Lectures on Campus
"From Klang to Kunst: Some Preliminary Steps Toward a Theory of Brahms's Musical Language," for Musicology, Theory, and Ethnomusicology Division, February 2001.
"Dichten mit Tönen: How Music Poeticizes," Heidegger Conference, April 2000.
"Questions of Tonality and Modality in a Motet by Heinrich Schütz," for Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology Division, October 1999
"The Italians in Augsburg_ (subtitled: "What Lies Beneath the A in Augsburg), for Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology Division, April 1999
"Striving" Heidegger Conference, February 1996
"The Classics of Music," for the Honors Program, April 1995.
"Bruckner and Music Analysis: Some Hints from Heidegger's Views on Technology," Heidegger Conference, February 1994.
"A View from the Bridge: An Alternative to Formalism in Music," Heidegger Conference, December 1992.
"A Listener's Guide to Webern's Twelve-Tone Music," for Music History and Theory Division, February 1992.
"The Musical Work as a Founding of Truth," Heidegger Conference, February 1992.
"Destruktion and the Path Metaphor in Music: Webern's Guided Tour of Schoenberg's Musical Thought," Heidegger Conference, December 1990.
"Relations and Cross Relations in Bach and Mozart: A Study in Satz and Ursatz," for Music History and Theory Division, February 1986.
Presentations for "Great Books" and "The Capstone Seminar"
For the past ten years, I have participated in and brought several graduate music students to a weekly forum in which topics on History, the Arts, and Philosophy (from Plato and Aristotle to the present) have been discussed through readings and consultation with experts from across the university campus. In this forum, I have presented discussions on Western Music from all chronological periods as well as such topics as Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (taken from my study at the Thomas Mann Archive in Zurich, Switzerland), Henry Adams' Mont St. Michel and Chartres, Robert Musil's Man Without Qualities, Goethe's Faust, Elias Canetti's Auto da Fe, Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, Günter Grass's Tin Drum and Ein weites Feld, Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz and November 1918, and Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.