May 9, 2025 | 3:30PM
Fulton Recital Hall, Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Mozart’s Operatic Cadence
Danuta Mirka
Harry N. and Ruth F. Wyatt Professor of Music Theory at the Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University
About Danuta Mirka
Danuta Mirka is Harry N. and Ruth F. Wyatt Professor of Music Theory at the Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University. Her main research interests include the theory and analysis of meter and rhythm and the study of musical communication in the late eighteenth century. She is the co-editor, with Kofi Agawu, of Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory (Oxford University Press, 2014), which received the Citation of Special Merit from the Society for Music Theory in 2015. Her books include Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart (Oxford University Press, 2009), which won the Society for Music Theory’s 2011 Wallace Berry Award, and Hypermetric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart (Oxford University Press, 2021), which received the 2023 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America. Her article “The Mystery of the Cadential Six-Four,” published in the collection What Is a Cadence? (Leuven University Press, 2015), ed. Markus Neuwirth and Pieter Bergé, received the 2017 Roland Jackson Award from the American Musicological Society.