Publications

Publications

Hillis, O.J.M., Macleod, M., Ross, J.M. and Simms, B., Sustaining Progress: Approaches to Establishing Reconciliation and Stability in Northern Ireland (Bow Publications: London, 1996).

‘Mistaken Identity: Paul Dukas and Vincent d’Indy’, Musical Times 138 (Aug 1997).

Crisis and Transformation: French Opera, Politics and the Press, 1897–1903. D.Phil. thesis, Oxford University, 1998.

‘Frank Martin, La Nique à Satan’, Opera (June 1999), pp.722–23.

‘Opera on disc: Chausson, Le Roi Arthus’, Opera (Jan 2000), pp.121–22.

‘Triumph in Belgium’, BBC Music Magazine (May 2000), p.6.

Review: Bruce R. Smith, The Acoustic World of Early Modern England (Chicago, 1999), English Historical Review cxv/462 (Jun 2000), pp.708–09.

Review: Stephen Studd, Saint-Saëns: A Critical Biography (London, 1999), Music and Letters 81/3 (Aug 2000), pp.460–61.

Advised and updated information on entries for Bruneau, d’Indy and Chausson: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London, 2001).

Review: ‘Paula Gillet, Musical Women in England, 1870–1914 (London, 2000). English Historical Review cxvii / 474 (Nov 2002), pp.1367–68.

‘D’Indy’s Fervaal: Reconstructing French Identity at the Fin-de-Siècle’, Music and Letters 84/2 (May 2003), pp.209-40.

Forward for Geoffrey Evans, The Call of the Trumpet (Redwoods Music, 2004): ISBN 0-9547455-0-7.

Book Chapter: ‘Music in the French Salon’; in Caroline Potter and Richard Langham Smith (eds.), French Music Since Berlioz (Ashgate Press, 2006), pp.91–115. ISBN 0-7546-0282-6.

Book Chapter: 'Vincent d'Indy l'interprète'; in Manuela Schwartz (ed.), Vincent d'Indy et son temps (Sprimont, Mardaga, 2006), pp.331–49. ISBN 2-87009-888-X

Book Chapter: 'Messidor: Republican Patriotism and the French Revolutionary Tradition in Third Republic Opera' in Barbara Kelly, Music, Culture and National Identity in France, 1870-1939 (University of Rochester Press, publication 2008), pp.90-104.

Book Chapter, 'D'Indy et Barrès'; in Fabien Michel, Nouveaux Regards sur Vincent d'Indy (Editions symétrie, Paris, 2008).

Seminars and Conference Organisation

Organiser: Bow Group Oxford Conferences: Northern Ireland: The Road to Peace and Modern British Identity, Exeter College, 1994 and 1995.

Organised and chaired Oxford University Seminars in Musicology, 1995–97.

Assistant organiser: Oxford International Mahler Symposium, 1995–96.

Papers Presented and Lectures

‘Chausson, Concert’. Lecture recital with the Allegri String Quartet, Oxford, 1995.

‘Over-reaching Wagner: Chausson’s Le Roi Arthus‘, Oxford Musicology Seminars, 1996.

‘Messidor: Patriotic Image-Making in French Opera’. Conference: ‘Power and Persuasion: The French Press’, Royal Holloway College, London: 4 Dec 1999.

Invited speaker: ‘Constructing Ends of Centuries’ Conference, City University, London, 6 July 2000.

Invited speaker: Vincent d’Indy Conference, Trinity College, Hartford, U.S.A., 11-13 May 2001.

Invited speaker and session chairman: 'Nationalism and Identity in Third Republic France', Keele University, 6-8 July 2001. Papers on the Zola – Bruneau Collaboration, and on Music and Musicians in the Siege of Paris, 1870–71.

Invited speaker: 'Vincent d'Indy et son temps': Société française de Musicologie, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, 26-28 Sept 2002.

‘Gustav Mahler, Symphony No.1’. Lecture for Friends of St. Albans Symphony Orchestra, 30 May 2004.

‘Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius’. Lecture for Friends of St. Albans Symphony Orchestra, 9 Oct 2004.

‘Mendelssohn’s Third Symphony and the Romanticisation of Scotland’. Lecture for the British Scholars Association, The British Council, Colombo, 25 May 2005.

‘Orientalism in Russian Music’. Lecture for Friends of St. Albans Symphony Orchestra, 9 Dec 2005.