Last updated: Feb. 5, 2022
Supplement to Vita (Lyle Neff)
Additional (unpublished) writings, mostly term papers:
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"The Function of Dialect in Tobacco Road" (Spring 1978)
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"An Analysis of Ives' 'Thoreau'" (June 1981)
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"The Establishement of String Quartet Texture: Haydn, Mozart, and
Beethoven"
(Fall 1981) (a study of motivic construction using the first movements
of Haydn's op. 33, Mozart's "Haydn" quartets, and Beethoven's op. 18)
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"The Free Fantasias of J.S. Bach, W.F. Bach, and C.P.E. Bach" (a
comparison
of their works, using the principles in C.P.E. Bach's Versuch as
a measurement)
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"Computer Composition in the 1980's" (spring 1986) (a study of the
[then]
current status of using the computer for composition [as opposed to mere
sound production])
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"Rhythmic Gesture in the Masses of Haydn and Mozart" (a search for the
implications of meter and rhythm in sacred music, especially as regards
dance, with Allanbrook as a starting point)
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"The Multiple Lives of 'Felix Namque'" (May 1987) (a look at the English
organ settings of this chant in the Renaissance)
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A Catalog of the Musical Compositions of Cesar Cui (ever in progress),
with the concommitant development of a database format in the style of
MARC for maintaining such a catalog
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Liner notes (completed by February 2003) for volumes 2-6 of a 6-CD set
of
Cui's collected piano music, performed by Osamu Nakamura (now Osamu de
Kanazawa); CDs 2-6 still not issued as of Feb. 2022
Unpublished Translations
Translations of prose:
César Cui
- Articles included in the appendices to my dissertation (Story,
Style, and Structure in the Operas of César Cui, Indiana
University, 2002)"
- C. A. Cui's First Steps in Composition" (1909)
- "From My Reminiscences about Opera" (1899-1900,
abridged)
- "A Few Words about Contemporary Operatic Forms" (1889)
- "Flibustier in Paris" (1894)
- "A Day at Liszt's" (1876)
- The Bayreuth Music Festival (1876, originally a series of
newspaper articles, reissued monographically in 1889 and 1909 under the
title "The Ring of the Nibelungs," Richard Wagner's Trilogy: a
Musico-Critical Sketch)
- "Theater and Music: Mr. Pietro Mascagni in Petersburg" (1900)
- "Concise Directions on How to Become a Modern Composer of Genius without Being a Musician" (1917)
Reading translations of libretti:
Petr Tchaikovsky
- Vakula the Smith (original version of Cherevichki)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
César Cui
- The Mandarin's Son (sung portions)
- William Ratcliff
Singing translations of libretti:
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- May Night
- The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga
- The Tale of Tsar Saltan
César Cui
- Mademoiselle Fifi
- Mateo Falcone
- Feast in Time of Plague
- Little Red Riding-Hood
- The Captain's Daughter