William E. Caplin is James McGill Professor of Music Theory at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, specializing in the theory of musical form and the history of harmonic and rhythmic theory in the modern era. His book Classical Form (winner of the 1999 Wallace Berry Book Award from the Society for Music Theory) has been revised as the textbook Analyzing Classical Form (OUP, 2013). A former president of the SMT, he has presented many keynote addresses, guest lectures, and workshops in North American and Europe. He is currently writing a large-scale project entitled “Cadence: A Study of Closure in Tonal Music.” In 2015 Caplin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Contact : william.caplin@mcgill.ca
Séance - Falling Nicely Into Place: The Cadence in History and Theory3.F.4 : The “Reopened” Half Cadence: A Striking Cadential Anomaly
