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Bryan GilliamBryan Gilliam

Title: Frances Hill Fox Professor in Humanities
Office Location: 073 Mary Duke Biddle
Office Phone: +1 919 660 3340
Email Address: bgilliam@duke.edu

Education

  • PhD Harvard University, 1984
  • Honors in Music History University of Cincinnati, 1975

Research Interests

Ph.D., Harvard University. Author of books and articles on late 19th-and early 20th-century German music. Specialties include Richard Strauss, Anton Bruckner, German opera, fin-de-siècle Vienna, film music, and American popular song.

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Invited to give Keynote Address at Oxford University, June, 2007
  • Stanford University Alexander Lecture, January, 2006
  • American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, 2006-2007
  • Bass Society of Fellows Award, September 2005
  • Frances Hill Fox Professorship in Humanities, September 2005
  • Kurt Weill Foundation Research Grant, 1992
  • Goethe Institut (Atlanta) Foundation Grant, March, 1990
  • Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Grant, September, 1990
  • Josiah Charles Trent Foundation Grant, February, 1990
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Conference Grant, September 1989
  • International Research Exchange (IREX) Travel Grant, 1989
  • Duke University Research Council Travel Grant, 1988
  • Duke University Research Council Grant, July 1987
  • Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Music, 1987-1988
  • Colby College Humanites Research Award, December 1983
  • Wesley Wyman Research Award, 1982
  • Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst Research Grant, January 1981
  • Wesley Wyman Research Award, May 1980
  • Harvard GSAS Scholarship, 1976 - 1981

Teaching (Spring 2012):

  • Music 157.01, Mus hst iii: after 1850 Synopsis
    Biddle 086, WF 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • Music 317s.01, Sem hst of mus (topics) Synopsis
    Biddle 069, W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

Recent Professional Work:

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    Books
  • B. Gilliam. Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera.  Cambridge University Press, 2011 . (Under contract)
    Articles
  • B. Gilliam. ""The Hofmannsthal Operas"." Richard Strauss Companion  (December, 2010): 119-35.
    Articles in Books
  • B. Gilliam. "Dans l’ombre de Bach : Lyonel Feininger musicien."  December, 2011.
  • B. Gilliam. "In the Shadow of Bach: Lyonel Feininger as a Musician." Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World Yale July, 2011.
  • B. Gilliam. "Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, und Die Frau ohne Schatten." Richard Strauss Handbuch Laaber Verlag 2011.  [author's comments]

Curriculum Vitae


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