Research Interests for Philip Rupprecht

Philip Rupprecht specializes in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His recent writings engage concepts of narrative in opera, the circulation of stereotypes in the formation of national traditions in music, and agency effects in instrumental music. He is the author of "British Musical Modernism: the Manchester Group and their Contemporaries" (Cambridge, 2015) and "Britten's Musical Language" (Cambridge, 2002). He co-edited "Tonality 1900-1950" (2012); and edited "Rethinking Britten" (2013).

Recent Publications

1. Rupprecht, P, SYMPHONIES SERIOUS OR FOR FUN: Malcolm Arnold, the BBC, and the Production of Taste, in The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Middlebrow (January, 2022), pp. 390-416 [doi] [abs]
2. Rupprecht, P, The Avant-Garde, in Benjamin Britten in Context (January, 2022), pp. 200-212 [doi] [abs]
3. Rupprecht, P, Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music, Journal of Music Theory, vol. 66 no. 2 (January, 2022), pp. 291-302 [doi]
4. Rupprecht, P, Voicing ideology: Modernism and the middlebrow in Britten's operas, Music and Letters, vol. 101 no. 2 (May, 2020), pp. 343-366 [doi]
5. Rupprecht, P, Rhythmic Dignity: Motive, Signal, and Flux in the Music of James Dillon, MUSIKTHEORIE, vol. 34 no. 4 (2019), pp. 347-376