About the authors

Gabriel Navia is Professor of Music Theory and Guitar at the Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana at Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil). He holds a Ph.D. in Music Theory from the University of Arizona and a Master’s in Musical Performance (guitar) from the same university. His research focuses on 19th-century sonata form and a variety of tonal repertoires, ranging from the 18th- and 19th-century European canon to today’s popular music styles. Gabriel Navia has presented papers at national and international conferences, including the EuroMAC 9 (France, 2017), the 17th IASPM Conference (Germany, 2017), and the III TeMA Congress (Rio de Janeiro, 2019). His most recent work has appeared on Musica Theorica (2019; 2020), The Sage International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture (2019),Revista Vórtex (2020) e The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy (2020). He is currently chief-editor of Musica Theorica (academic journal of the Brazilian Society for Music Theory and Analysis).