About the Author

About the Author
   Joseph P. Swain has taught music history and theory for more than 25 years at Phillips Academy and Colgate University. He is organist and director of music at St. Malachy’s Church in Sherburne, New York, and Music Director of Tapestry, the All-Centuries Singers, based in Clinton, New York. He has also written Harmonic Rhythm (Oxford, 2002), The Broadway Musical (Oxford, 1990; rev. ed. Scarecrow, 2002), which won ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award in 1991, Musical Languages (Norton, 1997), and Sound Judgment (San Francisco, 1987).

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