As a Townsend Fellow in 2002-2003, Holly Watkins, a student in the Department of Music, will work on a dissertation titled The Concept of Depth in German Musical Thought, 1800-1950, a history of the music-analytical notion of structural depth. Watkins moves from an exploration of the spiritual, psychological, and philosophical meaning of depth in early Romantic discourse about music, to the consideration of the role of an emerging German national identity in the trope of depth in mid-nineteenth-century criticism, to an interpretation of the work of key twentieth-century analysts who attempt, in Watkins’ terms, to collapse the various meanings of depth into the category of deep structure.