Kenneth Smith is Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool, UK, and its Institute for Popular Music. He is also president of the Society for Music Analysis. His first book, Skryabin, Philosophy and the Music of Desire was published in 2013. In addition to his interest in Western art-music from the turn of the twentieth century, Kenneth specializes in music theory. He is author of Desire in Chromatic Harmony (2020), a
psychological model of twentieth century harmony that examines works by a range of composers, setting these into theoretical and philosophical contexts.
