Scott Burnham holds a B.M. from Baldwin-Wallace College, an M.M. in Music Composition from Yale University School of Music, and a Ph.D. in Music Theory and Analysis from Brandeis University. His scholarly interests include the history of tonal theory, problems of analysis and criticism, and 18th- and 19th-century music and culture. Burnham has taught graduate seminars on the music of Schubert and Beethoven, analytical issues in tonal music, and the history of tonal theory from Rameau to Schenker; he also teaches undergraduate theory and analysis. Among his publications are articles on Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and Hugo Riemann's History of Harmonic Theory. His study of the values and reception of Beethoven's heroic-style music, Beethoven Hero (1995), won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society of Music Theory. He shares his home with his wife Dawna Lemaire, a registered music therapist, and their three children.