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Bryan Gilliam, Professor Emeritus of Music

Please note: Bryan has left the "Jewish Studies Program Certificate" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Ph.D., Harvard University. Author of books and articles on late 19th-and early 20th-century German music. Specialties include Richard Strauss, Anton Bruckner, Kurt Weill, Erich Korngold, 19th and 20th-century German opera, fin-de-siècle Vienna, film music, German musical aesthetics.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	067 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3321
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Education:

Ph.D.	Harvard University	1984
M.A.	Harvard University	1978
B.A.	University of Cincinnati	1975

Specialties:

Musicology

Research Interests: German Opera, Vienna, Wagner, Strauss, Film Music, and 19th & 20th Century

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.

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Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Paul A. Sommerfeld  
• Heidi Hart  
• Yana Lowry  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. B. Gilliam, The Great War and Its Aftermath: Strauss's and Hofmannsthal's Third-Way Modernism, in Modernism and Opera, edited by Richard Begam and Matthew Wilson Smith (2016), pp. In production, Johns Hopkins University Press
2. Gilliam, B, Zoë Alexis Lang. The Legacy of Johann Strauss: Political Influence and Twentieth-Century Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 248., Austrian History Yearbook, vol. 46 (April, 2015), pp. 434-436, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0067-2378 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
3. Gilliam, B, Rounding Wagner's mountain: Richard Strauss and modern German opera (Spring, 2014), pp. 1-340, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521456593 [doi]  [abs]
4. B. Gilliam, Richard Strauss und das Problem der Ehe (2014) (Leipzig Gewandhaus Conference on Richard Strauss.)
5. B. Gilliam, Zur Strauss Rezeption in Amerika nach 1945 (2014)  [abs]