Publications

Books

(a) Monographs

Return to Riemann: Tonal Function and Chromatic Music. With Oliver Chandler. Routledge. Forthcoming 2023.
The Event of Music History. Boydell and Brewer. 2021.
Ideology in Britten’s Operas. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. In series ‘Music Since 1900’.
The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism: Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Download a PDF of Chapter 1. This material has been published in The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism: Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton by J. P. E. Harper-Scott, and has been reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/9780521765213
Elgar: an Extraordinary Life. London: ABRSM, 2007. Read reviews.
Edward Elgar, Modernist. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Paperback reprint, 2009. doi:10.2277/0521862000. In series ‘Music in the Twentieth Century’. Read reviews.

(b) Edited collections

With Jim Samson, eds. An Introduction to Music Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 (Translated into Russian and Korean).
With Julian Rushton, eds. Elgar Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Essays

‘Gender’, in The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy, edited by Nanette Nielsen, Thomas Macaulay, and Jerrold Nevinson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020): 723–39.
‘The Politics of the Closet’, in Benjamin Britten in Context, edited by Vicki P. Stroeher and Justin Vickers (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021).
‘Political Views’, in Vaughan Williams in Context, edited by Ceri Owen and Julian Onderdonk (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, under contract for 2021).
‘Heidegger, Iki, and Musical Resistance to Gestell‘, in Heidegger and Music, edited by Jeff Warren and Casey Rentmeester (in progress).
‘Form and Structure’, in The Cambridge Companion to Wagner’s ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’, edited by Mark Berry and Nicholas Vazsonyi (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020): 102–23.
‘Reactive Modernism’, in The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music, edited by Björn Heile and Charles Wilson (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019): 155–74.
‘Miles Must Die! Ideological uses of “innocence” in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw’, in Literary Britten, edited by Kate Kennedy (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2018): 318–39.
‘How We Got Out of Music History, and How We Can Get Back In Again’, Theories of History: History Read Across the Humanities, edited by Michael J. Kelly and Arthur Rose (London: Bloomsbury, 2018): 37–60.
‘Berlioz: Love’, in The Cambridge Berlioz Encyclopedia, edited by Julian Rushton (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017): 194–5.
‘Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict’, in The Cambridge Berlioz Encyclopedia, edited by Julian Rushton (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017): 20–23.
‘Symphonic Music’, in The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, edited by Bruce Smith (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016): 1832–8.
‘Berlioz, love, and Béatrice et Bénédict’, 19th-Century Music 19, no. 1 (2015): 3–34. Full text available as a PDF.
‘Postwar Women in Britten’, in Rethinking Britten, edited by Philip Rupprecht (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013): 86–101.
‘Britten and the Deadlock of Identity Politics’, in Masculinity in Opera, edited by Philip Purvis (London: Routledge, 2013): 144–66.
‘Facetten der Moderne in Elgars Musik’, Musik-Konzepte 159 (Edward Elgar), edited by Ulrich Tadday (2013): 96–120. Read English text online or as a PDF.
‘Wagner and the Königsproblem‘. In The Legacy of Richard Wagner, edited by Luca Sala, 113–42. Turnhaut: Brepols, 2012.
‘Wagner, Sex, and Capitalism’, The Wagner Journal 5, no. 2 (2011): 46–62. Full text available as a web page or as a PDF.
‘Vaughan Williams’s Antic Symphony’. In British Music and Modernism 1895–1960, edited by Matthew Riley, 175–96. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2010. Full text as a web page. See this blog post.
‘Being-With Grimes: the Problem of Others in Britten’s First Opera’. In Art and Ideology in European Opera, edited by Rachel Cowgill, David Cooper, and Clive Brown, 362–81. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. 2010. Full text available as a web page or as a PDF. See this blog post.
‘Britten’s Opera About Rape’. Cambridge Opera Journal 21, no. 1 (2009): 65–88. doi:10.1017/S0954586709990085. Read full text as a webpage or as a PDF. Read abstract. See this blog post.
‘Medieval Romance and Wagner’s Musical Narrative in the Ring’. 19th-Century Music 32, no. 3 (2009): 211–34. doi:10.1525/ncm.2009.32.3.211. Read full text.
‘Made You Look! Children in Salome and Death in Venice’. In Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on his Life and Music, edited by Lucy Walker, 116–37. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2009. See this blog post.
‘Introduction’. In An Introduction to Music Studies, edited by J. P. E. Harper-Scott and Jim Samson, 1–4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
‘“Our True North”: Walton’s First Symphony, Sibelianism, and the Nationalization of Modernism in England’. Music & Letters 89, no. 4 (2008): 562–89.doi:10.1093/ml/gcn083. Read abstract.
‘In Memoriam Malcolm Arnold’. Musical Times 147, no. 1897 (2008): 2–6. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25434418.
‘Elgar’s Deconstruction of the Belle époque: Interlace Structures and the Second Symphony’. In Elgar Studies, edited by J. P. E. Harper-Scott and Julian Rushton, 172–219. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Read full text.
‘“A Nice Sub-Acid Feeling”: Schenker, Heidegger, and Elgar’s First Symphony’. Music Analysis 24, no. 3 (2005): 349 –82. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2249.2006.00225.x. Read abstract.
‘Elgar’s Invention of the Human: Falstaff, Op. 68’. 19th-Century Music 28, no. 3 (2005): 230–53. doi:10.1525/ncm.2005.28.3.230. Read full text.
‘Elgar’s Unwumbling: the Theatre Music’, in The Cambridge Companion to Elgar, edited by Daniel M. Grimley and Julian Rushton (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 171–83.
‘Henry and the Gräfin/Grinder: Elgar and The Starlight Express’. Elgar Society Journal 13, no. 4 (2004): 15–23.

Selected reviews and other publications

‘Friends Together’, BBC Music Magazine (June 2018): 28–36.
(with Richard Cohn) ‘On hexatonic poles’, Music Analysis 35, no. 1 (2016), 134–8.
Review of Umberto Giordano, Andrea Chénier, Times Literary Supplement (30 January 2015), 18. Read online.
Review of Felix Wörner, Ullrich Scheideler, and Philip Rupprecht, eds., Tonality 1900–1950: Concept and Practice. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2012. Music Analysis 33, No. 3 (2014), 388–405.
Review of Kenneth Gloag, Postmodernism in Music. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Music & Letters 94, no. 4 (2013): 723–7. doi:10.1093/ml/gcp014.
Review of John Drysdale, Elgar’s Earnings (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013), Times Literary Supplement, 14 February 2014, 11.
Review of Elgar, Solo Songs With Orchestra, edited by Julian Rushton, Elgar Complete Edition vol. 14 (Rickmansworth: Elgar Society Edition, 2012), Elgar Society Journal 18 no. 2 (2013): 33–7.
Review of Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Pilgrim’s Progress, English National Opera, Times Literary Supplement (23 November 2012), 18.
Review of Rosamund Bartlett and Sarah Dadswell, eds., Victory over the Sun: the World’s First Futurist Opera (University of Exeter Press, 2012), Times Literary Supplement (2 November 2012), 18. Read online.
Review of Eva Rieger, Richard Wagner’s Women (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011), Times Literary Supplement (18 May 2012), 13. Read online.
Review of Daniel Albright, Music Speaks: On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009), and Ruth Katz, A Language of Its Own: Sense and the Making of Western Art Music (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), Times Literary Supplement (7 October 2011), 12–13. Read online.
Review of Elgar, The Starlight Express, edited by Roger Dubois, Elgar Complete Edition vol. 19 (Rickmansworth: Elgar Society Edition, 2010), Elgar Society Journal 17 no. 1 (2011): 50–53. Read online.
Review of Julian Rushton, ed., Let Beauty Awake: Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Literature (London: Elgar Editions, 2010), Elgar Society Journal 17 no. 1 (2011): 41–3. Read online.
Review of Gillen D’Arcy Wood, Romanticism and Musical Culture in Britain: Virtue and Virtuosity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), Times Literary Supplement (17 December 2010), 32. Read online.
Review of Jules Massenet, Manon, Covent Garden, Times Literary Supplement (16 July 2010): 18.
Review of Roland John Wiley, Tchaikovsky (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), and Adam Zamoyski, Chopin: Prince of the Romantics (London: HarperPress, 2010). Times Literary Supplement (9 July 2010): 12. Read online.
Review of Byron Adams, ed. Elgar and His World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Music & Letters 90, no. 3 (2009): 492–5. doi:10.1093/ml/gcp014.
Review of Irene Morra. Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. Music & Letters 90, no. 3 (2009): 495–8. doi:10.1093/ml/gcp015.
Review of James MacMillan, Parthenogenesis, Linbury Theatre, Covent Garden. Times Literary Supplement (26 June 2009): 18.
Review of Diana McVeagh, Elgar the Music Maker. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2007. Music & Letters 90, no. 1 (2009): 131–3. doi:10.1093/ml/gcn067.
Review of Halina Goldberg, Music in Chopin’s Warsaw. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Times Literary Supplement (30 January 2009): 26.
Review of the opening of Kings Place, London. Times Literary Supplement (15 October 2008): 17–18.
Review of Rachel Cowgill and Julian Rushton, eds. Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Music & Letters 89, no. 3 (2008): 408–11. doi:10.1093/ml/gcm109.
Review of Rachel O’Higgins, ed. The Correspondence of Alan Bush and John Ireland 1927–1961. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Musical Times 147, no. 1899 (2007): 110–12.
Review of Stephen Benson. Literary Music: Writing Music in Contemporary Fiction. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Elgar Society Journal 15, no. 1 (2007): 58–63.
Review of Jerrold Northrop Moore. Elgar: Child of Dreams. London: Faber, 2004. Elgar Society Journal 13, no. 6 (2004): 46–50.
Review of Michael Kennedy. The Life of Elgar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Elgar Society Journal 13, no. 5 (2004): 36–8.