Michael Bruschi is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in music theory at Yale University. His research interests include the perception and cognition of microtonality, the future of music theory pedagogy, the aesthetics and ideologies of the 19th-century European symphony, rhythm and meter in free jazz, and the harmonic language of Steely Dan. He has presented his work at the Graduate Students in Music Conference at CUNY, and he has a publication forthcoming in next month’s issue of the Journal of Music Theory. His dissertation, which will be completed next year, is entitled “Hearing the Tonality in Microtonality.”