Harmony and Voice Leading

Edward Aldwell (1938-2006) was an American pianist, music theorist, and pedagogue. An expert in Schenkerian analysis, he taught music theory and analysis for more than three decades at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and the Mannes College of Music in New York.

Carl Schachter taught music theory and analysis at Mannes College of Music for over fifty years, serving as Chair of the Techniques of Music Division and Dean of the College. In 1996, he retired as Distinguished Professor of Music at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate School, where he had taught since 1971. Following his retirement from Queens College, he joined the faculty of the Juilliard School.

Allen Cadwallader is Professor Emeritus of Music Theory at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he taught counterpoint, tonal harmony, and Schenkerian analysis. He is the coauthor of Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach.

Frank Samarotto is Professor of Music Theory at Indiana University Bloomington. He was a workshop leader at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, an invited presenter at the first conferences in Germany devoted to Schenkerian theory, has lectured on voice-leading and musical time at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.. He contributed to the fourth edition of Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach by Allen Cadwallader and David Gagne.