Publications

Books

• Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge, 2016. ISBN: 9781138792.

Book Chapters

• “Ralph Vaughan Williams.” In Nicholas Jones, ed., The Symphony in Britain and Ireland Since 1900. Cambridge University Press. Completed and forthcoming, 2025.
  
  
• “Early Recordings.” In Julian Onderdonk and Ceri Owen, eds., Vaughan Williams in Context. Cambridge University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9781108493321. 269-275.

Articles

• “Letting the Lark Ascend: Vaughan Williams’s ‘Most Popular Work’ and the Limits of Revisionism.” Nineteenth-Century Music Review (2024): 1-24. 
  
  
• “Sibelian Formal Principles in the First Movement of Malcolm Arnold’s Fifth Symphony.” Journal of the Royal Musical Association Vol. 148, No. 1 (2023): 35-70. 
  
  
• “British Symphonic Criticism: A Tale of Two Symposia.” Fontes Artis Musicae Vol. 69, No. 1 (January-March 2022): 28-42.
  
  
• “‘Blaspheming Beethoven?’: The Altered BACH Motive in Vaughan Williams’s Fourth Symphony.” Acta Musicologica Vol. 91, No. 2 (2019): 126-145.
  
  
• “Is It Symphonic? Some Thoughts on the Critical Reception of Vaughan Williams’s Sinfonia antartica.” The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Journal No. 69 (June 2017): 6-9.
  
  
• “‘There, in the Fastness of Rural England’: Vaughan Williams, Folksong, and George Borrow’s Lavengro.” The Musical Times Vol. 156, No. 1933 (Winter 2015): 43-56.
  
  
• “Nielsen’s Arcadia: The Case of the Flute Concerto.” Carl Nielsen Studies Vol. 5 (2012): 280-301.
  
  
• “‘They Dance No Sarabande’: Constant Lambert, The Rio Grande, and the American Exotic.” American Music Research Center Journal Vol. 14 (2004): 53-76.

Book Reviews

• Vaughan Williams and His World (University of Chicago Press, 2023), edited by Byron Adams and Daniel M. Grimley. Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association Vol. 80, No. 4 (June 2024): 654-663. 
  
  
• Malcolm Arnold: The Inside Story (The Book Build Ltd., 2022), by Anthony Meredith. Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association Vol. 79, No. 4 (June 2023): 637-639.
  
  
• The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950 (Boydell, 2020), edited by Michael Allis and Paul Watt. NABMSA Reviews Vol. 7, No. 2 (Fall 2020): 5-7.
  
  
• The Symphony and Symphonic Thinking in Polish Music Since 1956 (Routledge, 2019), by Beata Bolesławska. Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association Vol. 77, No. 2 (December 2020): 302-305.
  
  
• Two Centuries of British Symphonism: From the beginnings to 1945 (Georg Alms Verlag, 2015), by Jürgen Schaarwächter. NABMSA Reviews Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 2016): 12-14.
  
  
• Neoclassical Music in America: Voices of Clarity and Restraint (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), by R. James Tobin. American Music Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring 2016): 138-140.
  
  
• The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony (Cambridge University Press, 2013), edited by Julian Horton. Nineteenth-Century Music Review Vol. 12, No. 2 (December 2015): 351-356.
  
  
• The Correspondence of Jean Sibelius and Rosa Newmarch, 1906-1939 (Boydell, 2011), edited by Philip Ross Bullock. Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association Vol. 69, No. 3 (March 2013): 572-574.
  
  
• Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism (Boydell, 2010), by Daniel M. Grimley. Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association Vol. 68, No. 3 (March 2012): 601-603.
  
  
• Vaughan Williams on Music (Oxford University Press, 2008), edited by David Manning. Twentieth-Century Music Vol. 6, No. 2 (September 2009): 260-264.
  
  
• Malcolm Arnold – A Composer of Real Music: Symphonic Writing, Style, and Aesthetics (Entercom Saurus Records, 2007), by Raphael D. Thöne. North American British Music Studies Association Newsletter Vol. 4, No. 2 (Autumn 2008).
  
  
• A Catalogue of the Works of Sir Arnold Bax (Oxford University Press, 1999), by Graham Parlett. Music Reference Services Quarterly Vol. 8, No. 4 (October 2004): 93-94.
  
  

Recording Reviews (Excluding Those Here and at Classical Candor)

• Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius. Anna Stéphany, mezzo-soprano; Nicky Spence, tenor; Andrew Foster-Williams, bass-baritone; Polish National Youth Choir; Gabrieli Roar; Gabrieli Consort & Players; Paul McCreesh, conductor. Signum Records SIGCD 78 (2 CDs: 96 minutes). Nineteenth-Century Music Review. Completed and forthcoming.  
• Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge, Four Hymns, The House of Life. Nicky Spence, tenor; Julius Drake, piano; Timothy Ridout, viola; Piatti Quartet. Hyperion CDA68378 (1 CD: 69’50). Nineteenth-Century Music Review Vol. 21, No. 1 (April, 2024): 173-177.