Publications of Thomas Brothers

Books

  1.  Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals. 2006 . (An electronic edition released by Cambridge University Press (through the netLibrary service at www.netLibrary.com) in 2002; paperback edition published in 2006.)
  2.  Louis Armstrong's New Orleans.  W. W. Norton, 2006 . (A paperback edition was issued March 2007. A Chinese translation has been contracted and an Italian translation is being discussed. A French translation of excerpts has been published in La Revue du Jazz Authentique.)
  3.  Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words.  Oxford University Press, 1999 . (This book has been reviewed in many places, including The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Republic. Paperback edition published in March 2001)
  4.  Chromatic Beauty in the Late-Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Chromatic Beauty in the Late-Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals.  Cambridge University Press, 1997 . (An electronic edition of this book was released by Cambridge University Press (through the netLibrary service at www.netLibrary.com) in 2002, a paperback edition in 2006.)

Articles

  1. T. Brothers. "Gladly Learn and Gladly Teach." Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies xv.1 (2009).
  2. T. Brothers. "Blues et Jazz." La Revue du Jazz Authentique Oct 2008; Nov 2008.574-575 (2008): 8-11; 10-12.
  3. "Flats and Chansons in MS Florence, B.N., P. 26." MS Chantilly 564  (2007).
  4. T. Brothers. "“New Orleans and the African Musical Diaspora,”."   (2007).
  5. "Louis Armstrong, the 'Saints' and the 'Boys'." Musica Oggi 21 (2001): 5-21.
  6. "Music." Lives and Legacies: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World  (2001). Introduction
  7. "Ideology and Aurality in the Vernacular Traditions of African-American Music." Black Music Research Journal  (1997): 169-209.
  8. "Contenance Angloise and Accidentals in Some Motets by Du Fay." Plainsong and Medieval Music .6 (1997): 21-51.
  9. "Musica Ficta and Harmony in Machaut's Songs." Journal of Musicology .15 (1997): 501-528.
  10. "Sharps in Medee Fu: Questions of Style and Analysis." Studi Musicali .24 (1995): 3-25.
  11. "Solo and Cycle in African-American Jazz." The Musical Quarterly 78 (1994): 479-509.
  12. "Vestiges of the Isorhythmic Tradition in Masses and Motets, ca. 1450-1475." Journal of the American Musicological Society 44 (1991): 1-56.
  13. "Two Chansons Rustiques a 4 by Claudin de Sermisy and Clement Janequin." Journal of the American Musicological Society 34 (1981): 305-324.

Articles in Books

  1. T. Brothers. "“Who’s On First, What’s Second, and Where Did They Come From?: The Social-Musical Textures of Early Jazz”." Early Twentieth-Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz and Other Popular Traditions. Edited by Howard Weiner. Scarecrow Press, Studies in Jazz no. 58 2008.
  2. "Accidents in Binchois's Songs." Binchois Studies. Edited by Dennis Slavin and Andrew Kirkman. Oxford University Press 2000: 251-275.

Reviews

  1.  Review of How Low Can You Go: Anthology of the String Bass by Dick Spottswood and Steven Ledbetter. Journal of the Society for American Music 2:1 (February, 2008): 119-121.
  2.  All of Me: The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong by Jos Willems. ASRC Journal 2:1 (February, 2007): 119-121.
  3.  Review of Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band by Lawrence Gushee. Journal of the American Musicological Society fall 2006 (2007): 747-754.
  4. Lawrence Gushee, Pioneers of Jazz: The Creole Band. Journal of the American Musicological Society  (2006).
  5. Scott DeVeaux, The Birth of Behop. Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books  (Spring, 1999): 16-17.
  6. Sylvia Huot, Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet: The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony. Music and Letters 79 (1998): 584-585.
  7. Laurence Bergreen, Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life. American Music 16 (1998): 234-236.
  8. Yasuhiro Fujioka et al, John Coltrane: A Discography and Musical Biography. Fontes Artis Musicae 43 (1996): 305-6. (Also "Duke Ellington: Day by Day and "Film by Film" by Klaus Strateman; and "Sarah Vaughn: A Discography" by Denis Brown)
  9. Rob C. Wegman, Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht. Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 652-3.
  10. Anna Marie Busse Berger, Mensuration and Proportion Signs:Origins of Evolution. Renaissance Quarterly 48 (1995): 674-5.