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 Alfred
Cramer
Associate Professor of Music
Thatcher 105, (909) 621-8155,
alfred.cramer@pomona.edu
Web Site:
http://pages.pomona.edu/~awc04747/
Expertise Profile
Since 1995, Alfred Cramer has taught courses are in music
theory (harmony, basic composition, music analysis, and
aural skills) as well as courses on topics such as
Emotion in Music, History of Reading, The Idea of
American Music 1925-1950, and Music Perception and
Cognition.
His research focuses on the ways in which melodic
practices in 19th- and early 20th-century art music from
Schubert to Schoenberg rest on the literate habits,
cognitive assumptions, and theoretical mindset of the
nineteenth century. More generally, he is interested in
understanding melody and related musical phenomena in
terms of perception and cognition: how can melody, long
considered a musical "simple," can be understood to rest
on more basic cognitive principles that might also be at
work non-melodically in other musical practices and
repertories around the world? Professor Cramer is
engaged in a study of concepts of sound implicit in the
works of the early twentieth-century composers
Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg, and he has studied
nineteenth-century music as it relates to handwriting,
stenography, and information theory as they existed in
the nineteenth century. He received the Society for
Music Theory's 2004
Outstanding Publication Award.
Professor Cramer is an accomplished violinist with
particular enthusiasm for orchestral playing and for
historically informed performance. While still in high
school he was a member of the Colorado Springs Symphony
Orchestra. He has also played in the New Haven Symphony,
the National Repertory Orchestra, and in several
regional orchestras in the Philadelphia area, and as
soloist with the National Repertory Orchestra. As a
baroque violinist he has performed with the University
of Pennsylvania Baroque Ensemble, Brandywine Baroque,
and the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, among others.
He received his B.A. in music from Yale University in 1987
and his Ph.D. in music theory from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1997. |
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