James Wierzbicki / writings
Journalistic writings:
Scholarly writings:
  • American Music in the Post-War Years (book, part of the "Music in Its Time" series), under contract with Greenwood Press, in progress, forthcoming in 2004.
  • Forbidden Planet (book, part of the "Film Score Guide" series), under contract with Scarecrow Press, in progress, forthcoming in 2004.
  • "Sound as Music in the Films of Terrence Malick," chapter of Poetic Visions of America: The Cinema of Terrence Malick (London: Wallflower Press), forthcoming in 2003.
  • "Banality Triumphant: Iconographic Use of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Recent Films," forthcoming in the Beethoven Forum, 2003.
  • "Grand Illusion: The 'Storm Cloud' Music in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much," forthcoming in the Journal of Film Music, 2003.
  • "Raiders of the Lost Arc: Hollywood's Appropriation of Operatic Narrative Form," forthcoming in Interdisciplinary Humanities, 2003.
  • "Weird Vibrations: How the Theremin Gave Musical Voice to Hollywood's Extraterrestrial 'Others," Journal of Popular Film and Television, Fall 2002
  • review of Milhous, Dideriksen and Hume "Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London Vol. 2: The Pantheon Opera and Its Aftermath, 1789-1795," The Opera Quarterly, Spring 2002.
  • "Wedding Bells for The Bride of Frankenstein: Symbols and Signifiers in the Music for a Classic Horror Film," Philosophy and Film, special edition Summer 2001.
  • "Dethroning the Divas: Satire Directed at Cuzzoni and Faustina," The Opera Quarterly, Spring 2001.
  • "Traditional Values in a Century of Flux: The Music of Felix Labunski (1892-1979)," Polish Music Journal, Summer 2001.
  • various articles for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, 2001.
  • "Silence in Music / Music in Silence," New Music, 2000.
  • various articles on 20th-century opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 1992.
  • "Silence in Western Music: Frames and Open Spaces," (Washington University), 1989.
  • "The Music of Elliott Carter" (BMI), 1988.
  • "The Latent Guiding Thread: The Idea of Mobilité in the Post-Modern Avant Garde," (Washington University), 1987.
  • various articles on 20th-century musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 1985.
  • "Maddalena: Prokofiev's Adolescent Opera," Opera Quarterly, 1983.
  • "Moving Ahead by Stepping Back: The Radical Conservatism of George Rochberg," 1982.
  • "Burlesque Opera in London: 1729-1738" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cincinnati), 1979.
  • "Color, Music and Arnold Schoenberg's Die glückliche Hand," University of Cincinnati Graduate Research Journal, 1975.

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