JOSEPH C. KRAUS received the Ph.D. in Music Theory from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in 1987. Dr. Kraus comes to the FSU College of Music from the School of Music of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he served as Professor of Music Theory for over twenty years. His research focuses on the music of the late nineteenth century, particularly the works of Peter Tchaikovsky. He has delivered papers on the music of Tchaikovsky, Bruckner and Sibelius at SMT and at numerous international conferences. Prof. Kraus has contributed the Tchaikovsky chapter to The Nineteenth-Century Symphony (Schirmer, 1997), and has published symphonic analyses in Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries (Greenwood, 1999) and Music Theory Spectrum (1991). In 1995 he received a grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) to study orchestral sketches and drafts at the Tchaikovsky State House Museum in Klin, Russia. His analyses of the music of Anton Bruckner have appeared in Bruckner Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Perspectives on Anton Bruckner (Ashgate, 2000). Prof. Kraus has also authored articles on the symphonies of Jean Sibelius for the Sibelius Forum (University of Helsinki, 1998 and 2002). Work on chromatic third relations in Mozart appeared in the Journal of Musicological Research (1990) and the Mozart-Jahrbuch (1991). Kraus has served as chair of the Membership Committee for the Society for Music Theory and as President of Music Theory Midwest, the regional theory society. He is currently Reviews Editor for the journal Theory and Practice, and Editor of the SMT Newsletter.