This project looks at the ways in which Brahms developed the standard metrical patterns and practices of Western classical music, focusing especially on his use of metrical dissonance (conflicts between notated meter and heard metrical implications).  At its center is a corpus study of metrical dissonance in all of Brahms’s works with opus numbers.  A book-length presentation of this material is currently underway.

Review of Scott Murphy, ed., Brahms and the Shaping of Time, in Intégral 33 (2019): 93-103

“Brahms and the 1.5-Length Bar,” Society for Music Theory, San Antonio, TX, November 2018.

“Cultural and Individual Particularity On the Canvas of the Metrical Hierarchy,” Making Time in Music, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 2016.

“Brahms, Meter, and Imagined Agency,” Semiotic Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2015.