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Select Publications

  • Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences, co-edited with Christopher Dingle (Ashgate, 2013).

  • Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence, and Reception, co-edited with Christopher Dingle (Ashgate, 2013).

  • “A Catalogue of Messiaen’s Birds,” in Messiaen Perspectives 2, edited by Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon (Ashgate, 2013), 113–146.

  • “The Tombeaux of Messiaen: At the Intersection of Influence and Reception,” in Messiaen Perspectives 2, edited by Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon (Ashgate, 2013), 243–73.

  • “Placing Mount Messiaen,” in Messiaen Perspectives 2, edited by Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon (Ashgate, 2013), 323–39.

  • “A Critical Catalogue of Messiaen’s Music,” in Messiaen Perspectives 2, edited by Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon (Ashgate, 2013), 363–406.

  • “Messiaen,” subject entry for the Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed., ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett (Oxford University Press, 2013).

  • “Dante as Guide to Messiaen’s Gothic Spirituality,” in Messiaen the Theologian, ed. Andrew Shenton (Ashgate, 2010), 127–43.

  • “Messiaen’s Gothic Spirituality and the Renouveau Catholique,” translated into French by Martine Rhéaume, in Musique, arts et religion dans l’entre-deux-guerres, ed. Sylvain Caron and Michel Duchesneau (Symétrie, 2009), 387–403.

  • Birds, Beasts, and Bombs in Messiaen’s Cold War Mass,” Journal of Musicology, vol. 26, no. 2 (spring 2009): 175–204.

  • Two Paths to Paradise: Reform in Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise,” in Messiaen Studies, ed. Robert Sholl (Cambridge University Press, 2007), 206–31.

  • The Record of Realism in Messiaen’s Bird Style,” in Olivier Messiaen: Music, Art and Literature, ed. Christopher Dingle and Nigel Simeone (Ashgate, 2007), 115–36.

  • Music and the Allegory of Memory in Margaret Garner,” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 52, no. 2 (summer 2006): 524–541.

  •  “Composing Subjectivity: Maritain’s Poetic Knowledge in Stravinsky and Messiaen,” in Jacques Maritain and the Many Ways of Knowing, ed. Douglas A. Ollivant (Catholic University of America Press, 2002), 284–302.

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