Publications

Books

• Hearing with the Mind: Proto-Cognitive Music Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment. Oxford University Press, June 2025. 296 pp.
• with Thomas Christensen and Lester Hu, eds. Thinking Music: Global Sources for the History of Music Theory. Under contract, University of Chicago OPS.
• 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. Under contract, the University of Pennsylvania Press.
• with James Grande, eds. Sound and Sense in British Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• with David E. Cohen, “Attending to Attention in René Descartes’s Compendium Musicae (1618/1650).” Forthcoming, Journal of Music Theory 69.2, Fall 2025.
• “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.  [Winner, 2024 emerging scholar award, the Society for Music Theory].
• “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.
• “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.
• “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  

• “At Adama: A Musical Vignette.” In Art Musics of Israel, ed. Malcolm Miller. Forthcoming, University of Rochester Press, 2025.
• “‘Ossianic Sounds’: Berlioz on Memory.” In Berlioz and His World, ed. Francesca Brittan and Sarah Hibberd. Chicago University Press, 2024.
• “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 issue on the pre-history of music cognition, forthcoming, Journal of Music Theory 69.2, Fall 2025.
• with Francesca Brittan, eds. Colloquy on “Attention, Anxiety, and Audition's Histories,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 72.2 (2019), 541–80.

 

Other Writing 

• with Caleb Mutch and David E. Cohen, “Towards a Pre-History of Music Cognition.” Introduction to special issue on the pre-history of music cognition, forthcoming, Journal of Music Theory 69.2, Fall 2025.
• Entries in Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press.
  • “John Holden,” 2025 (in press).
  • “Walter Young,” 2025 (in press).
  • “Anne Gunn,” (co-authored with Brianna Robertson-Kirkland), 2025 (in press).
• 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.
• with Francesca Brittan, “Introduction.” In colloquy, “Attention, Anxiety, and Audition’s Histories.”  Journal of the American Musicological Society 72.2 (2019), 541–46.
• “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.
• “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).
• Review, “Deirdre Loughridge, Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism.” Music & Letters 99.1 (2018): 126–28.
• Review, “Music and the Nerves: 1700–1900, ed. James Kennaway.” Social History of Medicine 29.3 (2016): 638–39.
• “Of Sound Minds and Tuning Forks: Charcot’s Acoustic Experiments at the Salpêtrière,” Musicology Now, October 2015.
• “Ossian’s Folk Psychology,” by John Savarese [English Literary History 80.3].” Journal of Literature and Science 7.2 (2014).
• Review, “Cute Boy, Charming Girl: Children’s Songs of the Modern Hebrew Nation (1882–1948).” Asian Music (2014), 45.2, 132–33.