Philip Rupprecht | Scholars@Duke

Philip Rupprecht
Professor of Music

Philip Rupprecht specializes in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His recent writings address the institutional politics of musical taste, concepts of narrative in operatic drama, the role of the stereotype in the formation of national traditions in music, and agency effects in instrumental music. His research at the BBC Written Archives has led recently to a study of the production of middlebrow taste in Britain in the 1950s. His book, British Musical Modernism, was published by Cambridge in 2015. Most recently, he has published essays on contemporary composers Thomas Adès, Simon Holt, and James Dillon.
Rupprecht is co-editor (with David Beard) of the book series Music Since 1900 (Cambridge UP).

Radio interview: Philip Rupprecht discusses his book British Musical Modernism

Office Hours

By Appointment - please email me: philipr@duke.edu

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016

Contact Information

105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665 Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
philip.rupprecht@duke.edu (919) 660-3300

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Yale University 1993
- M.Phil., Yale University 1991
- B.A., University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) 1988
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Chair in the Department of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2019
- Associate Professor of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2016
- Director of Graduate Studies in the Music Department, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2012
Recognition
In the News
- JUN 15, 2021
  
  10 Books About Music from Duke Authors
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - United Kingdom (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
- Music MD Biddle 2017 Proposal awarded by Mary Duke Biddle Foundation 2017
- Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2010 - 2011
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Woerner, F., U. Scheideler, and P. Rupprecht, eds. Tonality Since 1950. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017.
  - Woerner, F., U. Scheideler, and P. Rupprecht, eds. Tonality Since 1950. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017.
  - Rupprecht, P. British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  - Rupprecht, P., ed. Rethinking Britten. Oxford University Press, 2013.
  - Rupprecht, P., ed. Rethinking Britten. Oxford University Press, 2013.
  - Woerner, F., U. Scheideler, and P. Rupprecht, eds. Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012.
  - Woerner, F., U. Scheideler, and P. Rupprecht, eds. Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012.
  - Rupprecht, P. Britten’s Musical Language. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Academic Articles
  - Rupprecht, P. “Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music.” Journal of Music Theory 66, no. 2 (January 1, 2022): 291–302. https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-9930962.
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  - Rupprecht, P. “Voicing ideology: Modernism and the middlebrow in Britten's operas.” Music and Letters 101, no. 2 (May 1, 2020): 343–66. https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcaa028.
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  - Rupprecht, Philip. “Rhythmic Dignity: Motive, Signal, and Flux in the Music of James Dillon.” Musiktheorie 34, no. 4 (2019): 347–76.
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  - Rupprecht, P. “Mechanical song: Birtwistle’s rhythmic imagination,” January 1, 2015, 26–62. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316145326.004.
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  - Klein, Michael L., and Nicholas Reyland, eds. “Agency Effects in the Instrumental Drama of Musgrave and Birtwistle,” 2013, 189–215.
  - Rupprecht, Philip, ed. “Introduction: Britten’s Music and Its Audiences,” 2013, xv–xxxi.
  - Rupprecht, Philip, ed. “Britten and the Avant-Garde in the 1950s,” 2013, 131–55.
  - Woerner, Felix, Ullrich Scheideler, and Philip Rupprecht, eds. “Among the Ruined Languages: Britten’s Triadic Modernism, 1930-1940,” 2012, 223–45.
  - Rupprecht, P. “"Something slightly indecent": British composers, the European avant-garde, and national stereotypes in the 1950s.” Musical Quarterly 91, no. 3–4 (March 1, 2009): 275–326. https://doi.org/10.1093/musqtl/gdp003.
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  - Gloag, Kenneth, and Nicholas Jones, eds. “Thematic Drama in Early Peter Maxwell Davies: Op. 1 to the First Taverner Fantasia,” 2009, 45–78.
  - Philip Rupprecht, P. “Above and beyond the bass: harmony and texture in George Benjamin’s Viola, Viola.” Tempo: A Quarterly Review of Modern Music 59 (April 2005): 28–38.
  - Cooke, Mervyn, ed. “The Chamber Music,” 1999, 245–59.
  - Philip Rupprecht, P. “Tonal stratification and Uncertainty in Britten’s music.” Journal of Music Theory 40, no. 2 (October 1996): 311–46.
- Book Sections
  - Rupprecht, Philip. “Scenes from Britten's 'Spring Symphony'.” In Literary Britten, edited by Kate Kennedy. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2018.
  - Rupprecht, Philip. “Scenes from Britten's 'Spring Symphony'.” In Literary Britten, edited by Kate Kennedy. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2018.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Images in Sound: Movement, Harmony and Colour in the Early Music.” In The Music of Simon Holt, edited by D. Charlton. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2017.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Tonality Rediscovered: Oliver Knussen and the Musical ‘Object’ in the 1970s.” In Tonality Since 1950, edited by F. Woerner, U. Scheideler, and P. Rupprecht, 209--231. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Tonality Rediscovered: Oliver Knussen and the Musical ‘Object’ in the 1970s.” In Tonality Since 1950, edited by F. Woerner, U. Scheideler, and P. Rupprecht, 209--231. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Quickenings of the Heart: Notes on Rhythm and Tempo in Britten’s Music.” In Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on an Inexplicit Art, edited by V. Stroeher and J. Vickers, 317–45. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2017.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Mechanical Song: Birtwistle’s Rhythmic Imagination.” In Birtwistle Studies, edited by David Beard, Kenneth Gloag, and Nicholas Jones. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Introduction: Britten’s Music and Its Audiences.” In Rethinking Britten, edited by Philip Rupprecht, xv–xxxi. Oxford University Press, 2013.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Agency Effects in the Instrumental Drama of Musgrave and Birtwistle.” In Music and Narrative Since 1900, edited by Michael L. Klein and Nicholas Reyland, 189–215. Indiana University Press, 2013.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Britten and the Avant-Garde in the 1950s.” In Rethinking Britten, edited by Philip Rupprecht, 131–55. Oxford University Press, 2013.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Among the Ruined Languages: Britten’s Triadic Modernism, 1930-1940.” In Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice, edited by Felix Woerner, Ullrich Scheideler, and Philip Rupprecht, 223–45. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2012.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Thematic Drama in Early Peter Maxwell Davies: Op. 1 to the First Taverner Fantasia.” In Maxwell Davies Studies, edited by Kenneth Gloag and Nicholas Jones, 45–78. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  - Rupprecht, P. “The Chamber Music.” In The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten, edited by Mervyn Cooke, 245–59. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Other Articles
  - “The Vorticists: Musical Allies,” 2010.
  - “"Liturgy and Trope in Britten’s War Requiem" (Note for Duke Chapel performances, dir. Rodney Wynkoop, April 19-20, 2008),” 2008.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Conference Report: Arnold Schoenberg Institute/Music Theory Society of New York State: Joint Meeting, Barnard College, Columbia University, October 1991.” Music Analysis, 1992.
- Book Reviews
  - Rupprecht, Philip. “Review: Britten's Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction, by Heather Wiebe.” Journal of the American Musicological Society. University of California Press, December 1, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2015.68.3.698.
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  - Rupprecht, Philip. “Edward Elgar, Serenade for Strings, op. 20, Score, edited by Christopher Hogwood (Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2010), BA 9041, viii, 18 pp., with critical commentary and facsimile.” Nineteenth Century Music Review. Cambridge University Press (CUP), December 2013. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479409813000463.
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  - Rupprecht, P. “British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960. Ed. by Matthew Riley.” Music and Letters. Oxford University Press (OUP), February 1, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcr101.
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  - Rupprecht, P. “Review: Matthew Riley, ed., "British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960".” Music and Letters, 2012.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Review: Jonathan Cross, The Stravinsky Legacy.” Journal of the American Musicological Society, 2003.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Review: Anthony Pople, ed., Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music.” Journal of Music Theory, 1997.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Review: Kyle Gann, The music of Conlon Nancarrow.” Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter, 1997.
  - Rupprecht, P. “Review: Andrew Mead, An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt.” Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter, 1996.
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
Advising & Mentoring
- Philip Rupprecht is actively advising Ph.D's in musicology and music analysis on a range of twentieth-century art musics.
Available to mentor:
- PhD
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Presentations & Appearances
Service to the Profession

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Previous Appointments & Affiliations

In the News

Awards & Honors

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Other Articles

Book Reviews

Recent Courses

Advising & Mentoring

Available to mentor:

Presentations & Appearances

Service to the Profession