Selected Writings

  • ‘Charles Ives 1874–1954’, MT, cv (1964), 347–9
     
  • ‘Improvisation’, MT, cv (1964), 294–5, 377–8, 538–9, 612–13, 688–9, 766–7
     
  • ‘John Cage’, Music and Musicians, xiv/3 (1965–6), 32–4, 54 only, 56 only
     
  • ‘Erik Satie (1866–1925)’, MR, xxviii (1967), 139–46
     
  • ‘A New Perspective for Ives’, MT, cxv (1974), 836–8
     
  • ed.: American Music: Keele 1975
     
  • ed.: Twenty British Composers (London, 1975) [incl. ‘Transformations of Erik Satie’, p.47]
     
  • ‘A Note on Some Recent Works’, MT, cxviii (1977), 559 only [on Dickinson’s works]
     
  • ‘Recent Research on American Musical Traditions’, IMSCR XII: Berkeley 1977, 353–82
     
  • ‘The Achievement of Ragtime: an Introductory Study with some Implications for British Research in Popular Music’, PRMA, cv (1978–9), 63–76
     
  • ‘Lord Berners, 1883–1950’, MT, cxxiv (1983), 669–72
     
  • ‘William Schumann: an American Symphonist at 75’, MT, cxxvi (1985), 457–8
     
  • ‘Stein, Satie, Cummings, Thomson, Berners, Cage: Toward a Context for the Music of Virgil Thomson’, MQ, lxxii (1986), 394–409
     
  • ‘Directions of a Decade’, MT, cxxviii (1987), 15–17
     
  • The Music of Lennox Berkeley (London, 1988) [see also 2003]
     
  • ‘The American Concerto’, A Companion to the Concerto, ed. R. Layton (New York, 1989), 305–25
     
  • ‘Style-Modulation: an Approach to Stylistic Pluralism’, MT, cxxx (1989), 208–11 [see also: ‘Style-Modulation as a Compositional Technique’ Goldsmiths, University of London, 1996] 
     
  • ‘Virgil Thomson (1896–1989)’, MT, cxxxi (1990), 31 only
     
  • ‘Nationalism is Not Enough: a Composer's Perspective’, Music and Nationalism in 20th-Century Great Britain and Finland, ed. T. Mäkelä (Hamburg, 1997), 27–34
     
  • Marigold: the Music of Billy Mayerl (Oxford, 1999)
     
  • Copland Connotations: Studies and Interviews (Woodbridge, 2002)
     
  • The Music of Lennox Berkeley: 2nd enlarged edn (Woodbridge, 2003)
     
  • CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage (Rochester, NY, 2006)
     
  • ‘Bernarr Rainbow: Pioneer Historian of Music Education’, Music in Educational Thought and Practice, Rainbow and Cox (Woodbridge 2006), 1-13
     
  • Lord Berners: Composer – Writer – Painter (Woodbridge, 2008)

 

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