Prolongation of Seventh Chords in Tonal Music, by Yosef Goldenberg. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2008. 597 pp. (2 vols.)

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Prolongation of Seventh Chords in Tonal Music, by Yosef Goldenberg. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2008. 597 pp. (2 vols.)

Boyd Pomeroy, University of Arizona

Boyd Pomeroy is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Arizona. He holds a doctorate from Cornell University on chromaticism and form in the orchestral music of Debussy. He also specializes in Schenkerian theory and analysis, particularly in its application to the study of form in Classical and 19th-century music. He has published in Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Music and Letters, The Cambridge Companion to Debussy, Essays from the Fourth International Schenker Symposium, and Johannes Brahms und Anton Bruckner im Spiegel der Musiktheorie. Before his career change to music theory, he was a professional double bass player, including a stint as principal double bass of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA, in 1981–84. He returned to Israel in the summer of 2011 for a series of lectures and classes at the Hebrew and Bar-Ilan universities.