Books
- B. Gilliam. Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera. Cambridge University Press, 2008 . (Under contract)
- B. Gilliam et al.. Music, Image, Gesture. edited by B. Gilliam Duke University Press, 2005 (1-176 pp.). (Essays on ballet, film music, melodrama, modern dance, and opera)
- B. Gilliam. The Life of Richard Strauss, Cambridge Musical Lives. Cambridge University Press, 1999 . (Chinese edition, 2001; Spanish edition, 2003)
- B. Gilliam et al.. Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic. edited by B. Gilliam Cambridge University Press, 1994 . (Paperback edition, 2005)
- B. Gilliam et al.. Richard Strauss and His World. edited by B. Gilliam Princeton University Press, 1992 .
- B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work. edited by B. Gilliam Duke University Press, 1992 . (Paperback edition, 1997)
- B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss's Elektra. Oxford University Press, 1991 . (Paperback edition, 1996)
- B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss’s 'Daphne': Opera and Symphonic Continuity. Harvard Ph.D. Dissertation, 1984 .
Articles
- B. Gilliam. ""Night and Day, Moon and Stars: Now Voyager and its Music"." untitled book (2008). In progress; book on Hollywood film music
- B. Gilliam. ""Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss"." Late Thoughts (2006): pp. 167-80.
- 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 Edition Text+Kritik (2005): 69-80.
- B. Gilliam. "" 'Friede im Innern': Strauss's Inner and Outer Worlds in the mid-1930s"." JAMS (2005): 563-95.
- B. Gilliam. "Introductory Essay." The Richard Strauss Companion (2003).
- B. Gilliam. ""Ariadne, Daphne, and the Problem of Transformation"." Cambridge Opera Journal 15.1 (2003): 67-81.
- 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 (2003): 147-59.
- B. Gilliam. ""Die Rezeption der von Einem Opern in Amerika und die Ideologien des Stils"." Gottfried von Einem Kongress (2003): 303-13.
- B. Gilliam. ""Biography (19,000 words) on Richard Strauss"." Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 24 (2001).
- B. Gilliam. ""Biography for Stephen Jaffe"." New Grove (2001).
- B. Gilliam. "" 'Friede im Innern': Aussenwelt und Innenwelt von Richard Strauss um 1935"." Richard Strauss und die Moderne (2001): 93-111. Published conference paper
- B. Gilliam. ""Elektras Tanz and Auflösung"." Festschrift Reinhold Schlotterer (1999).
- B. Gilliam. "Prefatory essay in honor of Günter Brosche." Fetstschrift Günter Brosche (1999).
- 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 (1999): 334-57.
- B. Gilliam. ""The Tone Poems of Richard Strauss"." The 19th-Century Symphony (1997): 345-68.
- B. Gilliam. ""The Annexation of Anton Bruckner: Nazi Revisionism and the Politics of Appropriation"." The Musical Quarterly 78 (Fall, 1994): 558-83.
- B. Gilliam. ""Stage and Screen: Kurt Weill and Operatic Reform in the 1920s"." Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic (1994).
- B. Gilliam. ""The Two Versions of Bruckner’s Symphony no. 8" ("Rehearings")." 19th-Century Music 15 (Summer, 1992): 59-69.
- B. Gilliam. ""Daphne's Transformation"." Richard Strauss and His World (1992): 33-66.
- B. Gilliam. ""Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo: Innovation and Tradition"." Richard Strauss: New Perspectives (1992): 259-83.
- B. Gilliam. ""Richard Strauss's Preliminary Opera Sketches: Thematic Fragments and Symphonic Continuity"." 19th Century Music 9 (Spring, 1986): 176-88.
Articles in Books
- B. Gilliam. "Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Erotics of Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion." The Richard Strauss Companion 2007. [author's comments]
Papers
- B. Gilliam. " 'Ich bin ein anderer als ich war': Ariadne auf Naxos and the Rejection of Greek Tragedy. 2006 . (Stanford University Alexander Lecture (2006))
- B. Gilliam. "Music during the Holocaust: Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis". July 2005 . (Temple Shalom, panel presentation with James Conlon and Wels Kaufman, Chicago)
- B. Gilliam. "Don Quixote and the Cinematic Strauss". June 2005 . (Ravinia Music Festival, Chicago)
- B. Gilliam. "Richard Strauss and the National Socialist Regime". November 2004 . (American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia)
- B. Gilliam. "Body and Spirit in the Slow Movement of Beethoven's Op. 130". March 2004 . (Lincoln Center Chamber Players, New York)
- B. Gilliam. "Ariadne, Daphne, und das Problem der Verwandlung". October 2002 . (University of Würzburg)
- B. Gilliam. "Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss". May 2002 . (Ojai Music Festival Symposium of the Concept of the "Late Style")
- B. Gilliam. "Strauss's 'Crazy Jewish Girl': Salome and fin-de-siècle Modernism". January 2002 . (University of Toronto Symposium on Salome)
- B. Gilliam. Utopia und Katastrophe: Richard Strauss während des dritten Reiches. November 2000 . (Katastrophen und Utopien: Exil und innere Emigration, 1933-45, Berlin, Freie Universität)
- B. Gilliam. Politics and the Spirit: Richard Strauss and the 1930s. October 2000 . (Eastman Distinguished Lecture Series)
- B. Gilliam. "The String Quartet and Its Changing Audiences in the 19th Century". October 2000 . ("Rediscovering the String Quartet," Johns Hopkins University)
- B. Gilliam. Sound, Image, Music: Hollywood Film Music. May 2000 . (Lecture to the Board of Trustees, Duke University graduation weekend)
- B. Gilliam. From Hollywood to Berlin: The Influence of American Film on Weimar Music Theater. February 2000 . (Berlin, Humboldt Universität)
- B. Gilliam. 'Friede im Innern': Strauss's Inner and Outer Worlds in the 1930s. October 1999 . (York University International Symposium on Music and Nazism)
- B. Gilliam. 'Friede im Innern': Die innere und äußere Persönlichkeit des Richard Strauss um die Mitte der dreißiger Jahre. July 1999 . (University of Munich Symposium: "Richard Strauss und die Moderne")
- B. Gilliam. Elektras Tanz und Auflösung. April 1999 . (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musik Symposium on Strauss, Vienna)
- B. Gilliam. Variations on an Enigma: Richard Strauss Fifty Years after his Death. January 1999 . (Inaugural Erich Leinsdorf Memorial Lecture, New York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher Hall)
- B. Gilliam. Die Rezeption der von Einem Opern in Amerika und die Ideologien des Stils. June 1998 . (Gottfried von Einem-Congress, Vienna)
- B. Gilliam. Kurt Weill, Weimar Theater, and Operatic Reform. April 1998 . (University of North Carolina Symposium on Brecht, Weimar Germany, and Cabaret Culture)
- B. Gilliam. Tragedy and Epic in Siegfried’s Funeral Music. March 1998 . (Duke University Symposium in Honor of Peter Williams)
- B. Gilliam. Sibelius and Modernism. December, 1997 . (Northern Lights Sibelius Festival and Symposium, Lincoln Center, New York City)
- B. Gilliam. Five colloquia on the theme: 'Music, Image, Gesture'. May 1996 . (European Mozart Academy Krakow)
- B. Gilliam. Bruckner’s 8th Symphony. April 1996 . (British International Bruckner Conference, University of Manchester. Panel participant. John Deathridge, chair)
- B. Gilliam. A Viennese Opera Composer in Hollywood: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Double Exile in America. 1996-1995-1994 . (Conference on "The Musical Migration: Germany-Austria, ca. 1930-1950" Harvard University, May 1994; Yale, 1995; Dartmouth, 1996)
- B. Gilliam. The Annexation of Anton Bruckner: Nazi Revisionism and Misappropriation. 1994 . (International Bruckner Symposium, Connecticut College; AMS)
- B. Gilliam. The Influence of Film on German Opera of the 1920s. November 1991 . (American Musicological Society, Chicago)
- B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss's Intermezzo: Innovation and Tradition. April 1990 . (International Conference on Richard Strauss , Duke University)
- B. Gilliam. Intermezzo und die Zeitoper in den Zwanziger Jahren. October 1989 . (Leipzig Gewandhaus Conference on Richard Strauss, Leipzig, former GDR)
- B. Gilliam. Die Elektra Premiere: Hintergründe und Rezeption. June 1989 . (International Conference: "Höhepunkte der Dresdner Operngeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert." Dresden, former GDR)
- B. Gilliam. T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, and the Legacy of Wagner. March 1988 . (T. S. Eliot Centenary Lecture Series, Duke University, Department of English)
- B. Gilliam. Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss, and the Evolution of Elektra. 1988 . (British 19th-Century Music Conference, Oxford; AMS)
- B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss's Preliminary Opera Sketches: Thematic Fragments and Symphonic Continuity. November 1982 . (American Musicological Society, Ann Arbor)
- B. Gilliam. Stefan Zweig's Contribution to Strauss Opera after Die schweigsame Frau. April 1981 . (International Stefan Zweig Symposium, SUNY, Fredonia)
- B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss's Symphonic-Operatic Concept: What Do the Sources Show?. July 1980 . (British 19th-Century Music Conference, Cambridge University)
- B. Gilliam. Ein Skizzenbuch von Richard Strauss an der Harvard University. December 1978 . (University of Munich)
Reviews
- B. Gilliam, various. Reviews (1992 to 2005). (Written for JAMS, 19th-Century Music, Musical Times, and Kurt Weill Newsletter)
Program Notes
- B. Gilliam. "La música surt de mi!" La dansa i la dissolució d'Elektra. Fall 2007 .
- B. Gilliam. Elektra. Fall 2007 .
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