Publications
Books
- Hearing with the Mind: Proto-Cognitive Music Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment. Oxford University Press, 2025. 296 pp. Open Access.
- with Thomas Christensen and Lester Hu, eds. Thinking Music: Global Sources for the History of Music Theory. Under contract, University of Chicago OPS. Open Access.
- with Felix Wörner and Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, eds. Lexikon Schriften über Musik III: Musikästhetik in globaler Perspektive. Under contract, Bärenreiter Verlag.
- with Francesca Brittan, eds. The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, and Subjectivity, 1800-1930. Forthcoming, the University of Pennsylvania Press. Open Access.
- with James Grande, eds. Sound and Sense in British Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 2023. Open Access.
- 2025 Diana McVeagh Prize for Best Book on British Music, NABMSA
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- with David E. Cohen, “Exertion, Expectation, Synthesis: Aspects of Aural Perception in Descartes’s Compendium musicae.” Journal of Music Theory 69.2 (2025): 241–61.
- “Hector Berlioz’s Neurophysiological Imagination.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 75.1 (2022), 1–37.
- “‘To ‘Fill Up, Completely, the Whole Capacity of the Mind’: Listening with Attention in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland.” Music Theory Spectrum 44.1 (2022): 141–54.
- Society for Music Theory emerging scholar award, 2024
- “Séances, ‘Sperrits,’ and Self-Playing Accordions: Musical Instruments in Victorian Spiritualism.” Journal of Musicology 38.2 (2021), 230–59.
- “The Kinetic Universe of Philippe Leroux’s De La Texture (2007): Drum Rudiments, Waveform Profiles, and Process Polyphony.” Music Theory & Analysis 8.2 (2021), 327–340.
- “How the Sheng became a Harp.” Journal of Sound Studies 6.2 (2020): 239–56.
- “Talking to the Hand: The ‘Hysterical Epistemology’ of the Migrating Sensorium.” In colloquy, “Attention, Anxiety, and Audition’s Histories.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 72.2 (2019), 552–557.
- “An Eighteenth-Century Theory of Musical Cognition? John Holden’s Essay towards a Rational System of Music (1770).” Journal of Music Theory 62.2, October (2018): 205–48.
- Finalist, Society for Music Theory emerging scholar award, 2019
- “Anne Young’s Introduction to Music (1803): Pedagogical, Speculative, and Ludic Music Theory.” SMT-V 4.3 (2018).
- “Anne Young’s Musical Games (1801): Music Theory, Gender, and Game Design.” SMT-V 4.2 (2018).
- “Music, Theater, and the Moral Treatment: The Case Dei Matti of Aversa and Palermo.” Special issue, “Italian Music & the Medical Sciences,” Laboratoire italien 20.2 (2017).
- “‘The Expressive Organ Within Us’: Ether, Ethereality, and Early Romantic Ideas about Music and the Nerves.” 19th-Century Music 38.2 (2014): 115–44.
- “The Lost Movements of Ernst Toch’s ‘Gesprochene Musik.’” Current Musicology 97 (2014): 37–59.
- “From Trinidad to Cyberspace: Reconsidering Toch’s Geographical Fugue.” Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie 9.2 (2012): 227–43.
- “Wagnerpunk: A Steampunk Reading of Patrice Chéreau’s Staging of Der Ring des Nibelungen (1976).” Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies 4.2 (2011): 91–107.
Book Chapters
- with David E. Cohen and Nori Jacoby, “Consonant / Contingent: Five Case Studies on Musical-Cultural Diversity.” In Neurosciences of Music: Interdisciplinary Insights, ed. Jessica Grahn & Jonathan de Souza. Forthcoming, Oxford University Press.
- “At Adama: A Musical Vignette.” In Classical and Popular Music in Israel: Transcultural Dialogues and Contrasts, ed. Malcolm Miller. University of Rochester Press, 2025, 331–50.
- “‘Ossianic Sounds’: Berlioz on Memory.” In Berlioz and His World, ed. Francesca Brittan and Sarah Hibberd. Chicago University Press, 2024, 49–70.
- “Of Sound Minds and Tuning Forks: Neuroscience’s Vibratory Histories.” In The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future, ed. Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, Psyche Loui, & Deirdre Loughridge. MIT Press, 2023, 115–129. [Featured on The MIT Press Reader, June 2023]
- With James Grande, “Introduction.” In Sound and Sense in British Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- “Operatic Fantasies in Early Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry.” In Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination, ed. David Trippett & Benjamin Walton. Cambridge University Press, 2019, 63–83.
- with Stanley Finger, “Musical Glasses, Metal Reeds, and Broken Hearts: Two Cases of Melancholia Treated by New Musical Instruments.” In The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind and Wellbeing: Historical and Scientific Perspectives, ed. Penelope Gouk, Jacomien Prins, Wiebke Thormaehlen, & James Kennaway. Routledge, 2018, 77–92.
- “Tafillalt’s ‘Soulmate’ and the Israeli Piyyut Revival.” In Al-Andalus and its Jewish Diasporas: Musical Exodus, ed. Ruth F. Davis. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, 165–80.
Special Issues
- with Caleb Mutch and David E. Cohen, eds. Special section on the pre-history of music cognition, Journal of Music Theory 69.2 (Fall 2025), 207–284.
- with Francesca Brittan, eds. Colloquy on “Attention, Anxiety, and Audition's Histories,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 72.2 (2019), 541–80.
Introductions
- with Francesca Brittan, “Sound Attentions.” In The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, and Subjectivity, 1800–1930. In production, the University of Pennsylvania Press.
- with Caleb Mutch and David E. Cohen, “Towards a Pre-History of Music Cognition.” Introduction to special section on the prehistory of music cognition. Journal of Music Theory 69.2 (2025): 207–11.
- with James Grande, “Introduction.” In Sound and Sense in British Romanticism. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series, Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- with Francesca Brittan, Introduction to colloquy on “Attention, Anxiety, and Audition’s Histories.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 72.2 (2019): 541–46.
Reviews
- “Deirdre Loughridge, Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism.” Music & Letters 99.1 (2018): 126–28.
- “Music and the Nerves: 1700–1900, ed. James Kennaway.” Social History of Medicine 29.3 (2016): 638–39.
- “Ossian’s Folk Psychology,” by John Savarese [English Literary History 80.3].” Journal of Literature and Science 7.2 (2014): 90–91.
- “Cute Boy, Charming Girl: Children’s Songs of the Modern Hebrew Nation (1882–1948).” Asian Music 45.2 (2014): 132–33.
Encyclopedia Entries
- Entries in New Grove / Oxford Music Online, Oxford University Press
- “Walter Young,” 2025
https://doi.org/10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000382187 - “John Holden,” 2025
https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.13200 - “Anne Gunn,” (with Brianna Robertson-Kirkland), 2025
https://doi.org/10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000382229
- “Walter Young,” 2025
- Entries in Thinking Music, ed, Thomas Christensen, Lester Hu, & Carmel Raz
- “Anne Young’s Musical Games (1801)”
- “John Holden’s Essay towards a Rational System of Music (1770)”
- Entries in Lexikon der musikalischen Schriften II, ed. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann & Felix Wörner. Bärenreiter Verlag, 2022.
- “John Holden, ‘Essay towards a Rational System of Music,’” pp. 388–390.
- “James Beattie, ‘On Poetry & Music, As They Affect the Mind,’” pp. 92–94.
- “Christian Conrad Moritz, ‘Die Wirkungen der äußern Sinne in psychologischer Rücksicht: Über das musikalische Gehör’” (with David E. Cohen), pp. 605–607.
Public Writing
- “The Hidden History of Women Game Designers.” JStor Daily, November 2025
- “Music of the Squares: David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics.” Public Domain Review, May 16, 2019.
- “Going Global, in Theory.” (with David E. Cohen, Roger M. Grant, Andrew Hicks, Nathan J. Martin, Caleb Mutch, Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Felix Wörner, and Anna Zayaruznaya). IMS Blog: Musicological Brainfood 3.1 (2019).
- “Of Sound Minds and Tuning Forks: Charcot’s Acoustic Experiments at the Salpêtrière.” Musicology Now, October 2015.
