Bryan Gilliam
Professor Emeritus of Music
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.
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University 1984
- M.A., Harvard University 1978
- B.A., University of Cincinnati 1975
Gilliam, B. Rounding Wagner's mountain: Richard Strauss and modern German opera. 2014, pp. 1–340. Scopus, doi:10.1017/CBO9780511979699. Full Text
al, B. Gilliam et. Music, Image, Gesture. Edited by B. Gilliam, vol. 104, Duke University Press, 2005.
Gilliam, B. The Life of Richard Strauss, Cambridge Musical Lives. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
al, B. Gilliam et. Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic. Edited by B. Gilliam, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
al, B. Gilliam et. Richard Strauss and His World. Edited by B. Gilliam, Princeton University Press, 1992.
Gilliam, B. Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work. Edited by B. Gilliam, Duke University Press, 1992.
Gilliam, B. Richard Strauss’s Elektra. Oxford University Press, 1991.
Gilliam, B. Richard Strauss’s ’Daphne’: Opera and Symphonic Continuity. Harvard Ph.D. Dissertation, 1984.
Gilliam, B. “Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, und Die Frau ohne Schatten.” Richard Strauss Handbuch, edited by W. Werbeck, Bärenreiter, 2014, pp. 75Completedpagesandinpress-75Completedpagesandinpress.
Gilliam, B. Dans l’ombre de Bach : Lyonel Feininger musicien. 2011.
Gilliam, B. “In the Shadow of Bach: Lyonel Feininger as a Musician.” Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World, Yale, 2011.
Gilliam, B. “"The Hofmannsthal Operas".” Richard Strauss Companion, edited by Charles Youmans, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 119–35.
Gilliam, B. “"Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Aesthetics Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion".” Richard Strauss Companion, edited by Charles Youmans, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 269–79.
Gilliam, B. “The Strauss-Hofmannsthal operas.” The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, 2010, pp. 119–35. Scopus, doi:10.1017/CCOL9780521899307.008. Full Text
Gilliam, B. “"In the Shadow of Bach: Lyonel Feininger as Musician".” Lyonel Feininger: On the Edge of the World, edited by Barbara Haskell, Yale University Press, 2010.
Gilliam, B. “"Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss".” Late Thoughts, edited by Thomas Crowe and Karen Painter, J. Paul Getty Institute, 2006, p. pp.167-80.
Gilliam, B. “" ’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, edited by Ulrich Tadday, Munich: Boorberg Verlag, 2005, pp. 69–80.
Gilliam, B. “Introductory Essay.” The Richard Strauss Companion, edited by Mark-Daniel Schmid, Praeger, 2003.
Pages
Gilliam, Bryan. “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, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Apr. 2015, pp. 434–36. Crossref, doi:10.1017/s0067237814000551. Full Text
Gilliam, Bryan. “A House Divided.” Opera News, vol. 74, no. 11, May 2010, pp. 16–21.
Gilliam, B. " ’Ich bin ein anderer als ich war’: Ariadne auf Naxos and the Rejection of Greek Tragedy. 2006.
Gilliam, B. "Don Quixote and the Cinematic Strauss". June 2005.
Gilliam, B. “Introduction.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 104, no. 1, Duke University Press, Jan. 2005, pp. 1–5. Crossref, doi:10.1215/00382876-104-1-1. Full Text
Gilliam, B. “" 'Friede im Innern': Strauss's Inner and Outer Worlds in the mid-1930s".” Jams, 2005, pp. 563–95.
Gilliam, B. “Visual voice (Strauss's 'Salome').” Opera News, vol. 68, no. 9, Mar. 2004, pp. 23-+.
Gilliam, B. "Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss". May 2002.
Gilliam, B. “Shadowland (The complex and symbolic world of Strauss's most challenging work, Die 'Frau ohne Schatten').” Opera News, vol. 66, no. 7, Jan. 2002, pp. 14–17.
Gilliam, B. "Strauss’s ’Crazy Jewish Girl’: Salome and fin-de-siècle Modernism". Jan. 2002.
Pages
Gilliam, B. The Problem of Trauma and Memory in Elektra, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Die Aegytische Helena. 2013.
Gilliam, B. "The String Quartet and Its Changing Audiences in the 19th Century". 2000.
Gilliam, B. "Body and Spirit in the Slow Movement of Beethoven’s Op. 130". Mar. 2004.
Gilliam, B. Ein Skizzenbuch von Richard Strauss an der Harvard University. Dec. 1978.
Gilliam, B. Rhetoric and the Human Condition in Mozart’s Last Three Symphonies. Aug. 2013.
Gilliam, B. “"A House Divided: The Tragic History of Dresden's Semper Opera House".” Opera News, 2010.
Gilliam, B. "Richard Strauss and the National Socialist Regime". Nov. 2004.
Gilliam, B. “"Ariadne, Daphne, and the Problem of Transformation".” Cambridge Opera Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, 2003, pp. 67–81.
Gilliam, B. "Ariadne, Daphne, und das Problem der Verwandlung". Oct. 2002.
Selected Grants
International Conference on Richard Strauss awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation (Principal Investigator). 1989 to 1990
International Conference on Richard Strauss awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities (Principal Investigator). 1989