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Associate Professor of Music Theory Andrew Pau published "Fauréan Correspondences: Motivic Practice and Octatonicism in Lili Boulanger's Clairières dans le ciel" in, an essay collection edited by James William Sobaskie (Boydell Press, 2026). Pau's chapter examines intertextual correspondences between song cycles by Fauré and Boulanger.

Associate Professor of Music Theory Andrew Pau published the chapter "The Franckist-Wagnerian Strain (Duparc, Chausson, Chabrier)" in (Cambridge University Press, 2026), edited by 91ֱ�� Conservatory alumnus Stephen Rumph. The chapter examines the ��é���ǻ徱��� of late-19th-century French composers who were influenced by the music of César Franck and Richard Wagner.

Three members of the Division of Music Theory — Associate Professor Andrew Pau, Assistant Professor Christa Cole, and Visiting Assistant Professor Sylvie Tran — presented a special session titled "Constructing Identity in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels's Omar (2022)" at the annual meeting of the on April 5. The session was based on a panel that the three faculty members gave in conjunction with in December 2024.

Professor of Music Theory Jan Miyake and Associate Professor of Music Theory Andrew Pau have contributed chapters to (Oxford University Press, 2024), a collection of essays written by minoritized scholars and designed to model analytical writing for undergraduate students. Miyake’s essay discusses the Funeral March from Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, while Pau’s explores Richard Danielpour and Toni Morrison’s 2005 opera Margaret Garner.

Associate Professor of Music Theory Andrew Pau presented two research papers on opposite sides of the Atlantic during the first week of November. The first presentation, "Expanded Continuation Phrases in Fauré's Piano Music," was given at the Institut de France in Paris, at a colloquium marking the centenaries of the deaths of French composers Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) and Théodore Dubois (1837–1924). The second presentation, "Fauréan Influences in Lili Boulanger's Clairières dans le ciel" was given at the annual conference of the Society for Music Theory in Jacksonville, Florida.

Associate Professor of Music Theory Andrew Pau reviewed Alexandra Kieffer's book Debussy's Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism for , an online review dedicated to books on French history and culture.