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Thomas Brothers
Professor of Music
Music
tdb@duke.edu
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
071 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications
Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration
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October 23, 2018
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The fascinating story of how creative cooperation inspired two of the world’s most celebrated musical acts. ...
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Louis Armstrong Master of Modernism
Book
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2014
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Gladly Learn and Gladly Teach
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Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies
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2009
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Review of How Low Can You Go: Anthology of the String Bass by Dick Spottswood and Steven Ledbetter
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Journal of the Society for American Music
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February 2008
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“Who’s On First, What’s Second, and Where Did They Come From?: The Social-Musical Textures of Early Jazz”
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2008
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Blues et Jazz
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La Revue du Jazz Authentique
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2008
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Review of All of Me: The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong by Jos Willems
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ASRC Journal
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February 2007
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Flats and Chansons in MS Florence, B.N., P. 26
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2007
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“New Orleans and the African Musical Diaspora,”
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2007
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Review of Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band by Lawrence Gushee
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Journal of the American Musicological Society
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2007
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Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals
Book
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2006
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Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans
Book
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2006
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Review of Pioneers of jazz: The story of the Creole Band
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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY
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2006
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Music
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2001
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Louis Armstrong, the 'Saints' and the 'Boys'
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Musica Oggi
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2001
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Accidentals in Binchois’s Songs
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2000
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Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words
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1999
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Review of The Birth of Bebop
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1999
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Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet: The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony
Journal Article
Music and Letters
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1998
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Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life
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American Music
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1998
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Musica Ficta and Harmony in Machaut's Songs
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Journal of Musicology
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October 1997
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Chromatic Beauty in the Late-Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Chromatic Beauty in the Late-Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals
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1997
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Ideology and Aurality in the Vernacular Traditions of African-American Music (CA. 1890-1950)
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Black Music Research Journal
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1997
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Contenance Angloise and Accidentals in Some Motets by Du Fay
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Plainsong and Medieval Music
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1997
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Rob C. Wegman. Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. xxv + 406 pp. $45.00.
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Renaissance Quarterly
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1997
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Review of John Coltrane: A Discography and Musical Biography
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Fontes Artis Musicae
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1996
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Sharps in Medee Fu: Questions of Style and Analysis
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Studi Musicali
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1995
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Review of MENSURATION AND PROPORTION SIGNS - ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION - BERGER,AMB
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RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY
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1995
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Solo and Cycle in African-American Jazz
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The Musical Quarterly
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1994
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Vestiges of the Isorhythmic Tradition in Masses and Motets, ca. 1450-1475
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Journal of the American Musicological Society
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1991
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Two Chansons Rustiques a 4 by Claudin de Sermisy and Clement Janequin
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Journal of the American Musicological Society
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1981
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