Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Harvard University 1984
  • M.A., Harvard University 1978
  • B.A., University of Cincinnati 1975
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Professor of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 - 2020
  • Acting Chair, Department of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008
  • Acting Chair, Department of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003
  • Acting Chair, Department of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993 - 1999
  • Assistant Professor, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1986 - 1993
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • MAY 26, 2015

    Music's Bryan Gilliam's book nominated for Kurt Weill Prize

  • APR 10, 2014

    The New York Times

    Bryan Gilliam comments: Richard Strauss and Dresden, a bond unbroken
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  Awards & Honors

  • Dean's letter for teaching excellence. Unknown. January 2013
  • ACLS Fellows (ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships and ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships). American Council of Learned Societies. 2006
  • Alexander Lecture Award. Stanford University . January 2006
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Books
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Austria (Country) 
    • Germany, Federal Republic of (Country) 
    • United States of America (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • International Conference on Richard Strauss awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1989 - 1990
  • International Conference on Richard Strauss awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 1989
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Gilliam, B. Rounding Wagner's mountain: Richard Strauss and modern German opera, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511979699.
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    • al, B Gilliam et. Music, Image, Gesture. Edited by B. Gilliam. Vol. 104. Duke University Press, 2005.
    • Gilliam, B. The Life of Richard Strauss, Cambridge Musical Lives. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
    • al, B Gilliam et. Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic. Edited by B. Gilliam. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
    • Gilliam, B. Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work. Edited by B. Gilliam. Duke University Press, 1992.
    • al, B Gilliam et. Richard Strauss and His World. Edited by B. Gilliam. Princeton University Press, 1992.
    • Gilliam, B. Richard Strauss’s Elektra. Oxford University Press, 1991.
    • Gilliam, B. Richard Strauss’s ’Daphne’: Opera and Symphonic Continuity. Harvard Ph.D. Dissertation, 1984.

  • Academic Articles

    • Gilliam, Bryan. “Zoë Alexis Lang. The Legacy of Johann Strauss: Political Influence and Twentieth-Century Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 248.” Austrian History Yearbook 46 (April 2015): 434–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0067237814000551.
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    • Gilliam, Bryan. “A House Divided.” Opera News 74, no. 11 (May 2010): 16–21.
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    • Gilliam, B. “" ’Ich bin ein anderer als ich war’: Ariadne auf Naxos and the Rejection of Greek Tragedy,” 2006.
    • Gilliam, B. “"Don Quixote and the Cinematic Strauss",” June 2005.
    • Gilliam, B. “" 'Friede im Innern': Strauss's Inner and Outer Worlds in the mid-1930s".” Jams, 2005, 563–95.
    • Gilliam, B. “Introduction.” South Atlantic Quarterly 104, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-104-1-1.
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    • Gilliam, B. “Visual voice (Strauss's 'Salome').” Opera News 68, no. 9 (March 2004): 23-+.
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    • Gilliam, B. “"Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss",” May 2002.
    • Gilliam, B. “"Strauss’s ’Crazy Jewish Girl’: Salome and fin-de-siècle Modernism",” January 2002.
    • Gilliam, B. “Shadowland (The complex and symbolic world of Strauss's most challenging work, Die 'Frau ohne Schatten').” Opera News 66, no. 7 (January 2002): 14–17.
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    • Mingo, B., and B. Gilliam. “The endangered list (Nominees for the most unjustly neglected opera).” Opera News 66, no. 5 (November 2001): 50-+.
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    • Gilliam, B. “Utopia und Katastrophe: Richard Strauss während des dritten Reiches,” November 2000.
    • Gilliam, B. “Politics and the Spirit: Richard Strauss and the 1930s,” October 2000.
    • Gilliam, B. “Sound, Image, Music: Hollywood Film Music,” May 2000.
    • Gilliam, B. “From Hollywood to Berlin: The Influence of American Film on Weimar Music Theater,” February 2000.
    • Gilliam, B. “’Friede im Innern’: Strauss’s Inner and Outer Worlds in the 1930s,” October 1999.
    • Gilliam, B. “Modern times - Richard Strauss' later operas reflect the disunity of contemporary life.” Opera News 64, no. 2 (August 1999): 26–31.
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    • Gilliam, B. “’Friede im Innern’: Die innere und äußere Persönlichkeit des Richard Strauss um die Mitte der dreißiger Jahre,” July 1999.
    • Gilliam, B. “Elektras Tanz und Auflösung,” April 1999.
    • Gilliam, B. “Variations on an Enigma: Richard Strauss Fifty Years after his Death,” January 1999.
    • Gilliam, Bryan. “Strauss' "Friedenstag" und die Politik: Antwort an Gerhard Splitt.” Archiv Für Musikwissenschaft 56, no. 4 (1999): 347–347. https://doi.org/10.2307/931057.
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    • Gilliam, B. “Die Rezeption der von Einem Opern in Amerika und die Ideologien des Stils,” June 1998.
    • Gilliam, B. “Kurt Weill, Weimar Theater, and Operatic Reform,” April 1998.
    • Gilliam, B. “Tragedy and Epic in Siegfried’s Funeral Music,” March 1998.
    • Gilliam, B. “Sibelius and Modernism,” December 1997.
    • Gilliam, B. “Five colloquia on the theme: ’Music, Image, Gesture’,” May 1996.
    • Gilliam, B. “Bruckner’s 8th Symphony,” April 1996.
    • Gilliam, B. “A Viennese Opera Composer in Hollywood: Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Double Exile in America,” 1996.
    • Gilliam, B. “Bruckner's Annexation Revisited: A Response to Manfred Wagner.” The Musical Quarterly 80, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 124–31. https://doi.org/10.1093/mq/80.1.124.
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    • Gilliam, B. “The authorship of the text of Strauss's 'friedenstag'.” Music and Letters 76, no. 1 (February 1, 1995): 142–43. https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/76.1.142.
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    • Gilliam, B. “"The Annexation of Anton Bruckner: Nazi Revisionism and the Politics of Appropriation".” The Musical Quarterly 78 (October 1994): 558–83.
    • GILLIAM, B. “'SALOME' + IN RESPONSE TO SHOWALTER,ELAINE.” Tls the Times Literary Supplement, no. 4773 (September 23, 1994): 17–17.
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    • Gilliam, Bryan. “The Annexation of Anton Bruckner: Nazi Revisionism and the Politics of Appropriation.” The Musical Quarterly 78, no. 3 (1994): 584–604. https://doi.org/10.1093/mq/78.3.584.
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    • Gilliam, B. “"The Two Versions of Bruckner’s Symphony no. 8" ("Rehearings").” 19th Century Music 15 (July 1992): 59–69.
    • GILLIAM, B. “THE 2 VERSIONS OF BRUCKNER 8TH SYMPHONY.” Nineteenth Century Music 16, no. 1 (1992): 59–69.
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    • Gilliam, B. “The Influence of Film on German Opera of the 1920s,” November 1991.
    • Gilliam, B. “Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo: Innovation and Tradition,” April 1990.
    • Gilliam, B. “Intermezzo und die Zeitoper in den Zwanziger Jahren,” October 1989.
    • Gilliam, B. “Die Elektra Premiere: Hintergründe und Rezeption,” June 1989.
    • Gilliam, B. “T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, and the Legacy of Wagner,” March 1988.
    • Gilliam, B. “Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss, and the Evolution of Elektra,” 1988.
    • Gilliam, Bryan. “Gustav Mahler Richard Strauss: Correspondence, 1888-1911 . Gustav Mahler , Richard Strauss , Herta Blaukopf .” Journal of the American Musicological Society 39, no. 2 (July 1986): 418–22. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.1986.39.2.03a00100.
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    • Gilliam, B. “"Richard Strauss's Preliminary Opera Sketches: Thematic Fragments and Symphonic Continuity".” 19th Century Music 9 (March 1986): 176–88.
    • GILLIAM, B. “STRAUSS PRELIMINARY OPERA SKETCHES + 'ELEKTRA' AND DER 'ROSENKAVALIER' - THEMATIC FRAGMENTS AND SYMPHONIC CONTINUITY.” Nineteenth Century Music 9, no. 3 (1986): 176–88.
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    • Gilliam, B. “Richard Strauss’s Preliminary Opera Sketches: Thematic Fragments and Symphonic Continuity,” November 1982.
    • Gilliam, B. “Stefan Zweig’s Contribution to Strauss Opera after Die schweigsame Frau,” April 1981.

  • Book Sections

    • Gilliam, B. “Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, und Die Frau ohne Schatten.” In Richard Strauss Handbuch, edited by W. Werbeck, 75Completedpagesandinpress-75Completedpagesandinpress. Bärenreiter, 2014.
    • Gilliam, B. “Dans l’ombre de Bach : Lyonel Feininger musicien,” 2011.
    • Gilliam, B. “In the Shadow of Bach: Lyonel Feininger as a Musician.” In Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World. Yale, 2011.
    • Gilliam, B. “"The Hofmannsthal Operas".” In Richard Strauss Companion, edited by Charles Youmans, 119–35. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
    • Gilliam, B. “"Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Aesthetics Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion".” In Richard Strauss Companion, edited by Charles Youmans, 269–79. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
    • Gilliam, B. “"In the Shadow of Bach: Lyonel Feininger as Musician".” In Lyonel Feininger: On the Edge of the World, edited by Barbara Haskell. Yale University Press, 2010.
    • Gilliam, B. “The Strauss-Hofmannsthal operas.” In The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, 119–35, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521899307.008.
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    • Gilliam, B. “"Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss".” In Late Thoughts, edited by Thomas Crowe and Karen Painter, pp.167-80. J. Paul Getty Institute, 2006.
    • Gilliam, B. “" ’Ich bin ein anderer als ich war’: Ariadne auf Naxos - das Konzept der Verwandlung und die Ablehnung der griechischen Tragödie".” In Richard Strauss: Der Griechischer Germane, edited by Ulrich Tadday, 69–80. Munich: Boorberg Verlag, 2005.
    • Gilliam, B. “Introductory Essay.” In The Richard Strauss Companion, edited by Mark-Daniel Schmid. Praeger, 2003.
    • Gilliam, B. “"From Hollywood to Berlin: The Influence of American Film on Weimar Music Theater.” In Americanism/Amerikanismus/Weill: Die Suche Nach Kultureller Indentität in Der Ersten Hälfte Des 20. Jahrhunderts, edited by Herrmann Danuser and Hermann Gottschewski, 147–59. Argus, 2003.
    • Gilliam, B. “"Die Rezeption der von Einem Opern in Amerika und die Ideologien des Stils".” In Gottfried von Einem Kongress, edited by Ingrid Fuchs, 303–13. Hans Schneider, 2003.
    • Gilliam, B. “"Biography (19,000 words) on Richard Strauss".” In Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie, Vol. 24. Macmillan, 2001.
    • Gilliam, B. “"Biography for Stephen Jaffe".” In New Grove, edited by Stanley Sadie, 2001.
    • Gilliam, B. “" ’Friede im Innern’: Aussenwelt und Innenwelt von Richard Strauss um 1935".” In Richard Strauss Und Die Moderne, edited by Bernd Edelmann, Birgit Lodes, and Reinhold Schlötterer, 93–111. Henschel, 2001.
    • Gilliam, B. “"Elektras Tanz and Auflösung".” In Festschrift Reinhold Schlotterer, edited by Bernd Edelmann. Wissner, 1999.
    • Gilliam, B. “Prefatory essay in honor of Günter Brosche.” In Fetstschrift Günter Brosche, edited by Thomas Leibnitz. Hans Schneider, 1999.
    • Gilliam, B. “"A Viennese Opera Composer in Hollywood: Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Double Exile in America".” In Driven from Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States, edited by Reinhold Brinkmann and Christoph Wolff, 334–57. University of California Press, 1999.
    • Gilliam, B. “"The Tone Poems of Richard Strauss".” In The 19th-Century Symphony, edited by D Kern Holoman, 345–68, 1997.
    • Gilliam, B. “"Stage and Screen: Kurt Weill and Operatic Reform in the 1920s".” In Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic, edited by B. Gilliam. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
    • Gilliam, B. “"Daphne’s Transformation".” In Richard Strauss and His World, edited by B. Gilliam, 33–66. Princeton University Press, 1992.
    • Gilliam, B. “"Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo: Innovation and Tradition".” In Richard Strauss: New Perspectives, edited by B. Gilliam, 259–83. DUke University Press, 1992.

  • Other Articles

    • Gilliam, B. “Rhetoric and the Human Condition in Mozart’s Last Three Symphonies,” August 2013.
    • Gilliam, B. “"A House Divided: The Tragic History of Dresden's Semper Opera House".” Opera News, 2010.
    • Gilliam, B. “"Richard Strauss and the National Socialist Regime",” November 2004.
    • Gilliam, B. “"Ariadne, Daphne, and the Problem of Transformation".” Cambridge Opera Journal, 2003.
    • Gilliam, B. “"Ariadne, Daphne, und das Problem der Verwandlung",” October 2002.

  • Reports

    • Gilliam, B. “"Body and Spirit in the Slow Movement of Beethoven’s Op. 130",” March 2004.
    • Gilliam, B. “Ein Skizzenbuch von Richard Strauss an der Harvard University,” December 1978.

  • Conference Papers

    • Gilliam, B. “The Problem of Trauma and Memory in Elektra, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Die Aegytische Helena,” 2013.
    • Gilliam, B. “"The String Quartet and Its Changing Audiences in the 19th Century",” 2000.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • MUSIC 393: Research Independent Study 2021
  • MUSIC 792: Independent Study in Performance Practice and Interpretation 2021
  • MUSIC 393: Research Independent Study 2020
  • MUSIC 792: Independent Study in Performance Practice and Interpretation 2020
  • MUSIC 258: Music History IV: Post-WWI through the Present 2019
  • MUSIC 393: Research Independent Study 2019
  • MUSIC 790S-1: Seminar in the History of Music 2019
  • MUSIC 791: Independent Study 2019
  • MUSIC 792: Independent Study in Performance Practice and Interpretation 2019
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Erinnerung und Trauma in Ariadne auf Naxos. Leipzig Gewandhaus. June 2014  2014
  • Strauss Contra Wagner: Die Frau ohne Schatten and the Problem of Marriage. November 24, 2013  2013
  • A Viennes Symphonist or a Symphonist Living in Vienna: The Two Versions of Bruckner's 8th Symphony. April 4, 2012  2012
  • Memory and Trauma in the Mythologies of Strauss and Hofmannsthal. January 6, 2012  2012
  • Goethe, Wagner, and the Idea of German Culture. December 8, 2010  2010
  • Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Aesthetics of Humor, Philosphy, and Ego Assertion. December 8, 2010  2010
  • Lustmord in Weimar-Era Opera. August 25, 2010  2010
  • Schumann, Byron, and Manfred. August 25, 2010  2010
  • "Music during the Holocaust: Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis". Ravinia Music Festival. July 2005  2005
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  Service to the Profession

  • Associate Editor : The Musical Quarterly. 2013  2013
  • Reviewer for American Council of Learned Societies (Mellon Felloships). 2013  2013
  • Reviewed book manuscript for U. Rochester Press. December 14, 2012  2012
  • Reviewed various articles for JAMS, MQ, and other journals. December 14, 2012  2012
  • AMS 50 Awards Committee. 2012  2012
  • Academic consultant for American Friends of the Salzburg Easter Festival. 2012  2012
  • Editorial Board Richard Strauss Edition (Munich). 2012  2012
  • Editorial Board : International Richard Strauss Edition. 2011  2011
  • Doctoral Viva for Oxford University (Magdelan College). December 8, 2010  2010
  • Program Committee for 16th Biennial British Conference on 19th Century Music. December 8, 2010  2010
  • Outside reader for Oxford University Dissertation. December 11, 2009  2009
  • Program Committee British Conference on 19th C. Music 2010. December 11, 2009  2009

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