About the Authors

laine gruver is a PhD candidate in music theory and cognition at Northwestern University. Grounded in a fascination with musical multimedia, her dissertation explores semiotic functions within fantasy film and television music, emphasizing the interplay between leitmotifs and agency. She has presented this research at various regional and national conferences including the annual meetings of Music Theory Midwest, the Society for Music Theory, and Music and the Moving Image. In addition to this work, her secondary research interests include nineteenth-century piano music, musical nostalgia, ecomusicology, and feminist studies.alon schab is a musicologist, composer, and recorder player. He completed his doctoral dissertation on Henry Purcell at Trinity College Dublin, and he is currently a professor in the Department of Music at Bar-Ilan University. He is the author of The Sonatas of Henry Purcell: Rhetoric and Reversal (Eastman Studies in Music, University of Rochester Press, 2018) and A Performer's Guide to Transcribing, Editing and Arranging Early Music (Oxford University Press, 2022). His research interests range from sixteenth-century counterpoint to the analysis of rock music.tobias pontara is professor of musicology at the University of Gothenburg. His research lies at the intersection of audiovisual studies, media studies, and the cultural study of music. Among the journals in which he has published are Philosophical Studies, 19th-Century Music, Music, Sound and the Moving Image, International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music and Music and the Moving Image. Pontara is the author of Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema: Music and Meaning from Solaris to The Sacrifice (Routledge 2020). His most current research project, titled Conspiracy Soundtracks, examines the role of music and sound in audiovisually mediated conspiracy theoretical discourse.