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Books

  • Music in the Third Reich (London: Macmillan, 1994; paperback version 1996) 303pp.
  • Music and Displacement ( with Florian Scheding ed.) (New Jersey: Scarecrow, 2010) in press  

Chapters

  • German Music 1919-1939 (Milton Keynes: Open University, 1979) pp. 51-86
  • Philharmonia Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra' Symphony Orchestras of the World. Selected Profiles (ed. Robert R. Craven) (Westport: Greenwood Press,  1987), pp. 373 - 382
  • 'Carl Ebert, Glyndebourne and the Regeneration of British Opera', British Exile Theatre (ed. Günter Berghaus) (Oxford: Berg Books,  1989), pp. 179-188
  • 'Music and National Socialism: the Nazification of Composition, Criticism and Performance', The Nazification of Art (ed. B.Taylor and W. van der Will) (Winchester: Winchester Press, 1990), pp. 158 -182
  • 'The German-Jewish Contribution to Musical Life in Britain' Second Chance. Two Centuries of Geman-speaking Jews in the United Kingdom (ed. Werner Mosse) (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck),  1991), pp. 275-295
  • 'Deutsche Musik und Musiker im englischer Exil 1933 -1945', Musik in der Emigration 1933-1945: Verfolgung-Vertreibung - Rückwirkung: Symposium Essen 10 bis 13 Juli 1992 (ed. Horst Weber) (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag,  1994), pp. 192-212
  • 'Hanns Eisler's Deutsche Sinfonie', Hanns Eisler: a Miscellany (ed.David Blake), (Luxembourg: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995), pp. 181-202
  • 'The Contribution of Emigré Germans and Austrians to British Musical Life since 1933' in Entartete Musik. The Exhibition of Düsseldorf 1938/88 in Texts and Documents (London, 1995) pp. 40 - 46
  • 'Towards an Aesthetic of Fascist Opera' Fascism and Theatre. Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945 (ed. Günter Berghaus). (Oxford; Berghahn Books,  1996) pp. 260 - 276
  • 'Music in Modern German Culture', (from the Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture) (ed. Eva Kolinsky and Wilfried van der Will) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 233-255
  • 'Futurist Influences Upon Early Twentieth-Century Music', International Futurism in the Arts and Literature (ed. Günter Berghaus) (Berlin /New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2000), pp. 322-352
  • 'Opera in the Nazi Period', Theatre under the Nazis (ed.John London) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), pp. 136 - 180
  • 'Richard Wetz (1875-1935): a Brucknerian composer', Perspectives on Anton Bruckner (ed. Crawford Howie, Paul Hawkshaw and Timothy Jackson) (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001) pp. 363 - 394
  • 'Towards an Aesthetic of Fascist Opera' in Theatre and War 1933-1945. Performance in Extremis (edited by Michael Balfour) (New York: Berghahn Books,  2001) pp. 32-45
  • (with Tim Carter) 'The history of the orchestra' in The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra (edited by Colin Lawson) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 1- 21
  • 'The Censorship of Musical Modernism in Germany, 1918-1945', in Censorship and Cultural Regulation in the Modern Age (edited by Beate Müller) (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2003), pp. 65-85
  • The Reception of Contemporary Italian Music in Britain during the Fascist Era' in Illiano, Roberto (ed,) Italian Music during the Fascist Period (Amsterdam Brepols: Turnhout, 2004), pp. 3-40
  • 'Das britische Musikleben und die Polemik der Incorporated Society of Musicians gegen den Zuzug exilierter Musiker' , in Musik des Aufbruchs: Hans Gál und Egon Wellesz Continental Britons (edited by Michael Haas and Marcus G. Patka) (Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2004), pp. 70-86
  • 'Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart als Ikone des Nationalsozialismus' in Lachmayer, Herbert (ed.) Mozart: Experiment Aufklärung im Wien des Ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts. Essayband zur Mozart-Ausstellung (Ostfildern: Hatje Cranz Verlag, 2006 ) ISBN-10: 3-7757-1689-0, 1SBN-13: 978-3-7757-1689-5, pp. 331-338
  • 'Mozart wird Deutsch und Da Ponte "Arisiert"' in Hanak, Werner (ed.) Lorenzo Da Ponte. Aufbruch in die Neue Welt (Ostfildern: Hatje Cranz Verlag, 2006 ) ISBN-10: 3-7757-1748-X, 1SBN-13: 978-3-7757-1748-9 pp. 161-176
  • ‘The anti-Semitic strain in German writing on music: 1900–1933’ in Julie Brown (ed.) Western Music and Race (Cambridge: CUP, 2007) ISBN-13: 9780521838870, pp. 168-181
  • ‘A political football: Shostakovich reception in Germany’ in Pauline Fairclough and David Fanning (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich (Cambridge: CUP, 2008) ISBN-13: 9780521603157, pp. 287-297
  • ‘Concert Music’ in Paul Harper Scott and Jim Samson (eds.) An Introduction to Music Studies (Cambridge: CUP, 2009) ISBN-13: 9780521842938, pp. 154-175
  • ‘Janáček and the Third Reich’, in Geoffrey Chew (ed.), Janáček and the Literaturoper  (Brno: Masarykova Universzita, 2009), 69 -80

Articles

  • 'Orchestral Music of Per Nørgaard' WH News, 1983, pp. 5-7
  • 'Piano and Chamber Music of Lennox Berkeley', WH News 1984¸ pp. 3-8
  • 'The Musical Press in Germany, 1932-1933', Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History Vol II no. 3, Summer (1986), pp. 21-35
  • 'The Aryanization of Music in Nazi Germany', Musical Times, January 1990, pp. 19-23
  • 'Atonality, 12-Tone Music and the Third Reich', Tempo no.178, September 1991, pp. 17 - 21
  • Various Articles for the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (ed. Stanley Sadie)
    (Macmillan, London, 1992):
    Abstrakte Oper no. 1(Blacher), Andersen, Antigonae (Orff), Der Besuch der alten Dame (von Einem), Bialas, Bittner, Blacher, Bluthochzeit (Fortner), Braunfels, Bresgen, Carmina Burana (Orff), Catulli Carmina (Orff), Chemin-Petit, Dantons Tod (von Einem), Egk, von Einem, Fortner, Gerster, Graener, Gregor, Haas, Hartmann, Heger, Kallenberg, Kauffmann, Klebe, Klenau, Die Kluge (Orff), Lothar, Mohaupt, Mona Lisa (Schillings), Der Mond (Orff), Orff, Peer Gynt (Egk), Der Prozess (von Einem), Reiter, Reutter, Romeo und Julia (Sutermeister), Schillings, Simplicius Simplicissimus (Hartmann), Sutermeister, Trionfi di Afrodite (Orff), Verlobung in San Domingo (Egk), Vollerthun, Waltershausen, Weismann, Wolpert, Zaubergeige (Egk), Zillig.
  • Various entries for the New Grove Dictionary of Music (ed. Stanely Sadie and John Tyrrell, London 2001)
    Andreae, Volkmar; Baur, Jürg; Bialas, Günter; Bittner, Julius; Borck, Edmund von Braunfels, Walter; Brautigam, Helmut; Brehme, Hans; Bresgen, Cesar; Buchtger, Fritz; Einem, Gottfried von; Entartete Musik; Finke, Fidelio
    Frommel, Gerhard; Gerster, Ottmar; Graener, Paul; Hasse, Karl Heger, Robert; Herrmann, Hugo; Hoffer, Paul; Juon, Paul
    Kahn, Robert; Kauffmann, Leo Justinius; Kaun, Hugo Klebe, Giselher; Klenau, Paul von; Lothar, Mark; Meßner, Joseph
    Mohaupt, Richard; Mojisovics, Roderich Edler von; Müller-Hartmann, Robert Raphael, Günter; Reiter, Josef; Schillings, Max von; Schroeder, Hermann Schumann, Georg; Striegler, Kurt; Sturmer, Bruno; Sutermeister, Heinrich Thomas, Kurt; Trapp, Max; Trunk, Richard; Vollerthun, Georg Waltershausen, Hermann Wolfgang Freiherr von; Weismann, Julius

Editions

  • Othmar Schoeck, Werke für Klavier (Othmar Schoeck: Sämtliche Werke, Serie IV: Band 18) (Hug & Co. Musikverlage Zürich, 2005) [ISBN 3-906415-40-6] 450pp.

Reviews

  • Book reviews in Musical Times, Music and Letters, British Book News, Times Literary Supplement, Tempo.
  • Monthly Compact Disc reviews in BBC Music Magazine

Commercial recordings

  • Milhaud: Le Printemps for Violin and Piano Op. 18, Sonatine for Clarinet and Piano Op. 100, Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano Op. 157b, Danses de Jacaremirim for Violin and Piano Op. 256, Duo Concertant for Clarinet and Piano Op. 35. With Hazel Smith (violin) and Colin Lawson (clarinet) (KNEW CD306, 1991)
  • Wellesz: Geistliches Lied Op. 23 for medium voice, violin, viola and piano, Krischblütenlieder Op. 8; Gál: Fünf Melodien Op. 33; Goldschmidt: The Old Ships; Rankl: Two Songs from the Cycle 'War' Op. 10 and The Whim. With Christian Immler (baritone), Nurit Pacht (violin) and Paul Silverthorne (viola) Continental Britons: The Émigré Composers (NIMBUS NI 5730/1, 2004)


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