David B Pomeroy

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Chapters

• Pomeroy, D. B. (2018). Debussy's G-sharp/A-flat Complex: The Adventures of a Pitch-Class from the Suite Bergamasque to the Douze Etudes. In Debussy's Resonance, ed. Francois de Medicis & Steven Huebner(pp 435–475). Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
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  Commissioned chapter for collection of essays on the music of Debussy, growing out of 2012 Debussy Symposium in University of Montreal, a prestigious international gathering of Debussy scholars from North America and Europe, at which I was one of a few invited keynote speakers.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2016). A Force of Nature: Debussy and the Chromatically Displaced Dominant. In Explorations in Schenkerian Analysis, ed. David Beach & Su Yin Mak(pp 303-327). Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
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  Invited chapter for a collection of essays on Schenkerian analysis.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2015). Formal Fusion and Its Effect on Voice-Leading Structure: Beethoven's Op. 132/I Revisited. In Bach to Brahms: Essays on Musical Design and Structure, ed. David Beach & Yosef Goldenberg(pp 204–224). Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
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  Final rounds of editing completed fall 2014, publication scheduled for early 2015.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2013). Brahms's Fused Formal Spaces and Their Analytical Implications: The Finale of the C-Minor String Quartet, Op. 51 No. 1. In Essays from the Fourth International Schenker Symposium, Vol. 2, ed. Poundie Burstein, Lynne Rogers & Karen Bottge(pp 187-208). Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag.
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  Long-delayed publication of this volume, which grew out of the Fourth International Schenker Symposium in New York in 2007. Delay due to greater-than-usual number of rounds of revisions, and a change in the editorial team.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2011). Bruckner and the Art of Tonic Estrangement: The First Movement of the Seventh Symphony. In Johannes Brahms und Anton Bruckner im Spiegel der Musiktheorie, ed. Christoph Hust(pp 147-175). Hainholz.

Journals/Publications

• Pomeroy, D. B. (2019). Schenker, Schenkerian Theory, Ideology, and Today's Music Theory Curricula. Journal of Schenkerian Studies, 12, 179-182.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2011). The Major Dominant in Minor-Mode Sonata Forms: Compositional Challenges, Complications, and Effects. Journal of Schenkerian Studies, 59-103.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2009). The Parallel Sonata Form: From Schubert's Symphonies of 1815-16 to Rachmaninov. Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Vol. 3, 19-58.

Presentations

• Pomeroy, D. B. (2025, March).

  Reverse Tonicization: A Schenkerian Perspective

  . Sixth International Schenker Symposium. School of Music, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI: Sixth International Schenker Symposium.
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• Pomeroy, D. B. (2024, March). What's in a Geeric Misnomer? "Rondo" as Extreme Monothematic Sonata in Elgar's Second Symphony. Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory annual meeting. Boise, ID (Boise State University): Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2019, March). Rachmaninov's Challenge to Monotonality: The D-Major Complex. Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory (annual conference). El Paso, TX: Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory.
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  Conference paper at annual meeting of regional professional society.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2018, Oct.). "'Tonality for a Century of Airplanes': Some Thoughts on Harmony and Tonal Coherence in the First Movement of Debussy's Violin Sonata". Music Plus Festival (Music of Debussy & Dan Asia). Fred Fox School of Music.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2017, April). Schumann's Fantasy Op. 17 and the Strange Case of the Supertonic Sonata: The Missing Tonic and Its Consequences. Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory (annual conference). Salt Lake City, UT: Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory.
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  Conference paper at annual meeting of regional professional society.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2017, June). On Metrically Weak Cadential Six-Fours. EuroMAC (9th European Music Analysis Conference). Strasbourg, France (Université de Strasbourg): 9th European Music Analysis Conference.
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  The European Music Analysis Conference is a joint gathering of the various national European music theory/analysis societies, held in a different city every four years.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2016, April). On Metrically Weak Cadential Six-Fours. Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory (annual conference). Albuquerque, NM: Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory.
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  Conference paper at annual meeting of regional professional society.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2015, Oct). A Force of Nature: Debussy and the Chromatically Displaced Dominant. School of Music CMT Colloquium series. School of Music.
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  Presentation of work in recently completed invited chapter for collection Explorations in Schenkerian Analysis, ed. Beach & Mak, for audience of faculty colleagues and graduate students.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2014, April). Bruckner, Radical Classicist Malgré Lui? Some Aspects of His Sonata Recepitulations. Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory, annual conference. Tempe, AZ: Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2013, 10/2013). What's in a Secondary Key Choice? The Diatonic (Sub-) Mediant in Major-Mode Sonata Form. Critical Studies Colloquium Series. University of Arizona School of Music.
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2013, April). What's in a Secondary Key Choice? The Diatonic (Sub-) Mediant in Major-Mode Sonata Form. Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory, annual meeting. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ: Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory.
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  Paper presentation at regional conference. Peer-reviewed (acceptance rate c. 50%).
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2013, April). What's in a Secondary Key Choice? The Diatonic (Sub-) Mediant in Major-Mode Sonata Form. School of Music Guest Lecture Series. University of Texas at Arlington.
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  Invited special lecture
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2013, November). What's in a Secondary Key Choice? The Diatonic (Sub-) Mediant in Major-Mode Sonata Form. Society for Music Theory annual national meeting. Charlotte, NC: Society for Music Theory.
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  Paper presentation at national conference. Peer-reviewed (acceptance rate c. 25%).
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2012, Fall). Brahms, the Tonic-Heavy Sonata, and Deep-Level Developing Variation. Society for Music Theory annual national meeting. New Orleans.
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  Individual Presenter
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2012, Spring). Brahms, the Tonic-Heavy Sonata, and Deep-Level Developing Variation. Brahms in the New Century (conference). New York, CUNY Graduate Center.
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• Pomeroy, D. B. (2012, Spring). Debussy's G#/Ab Complex: The Adventures of a Pitch Class from the Suite Bergamasque to the Douze Etudes. 2012 Debussy Symposium: L'heritage de Claude Debussy: Du reve pour les generations futures. Universite de Montreal.
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  Keynote Speaker
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2011, Fall). Tonicizing the Tonic: Home-Key Insurgencies in Sonata Expositions from Mozart to Brahms. Society for Music Theory, annual meeting. Minneapolis, MN.
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• Pomeroy, D. B. (2011, Spring). Brahms, the Tonic-Heavy Sonata, and Deep-Level Developing Variation. Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory, annual conference. Colorado Springs, CO.
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• Pomeroy, D. B. (2011, Summer). Brahms, the Tonic-Heavy Sonata, and Deep-Level Developing Variation. Department of Music Colloquium Series, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Israel.
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• Pomeroy, D. B. (2011, Summer). Introduction to Sonata Theory. Music Colloquium Series, Bar-Ilan University. Tel-Aviv, Israel.
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• Pomeroy, D. B. (2011, Summer). The First Movement of Brahms's Fourth Symphony. special guest lecture to graduate music class, Department of Music, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Israel.
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• Pomeroy, D. B. (2010, Summer). Tonicizing the Tonic: Home-Key Insurgencies in Sonata Expositions from Mozart to Brahms. Israel Musicological Society annual conference. Jerusalem: Hebrew University School of Music & Dance.
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• Pomeroy, D. B. (2009, Spring). Tonicizing the Tonic: Home-Key Insurgencies in Sonata Expositions from Mozart to Brahms. Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory, annual conference. University of Colorado, Boulder.
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  Individual Presenter
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2008, Fall). Bruckner and the Art of Tonic Estrangement: The First Movement of the Seventh Symphony. Society for Music Theory, annual meeting. Nashville, TN.
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• Pomeroy, D. B. (2008, Spring). Bruckner and the Art of Tonic Estrangement: The First Movement of the Seventh Symphony. Music Theory Society of New York State, annual conference. Ithaca, NY.
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• Pomeroy, D. B. (2008, Spring). Bruckner and the Art of Tonic Estrangement: The First Movement of the Seventh Symphony. Music Theory Southeast, annual conference. Greensboro, NC.
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Reviews

• Pomeroy, D. B. (2016. Music Theory Online, Vol. 22, No. 7(pp NA). online journal.
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  Review of Steven Vande Moortele, Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers, & Nathan John Martin (eds.), Formal Functions in Perspective (University of Rochester Press, 2015).
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2015. 19th-Century Music Review(pp 136–140). Cambridge, UK.
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  Review of Heather Platt & Peter Smith (eds.), Expressive Intersections in Brahms: Essays in Analysis and Meaning (Indiana University Press)
• Pomeroy, D. B. (2012. Review of Yosef Goldenberg, Prolongation of Seventh Chords in Tonal Music(pp 72-80). Min Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online.

Others

• Pomeroy, D. B. (2017, Feb). Schenkerian Analysis. Oxford Bibliographies Online. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/
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  Reference work: a 25,000-word article (annotated bibliography) on the subject of Schenkerian Analysis. Oxford Bibliographies Online (annotated bibliographies by experts in various fields, general editor Bruce Gustafson) is a project of Oxford University Press.Published (online) Feb 2017