Essays on Benjamin Britten from a Centenary Symposium

David Forrest serves as Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Texas Tech University, USA. He has presented research in Belgium, France, England, Wales, and across the USA on tonal and post-tonal analysis, music theory pedagogy, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. His work has been published in Music Theory Spectrum, Oxford Bibliographies Online, and College Music Symposium and he has earned research awards from the Texas Society for Music Theory and the South Central Society for Music Theory. Dr Forrest serves on the Executive Board of the Texas Society for Music Theory and as President of the West Texas Children’s Chorus.Quinn Patrick Ankrum, mezzo soprano, is Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, USA and has taught at Texas Tech University, the State University of New York at Fredonia, and Nazareth College, USA. She has performed across the USA, as well as in Mexico, the UK, Italy, and France. Her areas of research are eclectic and include the vocal music of living American composers (she is co-creator of the Living Song Project with Dr Elizabeth Avery, University of Oklahoma), musicians’ health and wellness, and 19th-century performance practice. Stacey Jocoy is Associate Professor of Musicology at the School of Music at Texas Tech University, USA. Her work focuses on intersections of music, literature, and politics in Anglo-American musics, primarily in the early modern period and the eighteenth century. She also participates with the Vernacular Music Center at Texas Tech, for which she has written articles and edited a volume of their new journal, highlighting modern ballad studies. She is a recent recipient of fellowships from the Clark Memorial Library and the Folger Shakespeare Library and her most recent publications appear in the collection The Lords of Wine and Oile, concerning the cavalier poet Robert Herrick. She is editing the critical edition of John Playford’s Introduction to the Skill of Musick.Emily Ahrens Yates is currently Adjunct Professor of Music Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA, where she teaches music theory, aural skills and advanced and graduate music theory classes. Previously she taught music theory and aural skills at Texas Tech University and Texas Christian University, USA. Her research areas include work on Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, Russian Folk Music, Ascending Urlinie, and octatonic and artificial scales. She has presented papers at numerous symposia throughout the states of Texas and in New York State. Professor Yates is also an accomplished bassoonist.