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

  • Acting Chair, Department of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2008
  • 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

  • (90-0398) International Conference on Richard Strauss awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1989 - 1990
  • (89-0475) 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. January 1, 2014.  Full Text
    • al, BGE. Music, Image, Gesture. Edited by B Gilliam. Duke University Press, 2005.
    • Gilliam, B. The Life of Richard Strauss, Cambridge Musical Lives. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
    • al, BGE. 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, BGE. 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.

  • Book Sections

    • Gilliam, B. "Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, und Die Frau ohne Schatten." In Richard Strauss Handbuch, edited by W Werbeck, 75 Completed pagesand in press-75 Completed pagesand in press. Bärenreiter, 2014. (Chapter)
    • Gilliam, B. "Dans l’ombre de Bach : Lyonel Feininger musicien." December 2011.
    • Gilliam, B. "In the Shadow of Bach: Lyonel Feininger as a Musician." In Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World. Yale, July 2011.
    • Gilliam, B. ""The Hofmannsthal Operas"." In Richard Strauss Companion, edited by C Youmans, 119-35. Cambridge University Press, December 2010.
    • Gilliam, B. ""Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Aesthetics Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion"." In Richard Strauss Companion, edited by C Youmans, 269-79. Cambridge University Press, December 2010.
    • Gilliam, B. ""In the Shadow of Bach: Lyonel Feininger as Musician"." In Lyonel Feininger: On the Edge of the World, edited by B Haskell. Yale University Press, 2010.
    • Gilliam, B. "The Strauss-Hofmannsthal operas." In The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, 119-135. January 1, 2010.  Full Text
    • Gilliam, B. ""Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss"." In Late Thoughts, edited by T Crowe and K 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 U Tadday, 69-80. Munich: Boorberg Verlag, 2005.
    • Gilliam, B. "Introductory Essay." In The Richard Strauss Companion, edited by M-D 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 H Danuser and H 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 I 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 S Sadie. Macmillan, 2001.
    • Gilliam, B. ""Biography for Stephen Jaffe"." In New Grove, edited by S Sadie. 2001.
    • Gilliam, B. "" ’Friede im Innern’: Aussenwelt und Innenwelt von Richard Strauss um 1935"." In Richard Strauss und die Moderne, edited by B Edelmann, B Lodes, and R Schlötterer, 93-111. Henschel, 2001.
    • Gilliam, B. ""Elektras Tanz and Auflösung"." In Festschrift Reinhold Schlotterer, edited by B Edelmann. Wissner, 1999.
    • Gilliam, B. "Prefatory essay in honor of Günter Brosche." In Fetstschrift Günter Brosche, edited by T 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 R Brinkmann and C Wolff, 334-57. University of California Press, 1999.
    • Gilliam, B. ""The Tone Poems of Richard Strauss"." In The 19th-Century Symphony, edited by DK 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.

  • 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"." October 2000.

  • Journal Articles

    • Gilliam, B. "The Legacy of Johann Strauss: Political Influence and Twentieth-Century Identity." AUSTRIAN HISTORY YEARBOOK 46 (2015): 434-436.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Gilliam, B. "A House Divided." OPERA NEWS 74, no. 11 (May 2010): 16-21.  Link to Item
    • Gilliam, B. "" ’Ich bin ein anderer als ich war’: Ariadne auf Naxos and the Rejection of Greek Tragedy." (2006). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. ""Don Quixote and the Cinematic Strauss"." (June 2005). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "" 'Friede im Innern': Strauss's Inner and Outer Worlds in the mid-1930s"." JAMS (2005): 563-595. (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Music, image, gesture - Introduction." SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 104, no. 1 (2005): 1-5.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Gilliam, B. "Visual voice (Strauss's 'Salome')." OPERA NEWS 68, no. 9 (March 2004): 23-+.  Link to Item
    • Gilliam, B. ""Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss"." (May 2002). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. ""Strauss’s ’Crazy Jewish Girl’: Salome and fin-de-siècle Modernism"." (January 2002). (Academic Article)
    • 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.  Link to Item
    • Mingo, B, and Gilliam, B. "The endangered list (Nominees for the most unjustly neglected opera)." OPERA NEWS 66, no. 5 (November 2001): 50-+.  Link to Item
    • Gilliam, B. "Utopia und Katastrophe: Richard Strauss während des dritten Reiches." (November 2000). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Politics and the Spirit: Richard Strauss and the 1930s." (October 2000). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Sound, Image, Music: Hollywood Film Music." (May 2000). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "From Hollywood to Berlin: The Influence of American Film on Weimar Music Theater." (February 2000). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "’Friede im Innern’: Strauss’s Inner and Outer Worlds in the 1930s." (October 1999). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Modern times - Richard Strauss' later operas reflect the disunity of contemporary life." OPERA NEWS 64, no. 2 (August 1999): 26-31.  Link to Item
    • Gilliam, B. "’Friede im Innern’: Die innere und äußere Persönlichkeit des Richard Strauss um die Mitte der dreißiger Jahre." (July 1999). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Elektras Tanz und Auflösung." (April 1999). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Variations on an Enigma: Richard Strauss Fifty Years after his Death." (January 1999). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Opera as a political matter. Richard Strauss's 'Friedenstag' (1938) - A comment." ARCHIV FUR MUSIKWISSENSCHAFT 56, no. 4 (1999): 347-350.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Gilliam, B. "Die Rezeption der von Einem Opern in Amerika und die Ideologien des Stils." (June 1998). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Kurt Weill, Weimar Theater, and Operatic Reform." (April 1998). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Tragedy and Epic in Siegfried’s Funeral Music." (March 1998). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Sibelius and Modernism." (December 1997). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Five colloquia on the theme: ’Music, Image, Gesture’." (May 1996). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Bruckner’s 8th Symphony." (April 1996). (Academic Article)
    • GILLIAM, B. "BRUCKNER ANNEXATION REVISITED - A RESPONSE TO WAGNER,MANFRED." MUSICAL QUARTERLY 80, no. 1 (1996): 124-131.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Gilliam, B. "A Viennese Opera Composer in Hollywood: Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Double Exile in America." (1996). (Academic Article)
    • GILLIAM, B. "THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE TEXT OF STRAUSS 'FRIEDENSTAG' - COMMENT." MUSIC & LETTERS 76, no. 1 (February 1995): 142-142.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Gilliam, B. "The authorship of the text of Strauss's 'friedenstag'." Music and Letters 76, no. 1 (February 1, 1995): 142-143. (Letter)  Full Text
    • Gilliam, B. ""The Annexation of Anton Bruckner: Nazi Revisionism and the Politics of Appropriation"." The Musical Quarterly 78 (October 1994): 558-583. (Academic Article)
    • GILLIAM, B. "'SALOME' + IN RESPONSE TO SHOWALTER,ELAINE." TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT , no. 4773 (September 23, 1994): 17-17.  Link to Item
    • GILLIAM, B. "THE ANNEXATION OF BRUCKNER,ANTON, NAZI REVISIONISM AND THE POLITICS OF APPROPRIATION." MUSICAL QUARTERLY 78, no. 3 (1994): 584-604.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Gilliam, B. ""The Two Versions of Bruckner’s Symphony no. 8" ("Rehearings")." 19th-Century Music 15 (July 1992): 59-69. (Academic Article)
    • GILLIAM, B. "THE 2 VERSIONS OF BRUCKNER 8TH SYMPHONY." NINETEENTH CENTURY MUSIC 16, no. 1 (1992): 59-69.  Link to Item
    • Gilliam, B. "The Influence of Film on German Opera of the 1920s." (November 1991). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo: Innovation and Tradition." (April 1990). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Intermezzo und die Zeitoper in den Zwanziger Jahren." (October 1989). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Die Elektra Premiere: Hintergründe und Rezeption." (June 1989). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, and the Legacy of Wagner." (March 1988). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss, and the Evolution of Elektra." (1988). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. ""Richard Strauss's Preliminary Opera Sketches: Thematic Fragments and Symphonic Continuity"." 19th Century Music 9 (March 1986): 176-188. (Academic Article)
    • GILLIAM, B. "STRAUSS PRELIMINARY OPERA SKETCHES + 'ELEKTRA' AND DER 'ROSENKAVALIER' - THEMATIC FRAGMENTS AND SYMPHONIC CONTINUITY." NINETEENTH CENTURY MUSIC 9, no. 3 (1986): 176-188.  Link to Item
    • GILLIAM, B. "MAHLER,GUSTAV-STRAUSS,RICHARD CORRESPONDENCE, 1888-1911 - BLAUKOPF,H, EDITOR." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY 39, no. 2 (1986): 418-422.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Gilliam, B. "Richard Strauss’s Preliminary Opera Sketches: Thematic Fragments and Symphonic Continuity." (November 1982). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. "Stefan Zweig’s Contribution to Strauss Opera after Die schweigsame Frau." (April 1981). (Academic Article)

  • Other Articles

    • Gilliam, B. "Rhetoric and the Human Condition in Mozart’s Last Three Symphonies." (August 2013). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. ""A House Divided: The Tragic History of Dresden's Semper Opera House"." Opera News (2010). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. ""Richard Strauss and the National Socialist Regime"." (November 2004). (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. ""Ariadne, Daphne, and the Problem of Transformation"." Cambridge Opera Journal 15, no. 1 (2003): 67-81. (Academic Article)
    • Gilliam, B. ""Ariadne, Daphne, und das Problem der Verwandlung"." (October 2002). (Academic Article)

  • 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.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • MUSIC 258: Music History IV: Post-WWI through the Present 2018
  • MUSIC 393: Research Independent Study 2018
  • MUSIC 555: Music in the Nineteenth Century 2018
  • MUSIC 791: Independent Study 2018
  • MUSIC 792: Independent Study in Performance Practice and Interpretation 2018
  • MUSIC 249: Hollywood Film Music 2017
  • MUSIC 290S-1: Special Topics in Music History 2017
  • MUSIC 790S-1: Seminar in the History of Music 2017
• 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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