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Richard Cohn received his PhD from the Eastman School of Music in 1987, with a dissertation on transpositional combination in atonal music, under the supervision of Robert D. Morris. Early articles focused on music of Bartók and Schenkerian theory. He taught in the Music Department at the University of Chicago from 1985, where he served as Department Chair from 1998 to 2001. In 2004, he founded Oxford Studies in Music Theory, which he edited for Oxford University Press for ten years. In 2005 he was appointed Battell Professor of the Theory of Music at Yale University. He is currently Executive Editor of the Journal of Music Theory. “Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad’s Second Nature,” was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. He recently contributed to and co-edited a volume on David Lewin’s analytical writings. In preparation is a general model of musical meter with applications for European, African, and African-diasporic music. Cohn’s articles have twice earned the Society for Music Theory’s Outstanding Publication Award. He has presented keynote lectures and workshops in the UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, and (in 2015) Singapore.