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The Straube Code (Doctoral thesis)
The Tempo in Max Reger's Organ Music (previous, extended version of Doctoral thesis)
Max Reger's Opus 135 and the Role of Karl Straube (article in STM 1994-95)
Cesar Francks Mysteriously High Metronome Marks (article in The Organ 88, no. 5, 2009)
The Straube Code: Deciphering the Metronome Marks in Max Reger's Organ Music
Max Reger used double-beat metronome notation until about 1908. As a result, it is generally believed that the tempos indicated in Karl Straube's Reger editions from 1912 and 1919 are about twice as slow as those of the original editions. Shedding new light on that apparent discrepancy, The Straube Code offers new perspectives on the controversial theory of metronome notations set forth by Willem Retze Talsma in 1980.
"The serious interpreter of Reger's organ music will want to take into account all of the evidence presented here." - The American Organist (October 2008)
