Book
The Great Orchestrator: Arthur Judson and American Arts Management. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2013.
Recipient of an AMS 75 PAYS Subvention, granted by the American Musicological Society for exemplary books of “original and significant research.”
Reviewed in The American Journal of Arts Management and Notes.
Selected by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections as a 2014 finalist for Best Historical Research in Classical Music.
Articles
"Buried in Birmingham: Excavating and Understanding the Musical Work of Women in Britain's Silent Cinema." The Musical Quarterly 109 (2025).
"The Question of Music: an Irish Censor's Perspective." Journal of Musicology 42, no. 4 (2025): 424-451.
“The Court as Concert Hall: Music at the United States Supreme Court.” Co-authored with Lauren C. Bell. The Journal of the Society for American Music 17, no. 2 (2023): 126-150.
“Status, Standards, and Stereotypes: J. S. Bach’s Presence in the Silent Era.” BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute 50, no. 1 (2019): 5-31.
“Grand Plans and Second Thoughts: Lessons from Colburn’s Personal Score to Cines-Kleine Antony and Cleopatra (1914).” American Music 36, vol. 1 (2018): 46-69.
“I Never Planned Anything in My Life: The Music of Cool Hand Luke.” The Journal of the Society for American Music 11, no. 3 (2017): 257-283.
“In Search of Quality: George Colburn, George Kleine, and the Film Score for Antony and Cleopatra (1914).” The Musical Quarterly 91 (Fall/Winter 2008): 158-199.
Book chapter
“Emerging from silence: Shochiku, Ito, and Ozu’s early sound films,” in The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era. London: Routledge Press, 2024.
Encyclopedia entries
“Adolph Lewisohn.” The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press. Published in print: 26 November 2013. Published online in Grove Music: 24 February 2010.
“Arthur Judson.” The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press. Published in print: 26 November 2013. Published online in Grove Music: 22 September 2015.
“Henry Wolfsohn.” The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press. Published in print: 26 November 2013. Published online in Grove Music: 9 November 2009.
Liner notes
Ran: a film by Akira Kurosawa, original music by Tōru Takemitsu. Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Silva Screen Records SILCD1518. CD and Vinyl. 2016.
Reviews
Review of Bob Dylan, Roads Rapidly Changing: In and Out of the Folk Revival, 1961-1965. DVD. Produced by Rob Johnstone. Chrome Dreams Media, Ltd., 2014. Notes 72, no. 3 (March 2016): 603-604.
Review of Philip Glass, The Perfect American. DVD of world premiere by Dennis Russell Davies/Madrid Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra produced by the English National Opera, 2013. Notes 71, no. 1 (September 2014): 138-139.
Review of Daniel Barenboim Plays Bach Goldberg Variations. DVD directed by Christopher Nupen and produced by Metropolitan Munich, 2012. Notes 69, no. 3 (March 2013): 613.
Review of We Want the Light. DVD documentary on Jewish musicians and German composers produced by Allegro Films, 2009. Notes 66, no. 3 (March 2010): 641.
Review of Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934. DVD set and critical commentary produced by the National Foundation for Film Preservation, 2007. American Music 27, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 386-88.
Reprinted and featured on the November 2009 edition of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences website.