Kofi Agawu: Publications

Books:

Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music (Princeton: Princeton University
Press. 1991).
Reviews
Times Higher Education Supplement, 3 May 1991, 965 [C. Ayrey]
Music Analysis 10:3, 1991, 381-87 [W. Drabkin]
Music and Letters 73:2, 1991, 315-17 [R. Monelle]
Communication Research 18:6, 1991, 839-40
Music Theory Spectrum 14:2, 1992, 88-98 [R. Hatten]
The Musical Quarterly 76:1, 1992, 114-21 [G. Edwards]
The Semiotic Review of Books 3:2, May 1992, 10-11 [R. Hatten]
Journal of the American Musicological Society 45:3, 1992, 526-35 [V. Micznik]
Die Musikforschung 42:2, 1994, 215-18 [E. Ungeheuer]
Review-articles
William P. Dougherty, "The Quest for Interpretants: Toward a Peircean Paradigm for Musical
Semiotics," Semiotica 99:1/2, 1994, 163-84
Jonathan Berger, "Playing with Playing with Signs," Journal of Music Theory 38:2, 1994, 293-313
Roberto Miraglia, "Semiologia: nuove proposte, vecchi dubbi. Osservazioni a proposito di Playing
with Signs di K. Agawu," Analisi: Rivista di Teoria e Pedagogia musicale 23 (1997), 4-18
Stephen Rumph, “Op. 132 and the Search for a Deep Structure,” Beethoven Forum 14 (2007), 73-89

African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Reviews
West Africa 25-31 December 1995 & 1-7 January 1996, 2018
Times Higher Education Supplement, 4-4-97, 26 [J. Fargion]
British Journal of Ethnomusicology 4 (1995), 158-60 [R. Blench]
Musical Times, June 1996, 30-31 [W. Mellers]
The World of Music 38 (1996), 139-142 [U. Bareis]
Yearbook for Traditional Music 1996, 200-02 [D. Avorgbedor]
Notes 53:3 (1997), 818-19 [B. Hampton]
Journal of Anthropological Research 1997, 119-121 [J. Chernoff]
The International Journal of African Historical Studies 30 (1997), 447-49 [D. Locke]
Music Analysis 16:2 (1997), 282-89 [J. Stock]
Revue de Musicologie 83:1 1997, 137-39 [Fernando]
American Anthropologist 99 (1997), 864-65 [S. Ottenberg]
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 27 (1996) [B. Connell]
Music Theory Spectrum 20 (1998), 305-10 [S. Blum]
Journal of the American Musicological Society 51 (1998), 158-63 [R. Vetter]
Africa 71 (2001), 174-76 [S. Friedson]
Journal of Religion in Africa 29 (1999), 498-500 [B. Meyer]
South African Journal of Cultural History 11, 1997, 136-37
Glendora Books Supplement (Lagos) 6, 2001, 33-34 [S. Oluronyomi]
Review-article
Current Musicology 62 (1998), 69-83 [D. Temperley]

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Representing African Music: Post-Colonial Notes, Queries, Positions (New York: Routledge,
2003).
Reviews
International Journal of African Historical Studies 37:1, 2004, 145-47 [R. Shain]
Notes 61:1, 2004, 106-08. [G. Solis]
South African Journal of Musicology 22 (2002, pub. 2004), 63-65 [G. Olwage]
Svensk Tidskrift for Musikforskning 86, 2004, 101-2 [S. Thorsén]
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 7:1, 2005, 147-50 [M. Scherzinger]
Twentieth-Century Music 2 (2005), 146-150 [A. Impey]
Journal of the American Musicological Society 59 (2006), 769-77 [L. Meintjes]
Africa Development 33:1, 2008, 132-39 [P. Wekesa]
Review-articles
Current Musicology 75 (Spring 2003), 223-50 [M. Scherzinger]
Music Theory Spectrum, 26:2, 2004, 291-304 [V. Erlmann]
Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa 1 (2004), 97-100 [C. Walton]
Transition 99 (2008), 154-61 [A. Euba]

Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2009). Translated into Spanish by Silvia Villegas as La música como discurso: Aventuras
semióticas en la música romántica (Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia Editora, 2012).
Reviews
Notes 66 (2009), 64-66 [S. Heimbecker]
Tempo 63 (2009), 71-72 [C. Clarke]
Musiktheorie: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 25 (2010), 89-91 [F. Wörner]
Music and Letters 91 (2010), 110-11 (R. Monelle)
Dutch Journal of Music Theory 16 (2011), 157-61 (B. Van Herck)
Revista Teatro Colón 6 (2012), 108-09 (S. De Filippi)
Journal of Music Theory 57(2013), 131-49 (J. Kraus)
Review-article
“Paradigms, Prototypes, and Other Analytical Adventures,” Theoria 16 (2009), 111-28 [S. Rodgers]

Edited collections:

The Landscape of African Music. Special issue of Research in African Literatures, 2001

African Musical Arts: Theory, Practice and Education. Edited by Anri Herbst, Meki Nzewi and
Kofi Agawu. Pretoria, South Africa: University of South Africa Press, 2003.
Reviews
Notes 61:1, 2004, 111-13
South African Journal of Musicology 22 (2002, pub. 2004), 70-72
Worlds of Music, 2007

Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music. Edited by Danuta Mirka and Kofi Agawu.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Reviews
Musical Times 149 (2008), 112-15 [P. Williams]
Eighteenth-Century Music 7 (2010): 121-24 [R. Gjerdingen]
Music and Letters 91 (2010), 107-110 [N. November]
Fontes Artis Musicae 56 (2009), 423-24 [Bryan Proksch]
Early Music (2011) [M. Pritchard]

Composition and Transmission of Musical Forms in Africa. Edited by Kofi Anyidoho and Kofi
Agawu. Dakar: CODESRIA, forthcoming.

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Articles in journals, books and encyclopedias:

1983
"The Musical Language of Kindertotenlieder No. 2." Journal of Musicology 2:1 (1983), 81-93.

1984
"On Schubert's Der greise Kopf." In Theory Only 8:1 (1984), 3-21.

"Structural Highpoints in Schumann's Dichterliebe." Music Analysis 3:2 (1984), 159-80.

"The Impact of Language on Musical Composition in Ghana: An Introduction to the Musical

Style of Ephraim Amu." Ethnomusicology 28:1 (1984), 37-73.

1985
"Analytical Issues Raised by Bartók's 'Improvisations for Piano,' opus 20." Journal of
Musicological Research 5:4 (1985), 131-63.

1986
"Tonal Strategy in the First Movement of Mahler's Tenth Symphony." Nineteenth-Century Music
9:2 (1986), 222-33.

"Mahler's Tonal Strategies: A Study of the Song Cycles." Journal of Musicological Research 6:1
(1986), 1-47.

"'Gi Dunu,' 'Nyekpadudo,' and the Study of West African Rhythm." Ethnomusicology 30:1
(1986), 64-83.

1987
"Concepts of Closure and Chopin's Opus 28." Music Theory Spectrum 9 (1987), 1-17.

"The Rhythmic Structure of West African Music." Journal of Musicology 5:3 (1987), 400-18.
"The Making of a Composer: An Interview with Dr. Ephraim Amu." The Black Perspective in
Music 15:2 (1987), 51-63.

"The First Movement of Beethoven's Opus 132 and the Classical Style." College Music
Symposium 27 (1987), 30-45 [Reported by Paul Angus in The Chronicle of Higher Education,
Oct. 12, 1988, p. A11].

1988
"Tone and Tune: The Evidence for Northern Ewe Music." Africa [Journal of the International
African Institute] 58:3 (1988), 127-46.

"Music in the Funeral Traditions of the Akpafu." Ethnomusicology 32:1 (1988), 75-105.

1989
"Stravinsky's Mass and Stravinsky Analysis." Music Theory Spectrum 11:2 (1989), 139-63.

"Schubert's Harmony Revisited: The Songs 'Du liebst mich nicht' and 'Dass sie hier gewesen.'"
Journal of Musicological Research 9:1 (1989), 23-42.

"Schenkerian Notation in Concept and Practice." Music Analysis 8:3 (1989), 275-301.

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"On an African Song from Akpafu." Sonus 10:1 (1989), 22-39.

1990
"Variation Procedures in Northern Ewe Song." Ethnomusicology 34:2 (1990), 221-43.

1992
"Representing African Music." Critical Inquiry 18:2 (1992), 245-66.

"Haydn's Tonal Models." In Convention in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century Music: Essays in
Honor of Leonard G. Ratner, edited by Wye J. Allanbrook, Janet M. Levy, and William P.
Mahrt. Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon Press, 1992, 3-22.

"Extended Tonality in Mahler and Strauss." In Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the
Composer and His Work, edited by Bryan Gilliam. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University
Press, 1992, 55-75.

"Theory and Practice in the Analysis of the Nineteenth-Century Lied." Music Analysis 11:1
(1992), 3-36.

1993
"Does Music Theory need Musicology?" Current Musicology 53 (1993), 89-98.

"Schubert's Sexuality: A Prescription for Analysis?" Nineteenth-Century Music 17:1 (1993), 79-
82.

"Music Analysis and the Politics of Methodological Pluralism." Revista de Musicología [Actas
del XV Congreso de la Sociedad Internacional de Musicología] 16:1 (1993), 399-406.

1994
"Ambiguity in Tonal Music: A Preliminary Study." In Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music,
edited by Anthony Pople. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 86-107.

1995
"The Invention of ‘African Rhythm’." Journal of the American Musicological Society. Special
Issue: Music Anthropologies and Music Histories, 48:3 (1995), 380-95. Reprinted in Popular
Music: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 3, ed. Simon Frith (New York:
Routledge, 2004), 103-18.

1996
"Prolonged Counterpoint in Mahler." In Mahler Studies, edited by Stephen Hefling. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996, 217-47.

"Prospects for a Theory-Based Analysis of Mozart's Instrumental Music." In Wolfgang Amadé

Mozart: Essays on His Life and Work, edited by Stanley Sadie. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1996, 121-31.

"Mozart's Art of Variation: Remarks on the First Movement of K. 503." In Mozart's Piano
Concertos: Text, Context, Interpretation, edited by Neal Zaslaw. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The
University of Michigan Press, 1996, 303-13.

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"The Narrative Impulse in the Second Nachtmusik from Mahler's 7th." In Analytical Strategies
and Musical Interpretation: Essays on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, edited by Craig
Ayrey and Mark Everist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 226-41.

"The Amu Legacy," Africa, 66:2 (1996), 274-79.

"Analyzing music under the new musicological regime." Music Theory Online 2(4):
http://www.societymusictheory.org/mto/issues/mto.96.2.4/mto.96.2.4.agawu.html Reprinted in
Journal of Musicology 15:3 (1997), 297-307.

1997
"The Chamber Music of Beethoven." In Chamber Music in the Nineteenth Century, edited by
Stephen Hefling. New York: Schirmer, 1997, 1-38.

1998
"The Challenge of Musical Semiotics." In Rethinking Music, edited by Nicholas Cook and Mark
Everist, Oxford University Press, 1998, 138-60.

"Music Analysis versus Musical Hermeneutics." American Journal of Semiotics 13:1-4 (1998)
[Special Issue on Signs in Musical Hermeneutics, edited by Siglind Bruhn], 9-24. French
translation by Geneviève Bégou as “Analyse musicale contre herméneutique musicale.” In Sens
et signification en musique, edited by Marta Grabocz. Paris: Hermann, 2007, 93-106.

1999
"The Symphonies." In The Brahms Companion, edited by Michael Musgrave, Cambridge
University Press, 133-55.

2000
Response to Plenary Session. Music Theory Online 6:1
(http://smt.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.00.6.1/mto.00.6.1.agawu.html).

2001
“Introduction.” Research in African Literatures [Special Issue: The Landscape of African Music,
Guest Editor: Kofi Agawu], 32:2 (2001), 3-7.

"African Music as Text." Research in African Literatures, 32:2 (2001), 8-16.

"Analytical Issues Raised by African Art Music." In Intercultural Music 3 (2001), edited by
Cynthia Kimberlin and Akin Euba. Richmond, Ca.: MRI Press, 2001, 135-47.

2002
"Il ritmo.” In Enciclopedia della Musica II: Il sapere musicale, trans. Fulvia De Colle, edited by
Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Torino: Einaudi, 2002, 45-71.

2003
"Contesting Difference: A Critique of (Africanist) Ethnomusicology." In The Cultural Study of
Music: A Critical Introduction, edited by Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert and Richard Middleton.
Routledge: New York, 2003, 227-37. Translated by Hyeon-Gyeong Cae in Eum’ag gwa
munhwa/Music and Culture 9, 2003 [Republic of Korea].

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“Defining and Interpreting African Music.” In African Musical Arts: Theory, Practice
and Education. Edited by Anri Herbst, Meki Nzewi and Kofi Agawu. Pretoria, South Africa:
University of South Africa Press, 2003, 1-12.

"Musica, lingua e danza nella prospettiva degli Ewe del Nord.” In Enciclopedia della Musica III:
Musica e cultura, trans. Nicola Verzina, edited by Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Torino: Einaudi, 2003,
944-56.

"Polyrhythm." In African Folklore: An Encyclopaedia, edited by Philip M. Peek and Kwesi

Yankah. New York: Routledge, 2003, 349-50.

2004
"Aesthetic Inquiry and the Music of Africa." In Companion to African Philosophy, edited by
Kwasi Wiredu. Oxford: Blackwells, 2004, 404-14.

“Embracing the Non-West.” Forum: Music Theory at the Turn of the Millenium. Intégral 14/15
[2000/2001], 63-66.

“Kofi Agawu on African Music[cology].” Interview with Bode Omojola, Mohammed Ben
Abdallah and Zabana Kongo, Glendora Review: African Quarterly on the Arts [Lagos, Nigeria]
3:3-4, 2004, 125-33.

2005
“Effetti del colonialismo sulla musica Africana,” trans. Carlo Vitali, in Enciclopedia della
Musica V: L’unità della musica, ed. Jean-Jacques Nattiez (Torino: Einaudi, 2005), 5-31.

“Is African Pianism Possible?” In Towards an African Pianism: Keyboard Music of Africa and
the Diaspora, edited by Cynthia Tse Kimberlin and Akin Euba (Richmond, Ca.: MRI Press,
2005), 1-19.

“What Adorno Makes Possible for Music Analysis,” 19th-Century Music 29:1 (2005), 48-54.

“How We Got Out of Analysis and How to Get Back In Again,” Music Analysis 23: 2-3 (2005),
267-86.

“Analyzing Black Gospel Music: Notes on the Rev. James Cleveland’s Rendition of ‘What a
Friend We Have in Jesus.” In Multiple Interpretations of Creativity and Knowledge in African
Music Traditions, edited by Bode Omojola and George Dor (Richmond, Ca.: MRI Press, 2005),
153-164.

2006
“Structural Analysis or Cultural Analysis? Competing Perspectives on the ‘Standard Pattern’ of
West African Rhythm.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 59:1 (2006), 1-46.

“The Communal Ethos in African Performance: Ritual, Narrative and Music among the Northern
Ewe.” In Approaches to African Musics, edited by Enrique Cámara de Landa and Silvia Martínez
García. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, Centro Buendía, 2006, 181-200. Also published in
TRANS 11 (2007).

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2007
“To Cite or Not to Cite? Confronting the Legacy of (European) Writing on African Music.”
Fontes Artis Musicae 54:3 (2007), 254-62.

“Edward Said and the Study of Music.” Philomusica On-Line 6:1 (2007).

2008
“Beethoven’s Op. 18 No. 3, First Movement: Two Readings, with a Comment on Analysis.” In
Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music, edited by Danuta Mirka and Kofi Agawu.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 230-53.

“Afterword.” In Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music, edited by Danuta Mirka and Kofi

Agawu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 310-17.

“Topic Theory: Achievement, Critique, Prospects.” In Passagen/IMS Congress Zürich 2007:

Fünf Hauptvorträge, edited by Laurenz Lütteken and Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen. Zurich:
Bärenreiter, 2008, 38-69.

“Meki Nzewi and the discourse of African musicology: a 70th birthday appreciation.” Journal of
the Musical Arts of Africa 5 (2008), 1-18.

2009
“The Dynamics of Orality and the Politics of Music Analysis.” In L’analyse musicale: une
pratique et son histoire, edited by Rémy Campos and Nicholas Donin. Genève: Droz &
Conservatoire, 2009, 123-130.

2010
Commentary [on Rhythm: Africa and Beyond], Music Theory Online 16 (2010)
http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.10.16.4/mto.10.16.4.agawu.html

2011
“The Challenge of African Art Music,” Circuit, musiques contemporaines 21(2), 55-72.

“Taruskin’s Problem(s),” Music Theory Spectrum 33(2), 186-90.

“In Memoriam William Oscar Anku (1949-2010),” Journal of the Musical Arts of Africa, 93-95.

2012
“Leonard G. Ratner (1916-2011),” Ad Parnassum: A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-
Century Instrumental Music 10(19), 191-94.

2013
“The minimalist impulse in African musical creativity,” in Resiliency and Distinction: Beliefs,
Endurance and Creativity in the Musical Arts of Continental and Diasporic Africa. A Festschrift
in Honor of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, edited by Kimasi L. Browne and Jean N. Kidula
Richmond, Ca.: MRI Press, 2013.

“Analyzing Analysis: The largo appassionato from Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in A major, op. 2
no. 2.” In Analizar, interpretar, hacer música: de las Cantigas de Santa María a la organología.
Escritos in memoriam Gerardo V. Huseby. Edited by Melanie Plesch. Ciudad Autónoma de
Buenos Aires: Gourmet Musical Ediciones, 2013, 349-64.

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Review-articles:

1992
"Wrong Notes" [Edward W. Said, Musical Elaborations]. Transition 55 (1992), 162-66.

1997
"Hatten’s Semiotics of Music" [Robert Hatten, Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness,
Correlation, and Interpretation]. Current Musicology 60/61 (1996), 147-61.

"Perspectives on Schubert’s Songs" [Marjorie Wing Hirsch, Schubert’s Dramatic Lieder, Susan
Youens, Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin and Richard Kramer, Distant Cycles: Schubert and the
Conceiving of Song]. Music Analysis 16:1 (1997), 109-124.

"John Blacking and the Study of African Music" [John Blacking, Venda Children’s Songs and
Music, Culture and Experience] Africa 67:3 (1997), 491-99.

2001
“An African Understanding of African Music” [Joshua Uzoigwe, Ukom and Meki Nzewi, African
Music: Theoretical Content]. Research in African Literatures 32:2 (2001), 187-94.

2004
“Adventures in Music Analysis” [Leonard B. Meyer, Spheres of Music and Richard Littlefield,
Frames and Framing]. The Semiotic Review of Books 14:3 (2004), 4-7.

Reviews:

1987
Analytica: Studies in the Description and Analysis of Music, edited by Anders Lönn and Erik
Kjellberg. Music and Letters 68:2 (1987), 155-58.

Schubert: Critical and Analytical Studies, edited by Walter Frisch. Journal of Music Theory,
31:2 (1987), 324-31.

Nicholas Cook, A Guide to Musical Analysis. Music and Letters 68:4 (1987), 375-77.

1988
Zija Kucukalic, Die Struktur des Kunstwerks; mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Musik. Music
and Letters 69:3 (1988) 404-06.

Walter Frisch, Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation. Music Analysis 7:1 (1988),
99-105.

David Epstein, Beyond Orpheus: Studies in Musical Structure. Music and Letters 69:3 (1988),
407-09.

1989
Zentralafrika: Musikgeschichte in Bildern by Jos Gansemans, Barbara Schmidt-Wrenger, et. al.
Music and Letters 70:1 (1989), 74-76.

Wolfgang Bender, Afrikanische Musik. Africa 59:2 (1989), 231-32.

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Chopin Studies edited by Jim Samson. Music and Letters 70:4 (1989), 556-59.

1990
African Musicology: Current Trends, edited by Jacqueline Djedje and William Carter.
Ethnomusicology 34:3 (1990), 460-63.

1991
Leo Treitler, Music and the Historical Imagination. Music and Letters 72:1 (1991), 84-86.

David Locke, Drum Gahu: A Systematic Method for an African Percussion Piece and Drum
Damba: Talking Drum Lessons featuring Abubakari Lunna. Notes 48:1 (1991), 60-62.

Christopher Waterman Jùjú: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music.
Africa 61, 400-01.

Robert O. Gjerdingen, A Classic Turn of Phrase: Music and the Psychology of Convention. Music
Theory Spectrum 13:1 (1991), 112-16.

1992
Jean Jacques Nattiez, Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music, translated by Carolyn
Abbate. Music and Letters 73:2 (1992), 317-319.

Nicholas Cook, Music, Imagination and Culture. Journal of the Royal Musical Association 117:1
(1992), 157-64.

John Gray, African Music: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular, Art, and
Liturgical Musics of Sub-Saharan Africa. Yearbook for Traditional Music 24 (1992), 169.

Simha Arom, African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology,
translated by Martin Thom, Barbara Tuckett, and Raymond Boyd. Music and Letters 73:3
(1992), 486-88.

1993
African Musicology 2, edited by Jacqueline Djedje. Yearbook for Traditional Music 25 (1993),
156-57.

1994
Raymond Monelle, Linguistics and Semiotics in Music. Music and Letters, 75 :1 (1994), 120-22.

The Cambridge Companion to Chopin, edited by Jim Samson. Notes 51:1 (1994), 135-38.

1995
Elaine Sisman, Haydn and the Classical Variation. Journal of the American Musicological
Society 48:1 (1995), 136-44.

Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past, edited by Christopher Hatch and David W.
Bernstein. Music Theory Spectrum 17:2 (1995), 268-74.

1996
Joshua Uzoigwe, Akin Euba: An Introduction to the Life and Music of a Nigerian Composer.
Research in African Literatures, 27:1 (1996), 232 36.

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Downing A. Thomas, Music and the Origins of Language: Theories from the French
Enlightenment. Notes 53:2 (1996), 486-88.

1997
Lawrence Kramer, Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge. Music and Letters 78 (1997),
127-129.

1999
Music and Meaning, edited by Jenefer Robinson. Notes 55:4 (1999), 886-87.

2000
Composing the Music of Africa: Composition, Interpretation and Realisation, edited by Malcolm
Floyd. Music and Letters 81:4 (2000), 64-65.

Roger Scruton, The Aesthetics of Music. Journal of Music Theory 44:2 (2000), 487-94.

2001
Akin Euba, Chaka [Compact Disk]. Research in African Literatures 32:2 (2001), 196-98.

Veit Erlmann, Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West. The
World of Music 43:2/3 (2001), 222-25.

2002
Music and the Racial Imagination, edited by Ronald Radano and Philip Bohlman. Journal of the
American Musicological Society 54:3 (2002), 686-91.

2004
Eero Tarasti, Signs of Music: A Guide to Musical Semiotics by Eero Tarasti. Music and Letters
85:1 (2004), 144-46.

2005
Ruth M. Stone, Music in West Africa: Experiencing Music, Experiencing Culture. Music and
Letters 86:3 (2005), 523-525

2007
Jonathan Dunsby, Making Words Sing: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Song. Twentieth-
Century Music, 3:2 (2007), 277-80.

Robert Hatten, Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert.
Music and Letters 88:2 (2007), 353-55 .

2008
Analytical Studies in World Music, edited by Michael Tenzer. Journal of the American
Musicological Society 61:2 (2008), 411-18.

2009
Byron Almén, A Theory of Musical Narrative. Notes 66:2 (2009), 275-77 [Winner of the Music
Library Association’s Eva Judd O’Meara Award for best review published in Notes in 2009]

2012
Stephen Rumph, Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics. Notes 69:2 (2012), 274-77.

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