Scholarship

The Choral Journal (December 2010)
Politics and Folk-Song Arrangement in the Works of Fernando Lopes-Graça — Article on choral harmonizations of folksongs by Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça. The article is drawn largely from the DMA document listed below.

The Choral Scholar (Spring 2010)
Firm Footing in the Heavens and Faltering Steps on Earth: Harmonic Language as Word-Painting in Brahms’s “Gesang der Parzen”

Editor of a new edition of Claude Le Jeune’s Revoicy venir du printemps, with a discussion of the text and performance issues. Available online from GIA.

The Canções Regionais Portuguesas of Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906–1994): Methods and significance of the adaptation of folk materials into the choral medium — DMA document on Fernando Lopes-Graça’s 24-volume Canções Regionais Portuguesas, which serve as an excellent subject for the study of the processes and implications of the adaptation of folk materials into the choral medium.

Fernando Lopes-Graça e a Música Coral — short article that appeared (in a translation by Teresa Cascudo) on the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Music page.

The Variation of Tourmaline Chemistry with Metamorphic Grade in Southwest Maine — co-authored undergraduate paper summarizing and synthesizing research on the pegmatites found along the Maine/NH border.

Firm Footing in the Heavens and Faltering Steps on Earth: Harmonic Language as Word-Painting in Brahms’s “Gesang der Parzen” — Final paper written for a late-romantic theory course focusing on neo-Schenkerian and neo-Riemannian aspects of Brahms’s Gesang der Parzen. Presented at the UGA Music Research Symposium 2006 and at the ACDA National Convention in Miami as part of a poster session. Later revised and published in The Choral Scholar (see above).

“Symphony” and Simfonizm in Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony: Unusual Genesis as Key to Shostakovich’s Concept of Symphony — paper written for Shostakovich seminar and revised for presentation at the 2005 MGSA research symposium