Publications
Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916): A Musical Life. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, expected 2010.
Selected Partsongs of Hamish MacCunn. Los Angeles, CA: Yelton Rhodes Music, forthcoming 2010. Seven partsongs will be published in two volumes.
Three Overtures of Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916): The Dowie Dens o’ Yarrow, Land of the Mountain and the Flood, and The Ship o’ the Fiend, full-score edition. Recent Researches in Music of the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries, v. 53. Madison, WI: AR Editions, 2010.
“Brigadoon: Lerner and Loewe’s Scotland,” Studies in Musical Theatre 3/1 (2009): 91–99.
“Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916): A Scottish National Composer?,” in Europe, Empire and Spectacle in 19th-Century British Music, edited by Rachel Cowgill and Julian Rushton. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate), 2006.
“Practical Ways to Bring Information Literacy into the Undergraduate Music Curriculum,” CMS Symposium 44 (2004), 74-82.
“Music Librarianship Education: Problems and Solutions,” Music Reference Services Quarterly 8/3 (2003), 1-24.
“The Making of Scottish National Opera: Hamish MacCunn’s Jeanie Deans,” The Opera Journal, 35/2-3 (June-September 2002), 3-28.
Manuscripts Under Development
“The Sea as Metaphor for Scotland and the Celtic North,” chapter in The Sea and the British Imagination, edited by Eric Saylor and Christopher Scheer, under consideration for publication with Cambridge University Press.
CD Liner Notes and Program Notes
Program notes for the Queens College Choral Society’s Fall 2009 concert featuring Carl Off’s Carmina Burana.
Program notes for the Queens College Choral Society’s Spring 2009 concert featuring Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 and Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem.
Liner notes for Selected Partsongs of Hamish MacCunn, The Queens College Vocal Ensemble, directed by James John, 2009.
Program notes for the Queens College Choral Society’s Fall 2008 concert featuring J.S. Bach’s “Das neugeborne Kindelein,” BWV 122, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.”
Reviews
Review of Erik Chisholm, Scottish Modernist 1904-1965 ‘Chasing a Restless Muse’, by John Purser. NABMSA Newsletter 6/1 (Spring 2010), forthcoming.
Review of Charles Hallè: A Musical Life, by Robert Beale. NABMSA Newsletter 5/1 (Spring 2009).
Review of Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music, by Diana McVeagh. Journal of Musicological Research (forthcoming)
Review of Monteverdi’s Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy, by Bonnie Gordon. The Opera Journal (forthcoming).
Review of Paul Hindemith: A Guide to Research, by Stephen Luttmann. Music Reference Services Quarterly 9/3 (2005), 94-95.
Review of Britten on Music, edited by Paul Kildea. Notes 61/4 (June 2005), 1013-15.
Review of Michael William Balfe, by William Tyldesley. Notes 61/2 (December 2004), 433-35.
Review of Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution, by Jacqueline Letzter and Robert Adelson. The Opera Journal 37/3 (2004), 42-43.
Review of The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris 1917-1929, by Roger Nichols. The Opera Journal 36/3-4 (2003), 84-86.
Review of The Extraordinary Operatic Adventures of Blanche Arral, translated by Ira Glackens, edited by William R. Moran. The Opera Journal 36/1 (March 2003), 37-39.
Review of Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London: Volume II, The Pantheon Opera and Its Aftermath, 1789-1795, by Judith Milhous, Gabriella Dideriksen, and Robert D. Hume. The Opera Journal 35/4 (2002), 42-44.
Jennifer Oates