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

e-mail:  rcross@wagner.edu

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 Wocrld


Music and Spirit

Operas of Richard Wagner St Paul's/St Luke's 

Links to Other Sites

Recital

Ex Umbris

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

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