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ARTICLES (published):
• Allan Pettersson (critical discography), in Classical Music: The Listener’s Companion, ed. Alexander J. Morin, Backbeat Books, San Francisco, 2002, pp. 698-700
• Overview: Music Since 1975 (feature article), American Record Guide, Vol. 64, No. 5 (March/April 1999), pp.64-71
• Elgar’s Prize Song: Quotation and Allusion in the Second Symphony, 19th Century Music, Vol. xii/3 (Spring 1989), pp. 231-240

ARTICLES (unpublished, in progress):
• Faith in Death: Meaning and Motive in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony (paper presented November 1996 at conference, "The Wagnerian Symphony", Troy NY) *View Article* • *View Music Sheets* (adobe acrobat reader required)
• Emergent Tonality in the Second Violin Sonata of Gabriel Fauré (first draft 1988)

BOOK REVIEWS:
• Adams, John Luther: Winter Music: Composing the North, Wesleyan University Press, 2000, American Record Guide, Vol. 69, No. 1 (January/February 2006), pp295-297
• Snarrenberg, Robert: Schenker’s Interpretive Practice, Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Vol. 1 (Fall 2005), pp 169-184
• Ashby, Arved, ed.: The Pleasure of Modernist Music, University of Rochester Press, American Record Guide
• Gann, Kyle: American Music in the 20th Century, Notes, September 1999
• Bruhn, Sieglind, ed.: Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg’s Music, Notes, March 1999
• Cope, David: Techniques of the Contemporary Composer, Notes, December 1998

Unpublished and in-progress articles, and lectures, will be posted as they become available.

LECTURES:
• "Composing Utopia: The Case of John Luther Adams" (Evergreen State College, Olympia,WA, February 2006) *View Lecture*
• "(Art) Music in the Public Realm" (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, March 2003) *View Lecture*
• "Neo-Romanticism and Ethics" (Sacramento State University, Festival of New American Music, October 1995)
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• "Are You Sleeping?: The First Eleven Measures of Mahler’s 4th Symphony" (Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, May 1995) *View Lecture*
• "Introduction to Schenker for Freshmen" (Lawrence University, April 1995) *View Lecture*
• "I’ve Got a Secret: Elgar’s Enigma" (Lawrence University, March 1994) *View Lecture*
• "Schubert’s Finished Symphony: Narratology, Homosexuality, and the Cross" (Lawrence University, September 1992)
• "Freshman Studies Lecture: ‘The Rite of Spring’" (Lawrence University, February 1991) *View Lecture*

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