Ronald Cross | Ronald Cross

Ronald Cross, Ph.D., AAGO
Prof. of Music, Kurt and Auguste Reimann Chair of Music
Campus Hall, 108
Tel.: 718-390-3202

Fax: 718-390-3392

Home Tel.: 718-981-3064

Areas of expertise:
historical musicology;
trecento, early Renaissance notation;
ethnomusicology;
theory and strict counterpoint;
instruments: organ, viola da gamba and vielle,
Renaissance woodwinds, timpani

Background

Music History

Survey of Music Literature

History of American Music

Music Cultures of the World

Recital

Pictures of music students/faculty YMClogogold

GoldbergAria

Aria

The Aria (Sarabande) on which Bach based the Goldberg Variations

(From the original print of Part IV of the Clavierübung,

Prussian State Library, Berlin.)

Follow the music as you listen.

Musical Selections

For further selections see Recital

The Leaves Be Green

William Inglott, played on a 16th-cent. English virginal

Fors seulement

Matthaeus Pipelare, played on a 16th-cent.Italian spinetta

Hors envieux

Nicolas Gombert, played on a Renaissance clavichord

Martin un jour

Clément Janequin, played on an early-style organ

Fugue in d minor , BWV 539

played on the organ at St. Thomas, 5th Ave. & 53rd St.