Adriana Ponce is an associate professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, USA. She holds a PhD in musicology from Brandeis University, USA. Her research interests revolve around questions of form in 19th-century art music and Venezuelan traditional musics. She has presented at numerous conferences of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory (USA); the Society of Music Analysis and the Royal Musical Association (UK); the Fryderyk Chopin Institute (Poland); and similar societies in Belgium and the Netherlands. She was also invited to deliver a guest lecture in the Carrigan Music Theory Lecture Series at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Her publications include "Memory and Non-linear, End-Oriented Coherence in Chopin's Nocturnes"; "Form, Diversity and Lack of Fulfillment in Schumann's Fantasie Op. 17; and Sounds Around Us, Vol. 1-5 (a theory, solfege, and musicianship method developed for the Edward Said National Conservatory in collaborations with Habib Shehadeh and Hania Souddah-Sabara).