ILIAS CHRISSOCHOIDIS

1992 Ptychio (equivalent to MA) summa cum laude and highest GPA in the school’s history, Musicology and Music Education, Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Thesis: “The Life and Works of Nicholas Astrinidis.”

1989–1990 private instruction in Conducting with Karolos Trikolidis (student of Hans Swarovski and Herbert von Karajan), New Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece.

1992 Diploma in Theory of Music (cluster of teaching degrees) cum laude,

Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece.

1992 Fugue (Diploma: Excellent Unanimously with Distinction)

1990 Hodiki (Degree: Excellent)

1990 Counterpoint (Degree: Excellent Unanimously)

1988 Harmony (Degree: Excellent)

1990 Diploma in Piano Performance (professional degree) cum laude and First Prize,

Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS AND ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS

2011–2012 Visiting Fellowship, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA

Visiting Scholar, Department of Music, Stanford University (July–September)

2010–2011 ACLS Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies

Kluge Fellowship, The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress

Visiting Fellowship, Houghton Library, Harvard University

McGill-ASECS Fellowship, The Burney Centre, McGill University

Honorary Research Associate, Department of Economics, University College London

Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University [declined]

2010, Jan. Research grant, “Music & Letters” Trust

2009–2010 Research Associate, ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE),

Department of Economics, University College London

Early Career Research Associate, Institute of Musical Research,

School of Advanced Study, University of London

2007–2008 Mayers Fellowship, The Huntington

2006–2007 John M. Ward Fellowship in Dance and Music for the Theatre, Houghton Library, Harvard University

Mary and Eric Weinmann Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library

2005–2006 Kanner Fellowship in British Studies, Center for Seventeenth- & Eighteenth-Century Studies, UCLA

ASECS/Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Gwin J. and Ruth Kolb Research Fellowship, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

2005 Honorary Citation, Academy of Athens

2004–2005 Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington

2004 J. Merrill Knapp Research Fellowship, American Handel Society

2003–2004 Aubrey Williams Research Travel Fund Award, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

2003 Travel Fellowship, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Graduate Research Opportunity Award, Stanford University

Ingolf Dahl Award Competition Finalist, AMS Pacific Southwest and Northern California chapters

Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship Finalist, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

2002–2003 Research Fellowship, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA

Visiting Fellowship, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

2001–2002 Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center

2000–2002 Doctoral Fellowship, Panayotis and Effie Michelis Foundation

1996–2000 Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University

1995–1996 Postgraduate Fellowship, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation

Vozou Fellowship, Academy of Athens

1994–1995 Velliou-Varonou Scholarship, Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs

1992–1993 Postgraduate Scholarship, Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki

1991 (Fall) research grant, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

1990 Honorary Diploma and Scholarship, Rotary Club of Thessaloniki

1987–1991 Undergraduate Fellowships, Greek State Scholarships Foundation

1986 Honorary Diploma, Municipality of Neapolis, Thessaloniki

1985–1992 Fellowship, School of Advanced Music Theory, Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Continuing Studies Program, Stanford University (Lecturer):

2012 Summer What Makes Classical Music Tick: The Elements of Sound

2012 Winter An introduction to Opera

2011 Fall Practical Music Theory

2009 Fall Handel and His Times [cancelled]

2009 Summer Music’s Anatomy: Classical Music from the Inside

2008 Summer Practical Music Theory

2008 Spring Mozart and the Enlightenment

2007 Summer Practical Music Theory

2006 Fall Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies

2006 Summer Practical Music Theory

2006 Spring A Practical Introduction to Harmony

2005 Fall Handel’s London

2005 Summer A Practical Introduction to Music Theory

2005 Spring Handel and Georgian England [cancelled]

Teaching evaluations

Department of Music, Stanford University (Teaching Fellow):

2004 Winter Elements of Music II

2003 Fall Elements of Music I

2003 Spring Elements of Music III

2002 Fall Introduction to Music Theory

1999 Fall Mozart’s Instrumental Music

1999 Winter Music History until 1750

1998 Fall The Music of J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel

1998 Spring Talking about Music

1998 Winter Introduction to Music

1997 Fall Introduction to Music Theory

Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece (Lecturer):

1989 – 1991 Music Theory I

1989 – 1991 Piano I

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WORK EXPERIENCE

2010 executive assistant, “Game Theory, Drama, & Opera” workshop (organized by Steffen Huck and Sir Peter Jonas),

July 6–7, University College London.

2008–2009 research and editorial assistant, Richard Wagner and His World, ed. Thomas S. Grey (Princeton and Oxford, 2009).

2007 exhibition curator, “Celebrating Handel in Georgian England,” Houghton Library, Harvard University

2006–2008 research and editorial assistant, The Cambridge Companion to Wagner, ed. Thomas S. Grey (Cambridge, 2008).

2004–2008 music director and piano accompanist, “Hope Musical Theatre,” Palo Alto, CA.

2004 musicological advisor, “Hellenic Festival” (28, 30 October, 6 November), The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York City

2003 referee for the Journal of the American Musicological Society

2003, Aug 5 panel chair, “Music and Words,” 11^th Quadrennial Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), UCLA

2002, Oct finalist, regular columnist search, The Stanford Daily

2002–2004 research associate to a non-profit organization

2002, 2003 coordinator, photo exhibit on world development problems, “Rhythms” hunger relief concert, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University (24/02/02, 16/02/03)

2001, Dec 4 organizer, “The Miracle behind the Miracles,” lecture and slide-show by Buddy Piper, Bechtel International Center, Stanford University

2001, Dec. 1 organizer, “A Spiritual Perspective on the September 11 Attacks: Panel Discussion and Public Forum,” Stanford Humanities Center

2001–2003 organizer, photo exhibit on world development problems, United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF), Stanford University (25–28 October 2001, 24–27 October 2002, 1 May 2003, 22–26 October 2003)

2000–2002 published author of three books of fiction in Greek

2000–2001 desk assistant, Media & Microtext, Stanford University Libraries

2000–2001 piano accompanist for “Ballet I,” Stanford University Dance Division

1999–2000 administrative assistant, “Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures in Musicology,” Stanford University Department of Music

1998–2004 guest columnist, “The Stanford Daily”

1998–2000 co-director, “Graduate Musicology Forum,” Stanford University

1998–1999 assistant, “Lully Archive,” Stanford University Music Library

1997–2003 piano recitalist, Stanford University and Palo Alto

1996 musicological advisor, Nikos Astrinidis: A Portrait, TV documentary by Giorgos Keramidiotis, Greek Television Channel 3

1994–1996 office assistant (unpaid), “World Goodwill,” London, UK

1989–1992 archivist and assistant to composer Nikos Astrinidis, Thessaloniki

1989–1991 co-founder and member of the editorial board of the journal Mousikotropies, Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

1989–1990 assistant to the director (unpaid), New Conservatory of Thessaloniki

1983/4 various musicological projects

1981–1985, c1990—present: composer

also, experience as a piano performer (soloist and accompanist), editor, translator (into Greek), lecturer, recording supervisor

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WRITINGS [Gr= in Greek]

Monographs

Articles

Shorter pieces

Invited presentations

Unpublished research papers

Monographs

Studies in Handel Reception, 1732–1784, collection of essays on Handel, his oratorios, and their reception in Britain before the 1784 Commemoration Festival [proposal submitted].

The Doomed Challenger: John Brown (1715–1766) and his Reform of English Oratorio, 100–150 page monograph [proposal submitted].

Handel Reference Database, Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) at Stanford University, 2008–present (3528 items, 635,000 words).

Neoplatonic Musical Imagery in Shakespeare, book manuscript (ca 50,000 words) [under revision].

From the Garden of Diaspora to the Cell of Repatriation: The Life and Works of Nikos Astrinidis (1921–2010), book manuscript (50,000 words) [awaiting publication funding] [Gr].

Articles

“Handel in the balance: A scale of musical merit from 1776” [ca 7,000 words, in progress].

“Music and musicians in the Jennens-Holdsworth correspondence (1729–46),” jointly with Amanda Babington [ca 30,000 words, in final stages].

“Handel at sixty (1745): New insights on Handel’s darkest hour” [15,000 words, in final stages].

“Νίκος Αστρινίδης (1921–2010): Βιογραφία και κατάλογος έργων [Nikos Astrinidis (1921–2010): Biography and works catalogue]” [15,500 words, under review].

“‘As a dictionary to a novel’: A C.P.E. Bach entry in Beethoven’s Op. 2, No. 3?” [10,100 words, under revision].

“Μουσικός Πλατωνισμός στην Ελισαβετιανή Αναγέννηση [Musical Platonism in Elizabethan Renaissance]” [9,750 words, under review].

“‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’: A Counterfactual Analysis of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser,” jointly with Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, and Wieland Müller [7,150 words, under review].

“Born in the press: The public molding of Esther into an English oratorio (1732)” [under revision].

“From the garden of Diaspora to the cell of repatriation: Hellenism in the life and works of Nikos Astrinidis,” Aspects of Hellenism in Music [in production].

“Dramatic pairing in Fidelio: A structuralist approach,” College Music Symposium 52 [accepted].

“Handelian oratorio and the sublime according to John Baillie,” Göttinger Händel-Beiträge 14 [in production].

“An emblem of modern music: temporal symmetry in the prologue of L’Orfeo (1607),” Early Music 39/4 (November 2011), 519–530.

“Reforming Handel: John Brown and The Cure of Saul (1763),” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 136/2 (2011), 207–245.

“Elsa’s reason: On beliefs and motives in Wagner’s Lohengrin,” jointly with Steffen Huck, Cambridge Opera Journal 22/1 (2010), 65–91.

“‘hee-haw ... llelujah’: Handel among the Vauxhall Asses (1732),” Eighteenth-Century Music 7/2 (September 2010), 221–262.

“London Mozartiana: Wolfgang’s disputed age & early performances of Allegri’s Miserere,” The Musical Times, vol. 151, no. 1911 (Summer 2010), 83–89.

“Handel, Hogarth, Goupy: Artistic intersections in Handelian biography,” Early Music 37/4 (November 2009), 577–596.

“Handel at a Crossroads: His 1737–1738 and 1738–1739 Seasons Re-Examined,” Music & Letters 90/4 (November 2009), 599–635.

“Handel’s reception and the rise of music historiography in Britain,” in Music’s Intellectual History, ed. Zdravko Blažeković and Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie (New York: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, 2009), 387–396.

“‘true Merit always Envy rais’d’: The Advice to Mr. Handel (1739) and Israel in Egypt’s early reception,” The Musical Times, vol. 150, no. 1906 (Spring 2009), 69–86.

“Handel recovering: Fresh light on his affairs in 1737,” Eighteenth-Century Music 5 (2008), 237–244.

“English oratorio in London: The 1765 season,” Händel-Jahrbuch 54 (2008), 313–327.

“A Handel relative in Britain? (also cutting through the 1759 fence in Handel studies),” The Musical Times, vol. 148, no. 1898 (Spring 2007), 49–58.

“A chubby Orpheus: Handel’s corpulence as a prerogative of genius,” in Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century: Narratives of Consumption, 1700–1900, ed. Tamara S. Wagner and Narin Hassan (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007), 223–236.

“Set theory in Xenakis’ EONTA,” in International Symposium Iannis Xenakis, ed. Anastasia Georgaki and Makis Solomos (Athens: The National and Kapodistrian University, 2005), 241–249.

“The ‘Artusi-Monteverdi’ controversy: Background, content, and modern interpretations,” British Postgraduate Musicology 6 (2004), online.

“Eine Faust-Symphonie and Lawrence Kramer’s reading of the ‘Gretchen’ movement,” Journal of the American Liszt Society 50 (Autumn 2001), 9–17.

Shorter pieces

“A Handelian piracy during a ‘Handel’ Year” [in preparation].

“Farinelli sings Handel” [in preparation].

“Handel and crime” [in preparation].

“From the music historian’s desk: Burney researching the Royal Academy of Music” [in preparation].

“An annotated wordbook of The Beggar’s Opera (1728)” [in preparation].

“A ghost reference to Lohengrin in Nietzsche’s Der Fall Wagner” [in preparation].

“A Master Stands: Rare Brahms Photos in the Library of Congress,” Fontes Artis Musicae 59/1 (January–March 2012), 39–44.

“Ο Σεφέρης και η Αμερική [Σεφέρης-Στραβίνσκι-Χάρβαρντ: η άγνωστη σχέση του ποιητή με το κορυφαίο πανεπιστήμιο / Seferis-Stravinski-Harvard: the unknown links of the poet with the university],” Το Βήμα της Κυριακής [The Sunday Vima], 25 September 2011, 14–15.

“Princess Carolina’s list of monthly expenses, January–February 1727/8,” Notes & Queries 58/3 (September 2011), 401–403.

“Handelian references in Richard Pococke’s early correspondence (1734–7),” Newsletter of The American Handel Society 26/1 (Spring 2011), 5–6.

“Musical References in Richard Pococke’s Early Correspondence (1734–37),” Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter 17 (September 2010–April 2011), 5.

“ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ: Μία συμφωνική, ένα αφεντικό και δύο μνηστήρες” [original title: “Ανέκδοτη αλληλογραφία του Μητρόπουλου στην Βιβλιοθήκη του Κογκρέσου / Unpublished correspondence of Mitropoulos in the Library of Congress”], Το Βήμα της Κυριακής [The Sunday Vima], 9 January 2011, B2: 6–7.

“An author’s fee: John Mainwaring’s Handel biography (1760),” Notes and Queries 57/4 (December 2010), 546–548.

“The Music of the Count of St. Germain: An Edition,” Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter 16 (April 2010), [6–7].

“Senesino’s Black Boy (1725),” The Handel Institute Newsletter 21/1 (Spring 2010), [7–8].

“George I goes to the masquerade (1721),” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 42/1 (Autumn 2009), 47–49.

“Drama in Nikos Astrinidis’ oeuvre: An Introduction,” Twentieth-Century Greek Music Creation in Lyric Drama and other Representative Arts, ed. George Vlastos (Athens: Friends of Music, 2009), 252–256 [Gr].

“Music in Good Time and the Handelian discord in 1745,” Newsletter of The American Handel Society 24/2 (Summer 2009), 1–3.

short review, Winton Dean, Handel’s Operas, 1726–1741 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2006), The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 41/2 (Spring 2009), 239 [authorship withdrawn].

“Mrs. Cibber’s oratorio salary in 1744–45,” The Handel Institute Newsletter 20/1 (Spring 2009), [1–2].

“Oratorio à la Mode[: Esther and Fielding’s The Modern Husband (1732)],” Newsletter of The American Handel Society 23/1–2 (Spring–Summer 2008), 7–9.

“Handel references in The Evening Advertiser (1754–1756),” The Handel Institute Newsletter 19/1 (Spring 2008), [4–5].

“‘It’s good to be a King,’” North American British Music Studies Association Newsletter 4/1 (Spring 2008), online.

“La Musique du Diable (1711),” Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter 11 (October 2007), 7–9.

“His Majesty’s choice: Esther in May 1732,” Newsletter of The American Handel Society 22/2 (Summer 2007), 4–6.

“A ‘fam’d Oratorio … in old English … sung’: Esther on 16 May 1732,” The Handel Institute Newsletter 18/1 (Spring 2007), [4–7].

“Charles Handell, Esq. (? – 1776),” Newsletter of The American Handel Society 21/1 (Spring 2006), 1, 3.

“Report, 2003–04 Aubrey Williams Research Travel Grant,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies News Circular 136 (Fall 2005), 7–8.

“A new Handel dissertation,” Newsletter of The American Handel Society 19/2 (August 2004), 5.

Letter to the editor [“Beethoven and Freedom: Another way of looking at things?”] The Beethoven Journal 18 (2003), 58–59.

Communication, Journal of the American Musicological Society 56 (2003), 221–224.

“Ορατόριο Άγιος Δημήτριος (1962) [Nicolas Astrinidis: Oratorio Saint Demetrios],” Mousikotropies 1/1996, 13–20 [Gr].

“Glimpses of a vision for Twenty-First-Century scholarship,” Musical Objects: A Postgraduate Review 1 (1995), 65–66.

“Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 14, op. 27, no. 2, first movement – A hermeneutic analysis,” Mousikotropies 3/1995, 40–45 [Gr].

Nicolas Astrinidis: Oratorio Saint Demetrios, booklet for CD with extracts from the oratorio (Thessaloniki: Thalassa Records, 1994), 15 pp.

“F. Chopin: Prelude Op. 28, Αρ. 14 – Ένα Παράδειγμα Χρήσης της Γραμμικής Αντίστιξης στη Ρομαντική Μουσική / F. Chopin: Prelude Op. 28, no. 14. An example of monophonic counterpoint in Romantic music,” Mousikotropies 1/94, 23–31 [Gr].

Invited Presentations

“The Theory, Practice and Business of Opera Today,” Leeds University Centre for Opera Studies, University of Leeds, April 12–14, 2012:

“‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’: A Counterfactual Analysis of Tannhäuser’s Dilemma”

(co-authored with Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, and Wieland Müller)

Noon Lecture, Whittall Pavilion, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 18 May 2011:

“From the London Stage to Westminster Abbey: Cultural Mobility of Handel’s Oratorios in Britain, 1732-1784”

“Early Modern Women in the Arts,” West Chester University, 16 April 2011:

“A ‘new-fashioned Martyr’: Handel, Lady Brown, and ‘baby-boomer’ musicology” [cancelled]

American Musicological Society Capital Chapter meeting, Washington, D.C., 2 April 2011:

“Dramatic pairing in Fidelio: A structuralist approach”

16th Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University of Southampton, 8–11 July 2010:

“Dramatic pairing in Fidelio: A structuralist approach”

“Game Theory, Drama, & Opera,” University College London, 6–7 July 2010:

“‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’: A Counterfactual Analysis of Tannhäuser’s Dilemma”

(co-authored with Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, and Wieland Müller)

“Directions in Musical Research” seminar, Institute of Musical Research, University of London, 18 February 2010:

“Handel, Us and Them: Reflections on Handelian Historiography”

“Music and the Moving Image,” New York University, 29–31 May 2009:

“Sid Caesar, ‘Argument to Beethoven’s Fifth’: A Comic Misreading of Cultural Consequence”

“Purcell, Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn: Anniversary reflections,” New College, Oxford, 27–29 March 2009:

“Handel as a Transitional Figure”

“Greek music for the opera and other forms of the performing arts in the 20th century,” Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall, Greece, 27–28 March 2009:

“Drama in the works of Nikos Astrinidis”

Third Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, York University, Toronto, 31 July–3 August 2008:

“A Founding Father of Social Responsibility in Music? Handel in Georgian Britain” [cancelled]

39th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, OR, 27–30 March 2008:

“Public Discipline and Handel’s Oratorios” [cancelled]

18^th Congress of the International Musicological Society, University of Zurich, 10–15 July 2007:

“Handel as a transitional figure”

2007 American Handel Festival, Princeton University, 19–21 April 2007:

“‘How is the hero fall’n!’: New Light on Handel’s Darkest Hour (1745)”

29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory (jointly with AMS), “Scholars for Social Responsibility” session, Los Angeles, 2–5 November 2006:

“A Founding Father of Social Responsibility in Music? Handel in Georgian Britain”

Second Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT, 4–5 August 2006:

“A ‘Scale to Measure the Merits of Musicians’ (1776)”

Twelfth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, University of Warsaw, Poland, 26–30 July 2006:

“Born in the Press: The Political Context of Handel’s Esther (1732)”

“Music and Consciousness,” University of Sheffield, UK, 17–19 July 2006:

“Cyril Scott’s Musical Platonism”

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) International Conference 2006, Durham University, UK, 6–9 July 2006:

“Couples and Coupling in Beethoven’s Fidelio”

Annual joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters, University of California, Berkeley, 6–7 May 2006:

“Handel, Lady Brown, and Baby-Boomer Musicology” [cancelled]

“Aspects of Hellenism in Music,” Music Megaron of Athens, Athens, Greece, 5–7 May 2006:

“From the Garden of Diaspora to the Cell of Repatriation: Hellenism in the Life and Works of Nikos Astrinidis”

37th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Quebec, 30 March–2 April 2006:

“Handel and the Sublime according to John Baillie (1747)” [cancelled]

35th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK, 4–6 January 2006:

“Building the Empire on Sound Art: John Brown’s Reform of Handelian Oratorio, 1763” [cancelled]

“Romania-Enescu-Europe,” The City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, 1–2 December 2005:

“From Romanian Folklore to Greek Nationalism: The Cultural Migration of Nikos Astrinidis (1921–)”

“Politics [AND/IN] Aesthetics International Conference,” Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece / University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, 4–9 June 2005:

“National Regeneration through Art: John Brown’s Reform of Handelian Oratorio, 1763”

International Symposium Iannis Xenakis, University of Athens / University of Montpellier 3, Athens, Greece, 18–20 May 2005:

“Set theory in Xenakis’ EONTA” (in collaboration)

Annual joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 30 April—1 May 2005:

“Sid Caesar, ‘Argument to Beethoven’s Fifth’: A Comic Misreading of Cultural Consequence”

36^th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, 31 March–3 April 2005:

“Quantifying Genius: British Adaptations of de Piles’ Scale of Painters”

2005 Joint Meetings of College Music Society Pacific Central Chapter, West Coast Conference for Music Theory and Analysis, and Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory, University of San Francisco, 18–20 March 2005:

“Chopin’s ‘Prelude’ Op. 28, No. 14: A Case of Monophonic Counterpoint in Romantic Music” (March 19)

The American Handel Society Conference, Santa Fe, NM, 17–20 March 2005:

“Born in the Press: The Public Molding of Handel’s Esther into an English Oratorio” (March 18)

“Music’s Intellectual History: Founders, Followers & Fads,” The City University of New York Graduate Center, 16–19 March 2005:

“Handel’s Reception and the Rise of Music Historiography in England” (March 17)

34^th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK, 6–8 January 2005:

“Quantifying Genius: British Adaptations of de Piles’ Scale of Painters”

“Britannia (Re-)Sounding,” The First North American British Music Studies Association Biannual Conference, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, OH, 18–19 June 2004:

“From Stage to Cathedral: Cultural Mobility of English Oratorio in 18^th-Century Britain”

Annual joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters, University of San Francisco, 1–2 May 2004:

“Quantifying Genius: Justice Balance’s ‘hit parade’ of Composers, 1776”

Renaissance Conference of Southern California, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 20–21 February 2004:

“An Advertisement of Music’s Power? Temporal Symmetry in the Prologue of L’Orfeo”

33^rd Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, 3–5 January 2004:

“Born in the Press: The Public Molding of Handel’s Esther into an English Oratorio”

11^th Quadrennial Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 3–9 August 2003:

“National Regeneration through Art: John Brown’s Reform of Handelian Oratorio, 1763”

Annual joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters, California State University, Fullerton, 3–4 May 2003:

“Born in the Press: The Public Molding of Handel’s Esther into an English Oratorio”

The American Handel Festival, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, 27 February–2 March 2003:

“Re-Inventing a Genre: John Brown’s Reception of Handelian Oratorio”

Winter meeting of the Northern California AMS chapter, University of San Francisco, 8 February 2003:

“‘Like a Dictionary to a Novel’: A C.P.E. Bach Entry in Beethoven’s Op. 2, No. 3?”

68^th meeting of the American Musicological Society, Columbus, OH, 31 October–3 November 2002:

“The Doomed Challenger: John Brown’s Reform of Handelian Oratorio”

Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters joint meeting, Stanford University, 27–28 April 2002:

“The Doomed Challenger: John Brown’s Reform of Handelian Oratorio”

Fellow lecture, Stanford Humanities Center, 14 February 2002:

“Early Reception and the Moral Claims of Handel’s Oratorios, 1732–1784”

“Ron Alexander Memorial Lecture in Musicology,” Stanford University, 9 April 2001:

response to Reinhard Strohm, “The End of the Middle Ages and the End of Modernity”

Undergraduate Seminar in Composition (instructor: Professor Melissa Hui), Stanford University Department of Music, 13 April 1999:

“Ilias Chrissochoidis, Piano Concerto”

Royal Musical Association 29^th Research Students’ Conference, Royal Holloway College, University of London, 20–23 December 1995:

“‘Was Monteverdi a Misogynist?’ and ‘Does Anyone Really Care About It?’”

Royal Musical Association 28^th Annual Research Students’ Conference, University of Manchester, December 1994:

“Towards the Emancipation of the Musical Work”

Armenian Cultural Center, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1993:

“The Life and Works of Nicolas Astrinidis”

School of English, University of Liverpool, June 1992:

“Baconian or Stratfordian Theory?”

Unpublished Research Papers

“Fragmentation in Classical Era Instrumental Music” (research paper, fall 1998).

“Three Moments in Music Aesthetics” (paper, fall 1998).

“An Essay on Schenker and Some of his Intellectual Affinities with Hanslick and Schopenhauer” (research paper, spring 1998).

“Beethoven’s Heiliger Dankgesang” (research paper, spring 1997).

“An Exploration of Anti-Teleological Moments in Beethoven’s Fidelio” (research paper, winter 1997).

“The Canon and how one can blow it up: Improvisation on a commonly obscure theme” (seminar paper, April 1995).

“An Analysis of John Williams’ Star Wars (Main Title)” (seminar paper, January 1995).

“Baconian or Stratfordian Theory?” (seminar paper, June 1992).

Music Essays

“Saved by (English) grace” [1200 words].

“René Descartes, Compendium musicae (1618)” [under review] [Gr].

“Infernal diva” [1500 words].

“έτος Robert Schumann: Η Συμφωνία αρ. 1, έργο 38,” Πολύτονον 42 (September–October 2010), 37–39, and 43 (November–December), 42–43 [Gr].

“Η θεωρία των συνόλων στα ΕΟΝΤΑ του Ξενάκη,” (jointly with Χρίστος Μητσάκης and Σταύρος Χουλιαράς), Πολύτονον 43 (November–December 2010), 21–23 [Gr].

“Η πρόσληψη του Handel από τον Mozart [Mozart’s Reception of Handel],” Πολύτονον 38 (January–February 2010), 22–23, and 39 (March 2010), 40–41 [Gr].

“Composed in Hypocricy” [original title: “Music, torture, and the drama of American musicology”], Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 55, no. 35, Friday 8 May 2009, B10.

Epilogue (14 May 2009)

“György Ligeti, Zehn Stücke für Bläserquintett (1968): Κομμάτι αρ. 3 ‘Lento’,” Πολύτονον 31 (November–December 2008), 25–27 [Gr].

“Το νέο look του Μότσαρτ: Η περιπέτεια μιας ανακάλυψης,” Πολύτονον 29 (July–August 2008), 26–29 [Gr].

“Η μουσική ανακάλυψη της χρονιάς είναι ... εικαστική: Ένα νέο πορτραίτο του Μότσαρτ,” ΒΗΜΑ Ιδεών 14 (June 2008), 4–5 [Gr].

“Political History of Greece in the 20^th Century: A Musicotropic Attempt toward National Self-Awareness,” Πολύτονον 15 (March–April 2006), 27–29 [February 2005; Gr].

“[MVAM]” (diagnostic statement, 26 October 2005).

“Amateur Suicide or Professional Execution? The Fate of Musical Objects” (letter to the editor of British Postgraduate Musicology, 31 July 2002).

“Η Όπερα στην Αυλή του Mannheim, 1742–1778 [Opera at Mannheim Court, 1742–1778],” Mousikotropies 40–41 (1–2/2002), 21–25 [Gr].

“Nicolas Astrinidis: Pianist-Composer-Conductor. Live Recordings,” CD liner notes (Thessaloniki: Thalassa Records, 200?).

“The Early Years of Alexander the Great,” oratorio by Nicolas Astrinidis (program notes), 7 February 2002, Symphony Orchestra of the Municipality of Thessaloniki concert [Gr].

“Aesthetic Ingenuity or Historical Authenticity?” (news story, –14 March 1999) [Gr].

“Nicolas Astrinidis: The Youth of Alexander the Great,” liner notes for CD with extracts from the oratorio (Thessaloniki: Thalassa Records, 1998).

“Jean-Philippe Rameau: Traité de l’Harmonie (1722) (1^st Book),” translated into Greek by Sakis Laios, Mousikotropies 2/1998, 13–18 [Gr].

program notes, recital for two pianos, Nicolas Astrinidis, J. Prunner, 30 May 1996, Italian Institute, Thessaloniki.

“Johann Sebastian Bach: Overtüre nach Französischen Art (BWV 831),” Mousikotropies 4/1995, 42–49 [Gr].

“Nicolas Astrinidis: Fantaisie Concertante, op. 19 (1949),” program notes, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, 1 June 1995 [Gr].

“Examples of Applying Speculative Thinking on Musical Phenomena” (translation of Joscelyn Godwin, Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: The Spiritual Dimension of Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde [London: Thames and Hudson, 1987]), Mousikotropies 4/1994, 38–47 [Gr].

“Theme – Music: A Catalyst for the Synthesis of Sciences,” Mousikotropies 4/1994, 28 [Gr].

“‘The Artistic Creation must be a Challenge...When a Young Composer indulges in Mannerism, He also dies Young’: a Conversation with Theodore Antoniou” (interview), Mousikotropies 4/1994, 19–28 [Gr].

“Manos Hadjidakis: in Obscuritatem,” Mousikotropies 3/1994, 18–19 [Gr].

“Beethoven’s Place in Music History” (translation of Barry Cooper’s article from The Beethoven Compendium: A Guide to Beethoven’s life and music, ed. by Barry Cooper et al. [London: Thames and Hudson, 1991]), Mousikotropies 2/1994, 41–43 [Gr].

“Music in Kircher’s Work” (translation of chapter six [“Music”] of Joscelyn Godwin, Athanasius Kircher: a Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge [London: Thames and Hudson, 1979]), Mousikotropies 3–4/1993, 70–77 [Gr].

“Music and Philosophy: The End of the Music,” Mousikotropies 3–4/1993, 59–61 [Gr].

“Theme: Three-Dimensional Scores,” Mousikotropies 2/1993, 56 [Gr].

“An Essay on Rhythm,” Mousikotropies 2/1993, 48–55 [Gr].

“A Conversation with Nicolas Astrinidis” (interview), Mousikotropies 1/1993, 26–31 [Gr].

“Theme (The Influence of the Frequency Environment on Human Beings),” Mousikotropies 3/1992, 61 [Gr].

“The Cross in Musical Creation and Re-creation,” Mousikotropies 3/1992, 59–61 [Gr].

“Sight Reading (prima vista): Performance Ability or also Interpretation Technique?” Mousikotropies 1/1992, 61–63 [Gr].

“A Letter to Mozart after ‘Mozart’s Year,” Mousikotropies 1/1992, 8–10 [Gr].

“Nicolas Astrinidis: Sto Christo, sto Kastro,” program notes, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, 19 December 1991 [Gr].

“Tradition: the Double-Edged Sword of Civilization,” Mousikotropies 3/1991, 58–63 [Gr].

“Music and Cooking: Piano-Barbecue,” Mousikotropies 3/1991, 12–14 [Gr].

“The Transposition Principle as a Manifestation of the Multifieldity [= Multifield State] of the Universe,” Mousikotropies 2/1991, 60–61 [Gr].

“The Musical Work: a High Energy Transformer,” Mousikotropies 1/1991, 63–64 [Gr].

“Dinu Lipatti (1917–1950),” Mousikotropies 1/1991, 23–31 [Gr].

“Specialization in Musical Life: Conquest or Hindrance?” Mousikotropies 4/1990, 76–77 [Gr].

“Manifestations of Medicity [= Mediating Function] in Musical Creation and Re-creation,” Mousikotropies 4/1990, 32–35 [Gr].

“Duty in the Life/Work of Dimitris Mitropoulos,” Mousikotropies 3/1990, 63–74 [Gr].

“‘The Bird, the Mediocre Person, and the Being Existing on a Low Evolutionary Level’ (A-sopou’s Tale) and the Case of Dimitris Mitropoulos,” Mousikotropies 3/1990, 11–17 [Gr].

“Theme (What is Music?),” Mousiki Periodiki Ekdosi 2/3 (April 1990), 27 [Gr].

“Plan of a Method for a more thorough Approach of the Musical Work,” Mousiki Periodiki Ekdosi 2/3 (April 1990), 18–27 [Gr].

“What is Music? A Quest for a Definition of Music. Injective part,” Mousikotropies 2/1990, 54–62 [Gr].

“What is Music? A Quest for a Definition of Music. Second Part: Towards a Quest for a Definition of Music. First Section: Three Fundamental Propositions,” Mousikotropies 1/1990, 38–43 [Gr].

“What is Music? A Quest for a Definition of Music. First Part: On Definition in general,” Mousikotropies, announcement issue (November 1989), 17–28 [Gr].

“The Perfect Training of the Fingers: in their Combination, with the Restriction of non-repeating the Same Finger in Each Combination” (method), Mousiki Periodiki Ekdosi 1 (April 1989), 35–40 [Gr]; reviewed and partly reprinted in Chronis Moysiadis and Haralampos C. Spyridis, Applied Mathematics in the Science of Music (Thessaloniki: Ziti, 1994), 87–90, 219–25.

Other Writings

“Sharing as Practice” (program notes to personal piano recital, 6 February 2002).

“A Spiritual Perspective on the September 11 Attacks: Panel Discussion and Public Forum” (introductory remarks, 1 December 2001).

“On the UN’s Peace Nobel Prize” (program notes to personal piano recital, 17 October 2001).

“The Case for Sharing” (program notes to personal piano recital, 4 April 2001).

“You are right…but I’m not convinced” (entry for the “Center of Teaching and Learning Speech” contest, 1 November 2000).

“A 1767 UFO Sighting?” (communication to various UFO-research electronic boards, 27 August 2000).

“Religion, Morality, and the University,” The Thinker 6/1 (October 1999), 3, 5.

“1999 Stanford Founders’ Day Speech” (competition entry, 22 February 1999).

“1998 Stanford Founders’ Day Speech” (competition entry, 20 February 1998).

“A Meditation on Time and History” (essay, 30 November 1995) [also in Gr].

Journalism

(major themes: defending the Humanities in a corporate academia

uniting personal spiritual freedom and social justice)

Η Επιστροφή του Χριστού και οι Επιπτώσεις της στην Παγκόσμια Κρίση: Μια Προσωπική Έρευνα-Κατάθεση (Thessaloniki, 2011) [Gr].

“Ζητείται αλλήθωρος πρωθυπουργός” (op-ed, 547 words, 17 April 2010) [Gr].

“Κυβέρνηση εκτάκτου ανάγκης” (op-ed, 518 words, 14 February 2010) [Gr].

“Misalignment: viewing global recession from a cosmic perspective” (column, 872 words, 12 September 2009).

“Εκλογές ή μνημόσυνο;” (op-ed, 386 words, 6 September 2009) [Gr].

“Μέρες Αποκάλυψης” (1809 words, 14 April 2009), excerpts posted in troktiko blog, Sunday 24 May 2009 [Gr].

“Πρόβα Αποκάλυψης” (column, 951 words, 23 December 2008), Kathimerini, Tuesday 6 January 2009, 11 [Gr].

“Πρωθυπουργός Περιορισμένης Ευθύνης,” troktiko blog, Wednesday 8 October 2008 [Gr].

“Δαυλός” [excerpt from “Πρωθυπουργός Περιορισμένης Ευθύνης”], To Vima, Saturday 4 October 2008 [Gr].

“Πρώτο Ανάθεμα,” troktiko blog, 8 March 2008 [Gr].

“Προσκόλληση σε εικονική πραγματικότητα” [original title: “Μια μούμια μα ποιά μούμια;”], To Vima, 23 January 2008, A14 [Gr].

“Η χαμένη ευκαιρία του ΠΑΣΟΚ” (column, 5 November 2007) [Gr].

“Η 12^η Νοεμβρίου ευκαιρία για τη νεολαία του ΠΑΣΟΚ” (column, 29 October 2007) [Gr].

“ΠΑσόκ χωρίς δέος” (column, 24 October 2007), excerpted as “Ο Β. Βενιζέλος έχει τις απαντήσεις,” Ta Nea, 9 November 2007, 19 [Gr].

“ΠΑΣΟΚ Romantique” (column, 19 October 2007) [Gr].

“Ψεύτικα διλήμματα” [original title: “Τα ψεύτικα διλήμματα τα δόλια”], To Vima, 18 October 2007, A9 [Gr].

“Apple Cider Vinegar can help fight the flu” (letter, 10 November 2005).

“Humanity is one and indivisible” (editor’s title; letter), The Stanford Weekly, 21 July 2005, pp. 4–5.

“Fiorina’s fall scratches Stanford” (column, 10 February 2005).

“Secretary Rice a challenge for US diplomacy” (column, 31 January 2005).

“Berman’s view of America utterly simplistic” (letter, 17 January 2005).

“Where are the WMD?” (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 7 October 2004, p. 6.

“Kerry’s secret ally?” (column, 25 August 2004).

“Op-ed on Iraq was deceptive” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 20 April 2004, p. ?.

“Fundamentalist views on Jesus hinder interfaith dialogue” (letter, 2 March 2004).

“Current anti-Americanism not culture-based: A Response to Russell Berman” (column, 27 January 2004).

“What a president should be made of: Kucinich is the right man for the job” [original title: “The stuff that makes a president: Kucinich at Stanford”] (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 11 November 2003, p. 5.

“Harmful Chemicals at Home” (letter, 28 March 2003).

“Calls for war should be matched with personal courage” (letter, 16 February 2003).

“Crack the Nuts! Tenure for Squirrels” (column, 2 February 2003).

“Stanford’s new stem cell research merits scrutiny” (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 10 January 2003, p. 4.

“Happy Thanksgiving for All” (column, 26 November 2002).

“A reply to Dr Zappert [director of Stanford’s sexual harassment policy office]” (letter, 18 November 2002).

“Frustrated grad student resents new sexual harassment policy [original title: Revised policy on consensual relationships borders on social engineering]” (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 11 November 2002, p. 5.

“Carter’s Nobel Peace Prize a call for America’s reformation” (column, 13 October 2002).

“Success that leaves a trace” (column, 3 October 2002).

“Guest column ‘twists reality’ [original title: Some habits never die]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 2 October 2002, p. 4.

“Think tanks that never think” (column, 24 September 2002).

“ ‘Wonder drug’ unworthy of front page [original title: ‘Wonder Drug’ story phony journalism]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 1 May 2002, p. 4.

“Αισθητική μιζέρια [original title: Φροιξαθήνεια 2004],” Eleftherotypia, 12 April 2002 [Gr].

“Gaudet letter ‘succeeded’ [original title: ‘Gaudet’s column poses the right questions’]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 28 January 2002, p. 4.

“Hewlett-Packard’s Deal with Compaq a Threat to Stanford” (column, 20 January 2002).

“UN-related events an antidote to American isolationism” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 5 November 2001, p. 5.

“Student criticizes Jim Clark’s decision [original title: ‘Suspension of payment’ thy name is blackmail!’]” (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 1 October 2001, p. 4.

“Housing Assignment System needs Revision” (letter, 29 May 2001).

“Film highlights the problem of glamor at Stanford” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 18 May 2001, p. 4.

“The Humanities need more than Money” (column, 6 May 2001).

“A Building more than a Building” (letter, 29 April 2001).

“Fiorina choice shows ‘nervousness’ about Stanford’s future [original title: Commencement speaker choice anticipates Stanford’s precarious future]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 4 April 2001, p. 4.

“South Africa’s present is not beholden to its past [original title: Forget the past if you cannot remember the present!]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 2 February 2001, p. 4.

“Recent Daily items offer unreasonable ‘wisdom’” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 15 November 2000, p. A5.

“Daily should look at its own ‘corporate focus’ [original title: Self-criticism not unhealthy]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 19 October 2000, p. 4.

“Kofi Annan asks ‘Millennium Generation’ to safeguard the Environment” (news story, 22 June 2000).

“ ‘Morality’ overused in discussions on Cuba [original title: Cuba and the collapse of ideologies]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 11 May 2000, pp. A4–A5.

“Advertisement sends the wrong message [original title: Exactly 81 days...]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 31 March 2000, pp. 6–7.

“Stiglitz chills Davos” (column, 20 February 2000).

“Stanford promoting all the wrong values [original title: Tell us who you really are, uncle Stanford!]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 19 January 2000, p. 4.

“Implications of Clark’s donation should be considered [original title: Clark’s donation well-deserved for Stanford...Polytechnic]” (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 28 October 1999, pp. 4–5.

“Religion, Morality, and the University” (essay), The Thinker 6/2, 4 October 1999, pp. 3, 5.

“Some Problems with the Bing Wing” (letter, 26 September 1999).

“Selective Sensitivity” (letter, 9 August 1999).

“Littleton’s Cry: Replace the American High School!” (letter, 26 April 1999).

“Co Ho ‘discrimination’ unfair” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 21 April 1999, p. 4.

“Towards a New American Left” (news story, –14 March 1999) [Gr].

“A Greek Philosopher at Stanford” (news story, –14 March 1999) [Gr].

“Open Letter to Saint Valentine” (column, 11 February 1999).

“Scholes’ welcome is undeserved” (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 11 February 1999, p. 4.

“Internalizing the Environment—Externalizing the Self [: Reflections on the Environmental Crisis]” (essay), The Thinker 6/1, 5 February 1999, pp. 4, 6.

“Wrong attitude persists” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 28 January 1999, p. 4.

“Express yourselves” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 24 November 1998, p. 4.

“Scream Hype and Student Responsibility” (letter, 8 November 1998).

“Avoid rape hysteria” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 4 November 1998, p. 4.

“Suicide: The Lethal Flower of Despair” (column, fall 1998).

“The Golden Calf of Capitalism” (column, fall 1998).

“Come, if you dare! (Letter to a Friend)” (column, 31 May 1998).

“A Defense of Madame Blavatsky” (letter-review, 24 February 1998); Greek translation published in http://www.blavatsky.gr/.

“Sexual assault is not a major campus issue” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 20 February 1998, p. 4.

“Nanopoulos…” (letter, 9 January 1998) [Gr].

“Regarding the Gulf (and a Persian one)” (commentary), Mousikotropies 1/1991, 6–7 [Gr].

Reviews

“practical humanism divinely propelled” (Benjamin Creme, The Awakening of Humanity, Amsterdam and London: Share International Foundation, 2008) (short review in “amazon.com,” 27 December 2008).

“A short book on the biggest subject” (Benjamin Creme, The World Teacher for All Humanity, Amsterdam and London: Share International Foundation, 2007) (short review in “amazon.com,” 10 March 2008).

“Taking life seriously” (Benjamin Creme, The Art of Living: Living within the Laws of Life, Share International Foundation, 2006) (short review in “amazon.com,” 5 January 2007).

“Spiritual politics” (Maitreya’s Teachings: The Laws of Life, ed. by Benjamin Creme, Share International Foundation, 2005) (short review, 20 September 2005).

“A spiritual take on politics” (Maitreya’s Teachings: The Laws of Life, ed. by Benjamin Creme, Share International Foundation, 2005) (short review, 12 September 2005).

“Benjamin Creme, The Art of Co-Operation (London, Amsterdam and Los Angeles: Share International Foundation, 2002)” (review, 8 October 2002).

“Cecile Andrews, The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life (New York: HarperCollins, 1997)” (review, 15 May 2002).

“Lynn Hunt’s Presidential Lecture recovers the hidden Power of Art” (column, 11 April 2002).

“How do We keep Happy? Serve!” (review of Benjamin Creme, The Great Approach: New Light and Life for Humanity [Amsterdam, London, Los Angeles: Share International Foundation, 2001], 29 September 2001).

“Wayne Peterson, Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Beings: Encounters of an American Diplomat with Maitreya and the Masters of Wisdom,” Scatter Magazine online (April 2001) [also available in Spanish].

“An Antidote to Religious Fundamentalism” (short review of Thomas Curley, Masters among Us: An Exploration of Supernal Encounters and Miraculous Phenomena, 20 February 2001).

80 book and 12 recording reviews and presentations for the journal Mousikotropies (1990–1994)

Fiction-Other

Πατατουήλ και Μπιφτεκιάν: Το Γδάρμα της Λύτρωσης [tale for adults, in final stages].

Captain Mihelis: Dragon of the seas (Charleston, SC, 2011) [Gr].

George Catlin. Christianity and the New Age. Los Angeles: Tara, 1998 (translation into Greek, July 2004).

T… k… I… E… Athens, Greece: …, 2002 [Gr].

Ανέστιος, Φοίβος. Στα Ίχνη του Αμερικανικού Ονείρου. Θεσσαλονίκη: Παρατηρητής, 2002. [Anestios, Foivos. On the Trails of the American Dream. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis, 2002] [Gr].

L… t… A… Athens, Greece: …, 2000 [Gr].

“A generational Affair” (short story, 4 September 2000).

“How I discovered God” (moral tale, 4 April 2000).

“An Archaeological Drink” (short story, 1999).

“Where are the humans?” In In Our Own Words: An Anthology of Poetry From a Generation Falsely Labeled Generation X. Ed. by Marlow Peerse Weaver. Raleigh, NC: MW Enterprises, 1999.

“So, you wanna know why I’m after you” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 3 June 1998, p. 18.

“Your body belongs to you, but the whores belong to everybody!” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 3 June 1998, p. 18.

“Non-Protestant Christian children’s question” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 28 May 1998, p. 14; and 3 June 1998, p. 18.

“Sharing” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 21 May 1998, p. 14. Reprinted in In Our Own Words: An Anthology of Poetry From a Generation Falsely Labeled Generation X. Ed. by Marlow Peerse Weaver. Raleigh, NC: MW Enterprises, 1999.

“It came from the redwoods” (short story, 5/20/1998; audio-book version contracted by “Osiris Audio Books”).

“Fiction, friction or freak-scene?” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 7 May 1998, p. 14; and 3 June 1998, p. 18.

“In capitalism we thrust” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 30 April 1998, p. 18.

“A Plagiarist’s Odyssey” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 23 April 1998, p. 18.

“A kiss-met kismet” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 9 April 1998, p. 18.

“Generation BP (Bill Payers)” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 11 March 1998, p. 14.

“Cynical Dogs and Dogged Cynics” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 5 March 1998, p. 14.

“‘United States’ or ‘Uniform Tastes’ of America?” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 19 February 1998, p. 18.

“Life and death, the same debt” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 12 February 1998, p. 15.

E… s… A… (treatise, 23 April 1996) [Gr].

Christos Mitsakis. T.M.S ABEE: Drawings. Thessaloniki: Mousikotropies, 1991. x+64 pp. (editor and author of preface and epilogue) [Gr].

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COMPOSITIONS

2012 Feb 10 blues, virtual orchestra

2012 Feb 3 noble grandeur, virtual orchestra

2012 Jan 28 love lost forever, virtual orchestra

2012 Jan 18 adagio, virtual orchestra

2012 Jan 15 improvisation, virtual orchestra

2012 Jan 14 inquiry, ringtone

2011 Dec 29 obnoxious horn, ringtone

2011 Dec 26 impatient, ringtone

2011 Dec 25 themostsublimehandeloarnebachiana, ringtone

2011 Dec 2 Noël

2011 Nov 30 two sides of globalization, ringtones

2011 Nov 29 Christmas means to be alone, guitar

2011 Nov 25 Karaiskakis, virtual orchestra

2011 Nov 17 Ringtones Suite, virtual orchestra

2011 Oct 29 rococo, virtual orchestra

2011 Oct 22 cosmic trance, virtual orchestra

2011 Oct 8 mistery, virtual orchestra

2011 Oct 2 perky, virtual orchestra

2011 Oct 1 miracle, virtual orchestra

2011 Sep 30 Saloon, virtual orchestra

2011 Sep 27 Resolve, virtual orchestra

2011 Sep 23 Anatolia, virtual orchestra

2011 Sep 21 Alexander’s bet, virtual orchestra

2011 Sep 20 Hangover, virtual orchestra

2011 Sep 18 Spiderman (Diabolique), piano

2011 Sep 13 Supplication, virtual orchestra

2011 Sep 9 Arctic morning, virtual orchestra

2011 Sep 8 Voluntary, virtual orchestra

2011 Sep 6 Baby sleeping, virtual orchestra

2011 Sep 5 Prince, virtual orchestra

2011 Sep 2 Fantasia, virtual orchestra

2011 Aug 28 Romantico, virtual orchestra

2011 Aug 20 Yiayia, virtual orchestra

2011 Aug 18 Mer-maid, virtual orchestra

2011 Aug 14 Myconoose, virtual orchestra

2011 Aug 13 The White Horseman (Aurora), virtual orchestra

2011 Aug 6 6/8, virtual orchestra

2011 Aug 3 Pieta, virtual orchestra

2011 Aug 3 Once upon a time in Greece…, virtual orchestra

2011 Jul 28 Fire dance, virtual orchestra

2011 Jul 24 March for justice, virtual orchestra

2011 Jul 24 Excite, virtual orchestra

2011 Jul 23 Hero, virtual orchestra

2011 Jul 23 Elizabeth, virtual orchestra

2011 Jul 23 Sweet dreams, virtual orchestra

2011 Jul 9 Accordion, virtual orchestra

2011 Jun 20 Mosquito without a cause, virtual orchestra

2010 Dec Swine Leak (improvisation), virtual orchestra

2009 July Youth, virtual orchestra

2009 June Repentance [Improvisation for strings], virtual orchestra

2009 June Psychedelia [Apocalypsis], virtual orchestra

2009 June Elegy for strings, virtual orchestra (youtube sample)

2009 June Seaside, virtual orchestra (youtube sample)

2009 June Tetelestai, virtual orchestra (youtube sample)

2009 May Alarum, virtual orchestra (youtube sample)

2008 March Child Care, piano (commissioned by “Tummy Records”)

2000 Transfigured Rock; piano

2000 Flamingos; piano

1999 Healing Light; piano

1999 Aug Sonatamounatamou; piano

1999 Heroic Rock; piano

1998 Dec 1 The Prince of Peace (lyrics: Ilias Chrissochoidis); soprano and piano

1998 Hannah’s Complaint; piano

1997–1998 Piano Concerto; two pianos (Android Market; Amazon)

1997 Aug 10 Lullaby; piano

1997 Overture; piano

1996 fall Lethal Lie (lyrics: Ilias Chrissochoidis); voice and piano

1996 Feb 2[?] We’re after Tomorrow (lyrics: Ilias Chrissochoidis); voice and piano

1996 Jan Solitary Voyager (lyrics: Ilias Chrissochoidis); voice and piano

1995 Jun 15 Nostalgia; piano

1995 Jan 21 Forerunner’s Sacrifice; piano

1995 The Course of the Soul; piano

1994 Francis Bacon Suite: “The Mask (Shake-Spear),” “Eros (Margueritte de Valois),” “Immolation (F.B.)”; piano

1992 Nov 27 The Great Invocation (lyrics: anonymous); voice and piano

1992 Jul 7 H’Asibak Lel Zaman (lyrics: Stavros Houliaras); soprano and/or tenor and

piano

1992 Jun Three Studies on John Williams’ Style: Study no. 3; piano

1992 Apr 22 Pythagoras’ Great Decision, opera/musical in five scenes (libretto: Stavros

Houliaras)

1992 Feb 18 The T.M.S. Saga (lyrics: Stavros Houliaras); voice and piano

1992 Feb 11 Greek Dance; piano

1992 Jan 28 Fuga in stilo moderno (on a Theme from Hindemith’s Ludus Tonalis);

piano

1991 Dec 9 Studies on Musical Experiences: “Renaissance,” “Air,” “Kalamatianos,”

“America,” “Here comes the Prince of Peace”; piano

1991 Dec 4 Hommage à Mozart; choir

1991 Nov 6 Prelude; piano

1991 Aug 13 Air: Study on J. S. Bach’s experience; piano

1991 Aug 7 Hommage à Manos Hadjidakis; piano

1991 Jul 29 Gallop; piano

1991 Jul 4 Love Theme; piano

1991 Orgilo; piano

1991 March; piano

1991 Hymn-Lament (lyrics: Stavros Houliaras); bass/baritone and piano

1991 Studies on John Williams’ style: Study no. 2 (If Kalomiris had been John Williams); piano

1991 Lethal Tango; piano

1990 Studies on John Williams’ style: Study no. 1; piano

1990 The End of Music; piano

1990 The Songs of Enoch (song-pentagon): “Enoch,” “Kritikos,” “Epitritos,”

“Tsamikos,” “Mystic Ben” (lyrics: Stavros Houliaras); soprano and piano

1990 Concert Piece; piano

1990 Passacaglia on a given Theme; organ

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1983 Bagatelle in B-flat major; piano

1983 Jul 11 Minuetto; string trio

1983 Jun 29 Six Variations on the folksong Hänschen Klein; piano

1983 Jun 7 Minuetto in E-flat major; piano

1983 Jun 3 Six Variations on a German Waltz; piano

1983 May 30 Twelve Variations on a Theme by W. A. Mozart; piano

1983 May 6 Chrysanthems (lyrics: anonymous); voice and piano

1983 Apr 28 German Dance; orchestra

1983 Apr 19 Six Contredances; violoncello

1983 Apr 1 Walzer; piano

1983 Mar 28 Six Variations on the folksong Suse, liebe Suse, was raschelt im Stroh?;

piano

1983 Mar 22 Twenty Variations on the folksong Im Prater; piano

1983 Mar 13 Minuetto in D major; piano

1983 Mar 7 Bagatelle in C minor; piano

1983 Feb 14 Adagio con variazioni; string quartet

1983 Feb 5 Scherzo in A major; string quartet

1983 Jan 7 Minuetto; string quartet

1982 Nov Scherzo in C major; string quartet

1982 Oct 15 Minuetto in C major; piano

1982 Jun 22 Sonata; piano (Allegro con spirito, Andante, Tema con variazioni)

Creative Arrangements

2012 Jan 22 street musician vs concert hall

2011 Oct 7 A Wagner pilgrim’s birthday

1998 Frankenstein Sonata (Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Elgar, and John Williams); piano

1995 Jurassic Prelude (J. S. Bach and John T. Williams); piano

1991 Inter-National Anthem (national anthems of Greece, USA, Germany, and the UK); piano

Transcriptions

1992 Feb 2 Chopin, Krakowiak: Grand Rondo de Concert (2nd piano part)

1988 Chopin, Prelude op.28, no. 14; piano (octaves study)

1988 J. S. Bach, Prelude; piano

also piano transcriptions of other works by J. S. Bach and Paganini.

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PIANO PERFORMANCES

http://www.youtube.com/user/chrissochoidis

Samples (private recordings)

J. S. Bach, Passacaglia, Thessaloniki, 1990

Nikos Astrinidis, Greek Dance, Thessaloniki, 1990

Kostas Nikitas, Sonatina (2nd movt), Thessaloniki, 1990

Franz Liszt, Mephisto Valse no. 1, Thessaloniki, 1992

2012 Jan 29 Sunday service (10:30 am), First United Methodist Church, Redwood City

2012 Jan 8 Sunday service (10:30 am), First United Methodist Church, Redwood City

2010 Mar 18 Chrissochoidis: Here comes the Prince of Peace (Sara Stowe, soprano) Child Care: “Music by current UCL composers,” UCL Chamber Music Club concert, Haldane Room, London

2010 Jan 14 Chrissochoidis: Elegy, Tetelestai, in “New Year, New Music, New Performers, New Repertoire,” UCL Chamber Music Club concert, Haldane Room, London

(HMT performances: accompanist/music director)

2009 Aug 21 Annie, HMT, Palo Alto High School [2 shows]

2009 Aug 7 Annie, HMT, Palo Alto High School [2 shows]

2009 Jul 24 Annie, HMT, Palo Alto High School [2 shows]

2009 Jul 10 Annie, HMT, Palo Alto High School [2 shows]

2009 Jun 26 Annie, HMT, Palo Alto High School [2 shows]

2009 Apr 29 “Consider Yourself” (Oliver!), HMT workshop, Portola Valley

2009 Apr 27 “Over the Rainbow” (The Wizard of Oz), HMT workshop, Los Altos

2009 Apr 22 “Over the Rainbow” (The Wizard of Oz), HMT workshop, Los Altos

2009 Apr 21 “Over the Rainbow” (The Wizard of Oz), HMT workshop, Portola Valley

2009 Apr 14 “Kids!” (Bye Bye Birdie), HMT workshop, Portola Valley

2009 Mar 26 “Kids!” (Bye Bye Birdie), HMT workshop, Los Altos

2009 Mar 25 “Kids!” (Bye Bye Birdie), HMT workshop, Palo Alto

“Kids!” (Bye Bye Birdie), HMT workshop, Los Altos

2009 Mar 23 “Over the Rainbow” (The Wizard of Oz), HMT workshop, Palo Alto

“Kids!” (Bye Bye Birdie), HMT workshop, Los Altos

2009 Mar 16 “Do-Re-Mi” (The Sound of Music), HMT workshop, Palo Alto

2009 Feb 26 “Do-Re-Mi” (The Sound of Music), HMT workshop, Los Altos

2009 Feb 25 “Do-Re-Mi” (The Sound of Music), HMT workshop, Los Altos

2009 Feb 23 “Do-Re-Mi” (The Sound of Music), HMT workshop, Los Altos

2008 Dec 16 “You can’t get a Man with a Gun” (Annie Get Your Gun), HMT workshop, Palo Alto

2008 Dec 10 “The Farmer and the Cowman” (Oklahoma), HMT workshop, Los Altos

2008 Dec 9 “The Farmer and the Cowman” (Oklahoma), HMT workshop, Palo Alto

2008 Dec 8 “Happy Talk” (South Pacific), HMT workshop, Los Altos

2008 Dec 2 “White Christmas” (Holiday Inn), HMT workshop, Palo Alto

2008 Nov 25 “Happy Talk” (South Pacific), HMT workshop, Palo Alto

2008 Nov 18 “My Favorite Things” (The Sound of Music), HMT workshop, Palo Alto

2008 Nov 17 “My Favorite Things” (The Sound of Music), HMT workshop, Los Altos

2008 Nov 12 selected numbers, The King and I, HMT workshop, Los Altos

2008 Nov 11 selected numbers, The King and I, HMT workshop, Palo Alto

2008 Aug 22 Peter Pan, HMT, Palo Alto [2 shows]

2008 Aug 8 Peter Pan, HMT, Palo Alto

2008 Jul 25 Peter Pan, HMT [2 shows]

2008 Jul 11 Peter Pan, HMT [2 shows]

2008 Jun 27 Peter Pan, HMT [2 shows]

2007 Dec 18 “White Christmas” (Holiday Inn), HMT workshop, Palo Alto Elks Lodge

2007 Dec 12 “Steam Heat” (The Pajama Game), HMT workshop, Palo Alto Elks Lodge

2007 Dec 11 “Goin’ Co’tin’” (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), HMT workshop, Palo Alto Elks Lodge

2007 Dec 5 “Getting to Know You” (The King and I), HMT workshop, Palo Alto Elks Lodge

2007 Nov 27 Auditioning workshop, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge

2007 Nov 14 “Happy Talk” (South Pacific), HMT workshop, Palo Alto Elks Lodge

2007 Nov 13 “Shall We Dance?” (The King and I), HMT workshop, Palo Alto Elks Lodge

2007 Aug 24 The Wizard of Oz, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge [2 shows]

2007 Aug 10 The Wizard of Oz, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge

2007 Jul 27 The Wizard of Oz, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge

2007 Jul 13 The Wizard of Oz, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge

2006 Aug 11 The Music Man, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge [2 shows]

2006 July 28 The Music Man, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge [2 shows]

2006 July 14 The Music Man, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge

2006 June 30 The Music Man, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge [2 shows]

2006 May 19 Annie Get Your Gun, HMT workshop, Palo Alto

2006 Apr 21 Peter Pan, HMT workshop, Palo Alto

2006 Feb 1 Hans Christian Andersen, HMT, Palo Alto

2006 Jan 31 Hans Christian Andersen, HMT, Palo Alto

2006 Jan 30 Hans Christian Andersen, HMT, Palo Alto

2005 Aug 5 Bye Bye Birdie, HMT, Palo Alto [2 shows]

2005 July 22 Bye Bye Birdie, HMT, Palo Alto [2 shows]

2005 July 8 Bye Bye Birdie, HMT, Palo Alto [2 shows]

2005 May 26 I need a Vacation! (end-of-year show), HMT, Palo Alto

2005 May 25 I need a Vacation! (end-of-year show), HMT, Palo Alto

2005 May 24 I need a Vacation! (end-of-year show), HMT, Palo Alto

2005 May 23 I need a Vacation! (end-of-year show), HMT, Palo Alto

2005 Apr 20 42^nd street, Broadway musical workshop, Palo Alto

2005 Apr 13 42^nd street, Broadway musical workshop, Palo Alto

2005 Apr 1 “An Art Affair,” White Plaza, Stanford University

2005 Feb 26 vocal recital (anthology of ca. 20 songs from Broadway musicals), HMT, Palo Alto (private venue)

2005 Jan 27 “God Bless America” (Irving Berlin Song Revue), HMT, Palo Alto

2005 Jan 26 “God Bless America” (Irving Berlin Song Revue), HMT, Palo Alto

2005 Jan 25 “God Bless America” (Irving Berlin Song Revue), HMT, Palo Alto

2005 Jan 24 “God Bless America” (Irving Berlin Song Revue), HMT, Palo Alto

2004 Dec 3 Mamma Mia! Broadway musical workshop, Palo Alto

2004 Nov 19 Mamma Mia! Broadway musical workshop, Palo Alto

2004 Apr 2 “An Art Affair,” White Plaza, Stanford University

2003 Dec 4 “Honoring Lives Lost to AIDS: An Interfaith Service of Remembrance,”

Memorial Church, Stanford University

2003 Apr 4 “An Art Affair,” White Plaza, Stanford University

2002 Nov 24 “Fall Recital: Classical and Jazz,” Blackwelder Lobby, Escondido Village,

Stanford University

2002 Oct 2 “Noon Recital,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

2002 Jun 3 presentation of the 2001–02 Fellows gift—a piano—to the Humanities

Center, Stanford University

2002 Apr 11 “Noon Recital,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

2002 Apr 7 “Community Day,” Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University

2002 Apr 5 “An Art Affair,” White Plaza, Stanford University

2001 Feb 6 “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

2001 Oct 17 “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

2001 Aug 26 “Festival of the Arts,” University Avenue, Palo Alto

2001 May 12 “Spring Fair,” White Plaza, Stanford University

2001 Apr 6 “An Art Affair,” White Plaza, Stanford University

2001 Apr 4 “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

2001 Feb 16 “Lunchtime Recital,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

2000 Oct 11 “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

2000 Mar 31 “An Art Affair,” White Plaza, Stanford University

2000 Mar 29 “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

2000 Jan 19 “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

1999 Oct 20 “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

1999 Sep 29 “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

1999 Sep 23 “Bing Concerts,” Stanford Hospital

1999 May 28 “Inspirational Tempest: A Graduate Design Concert by Chelsea Eng &

Laura Serghiou,” Roble Studio, Stanford University

1999 Mar 31 “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

1999 Jan 23 “SASTA concerts,” Veterans Affairs Hospital, Palo Alto

1999 Jan 6 “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

1998 Nov 4 “SASTA concerts,” Lytton Gardens, Palo Alto

1998 Sep 30 “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

1998 May 6 “SASTA concerts,” Veterans Affairs Hospital, Palo Alto

1998 Apr 3 “MusiCircus,” Braun Music Center, Stanford University

1998 Mar 30 “Greek Cultural Night,” Bechtel International Center, Stanford University

1998 Mar 6, 7 inaugural performance of classic ballet class, Roble Studio, Stanford

University

1997 Jun 1 “to heed the whisper: a showing of original work in dance, visual art and

music,” Roble Studio, Stanford University

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1991 Dec 9 Ceremonies Hall, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

1991 May 31 Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

1990 Dec 16 Ceremonies Hall, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

1990 Nov 22 School of Musical Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece

1990 Jun 1 Avlaia Theater, Thessaloniki, Greece

1989 Nov 16 benefit, Organ Donors Union (Hellenic Society of Nephrology),

Avlaia Theater, Thessaloniki, Greece

other appearances in Thessaloniki and in Northern Greece

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BIOS

“Chrissochoidis, Ilias.” Who’sWho in America 2005. 2 vols. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who’s Who, 2004. 1:815.

“Chrissochoidis, Ilias.” Who’sWho in America 2004. 2 vols. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who’s Who, 2003. 1:895.

“Chrissochoidis Ilias [Χρυσοχοϊδης Ηλίας].” In Athanasiadis, Dimitris. History of Music. Volume Two: From the Aesthetic Exaggeration and Volume of Baroque to the Structural Variety and Abstraction of the Avant-Garde. Thessaloniki: Ekdoseis Makedonikou Odeiou, 2000. 836–37 [Gr].

“Chrissochoidis Ilias [Χρυσοχοϊδης Ηλίας].” In Kalogeropoulos, Takis. Dictionary of Greek Music. 6 vols. Athens: Gialleli, 1998. 6:630 [Gr].

“Chrissochoidis Ilias,” Greek Composers’ Union, online.

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CITATIONS

Minna Rozen, “People of the Book, People of the Sea: Mirror Images of the Soul,” in Homelands and Diasporas: Greek, Jews and Their Migrations, ed. Minna Rozen (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008), 35–81: 342 (endnote).

An International Handel Bibliography / Internationale Händel-Bibliographie (1959–2009), ed. Hans Joachim Marx (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), 1, 19, 22, 92, 150.

Documents: Webster’s Unabridged Bibliography (1939–Modern Times) (San Diego: ICON Group International, 2009), 83.

Annette Schellenberg, “‘Esther’: Exegetisch-theologische Beobachtungen zur Rezeption des biblischen Stoffs bei Georg Friedrich Händel,” in Sprachen, Bilder, Klänge: Dimensionen der Theologie im Alten Testament und in seinem Umfeld: Festschrift für Rüdiger Bartelmus zu seinem 65. Geburtstag , ed. Christiane Karrer-Grube, Jutta Krispenz, Thomas Krüger, Christian Rose and Annette Schellenberg (Münster, 2009), 275–93: 278.

Jennifer Beakes, “The horn parts in Handel’s operas and oratorios and the horn players who performed in these works” (D.M.A. dissertation, City University of New York, 2007), 274.

Mary Ann Parker, G. F. Handel: A Guide to Research, 2^nd edn (New York and London: Routledge, 2005), 322 (anonymously!).

Michael Saffle, Franz Liszt: A Guide to Research, 2^nd edn (New York: Routledge, 2004), 403.

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