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Books

• Perspectives on Kurtág (Ed., with Alan E. Williams), Harwood, November 2001.
• György Kurtág's The sayings of Péter Bornemisza op.7. Ashgate, 2004.
• Ligeti, Kurtág and Hungarian Music during the Cold War, Cambridge University Press. 2007.

Book chapters

• '"Culture is a vast weapon, its artistic force is also strong." Finding a context for Kurtág's works: an interim report', in Beckles Willson & Williams (eds.) Perspectives on Kurtág, pp. 3-38.
• 'Bartók and vocal music: inspiration and ideology', in Amanda Bayley (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Bartók (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 78-91
• 'Auge in Auge mit der Musik', in Eric Singer & Basil Rogger (eds.) Composers-in-residence. Lucerne Festival, Sommer 2003, Isabel Mundry, Heiner Goebbels (Frankfurt am Main, 2003) pp. 125-134.
• 'Who is Péter Eötvös?', in Max Nyffeler (ed.) Péter Eötvös (Münich, 2003), pp. 5-18.
• 'Socialist Realism and Beyond: 1961-63 responses to Kurtág's opp.1-4', in Petr Macek, Mikulás Bek & Geoffrey Chew (eds.) Colloquium, Socialist Realism and Music: Anti-Modernisms and Avant-gardes, Brno 1.-3.10.2001 (Colloquia on the History and Theory of Music at the International Music Festival in Brno, Vol. 36) (Prague, 2004), pp. 49-61.
• ‘Meeting points and national authenticity: Bartók from inside and out', in Masakata Kanazawa (ed.), Musicology and Globalization: Proceedings of the International Congress in Shizuoka 2002 (Tokyo: Musicological Society of Japan, 2004), pp. 384-8.
• 'Sehnsucht als Mythos? Zur musikalischen Dramaturgie in den Drei Schwestern', trans. Elke Hockings, in Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich (ed.) Identitäten: Der Komponist und Dirigent Peter Eötvös. Mainz: Schott 2005, pp. 17-26.
• 'Piano Trios', in Cliff Eisen (ed.) The Mozart Encyclopedia (Cambridge, 2006) pp. 146-164.
• 'Eastern Europe', in Mervin Cooke (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera. Cambridge: 2005, 146-164.
• ‘Negotiated mythopoeia: a new model for art in Hungary after 1956’, in Martin Rady and Péter László (eds.) Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution in Central Europe: Commemorating 1956 (London, 2007)
• 'Theory and Analysis', in J. P. E. Harper-Scott and Jim Samson (eds.) An Introduction to Music Studies (Cambridge, 2008).
  
• Veress and the Steam Engine', in Anselm Gerhadt and Doris Lanz (eds.) Komponist – Lehrer – Forscher. Sándor Veress zum 100. Geburtstag. (Kassel, 2008), pp. 20-35.
  
• ‘Reconstructing Ligeti’, in Zradvko Blazekovic and Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie (eds), Music's Intellectual History (New York, 2009), pp. 443-450.
  
• ‘Ligeti and the Union of Hungarian Musicians, 1949-1956’, in Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Sala (eds), Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America (Turnhout, forthcoming).
  

Articles

• 'The fruitful tension between inspiration and design in György Kurtág's The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza opus 7', Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung, March 1998, pp. 36-41.
• 'Bulgarian Rhythm and its disembodiment in Kurtág's The sayings of Péter Bornemisza', Studia musicologica XLIII/3-4 (2002), pp. 269-280.
• 'To say and/or to be? Incongruence in The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza op.7'. Music Analysis 22/3 (October 2003), pp. 315-338.
• '"Behold! The long-awaited new Hungarian opera has been born!" Discourses of denial and Petrovics' C'est la guerre'. Central Europe I/2 (November 2003), pp. 133-145.
• 'Longing for a national rebirth: mythological tropes in Hungarian music criticism, 1968-74', Slavonica (November 2004), pp. 139-156.
• 'A study in "tradition", geography and identity in concert practice', Music & Letters (November 2004), pp. 602-613.
• ‘Vertreibung, Verankerung. Überlegungen zur Kontextualisierung des Schaffens von Sándor Veress anlässlich des Berner Festivals «veress07»’ Translated by Michael Kunkel. dissonanz 99 (September 2007)
• 'Whose utopia? Perspectives on the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra', Music and Politics 3/2 (Summer 2009).
• 'The Parallax Worlds of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra', Journal of the Royal Musical Association 134/2 (November 2009), pp. 319-347.
  

Dictionary entries

• "György Kurtág" and twelve articles on other Hungarian composers, The Revised New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2000.

Translation (Hungarian to English)

• Review Article: "Liszt as Father" by Mária Eckhardt (on Franz Liszt: Lettres à Cosima et à Daniela ed. Klára Hamburger. Musique-musicologie series, Sprimont, Mardage 1996) The Hungarian Quarterly, Volume 38, Summer 1997, 146-151.

Reviews

• 'Richard Steinitz György Ligeti. Music of the Imagination. London: Faber & Faber, 2003; Marina Lobanova György Ligeti. Style, Ideas, Poetics. Berlin: Ernst Kuhn, 2003; "Träumen Sie in Farbe?" György Ligeti im Gespräch mit Eckhard Roelcke. Vienna: Paul Zsolnay, 2003', Music and Letters 85/4 (November 2004).
• The Twentieth Century String Quartet', ed. Derek Jarman, Music and Letters. May 2003, 324-27.
• Kurtág: Plays and Games ECM New Series 1619, Tempo, April 1998, 45-46.
• Dillon: Blitzschlag Edinburgh Festival August 1997, Tempo, January 1998, 22.
• Kurtág: String Quartets ECM New Series 1598, Tempo, January 1997, 52.
• ‘Kurtág's choral works’, Tempo 61/240 (April 2007)

Occasional writings

• 'Who is Péter Eötvös?'. Essay for Ricordi book for Eötvös' 60th birthday, 2003.
• 'Péter Eötvös in conversation about 'Three Sisters', Tempo, April 2002, 11-13.
• "Kurtág's Instrumental Music 1988-1998", Tempo, December 1998, 15-21.
• "The Repertoire Guide: György Kurtág" Classical Music 8, February 1997, 43
• "The agony and the ecstasy" (an introduction to Kurtág's Songs of Despair and Sorrow opus 18, and What is the Word? opus 31) The Independent Section Two, Friday 23 August 1996, 14.