Education
M.Phil. Yale University (1985)
Ph.D. Yale University, Music (1989)
Areas of Expertise
18th– and 19th-century music
Romantic Lieder
Narrative in music
Words and music
Music and meaning
Franz Schubert
Teaching Areas
Music Appreciation
Classical and Romantic Music
Mozart
Beethoven
Music and Meaning (tutorial)
Dangerous Music (tutorial)
Romantic Generation
Schubert and Brahms
Operas of Giuseppe Verdi
Music and Visuality
Scholarship/Creative Work
Books:
Cambridge Companion to Schubert’s Winterreise (co-edited with Lisa Feurzeig) (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Romantic Lieder and the Search for Lost Paradise (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Schubert’s Dramatic Lieder (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Recent Articles, Book Chapters, and Book Reviews:
Review of Jos van der Zanden, Beethoven and Greco-Roman Antiquity (2022), in Music & Letters (forthcoming).
“Lied,” in Schubert in Context, ed. Christopher Gibbs (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2022)
“The Piano and Musical Imagery in Schubert’s Lieder,” in Schubert’s Piano, ed. Matthew Gardner and Christine Martin (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2022)
“Tradition and Innovation in Schubert Lieder,” in Cambridge Companion to Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’, ed. Marjorie Hirsch and Lisa Feurzeig (Cambridge University Press, Feb 2021)
“Reframing the Question: The Interrogative in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin” (submitted)
“Gretchen abbandonata: The Lied as Aria,” in Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert (Boydell & Brewer, 2019)
“Musical Remembering in Schubert’s Faust Settings,” in The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music, ed. Lorna Fitzsimmons and Charles McKnight (Oxford University Press, 2019)
“Schubert’s Reconciliation of Gothic and Classical Influences,” in Schubert’s Late Music in History and Theory, ed. Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
“Musical Remembering in Schubert’s Faust Settings,” in The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music, ed. Lorna Fitzsimmons and Charles McKnight (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Review of Rita Steblin’s Beethoven in the Diaries of Johann Nepomuk Chotek, Nineteenth-Century Music Review 12 (2015): 375-79.
Review of Kristina Muxfeldt’s Vanishing Sensibilities: Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann (2012), in Journal of the American Musicological Society 66/2 (Summer 2013): 565-70.
“Mayrhofer, Schubert, and the Myth of ‘Vocal Memnon’” in Unknown Schubert, ed. Lorraine Byrne and Barbara Reul (Ashgate, 2008), 3-23.
“Mirrors, Memories, and Mirages: Songs-Within-Songs in Schubert’s Lieder,”
Journal of Musicological Research 26/1 (2007): 1-32.
“The Spiral Journey Back Home: Brahms’s ‘Heimweh’ Lieder,” Journal of Musicology 22/3 (Summer 2005): 454-89.
Review of Lorraine Byrne’s Schubert’s Goethe Settings. Music Library Association NOTES, 2004.
Review of Susan Youens’s Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin. Music Library Association NOTES, 1998.