Publications



Sirènes, Spectres, Ombres: Dramatic Vocalization in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”
PhD Dissertation, Boston University, 2009. [abstract]

“Charles Dodge” in Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century. CA: Salem Press, 2009.



Conference Papers



“Debussy’s ‘Sirènes’ and Les Apaches” (revisited)
AMS South-Central Chapter Meeting
Georgia State University (March 2013)

“Debussy’s ‘Sirènes’ and Les Apaches” (revised)
AMS Pacific-Southwest Chapter Meeting
California State University, Long Beach (February 2013)

“Dramatic Vocalization in the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams” (revisited) [abstract]
AMS Northern California Chapter Meeting
UC Davis (February 2013)

“Dramatic Vocalization in the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams”
AMS Greater New York Area/North American British Music Studies Association
Hunter College (April 2012)

“‘(Un)Heavenly Choruses,’ Spaghetti Westerns, and Morricone’s Dollars Trilogy” [abstract]
Music and the Moving Image VI
NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development (May 2011)

“Ah(men): Dramatic Vocalization as Signifier of the Numinous in Hollywood Biblical Epics” [abstract]
Music and the Moving Image V
NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development (May 2010)

“Oohs and Oz: Dramatic Vocalization in Film Music” (revised)
GAMMA-UT 7th Annual Conference, “Sight & Sound: The Visual Imagination in Music”
The University of Texas, Austin (March 2007)

“Oohs and Oz: Dramatic Vocalization in Film Music” [abstract]
Boston University Music Society—Student Lecture Series [poster]
Boston University (October 2006)

“Debussy’s ‘Sirènes’ and Les Apaches” [abstract]
AMS New England Chapter Meeting [program]
College of the Holy Cross
(April 2005)

“Dramatic Vocalization in Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto” [abstract]
Boston Area Graduate Student Symposium in Musicology
Tufts University (March 2004)

“‘Ah, Hélas!’ The Development of Wordless Vocal Music (1850–1925)” [abstract]
Boston University Graduate Student Musicology Forum
Boston University (April 2002)

“The ‘Boris’ Motive in the Music of Olivier Messiaen’s Second Period (1935–1949)”
Boston University Graduate Student Musicology Forum
Boston University (April 1998)



Other Papers



“Survey of the History and Reception of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Suites for Violoncello solo senza basso” (September 2003)

“The Writings of Leonard B. Meyer: An Overview” (March 2000)

“Inventory of BARCELONA. Biblioteca Central. MS 681 (=PedC 386)” (August 1999)

“Prolegomena to Any Future Research on the Issue of Attribution in the Motets of Jean Mouton: Christus resurgens” (November 1998)

“The Schenker/Schoenberg Polemic” (May 1998)

“Tuning & Temperament” (November 1997) [Presentation with accompanying sound examples]

“Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 ‘Grosse Sonate fur das Hammerklavier’: A Bibliographic Overview” (May 1997)

“The Interdependence of Rhythm, Meter, and Open Form in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Klavierstucke XI” (April 1997)

“György Ligeti, Étude No. 4: ‘Fanfares’ for piano (1985)” (March 1997)

“Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor From Warsaw, Op. 46” (December 1996)

“Anton Webern: Canon and Symmetry in Symphony, Op. 21” (March 1995)

“Art and Alienation” (December 1994) [On the role of the artist in modern society]

“Silence—Would Be Nice” (April 1994) [On the concept of ‘silence’ in music]

“Henri Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain and L‘Arbre des songes” (December 1992)

“Folk Music in the Works of Henry Cowell” (April 1992)

“Influences of Surrealism and Cubism in Igor Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex” (February 1992)

“The Use of Bird Song in the Music of Olivier Messiaen” (November 1991)