Supplemental Information: Episode 4
Power and Captivity in Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots
Zachary Simonds (CUNY)
Release Date: Thursday, May 14, 2026
Production Credits
Team Lead: Matthew Ferrandino
Production Lead: Zachary Lloyd
Peer Reviewers: Colleen Renihan and Evan Ware
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Maria Tartaglia
Closing Music: Yike Zhang
Bio: Zachary Simonds is a PhD student in music theory at the Graduate Center, CUNY and holds an M.M. in music theory from Florida State University. In addition to 20th-century opera, Zachary is interested in popular music form and the synthesis of atonal analytical tools with metal music. He has presented research at multiple regional and national conferences, including the 2024 and 2025 SMT annual meetings. His book chapter, “Unfulfilled Expectations: Theorizing on Terminally Anticlimactic Form,” was recently published in the Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition: Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production.
Keywords: Musgrave, motivic analysis, Hatten, opera, feminist theory