"Origins of the Second Viennese School and Analytical Strategies for its Music," invited lecture, Estonian Academy of Music, Tallinn, Estonia, October 15, 2001
"Dichten mit Tönen: Richard Strauss's Commentary on Nikolaus Lenau's Don Juan." Institute of Advanced Musical Studies, King's College, London, March 1999.
"The Distorting Power of Memory: Thematic Reminiscences in Luigi Dallapiccola's Ulisse." Special Seminar on Twentieth-Century Music and the Stage. Institute of Advanced Musical Studies, King's College, London, March 1999.
"A View from the Bridge: An Alternative to Formalism in Music," presented in the "Correlation of the Arts" program at San Jose State University, San Jose, California, October 1998.
"Composing in the Same Style as Before Only Better: A Discussion of Arnold Schoenberg's Musical Concepts," guest lecture for the Louisville Symphony Orchestra concerts at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, and at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, September 10-13, 1991.
"Harmonic Readings in Twelve-Tone Music: Application of Schoenberg's Theoretical Ideas," The University of Sydney, Australia, May 1989.
"The Music of Arnold Schoenberg: An Evolutionary Concept in a Reactionary Environment," guest lecture for the University Honors Program at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, February 1987.
"The Harmony in Richard Strauss's Ruhe meine Seele: A Schoenbergian Reading," The University of Sydney, Australia, June 1986.
"Subdominant Transposition: A New Source for Tonal Surprise in Nineteenth-Century Music," University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, November 1983.
"The Orchestral Variations: Webern's Tribute to Bela Bartok," University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, March 1983.
"The Traditional Basis of Schoenberg's Musical Thought," presented either as a single two-hour lecture or as a pair of lectures at:
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, April 1982.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus, April 1982.
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1982.
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, February 1982.
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, April 1981