These links lead to handouts and other matter for public talks and presentations, listed by date (most recent first). Links are to pdf files unless another file format is mentioned. Click on the title to display or download the file.
“Mozart and the Bach Tradition,” paper for a joint meeting of the American Bach Society and the Mozart Society of America, at Stanford University (Feb. 15, 2019)
“‘Because They Could Never Have Equaled Their Father in His Style’: Creativity at the Keyboard in the Bach Family,” lecture-performance for the Second International Conference on Performance and Creativity: Historical Keyboard Music 1700–1850, at Hong Kong Baptist University (May 28, 2019)
“Bach and the Seventeenth Century”: paper for the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, annual conference, Durham, N.C. (April 6, 2019)
“Historical Fingering, Articulation, and Ornamentation in Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Music: Does It Matter?” Musicology Colloquium, Princeton University (March 11, 2019)
“Telemann as ‘General Capellmeister’ to the Bach Family”: map, timeline, and music examples for a talk for the conference Georg Philipp Telemann: Enlightenment and Postmodern Perspectives, Temple University, Philadelphia (Oct. 13, 2017)
“Bach and the Beaming of Small Note Values,” illustrations for a talk at the 2017 Bach Dialogue Meeting of the Bach Network UK, Madingley, Cambridgeshire (July 13, 2017)
“New Thoughts on an Old Topic: Consistency and Inconsistency in Historical Keyboard Fingering,” examples illustrating a talk for the Historical Performance Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington (May 20, 2017)
“Expression and Discrètion: Froberger and the Invention of a New Keyboard Style.” Lecture-recital for the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, Providence, R.I. (April 22, 2017). The pdf file includes links to recordings of the works performed.
Examples for two related talks about Froberger: “Expression and Discrètion: Froberger and Traditions of Freedom in Keyboard Performance,” given for the American Musicological Society, Greater New York Chapter, at the New School, New York, N.Y. (Oct. 23, 2016), and “Expression and Discrétion: Froberger, Bach, and Performance,” given at the 2016 International Conference on Performance and Creativity at the Hong Kong Baptist University (Nov. 3, 2016)
“Four Hundred Years of Froberger: Science and Subjectivity in Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Music,” examples to accompany a talk at the 17th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Canterbury, U.K. (July 15, 2016)
“Between Frescobaldi and Froberger: From Virtuosity to Expression,” examples to accompany a talk for the American Musicological Society, New England Chapter, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. (April 9, 2016)
“A New Voice for the Clavier: C.P.E. Bach and the Changing Idiom of Keyboard Music,” program and examples for lecture-recital, annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, Milwaukee (Nov. 8, 2014)
“Performing the Music of C.P.E. Bach Today,” talk for the Idaho Bach Festival, Lionel Hampton School of Music, University of Idaho, Moscow (Oct. 25, 2014)
“C. P. E. Bach and the Metaphorical Voice,” paper given at conference at Cornell University on “Sensation and Sensibility at the Keyboard in the Late 18th Century:
Celebrating C.P.E. Bach’s Tercentenary” (Oct. 3, 2014)
American Guild of Organists (Boston: Mass.): “The New Editions of Bach’s Complete Organ Works,” examples for “workshop” with George Stauffer (June 26, 2014)
American Guild of Organists (Boston: Mass.): “The ‘Version’ Problem in Bach’s Preludes and Fugues for Organs,” tables and examples for “scholarly paper” (June 24, 2014)
Audio for example 8: the beginning of the trio (movement 3) from BWV 545b (mp3 file)
Audio for example 13: the beginning of the prelude from BWV 545a (mp3 file)