Lynne Rogers is the Edward Aldwell Professor of the Techniques of Music at the Mannes School of Music at The New School. Her research, which focuses on Igor Stravinsky’s music and on music theory pedagogy, appears in publications including Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music Theory Spectrum, Perspectives of New Music, and Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy. She served as a co-editor of Selected Essays from the Fourth International Schenker Symposium (Olms, 2013). Dr. Rogers is a recipient of the Eva Judd O’Meara Award from the Music Library Association, a Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching from William Paterson University, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other organizations. She is a former president of the Society for Music Theory. Dr. Rogers received her PhD from Princeton University.

Karen M. Bottge is Associate Professor of music theory at the University of Kentucky, where she has also served as Associate Director of the School of Music and Associate Dean for Research. Her research, which concentrates on music and ideas of the nineteenth century, appears in publications including 19th-Century Music, Music Theory Online, Music Theory Spectrum, and Nineteenth Century Music Review. She served as Associate Editor of Music Theory Online (MTO), co-editor of Selected Essays from the Fourth International Schenker Symposium (Olms, 2013), and co-author for Analysis of Tonal Music (Oxford, 2019). Dr. Bottge earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to her work in higher education, Dr. Bottge was an orchestra teacher in the public schools.

Sara Haefeli is an Associate Professor at Ithaca College where she teaches music history, American experimentalism, and philosophy of creativity courses.  She is author of the monograph, John Cage: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge, 2018), and her work on Cage has been published in the journal American Music. Dr. Haefeli is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, where her scholarship on teaching writing to music history students has appeared. She has also contributed chapters on information literacy and writing to Information Literacy in Music: An Instructor’s Companion (A-R Editions, 2018) and Norton Guide to Teaching Music History  (W. W. Norton, 2019). Dr. Haefeli received her PhD from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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