William Caplin

William E. Caplin (born 1948) is an American music theorist who lives and works in Montreal, Canada, where he is a James McGill Professor at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. Caplin served as president of the Society for Music Theory from 2005 to 2007 and was its vice-president from 2001 to 2003.

Although much of Caplin's earlier work concentrated on the history of music theory (his dissertation was on theories of meter),[1] he is best known for his so-called "theory of formal functions." His book Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven[2] has been widely influential and has been a major factor in the revival of interest in musical form in North-American music theory.

References

  1. ↑ Caplin, William E. (1981). Theories of Harmonic-Metric Relationships from Rameau to Riemann. PhD diss. University of Chicago.
  2. ↑ Caplin, William E. (1998). Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Oxford University Press.

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