Books

  1. B. Gilliam. Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera. Cambridge University Press, 2011. (Under contract)
  2. B. Gilliam et al.. Music, Image, Gesture. South Atlantic Quarterly (Special Issue). Edited by B. Gilliam.104.1Duke University Press, 2005. 1-176 pp. (Essays on ballet, film music, melodrama, modern dance, and opera)
  3. B. Gilliam. The Life of Richard Strauss, Cambridge Musical Lives. Cambridge University Press, 1999. (Chinese edition, 2001; Spanish edition, 2003)
  4. B. Gilliam et al.. Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic. Edited by B. Gilliam. Cambridge University Press, 1994. (Paperback edition, 2005)
  5. B. Gilliam et al.. Richard Strauss and His World. Edited by B. Gilliam. Princeton University Press, 1992.
  6. B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work. Edited by B. Gilliam. Duke University Press, 1992. (Paperback edition, 1997)
  7. B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss's Elektra. Oxford University Press, 1991. (Paperback edition, 1996)
  8. B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss’s 'Daphne': Opera and Symphonic Continuity. Harvard Ph.D. Dissertation, 1984.

Articles/Essays/Chapters in Books

  1. B. Gilliam. "Dans l’ombre de Bach : Lyonel Feininger musicien."  
  2. B. Gilliam. "In the Shadow of Bach: Lyonel Feininger as a Musician." Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World. Yale, July, 2011.
  3. B. Gilliam. "Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, und Die Frau ohne Schatten." Richard Strauss Handbuch. Laaber Verlag, 2011.   [author's comments]
  4. B. Gilliam. ""The Hofmannsthal Operas"." Richard Strauss Companion. Ed. Charles Youmans. Cambridge University Press, December, 2010. 119-35.
  5. B. Gilliam. ""Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Aesthetics Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion"." Richard Strauss Companion. Ed. Charles Youmans. Cambridge University Press, December, 2010. 269-79.
  6. B. Gilliam. ""A House Divided: The Tragic History of Dresden's Semper Opera House"." Opera News  (May 2010)
  7. B. Gilliam. ""In the Shadow of Bach: Lyonel Feininger as Musician"." Lyonel Feininger: On the Edge of the World. Ed. Barbara Haskell. Yale University Press, June 2011.
  8. B. Gilliam. "Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Erotics of Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion." The Richard Strauss Companion.  2007.   [author's comments]
  9. B. Gilliam. ""Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss"." Late Thoughts. Ed. Thomas Crowe and Karen Painter. J. Paul Getty Institute, 2006. pp. 167-80.
  10. B. Gilliam. "" 'Ich bin ein anderer als ich war': Ariadne auf Naxos and the Rejection of Greek Tragedy."    Stanford University Alexander Lecture (2006)
  11. B. Gilliam. ""Music during the Holocaust: Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis"."    Temple Shalom, panel presentation with James Conlon and Wels Kaufman, Chicago
  12. B. Gilliam. ""Don Quixote and the Cinematic Strauss"."    Ravinia Music Festival, Chicago
  13. B. Gilliam. "" 'Ich bin ein anderer als ich war': Ariadne auf Naxos - das Konzept der Verwandlung und die Ablehnung der griechischen Tragödie"." Richard Strauss: Der griechischer Germane. Ed. Ulrich Tadday. Edition Text+KritikMunich: Boorberg Verlag, 2005. 69-80.
  14. B. Gilliam. "" 'Friede im Innern': Strauss's Inner and Outer Worlds in the mid-1930s"." JAMS  (2005): 563-95.
  15. B. Gilliam. ""Richard Strauss and the National Socialist Regime"."    American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia
  16. B. Gilliam. ""Body and Spirit in the Slow Movement of Beethoven's Op. 130"."    Lincoln Center Chamber Players, New York
  17. B. Gilliam. "Introductory Essay." The Richard Strauss Companion. Ed. Mark-Daniel Schmid. Praeger, 2003.
  18. B. Gilliam. ""Ariadne, Daphne, and the Problem of Transformation"." Cambridge Opera Journal 15.1 (2003): 67-81.
  19. B. Gilliam. ""From Hollywood to Berlin: The Influence of American Film on Weimar Music Theater." Americanism/Amerikanismus/Weill: Die Suche nach kultureller Indentität in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ed. Herrmann Danuser, Hermann Gottschewski. Argus, 2003. 147-59.
  20. B. Gilliam. ""Die Rezeption der von Einem Opern in Amerika und die Ideologien des Stils"." Gottfried von Einem Kongress. Ed. Ingrid Fuchs. Hans Schneider, 2003. 303-13.
  21. B. Gilliam. ""Ariadne, Daphne, und das Problem der Verwandlung"."    University of Würzburg
  22. B. Gilliam. ""Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss"."    Ojai Music Festival Symposium of the Concept of the "Late Style"
  23. B. Gilliam. ""Strauss's 'Crazy Jewish Girl': Salome and fin-de-siècle Modernism"."    University of Toronto Symposium on Salome
  24. B. Gilliam. ""Biography (19,000 words) on Richard Strauss"." Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ed. Stanley Sadie. 24Macmillan, 2001. 
  25. B. Gilliam. ""Biography for Stephen Jaffe"." New Grove. Ed. Stanley Sadie.  2001. 
  26. B. Gilliam. "" 'Friede im Innern': Aussenwelt und Innenwelt von Richard Strauss um 1935"." Richard Strauss und die Moderne. Ed. Bernd Edelmann, Birgit Lodes, Reinhold Schlötterer. Henschel, 2001. 93-111. Published conference paper
  27. B. Gilliam. "Utopia und Katastrophe: Richard Strauss während des dritten Reiches."    Katastrophen und Utopien: Exil und innere Emigration, 1933-45, Berlin, Freie Universität
  28. B. Gilliam. "Politics and the Spirit: Richard Strauss and the 1930s."    Eastman Distinguished Lecture Series
  29. B. Gilliam. ""The String Quartet and Its Changing Audiences in the 19th Century"."    "Rediscovering the String Quartet," Johns Hopkins University
  30. B. Gilliam. "Sound, Image, Music: Hollywood Film Music."    Lecture to the Board of Trustees, Duke University graduation weekend
  31. B. Gilliam. "From Hollywood to Berlin: The Influence of American Film on Weimar Music Theater."    Berlin, Humboldt Universität
  32. B. Gilliam. "'Friede im Innern': Strauss's Inner and Outer Worlds in the 1930s."    York University International Symposium on Music and Nazism
  33. B. Gilliam. "'Friede im Innern': Die innere und äußere Persönlichkeit des Richard Strauss um die Mitte der dreißiger Jahre."    University of Munich Symposium: "Richard Strauss und die Moderne"
  34. B. Gilliam. "Elektras Tanz und Auflösung."    Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musik Symposium on Strauss, Vienna
  35. B. Gilliam. "Variations on an Enigma: Richard Strauss Fifty Years after his Death."    Inaugural Erich Leinsdorf Memorial Lecture, New York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher Hall
  36. B. Gilliam. ""Elektras Tanz and Auflösung"." Festschrift Reinhold Schlotterer. Ed. Bernd Edelmann. Wissner, 1999. 
  37. B. Gilliam. "Prefatory essay in honor of Günter Brosche." Fetstschrift Günter Brosche. Ed. Thomas Leibnitz. Hans Schneider, 1999. 
  38. B. Gilliam. ""A Viennese Opera Composer in Hollywood: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Double Exile in America"." Driven from Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States. Ed. Reinhold Brinkmann and Christoph Wolff. University of California Press, 1999. 334-57.
  39. B. Gilliam. "Die Rezeption der von Einem Opern in Amerika und die Ideologien des Stils."    Gottfried von Einem-Congress, Vienna
  40. B. Gilliam. "Kurt Weill, Weimar Theater, and Operatic Reform."    University of North Carolina Symposium on Brecht, Weimar Germany, and Cabaret Culture
  41. B. Gilliam. "Tragedy and Epic in Siegfried’s Funeral Music."    Duke University Symposium in Honor of Peter Williams
  42. B. Gilliam. "Sibelius and Modernism."    Northern Lights Sibelius Festival and Symposium, Lincoln Center, New York City
  43. B. Gilliam. ""The Tone Poems of Richard Strauss"." The 19th-Century Symphony. Ed. D. Kern Holoman.  1997. 345-68.
  44. B. Gilliam. "Five colloquia on the theme: 'Music, Image, Gesture'."    European Mozart Academy Krakow
  45. B. Gilliam. "Bruckner’s 8th Symphony."    British International Bruckner Conference, University of Manchester. Panel participant. John Deathridge, chair
  46. B. Gilliam. "A Viennese Opera Composer in Hollywood: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Double Exile in America."    Conference on "The Musical Migration: Germany-Austria, ca. 1930-1950" Harvard University, May 1994; Yale, 1995; Dartmouth, 1996
  47. B. Gilliam. ""The Annexation of Anton Bruckner: Nazi Revisionism and the Politics of Appropriation"." The Musical Quarterly 78 (Fall, 1994): 558-83.
  48. B. Gilliam. ""Stage and Screen: Kurt Weill and Operatic Reform in the 1920s"." Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic. Ed. B. Gilliam. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  49. B. Gilliam. "The Annexation of Anton Bruckner: Nazi Revisionism and Misappropriation."    International Bruckner Symposium, Connecticut College; AMS
  50. B. Gilliam. ""The Two Versions of Bruckner’s Symphony no. 8" ("Rehearings")." 19th-Century Music 15 (Summer, 1992): 59-69.
  51. B. Gilliam. ""Daphne's Transformation"." Richard Strauss and His World. Ed. B. Gilliam. Princeton University Press, 1992. 33-66.
  52. B. Gilliam. ""Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo: Innovation and Tradition"." Richard Strauss: New Perspectives. Ed. B. Gilliam. DUke University Press, 1992. 259-83.
  53. B. Gilliam. "The Influence of Film on German Opera of the 1920s."    American Musicological Society, Chicago
  54. B. Gilliam. "Richard Strauss's Intermezzo: Innovation and Tradition."    International Conference on Richard Strauss , Duke University
  55. B. Gilliam. "Intermezzo und die Zeitoper in den Zwanziger Jahren."    Leipzig Gewandhaus Conference on Richard Strauss, Leipzig, former GDR
  56. B. Gilliam. "Die Elektra Premiere: Hintergründe und Rezeption."    International Conference: "Höhepunkte der Dresdner Operngeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert." Dresden, former GDR
  57. B. Gilliam. "T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, and the Legacy of Wagner."    T. S. Eliot Centenary Lecture Series, Duke University, Department of English
  58. B. Gilliam. "Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss, and the Evolution of Elektra."    British 19th-Century Music Conference, Oxford; AMS
  59. B. Gilliam. ""Richard Strauss's Preliminary Opera Sketches: Thematic Fragments and Symphonic Continuity"." 19th Century Music 9 (Spring, 1986): 176-88.
  60. B. Gilliam. "Richard Strauss's Preliminary Opera Sketches: Thematic Fragments and Symphonic Continuity."    American Musicological Society, Ann Arbor
  61. B. Gilliam. "Stefan Zweig's Contribution to Strauss Opera after Die schweigsame Frau."    International Stefan Zweig Symposium, SUNY, Fredonia
  62. B. Gilliam. "Richard Strauss's Symphonic-Operatic Concept: What Do the Sources Show?."    British 19th-Century Music Conference, Cambridge University
  63. B. Gilliam. "Ein Skizzenbuch von Richard Strauss an der Harvard University."    University of Munich

Book Reviews

  1. B. Gilliam. various.  Reviews1992 to 2005  (Written for JAMS, 19th-Century Music, Musical Times, and Kurt Weill Newsletter)

Program Notes

  1. B. Gilliam. ""La música surt de mi!" La dansa i la dissolució d'Elektra."  Fall 2007
  2. B. Gilliam. "Elektra."  Fall 2007

Other

  1. B. Gilliam. "various." Short Essays, (1992 to 2006). Written for the New York Times [A&L], Opera News, Leipzig-Gewandhaus Magazin, Salzburg Festival, Kunstforum, American Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City Opera, Covent Garden, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, Garsington Opera, Carnegie Hall, Ravinia Festival [Chicago]
  2. B. Gilliam. "various." Public Lectures, (1992 to 2006). American Symphony Orchestra, Bayreuth Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center Chamber Players, Mostly Mozart Festival, New York Philharmonic, Ojai Music Festival, Philadelphia Orchestra, Salzburg Festival, San Francisco Opera, and Santa Fe Opera
  3. B. Gilliam. "various." Media Appearances, (2005). PBS, NPR, Radio Berlin, and CBC

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