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Philip Rupprecht

Philip Rupprecht

Professor of Music
Music
philip.rupprecht@duke.edu
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665 Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Office hours By  Appointment - please email me: philipr@duke.edu  
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Selected Publications

Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music

Journal Article Journal of Music Theory · January 1, 2022 Full text Open Access Cite

The Avant-Garde

Chapter · January 1, 2022 This chapter is an examination of Britten’s engagement with progressive musical and aesthetic thought. As a successful and popular composer, Britten is rarely identified as an ‘avant-garde’ artist, yet his career took note of progressive developments from ... Full text Cite

Review: Britten's Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction, by Heather Wiebe

Other Journal of the American Musicological Society · December 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Mechanical song: Birtwistle’s rhythmic imagination

Journal Article · January 1, 2015 Soon the year slides past never the same twice. There is no foretelling its fulfilment from the start. These words, translated from their original medieval context and set by Harrison Birtwistle in Narration: A Description of the Passing of a Year (1963), ... Full text Cite

Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music

Journal Article Journal of Music Theory · January 1, 2022 Full text Open Access Cite

The Avant-Garde

Chapter · January 1, 2022 This chapter is an examination of Britten’s engagement with progressive musical and aesthetic thought. As a successful and popular composer, Britten is rarely identified as an ‘avant-garde’ artist, yet his career took note of progressive developments from ... Full text Cite

Review: Britten's Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction, by Heather Wiebe

Other Journal of the American Musicological Society · December 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Mechanical song: Birtwistle’s rhythmic imagination

Journal Article · January 1, 2015 Soon the year slides past never the same twice. There is no foretelling its fulfilment from the start. These words, translated from their original medieval context and set by Harrison Birtwistle in Narration: A Description of the Passing of a Year (1963), ... Full text Cite

Above and beyond the bass: harmony and texture in George Benjamin’s Viola, Viola

Journal Article Tempo: a quarterly review of modern music · April 2005 Cite

Review: Jonathan Cross, The Stravinsky Legacy

Other Journal of the American Musicological Society · 2003 Cite

The Chamber Music

Journal Article · 1999 Cite

The Chamber Music

Chapter · 1999 Cite

Review: Kyle Gann, The music of Conlon Nancarrow

Other Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter · 1997 Cite

Tonal stratification and Uncertainty in Britten’s music

Journal Article Journal of Music Theory · October 1996 Cite

Review: Andrew Mead, An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt

Other Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter · 1996 Cite