Publications
Book
Lateness and Brahms: Music and Culture in the Twilight of Viennese Liberalism. AMS Studies in Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Edited Issue
I organized and served as guest editor, after the submissions had been evaluated by referees who did not include me, of an all-Berg issue of Journal of Musicology in honor of Douglas Jarman (2008).
Edited Volume, in Preparation
Opera after 1900, Volume 6 of The Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera. The editor of each of the six volumes selected the articles and wrote an original introduction. Roberta Montemorra Marvin is the series editor. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, forthcoming in 2010.
Refereed Articles and Review-Article
“Berg’s Propaganda Pieces: The ‘Platonic Idea’ of Lulu.” Journal of Musicology 28/2 (Spring 2008): 95–142.
“Bruckner Problems, in Perpetuity.” 19th-Century Music 30/2 (Summer 2006): 81–93.
“Plagal Harmony as Other: Asymmetrical Dualism in Instrumental Music by Brahms.” Journal of Musicology 22/1 (Winter 2005): 90–130.
“Late-Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music and the Cult of the Classical Adagio.” 19th-Century Music 23/1 (Summer 1999): 33–61.
“Volksconcerte in Vienna and Late Nineteenth-Century Ideology of the Symphony.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 50/2–3 (Summer–Fall 1997): 421–54.
“Bruckner and Viennese Wagnerism.” In Bruckner Studies, edited by Paul Hawkshaw and Timothy L. Jackson, 54–71. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
“Brahms’s Cello Sonata in F Major and Its Genesis: A Study in Half-Step Relations.” In Brahms Studies, vol. 1, edited by David Brodbeck, 139–60. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
“Brahms as Liberal: Genre, Style, and Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna.” 19th-Century Music 17/2 (Fall 1993): 107–23.
Invited Chapters
“Mythic Tragedy and Narrative Distance in Brahms’s Gesang der Parzen.” In Expressive Intersections in Brahms: Essays in Analysis and Meaning, edited by Heather Platt and Peter H. Smith. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011, in preparation.
“Berg’s Later Years: Musical Modernism during a time of Political Crisis.” In Alban Berg and His World, edited by Christopher Hailey. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010, in preparation.
“Brahms and Questions of Lateness.” In Proceedings of the International Musicological Conference in Meiningen, Germany, 24–26 September 2008: Spätphase(n)?—Johannes Brahms’ Werke der 1880er und 1890er Jahre / Late Phase(s)? —Johannes Brahms’ Works from the 1880’s and 1890’s, edited by Christiane Wiesenfeldt, Maren Goltz, and Wolfgang Sandberger, 116–27. Munich: Henle-Verlag, 2009.
“Auswirkungen der Kammermusik Beethovens in der Kammermusik anderer Komponisten.” In Beethoven-Handbuch, vol. 3: Die Kammermusik, edited by Albrecht Riethmüller, Martina Sichardt, and Friedrich Geiger. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, forthcoming.
“Formal Process as Spiritual Progress: The Symphonic Slow Movements.” In The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner, edited by John Williamson, 186–200. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
“‘With a Beethoven-Like Sublimity’: Beethoven in the Works of Other Composers.” In The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven, edited by Glenn Stanley, 239–54. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
“Musical Culture in Vienna at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” In Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern: A Companion to the Second Viennese School, edited by Bryan R. Simms, 37–71. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1999.
“Discourse and Allusion: The Chamber Music of Brahms.” In Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music, edited by Stephen E. Hefling, 242–86. Studies in Musical Genres and Repertories, vol. 8. New York: Schirmer Books, 1998; London: Routledge, 2003 (2nd ed.).
“Schubert’s Social Music: The ‘Forgotten Genres.’” In The Cambridge Companion to Schubert, edited by Christopher Gibbs, 138–54. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Translation
Translation of Birgit Lodes, “Beethoven’s Sacred and Liturgical Compositions: Songs, Oratorio, and Masses.” In The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven, edited by Glenn Stanley, 218–36. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Shorter Articles and Notes
Essays on Brahms’s Piano Trio in B (op. 8), String Sextet in B-Flat (op. 18), Piano Quartet in A (op. 26), String Quintet in F (op. 88), String Quintet in G (op. 111), and Clarinet Quintet in B Minor (op. 115). In The Compleat Brahms: A Guide to the Musical Works of Johannes Brahms, edited by Leon Botstein, 104–106, 119–21, 134–44. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.
“Brain-Music by Brahms: Toward an Understanding of Sound and Expression in the Allegro of the Clarinet Trio.” American Brahms Society Newsletter 16/2 (Autumn 1998): 1–3.
Liner Notes for Brahms: Violin Sonatas, performed by Vladimir Spivakov and Mikhail Rudy. Red Seal, 1993.
Reviews
Review of music of Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, and Josef Suk performed by Steven Isserlis, cello, and Stephen Hough, piano (Hyperion CD A67529). Nineteenth-Century Music Review 4 (2007): 146–48.
“Developing Variation Reconsidered Again.” Review of Elisabeth Reiter, Sonatensatz in der späten Kammermusik von Brahms. American Brahms Society Newsletter 23/1 (Spring 2006): 5–8.
Review of John Daverio, Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms. Notes 60/2 (September 2003): 165–67.
Review of Johannes Brahms: Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke, Serie II, Band 4: Klavierquintett, edited by Carmen Debryn and Michael Struck. American Brahms Society Newsletter 20/2 (Fall 2002): 9.
Review of Michael Musgrave, A Brahms Reader. American Brahms Society Newsletter 19/2 (Fall 2001): 8–9.
Review of Brahms & Friends: Music for Viola and Piano Performed by the Zaslav Duo (Music & Arts CD 1087[2]). American Brahms Society Newsletter 19/2 (Fall 2001): 9.
Review of Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters, ed. Styra Avins, trans. Styra Avins and Josef Eisinger; Johannes Brahms: Versuch einer kritischen Dokumentar-Biographie, by Siegfried Kross; Johannes Brahms und seine Zeit, 2nd ed., by Christian Martin Schmidt; and Johannes Brahms: A Biography, by Jan Swafford. American Brahms Society Newsletter 17/2 (Fall 1999): 8–9 and 18/1 (Spring 2000): 6–7.
Review of Schubert’s Vienna, ed. Raymond Erickson. Notes 55/2 (December 1998): 390–91.
Review of Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters, ed. Styra Avins, trans. Styra Avins and Josef Eisinger. Musicology Australia 21 (1998): 69–70.
Review of Johannes Brahms: An Annotated Bibliography of the Literature through 1982, by Thomas Quigley. Notes 50/2 (December 1993): 577–79.